Two related ways to start fast. Templates are a browse-first gallery of ready-made governance models you preview and turn into a new model in one click. A Playground is a throwaway sandbox where you open a copy of a model in the real UI, edit it freely, and lose every change when you leave. Even signed-out visitors can open a Playground, and nothing in it is ever saved as a real taxonomy, record, or submission.
Templates
A template is a complete, ready-made governance model: a taxonomy plus fields and picklists that express a campaign-naming or UTM scheme. You browse the gallery, preview a template live, and import it as a brand-new model in your account. After import it is a normal, fully editable model.Open the gallery
The fastest way in is the Create new governance model page. It offers three starting points:- Start from scratch: build a taxonomy and fields by hand.
- Import from JSON: bring in a model from a JSON file.
- Or start from a template: the template grid, described below.
Browse and filter
The gallery ships with 12 templates covering common patterns, from a flat starter to multi-business-unit and agency setups. Two filters narrow the list:- Business filters by business model, for example ecommerce, B2B, or agency. Picking a specific business model still keeps the universal templates visible.
- Structure filters by how strict the scheme is: simple, standardizing, or governed.
Simple UTM Starter leads. If a filter combination matches nothing, the gallery shows No templates match the selected filters.
The template catalog
| Template | Business | Structure | Core |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simple UTM Starter | Universal | Simple | Yes |
| Ecommerce Performance | Ecommerce | Standardizing | Yes |
| B2B Demand-Gen Standard | B2B | Governed | Yes |
| Enterprise Multi-BU | Enterprise | Governed | Yes |
| Regulated / Opaque ID | Enterprise | Governed | No |
| Standardized Campaign Vocabulary | Universal | Standardizing | Yes |
| Agency Multi-Client | Agency | Governed | Yes |
| Content and Lifecycle | Media | Standardizing | No |
| ABM Account-Based | B2B | Governed | No |
| Paid-Social Creative Testing | Ecommerce | Standardizing | No |
| Marketplace Two-Sided | Ecommerce | Governed | No |
| Events and Field Marketing | B2B | Standardizing | No |
Preview a template
Select any card to open a full preview with a back link, the template’s badges and description, and a live render of the model. The preview also shows a “Who it’s for and samples” panel: who the template suits, who it does not, and example campaign values. Those sample values are illustrative only. They are not created when you import.Turn a template into a model
Click Create Governance Model
This imports the template as a new, independent governance model in your account, then takes you to the new model’s taxonomies. The new model carries none of the template’s identifiers, and changes to it never affect the template or any other model imported from it.
Creating a model from a template requires create permission on governance models. If you do not have it, the Create Governance Model button does not appear.
Playground
A Playground is a disposable scratch copy of a governance model, opened in the real Terminus Hub UI. You get the full model-editing surface (fields, taxonomies, picklists, the model name, workspaces, and the visualizer), but every edit lives only in your browser tab. Nothing is written back to the server, so reloading the tab discards your changes. Think of it as the hands-on counterpart to a read-only shared link.Open a Playground
You can open a Playground from two places:- Try in Playground on a template preview, which opens a sandbox seeded from that template.
- Edit in Playground on a shared link or embed, which opens a sandbox copy of the shared model.
What you can and cannot do
- You can add, rename, and delete fields, taxonomies, and picklists, rename the model, and edit workspaces, all in the real UI.
- Every change is ephemeral. It exists only in the current browser tab and is gone when you reload or leave.
- The submission flow is intentionally disabled in a Playground. You cannot build or save real campaign URLs there, and workspaces show a “Not available in playground mode” lock.
Share a Playground
A Playground can be opened at three access levels through tokenized URLs:| Access level | What it allows |
|---|---|
| Full | The owner. Edit content, rename the Playground, and delete it. |
| Editable | Edit the embedded content, but cannot rename or delete the Playground. |
| Readonly | View only. No changes. |
Turn a Playground into a real model
Because Playground edits are not saved, use Create Governance Model from the template preview (or import the model) to create a real, persistent governance model. See governance models.Gotchas
- Playground changes are never saved. Edits live only in the current browser tab and are discarded on reload. Only the model you opened the Playground from still exists.
- No submissions in a Playground. The submission builder does not run there, so you cannot generate or save campaign URLs from a Playground.
- Sample values are not imported. The “who it’s for and samples” values in a template preview are illustrative copy, not data created on import.
- Importing a template needs create permission. Without it, the Create Governance Model button is hidden.
- An imported model is fully independent. After import it is a normal, editable model, unlinked from the template.
Related
Share and embed
Share a read-only view of a model, with an “Edit in Playground” option for viewers.
Governance models
What a governance model is, and how to edit one after importing a template.
Quickstart
Build your first governance model end to end.