The plan production templates that are located in the Template folder have viewports that are already configured to the appropriate viewport type: plan, profile, or section. These templates are located in \Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Autodesk\C3D <version>\enu\Template\Plan Production.
If you choose to use templates other than the ones located in the Plan Production folder, specify the viewport types for plan view, profile view, or section view and specify the viewport order (if more than one of the same viewport type is used on a sheet). While you are using the Create View Frames wizard, or the Create Multiple Views command, if you select a template that does not have appropriately defined viewports, Autodesk Civil 3D detects this and displays a message indicating that layouts containing the necessary viewports for the sheet type were not found.
Tutorial: Configuring Viewports
For example, you may want to set the default object styles and label styles for all objects, and in particular for the plan production objects that are used for plan/profile sheets (view frame groups, view frames, and match lines).
Scroll down to the Viewport section at the bottom of the Properties palette.
Set the Viewport Type to Plan, Profile, or Section.
The lowest numbered viewport is populated first (with the lower station range) when the sheets are generated.