Re: [libreoffice-users] Need help with hierarchy document templates

Hi :)
There was a recent post from someone else telling us of 2 hierarchical
or tree-like file-management systems.  When i say recent i mean within
the last week
Regards from
Tom :)


On 5 February 2015 at 17:42, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:
> At 17:52 05/02/2015 +0100, Sven Schüring wrote:
> > I need some help with hierarchy document templates.
>
>
> I fear you may need some other product!
>
> > I created a document template and saved this to "my templates". Then I
> > just opened a document based on this first template and saved this document
> > as template to "my templates" to get the hierarchy.
>
>
> Surely all you have here is two identical (unrelated) templates?
>
> > Next I changed the address in my first template and saved, after edit the
> > second template I confirmed the update by my first template but nothing
> > changed in my inherited template. What did I wrong?
>
>
> I think all you did wrong is to imagine that templates derived from
> templates exist in a hierarchy. Unless I'm mistaken (always a possibility!)
> I think that templates exist only to create a particular starting point for
> a document. So the document created from your first template inherited its
> properties but no association with that (first) template. When  you saved it
> as a template you had two identical templates with no association - so no
> hierarchy. You can change either of them independently but without any
> consequential changes.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
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