Hi Suzy. Yes this is ringing faint bells from a contract with a bank
about 8 years ago. I redid their templates and made them available
through Sharepoint, which they were dipping their toes into.
I think whether it's Confluence or Sharepoint you publish the Word
template as an attachment to a page. The user opens the page and then
clicks the attachment to open a working copy in Word that they can
update and save.
Ideally the thing that gets opened is a new Word document based on the
template. I think what you're saying is that your client is being
presented with a new editable copy of the template instead. Is that
right?
In a template you can specify a dialog that pops up to prompt for some
starter information such as title, project and status. The user fills
in the blanks and clicks OK to populate the new document with these
fields, which are probably displayed in the cover page and
headers/footers.
Is it possible to attach an action or macro to that OK button in the
initial pop-up dialog? It could be as simple as opening the Save As
dialog with the Type set to Word Document instead of Word Template.
Sorry to be vague. This was a while ago and these Word features may
well have changed for better or worse since then.
--- Stuart
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Hi team
Has anyone on this list had experience working at a client site where
templates are deployed via an Intranet running on an Atlassian
Confluence site?
My client’s IT department is a bit time crunched right now, and
it’s not really their area of expertise.
I’m not sure if the problem is to do with the Intranet or the
Citrix platform it’s all running on. I have very limited access to
the Intranet (only via a very busy person) – but the answer was that
they didn’t create a document from the template file, just opened
the actual template which isn’t what I’m wanting…. Hmmm
Kind regards Suzy
SUZY DAVIS
MICROSOFT WORD TEMPLATES, APPS FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE
& DOCUMENTATION PROJECTS
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