Template Library

About this screen

The Template Library is where you find, copy, and customize the templates PRCoverage uses to build slide decks. Use one of the starter templates as-is to start generating reports right away, or customize a copy with your own colors, fonts, and brand styling — for when you want every deck to look like yours rather than a stock layout.

When would I use this?

• Browse the available templates before generating a report
• Make a copy of a starter template so you can customize it
• Edit a custom template's design, colors, or layout in Google Slides
• Check why a template card is showing a warning or issue badge
• Clean up old templates you no longer need

The layout

A grid of template cards (three across on desktop). Each card shows the template's title slide, filename, and creation date. Some cards display a yellow “Locked” label next to the filename. Some cards display a warning badge in the top-left corner.

The three-dot menu in the top-right of each card is where editing, copying, and deleting happen.

The three-dot menu

• Edit Template. Opens the template in Google Slides for design changes. Disabled on locked templates.
• Make a Copy. Duplicates the template. Always available — even on locked templates. The copy is unlocked, so this is how you start a custom template.
• Delete Template. Permanently removes the template. Disabled on locked templates. This can't be undone.

Locked vs unlocked templates

• Locked templates are the starter templates that ship with PRCoverage (like PRCoverage Light and PRCoverage Dark). You can't edit or delete them — this protects the original layouts so they always work as a fallback or starting point.
• Unlocked templates are templates you (or your team) have made. These you can edit and delete freely.

To customize a locked template, make a copy first — the copy is unlocked.

Customizing a template — step by step

1. Find a starter template in the grid you'd like to base your design on.
2. Click the three-dot menu on that card and choose Make a Copy. Name the copy and confirm — it appears in the grid as a new unlocked card.
3. Click the three-dot menu on your copy and choose Edit Template. PRCoverage opens the template in Google Slides in a new tab.
4. Customize in Google Slides. Save your changes there.
5. Come back to the Template Library. PRCoverage validates your edits automatically. Any issues show up as a badge on the card.

What you can change — and what must stay

Templates are edited in Google Slides, so anything Slides supports is fair game: change slide backgrounds, swap fonts, edit text, add shapes or images, restyle elements freely. The customization surface is genuinely open.

That said, a few structural things have to stay in place so PRCoverage can still build a report from the template. The app looks for specific attributes when generating a deck — if those are missing or altered, generation fails.

The constraints:

• Slide order and slide count must stay constant. Don't add, remove, or reorder slides — each one has a specific role in the report.
• Field tags must stay exactly as written. Field tags are placeholders the app fills in when generating a deck. They're wrapped in curly brackets and are case-sensitive and punctuation-sensitive. For example, the title slide has a tag called {report_title} — adding a space ({report title}), removing the underscore ({reporttitle}), or capitalizing it ({Report_Title}) all break it.
• Screenshot areas must stay at a 3:2 ratio. You can move them around the slide and resize them, but the proportions need to stay 3:2 or screenshots won't render correctly in the final deck.
• Don't shrink the outlet description area. If it's smaller than the longest outlet text in your reports, content will be clipped.
• Preserve advanced alt text on shapes. Many shapes carry alt text that the app reads during generation. Moving or resizing keeps it intact, but deleting and re-adding does not — you'll need to set it on the new shape via Format > Alt text > Advanced.

The validator catches most of these automatically — see the next section.

Validation and warning badges

After every edit, PRCoverage automatically checks the template against the constraints above. If everything passes, no badge appears. If something's off, a badge shows up in the top-left corner of the card:

• ⚠ Issues (red) — Errors that will break report generation. Click the badge to see exactly what's wrong. The template can't be used until you fix the issues.
• ⚠ Issues (acknowledged) — You've seen the issues but haven't fixed them yet. The template still can't generate a working deck until you do.
• ⚠ Warnings (amber) — Non-blocking concerns. The template will work, but the resulting deck may not look quite right.

Fixing a flagged template

1. Click the badge on the card (it will say either “Issues” or “Warnings”). PRCoverage shows you exactly what it found.
2. Click Resolve template issues now. The template opens in Google Slides where you can fix the flagged items.
3. When you're done, close the Google Slides tab and return to the Template Library.
4. Click Re-check template in the issues display to confirm the fixes worked.

A note on Acknowledge — fix later. Clicking this button doesn't fix anything — it just marks the issues as “seen” so you can come back to them later. Use it if you don't have time to fix right now. Important: until the underlying issues are actually fixed, the deck still won't generate correctly. Acknowledge is a bookmark, not a workaround.

If you have any problems

If a template won't validate and you can't figure out why, send it to us at support@prcoverage.ai. Either download the file and send it to us, or a Google Slides share link works fine — just make sure the share permissions are set so we can actually open it. We'll take a look and help get it working.