The workbench is where templates are stored, versioned, organised, and monitored. Every template your organisation owns, from first draft to active to retired, governed in one place. If a regulator asks who approved a change and when, the answer is here.
Most organisations manage document templates the same way: shared folders, email attachments, and version naming conventions that only the person who created them understands. When a regulator asks which version of a form was in use on a specific date, or who approved the most recent change, the answer requires searching email threads and folder histories. That is not a process that holds up to examination.
The workbench replaces that with a single governed library. Every template has a version number, an approval record, a status, and an owner. The history is automatic. Nothing gets lost in a folder.
Template management sits between the Word add-in and the generation API. It owns versioning, approval state, and the audit trail. The generation API only serves templates that the management layer has marked as active. Nothing that has not been approved can produce a document.
We will walk through the workbench with your template library structure in mind.