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# Template Functions

Use these functions to interact with templates.

## Load

In your server-side JavaScript code, first load the core library using this syntax:

```
Platform.Load("core", "1");
```

## Initialization

To interact with a template via server-side JavaScript, you must first initialize the object. The code below initializes a list with the external key of 'myTemplate'.

```
var t = Template.Init('myTemplate');
```