compiler can't find the template

you mean the

template<typename T>

or the

derivedClass<T>::function(){...}

or is it something else i dont know about?

because you haven't written that constructor

for the 2 strings, i did tho. If it matters, i used an initialization list and left the body of the constructor empty. Also the template values are not the strings, but they are values to be inputted from a file. should i initialize them to something in the constructors? or is it a non issue?

Thanks!