Folder templates are used to automatically create folder structures for new users, new projects and new departments.
All folder templates are placed as XML files in "bin/modules/core/". During the installation, the main folder structure is read from "folders.xml". User profiles are created from "users.xml". Department profiles use "departments.xml" and projects use "projects.xml".
Every template has a nested set of "<folder>...</folder>" tags. All folders have a name and a module type. Additionally mountpoints, rights and a data import file can be specified. Data import files use the CSV format with column names in the first line. If a folder has no rights specified, it uses the rights of its parent. To refer to a field of a new dataset (e.g. user, project, department), the column is wrapped with "@" characters, e.g. to refer to the username as folder name, use: name="@username@".

When creating a new department, the default folder structure for departments will be created under "Workspace / Personal department". Also a new group with the name of the department will be created under "Workspace / Organisation / Groups". Initially this group is empty and all its members have read and write access on the new folder structure for the department. The members of this group are independant from any settings made in the department dataset (manager / second manager, members).

When creating a new project, the default folder structure for projects will be created under "Workspace / Personal projects". Also a new group with the name of the project will be created under "Workspace / Organisation / Groups". Initially this group is empty and all its members have read and write access on the new folder structure for the project. The members of this group are independant from any settings made in the project dataset (manager, internal / external participants).

When creating a new user, the default folder structure for users will be created under "Workspace / Personal folders". Initially the new user has read and write access on his personal folders. Also when creating a new user, a new folder named "<sgs-dir>/simple_store/home/<username>" will be created on the hard disk.
This folder can be directly accessed within Simple Groupware under "Workspace / Personal folders / <username> / Files / Import / <username>". The idea behind this is to use it for Samba shares or symbolic links to home directories.