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When creating a Contract, the New Contract form has always presented a "Template" checkbox. Selecting that "Template" option allows the new Contract to be cloned in the future for the expedited creation of Contracts that share the same configuration.
Traditionally, when Users, with appropriate permissions, elected to clone a new Contract from an existing template, they entered the Name/Number, Customer, Contractor and Start Date for the new Contract. Then, the selected Contract Template would populate the Create Contract form fields, Details panel settings, and associations (e.g., User Roles, Case Custom Fields, Work Forms). Using a template in this way created a link between the Template Contract and the cloned Contract, essential for future, template-driven updates to the cloned Contract. If a User edited a cloned Contract in a way that created a discrepancy between that Contract's configuration and the Contract Template configuration, the link between that cloned Contract and the Template Contract was broken.
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