What is a template?
The purpose of a template is to ease the creation of smart links by automatically setting up the rules of links that follow a URL pattern.
For example, let’s imagine that your app has a product view section. You will need several deep link URLs such as the following:
com.app://products/154
At the same time, you want your web platform, e.g. an e-commerce website, acting as a fallback by using this web URL:
http://www.your-site.com/products/154
As you can see, there is a pattern in the both of these URLs: products/ followed by an id.
In addition, you want have the same set of rules and fallbacks for URLs that follow this pattern but have a different id.
Templates are here to ease these common situations. A template is nothing else than a set of rules that are grouped together because they share a common configuration. Hence, it saves time when you manually create smart links using the dashboard or through our API.