Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Moving Templates from 3.5.5 to 4.0

     I am confused. when I use Tools -> Customize, the Customize dialog 
opens. I don't see where I can select /New Document from Template/ nor 
/Template Manager/. What do see at the top is four tabs with /Menus/ 
selected with /File/ menu as the default for the dropdown list. Perhaps 
you could give me better directions?
     However, if I click the /Toolbars/ tab with the Customize dialog 
open, I see the Toolbar page. /Standard/ is the default value for the 
dropdown menu of toolbars. There I see /New Documents from Template/. If 
it is not checked, I can check it. This places its icon in the Standard 
toolbar directly below the Menu tool bar approximately below /Edit/. Now 
when I want to use one of my templates, I click the icon, the Template 
Manager opens. I then click /My Templates/ and select the template I 
want to use.
     I describe what I have done as:
Tools -> Customize -> Toolbars. Check /New Documents from Template/ if 
it is not checked. Click OK to close the dialog. Now the Standard 
toolbar has the /New Documents from Template/ icon. Any time you have 
Writer open, you click this icon to open the Templates Manager. From 
here you can select the template you want to use.

--Dan

On 02/19/2013 03:35 PM, Karen DInse wrote:
> We found a 'work around'.  If we open the template directly from where it is
> stored on the network, the input fields stop and ask the user for the
> appropriate data.  However, this is a step backwards, and is extremely slow.
> In LO 3.5.5 we were able to create a menu item that would open the templates
> correctly (Tools, Customize, New Document from Template).  When we do that
> in LO 4.0. the template will open, but won't prompt for input.  If we change
> the way the menu opens the template (Tools, Customize, Open, Template
> Manager), the template will open correctly.  The catch is, if the user then
> opens a regular document, then tries to open another template, the default
> directory goes to the last place that the file was opened from.  The users'
> files are stored on a different server than the LO application files.  Any
> ideas how we can get around this?  Hopefully speed up the opening of LO 4 in
> a Windows network environment?
>
>
> Tom wrote
> > Hi :)
> > Have you had any luck with this?  Sorry you haven't had any answers so far
> > but hopefully someone here might be able to figure it out.
> > Apols and regards from
> > Tom :)
> > ________________________________
> > From: Karen DInse <
> > kdinse@.il>z To: users@.libreoffice
> > Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 17:40
> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Moving Templates from 3.5.5 to 4.0
> >
> > Windows XP, SP3
> >
> > I created numerous templates in LO 3.5.5.  I created the letter/template and inserted input fields 
> > that would stop and ask the user to input the
> > appropriate data.  Worked real well in LO 3.5.5.
> >
> > We are hoping to upgrade to version 4.0.0.3, but when we try to copy or
> > import the templates, they don't stop at the input fields to prompt the user to input the data.
> >
> > We have tried to retype the letters/templates, inserting input fields, to no avail. Is there a way 
> > to get the template to stop and prompt the user for
> > each input box?

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