We introduced a marvellous feature for clients with large teams using project templates today. While a project template allows you to predefine and then copy project by project the task structure and breakdown it is often difficult to assign resources to template tasks because it varies with each operative project depending on who is available. So clients have to assign resources individually to each task or to the project and select one of the “quick-add” resourcing options in the project RESOURCES tab such as assigning selected resources to all tasks. Now you can pre-assign a dynamic or field-based resource to your template task, by opening task > details and going to the RESOURCES tab in task detail and selecting a field name from your project in the “Automatically assign resources based on” field. For example if you instruct your template task to automatically assign resources based on the project leader then when the operative project and tasks are created from this template the project leader selected on the project header or key info. tab will be automatically assigned as a task resource. You can even refer to custom fields on the project to assign as a resource to the task (provided these fields refer to our contacts database or use a new resource lookup field type coming very shortly)