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# Templates overview

> Templates in Itential Platform filter and standardize data from CLI devices and API endpoints for use in downstream workflow tasks.

Workflow execution can generate large quantities of information that may be extraneous to the task at hand. For example, when interacting with CLI-driven devices, workflows often receive extended responses in the form of command output. You may only need a few key pieces of data from such output — port number, port status, VLAN, and so on. Similar use cases arise when calling API endpoints. It becomes important to have a way to filter this data down to the essentials, especially when it is fed into downstream tasks in a workflow. **Templates** fulfill this function in Itential Platform.

## In this section

* [Build templates](/itential-platform/studio/templates/use-templates) — Create and test Jinja2 and TextFSM templates for use in workflow tasks.
* [Command templates](/itential-platform/studio/command-templates/overview) — Send commands to devices and evaluate responses as pre- and post-checks.
* [Analytic templates](/itential-platform/studio/templates/analytic-templates) — Compare Pre and Post command responses from earlier automation stages

> Templates in Itential Platform filter and standardize data from CLI devices and API endpoints for use in downstream workflow tasks.