I don’t know if I am doing something wrong, but I am trying to apply a saved template for a plot area to a new graph but nothing happens…
I am on labplot 2.11.1 on windows 10.
I first made a plot area with one curve, changed the fonts, line size colors etc, and saved it as a template using the save button at the bottom of the plot area dialog box (“save current properties as a dialog box”).
Then I created a second plot area with one curve as well, and tried using the “load” button to apply my saved template to a new curve. My saved template correctly appears in the list of available templates, but when I click on it nothing happens to my plot?
Should I do things differently or should I report this as a bug?
Please, try these steps:
- Make a plot area with a curve.
- Configure the plot area.
- Save the template of the plot area with the button “Save current plot area definition as template”. See the first screenshot.
- Add a new (empty) worksheet and select it.
- Add a new plot area to the new worksheet (or to an existing worksheet if that’s what you need, but then another template-based plot area will be added to the worksheet) by using your saved template: Worksheet > Add new > Plot area > Load from Template. See the second screenshot.
“Save current plot area definition as template”
“Load from Template”
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OK I was doing it wrong then, it works perfectly that way. So if I understand correctly the “save” and “load” buttons (on your first screenshot) only allows saving and loading specific parameters of the corresponding window (plot area, axis etc.)?
Have a look here:
BTW, if you have interesting use cases or examples of using LabPlot, please consider sharing them with other users. 
Thank you for the help and the link to the documentation, I searched through it briefly but didn’t find this page. I am currently learning to use the sofware by reproducing what I usually do on originlab. I am writing down every bugs I see along the way and will start reporting them in the bug tracking system.
For use cases where is the best place to share them?
This is what I managed to do (and reproduce with the template tool) so far! Now that I’ve got the hang of it, I actually like the workflow better than origin 
We are happy that LabPlot meets your expectations and look forward to your feedback!
If you want, you can share, for example, some of your plots, which we can publish in a “User-contributed plots” section, or write a short tutorial on “How To do X using LabPlot”, which we can publish in LabPlot’s Wiki, here: LabPlot/Tutorials - KDE UserBase Wiki.
You can reach to us in LabPlot room on Matrix: Support – LabPlot.
Ok I will prepare a tutorial for the wiki then!
That’s great!
Let us know if you need any help writing a tutorial.