Creating and working with blueprints

Configuration Blueprints
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I could really use some help here. Is there a best practice for creating your own blueprint, and then testing it and editing and updating it. Everything I try is beyond painful.

I have created a blueprint using Studio Code Server, following instructions from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxxxZ9Vci3I&t=320s

My blueprint is in config/blueprints/automation/jmc-blueprints. I can see the blueprint in my blueprints tab and when I click on create automation, the automation creates and works fine.
So far so good.
Now I want to make an edit to the file to use the time delay input in the seconds field instead of the minutes field. I edit it into the SCS blueprint yaml file. I can’t find anyway to get my existing automation based on the blueprint to update. If i create a new automation from the blueprint it gets the change, but how do I get the existing automation to change? When I search the web I see how to do it with blueprints I have imported, but with one I have created it talks about a refresh button, but I don’t see it anywhere.
Sometimes after changing the blueprint file and trying to create a new automation from the blueprint, it tells me the automation is unavailable, restarting SCS seems to fix that but this is all really messy.

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You should only need to reload Automations from the YAML tab of Developer Tools.

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You don’t have to, all automations will use the updated blueprint(s) as soon as automations are reloaded. If you haven’t enabled Developer Tools yet you should do so at that will allow you to reload only automations without reloading all configuration.

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Thanks should have realized that I could do this through reloading the automation.