Create Step Template

Reads a step and its processes to generate a new step template environment. This template can be used to create new instances of the step with a fresh handle.

Usage

getStepTemplate(ident)

Arguments

ident

Identifier of the source step to use as a template.

Value

A step template environment carrying the source step's configuration - its processes, runserver, tool, tool instance and arguments - ready to be changed and realised into a new step. Stops with an error, naming the ident and the reason, when ident does not resolve, is not a step, or has no selected process to take a configuration from (IMR-288).

References

ics1213

See also

getStep, createStepTemplateEnv