Hi :) So just editing the paths in Tools - Options - Paths
doesn't work? Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Dan Lewis <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 15:23 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Moving Templates from 3.5.5 to 4.0 > > Sorry, I have run out of ideas myself. > >--Dan > >On 02/20/2013 10:18 AM, Karen DInse wrote: >> Dan, >> >> Here are the steps I took. Tools, Customize, Menus. I added a new menu >> (call it Billing), then under menu content I clicked add, application, new >> document from template. This adds a menu item called Billing. Tools, >> Options, LibreOffice, paths would point to the template directory on the >> network. In LO3.5 this would open the template the user chose, then prompt >> them for input fields. In LO4.0 it opens the template manager, and they can >> still open the desired template, but it doesn't prompt them for input. >> *Prompting them for input is the key. >> * >> Your way of adding an icon performs the same way as adding the menu item. >> However, it still won't prompt the user for input. >> >> Unless someone has another idea, we will create an application that will >> open the template from the network location. It's an added step, and takes >> almost 1 minute to open the template, even if LO is already open. I've >> increased the memory on the Graphics cache to 256 MB, but we aren't dealing >> with graphics, so that didn't appear to make any difference (just trying >> different things to speed it up). Any other ideas? >> >> >> Dan Lewis wrote >>> 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 < >>>>> [email protected]>z To: [email protected] >>>>> 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? >>>>> >>> -- >>> For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: >>> [email protected] >>> Problems? >>> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>> deleted >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Moving-Templates-from-3-5-5-to-4-0-tp4037782p4038907.html >> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
