Material templates - Help!

[jhiker]

I'm having a problem creating material templates.
I load a model - select 'View' - then 'Material template' - try to create a new one with 'Add....' but when I OK it the dialogue box is not populated with the parts in the scene tree.
Instead it just shows 'Default'
What can I be doing wrong?
Thanks

[guest84672]

did you apply materials to the model?

[jhiker]

Thank you - my mistake.