Dan Lewis wrote:
On Thursday June 8 2006 02:50 am, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Avv. Emanuele M. Forner wrote:
Hello, I'm a long-time user of StarOffice, now on OpenOffice.org
2.0.x. since OOo 1.9.x beta releases.
By now, I have downloaded and I'm using OOo 2.0.3 RC5; everything
seems just fine, except for one thing: when I open the window to the
path options /(Tools>Options>Paths: Documents, Templates, Gallery
etc.)/ I don't see anymore the path to templates /(although my
previously set personal templates still appear when I start a new
document from an existing template)/.
Is this a known bug to be solved on OOo 2.0.3 final?
If not, how can I set now a template path other than the program's
default? Best regards.
Emanuele Forner
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I'm a long time protester about this restriction, but I discovered
yesterday that, if your personal templates folders are below the My
Documents folder, then you can still reach them to open a new file.
I hope that this helps.
Peter HB
The user templates are stored in {user} openoffice.org2/user/template.
The system templates are stored in
{network} openoffice.org2.0/share/template/en-US. (People using another
language will have their language listed in the place of en-US.) This has
not changed. The only thing that has changed is being able to change these
paths to something different.
There is a configuration file that can be edited which will permit
changing these paths, but that should not be done by anyone unless they
know what they are doing. So far, I have not been able to find out what
this configuration file is nor where it is located.
In OOo2.0.2 it's in
{user}
.openoffice.org2/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Common.xcu:
<node oor:name="Path">
<node oor:name="Current">
<prop oor:name="Template" oor:type="oor:string-list">
<value>$(inst)/share/template/$(vlang) $(user)/template
$(work)/Documents/Templates</value>
</prop>
</node>
</node>
[As you can probably see, I have an extra template location, which is
one I share between Linux and Windows on my dual-boot machine.]
Funnily enough on Linux, the OOo user areas are under
".openoffice.org2", which Linux/Unix users will recognise as a hidden
directory, which do not show up in the default OpenOffice file browser,
which makes working with templates in that location a little
inconvenient (it's necessary to manually enter that directory name into
the file browser dialog rather than click on an icon). Some vendors of
OOo, e.g. RedHat, change this to a non-hidden location.
Ross
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