Server templates
Set up many servers the same way. A template keeps roles, channels, server settings and Kovu’s setup, and applies them to any server you manage.
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What a template keepsLink to this section
A template is a copy of a server’s setup that you can apply to other servers. It belongs to your account, not to a server.
- Roles: names, colors, permissions and display options, in order.
- Categories and channels: names, order, topics, slowmode, age restriction and the permissions of each role.
- Server settings: verification level, content filter, notifications, and the system, rules and AFK channels.
- Kovu’s setup: which modules are on and their settings, like automod rules, welcome messages, level roles, ticket panels and reaction role menus.
Messages keep their layout. A message built from blocks in the message designer applies with the same blocks, and a classic message with text and embeds stays classic.
When Kovu saves a template, it takes out members (mentions of them, their own channel permissions and the members a setting skips), links to messages, invite links, webhooks and any other Discord id, including the id of the server it was saved from. The server’s name, icon and banner and the Bot Identity settings aren’t saved either. Kovu lists what it took out, and checks again every time a template is saved or opened from a link.
Check your own text before you share
Set up a new serverLink to this section
Kovu can’t create servers
Create the server in Discord and add Kovu
Create the server in Discord as usual, then add Kovu to it. To apply a template you need Manage Server there, plus Manage Roles and Manage Channels for roles and channels.
Save a server or build a template
In the dashboard, open a server you already set up and choose Templates → Save this server as a template. Pick what to include: roles and channels, server settings and each Kovu module. Or open Templates in the dashboard’s account list (the Kovu mark at the top of the server rail) and start from nothing.
Preview what will change
In the new server, open Templates → Apply a template. Kovu shows everything first: what it will create, what it will change, what it will skip and why, and anything that needs a second look, like dangerous permissions.
Apply the template
Press Apply template. Kovu works in the background, so you can leave the page. Discord limits how fast a server can change, so a big template can take several minutes.
Check the report
When it’s done, the report lists what was created, updated, already there, skipped and failed, with the reasons. Not what you wanted? You can undo it for 14 days.
How applying worksLink to this section
- Add what’s missing is the default. Kovu creates the roles and channels the server doesn’t have and changes nothing that already exists.
- Also update matching roles and channels gives roles and channels with the same name the template’s settings, and merges permissions and module settings.
- Either way, Kovu never deletes anything, never turns a module off and never moves a channel that already exists.
- Roles and channels are matched by name. Channels also match by kind and category.
- Kovu applies the template with your permissions: it can’t give a role permissions you don’t have, or touch roles above yours or Kovu’s. Dangerous permissions, like Administrator, need your confirmation first.
- Discord allows at most 250 roles and 500 channels in a server, and 50 channels in a category. If a template would go over, the preview says so and Kovu doesn’t start.
Build or edit a templateLink to this section
Open a template to edit it without a server: add, rename, reorder and delete roles, categories and channels, set permissions, and change module settings with the same forms as the module pages.
Member choices, like who gets a role or which members a filter skips, aren’t kept in templates. A few lists need a live server to edit: in a template you can remove or reorder their items, and to change them, edit them on a server and save that server as a template again.
For 14 days, Undo on the apply report removes what the template created and puts back what it changed, module settings included. Deleting a channel the template created also deletes the messages posted in it since.
Some things can’t be undone, and the report lists them: messages Kovu posted, like menus and panels, and channels made for stat counters. Changes you made afterwards to something the template created are lost when you undo.
LimitsLink to this section
- You can keep up to 20 templates. Copies of shared templates count too.
- A template holds up to 249 roles and 500 channels, and at most 512 KB in all.
- A server can apply up to 10 templates a day, one at a time.
What templates can’t copyLink to this section
These stay with the server they belong to. Set them up by hand.
- Message history
- Members and their roles
- Bans
- Other bots’ settings
- Webhooks
- Emojis and stickers
- The server’s name, icon and banner
- Forum tags
- Voice bitrate and user limits
- Threads
The Bot Identity and Server page settings are left out too, because they belong to one server.
What Kovu keepsLink to this section
Your templates are kept with your account until you delete them. Download my data includes them, and Delete my data removes them. Each server keeps the history of templates applied to it for at least 30 days, so you can follow and undo them.
The Privacy Policy has the details under Server templates.