Templates makes it easier to jump start your data activities and Microsoft has released predefined templates to help you create configuration data projects. The templates will be sequenced so that the data that the entities generate will be processed in the correct sequence. These predefined templates are also designed to maintain the correct sequence when more than one template is added to the same data project.

In the July 2017 update of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition, you can get these data templates by using the Load default templates button. The future goal is to provide these templates through LCS.

Many default templates include entities for master data as well as customers, vendors, released products, and so on. These entities are included with a proper sequencing of the entities. The following screenshot shows a sample list:

Data templates are reusable artifacts and are used to create data projects quickly, as explained in the next subsection.