Great info Sarah
Thanks! That sounds like the best approach. They are in the middle of a
re-brand, so I’ll hold off until they move into Phase 2 when they might be a
little less stressed..
Much appreciated!
Kind regards Suzy
Suzy Davis
Microsoft Word Templates, Apps for Microsoft Office
& Documentation Projects
www. <http://www.appsforoffice.com/> appsforoffice.com
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Maddox
Sent: Wednesday, 13 July 2016 10:28 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: FW: Templates on Atlassian Confluence
Hallo Suzy and all
It's been a while since I used Confluence too. I wrote the original docs for
the Confluence Office Connector, which seem to be more or less the same as when
I last saw them, and the features described there* don't solve your problem
with templates.
Also from when I last used Confluence: The K15t team do provide an add-on that
has support for Office templates. If your client is large, it may be worth
exploring the add-on and perhaps recommending it for your Confluence site. Here
is the K15t info on their Scroll Office add-on:
https://www.k15t.com/software/scroll-office
I hope this helps.
Cheers
Sarah
* For the same of completeness, here are the Confluence docs on the Office
Connector:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf56/working-with-the-office-connector-658736947.html
- sarah
On 12 July 2016 at 20:22, Suzy Davis <suzy.davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:suzy.davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Thanks Stuart
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?
Yes – correct.
They deploy docx files – saved as Read Only, and they are forced to “save as”
with a new name.
It’s kind of crazy that these programs – and SharePoint included – don’t
leverage the power of MS Office better – the developers of these intranet
environments don’t seem to understand the power of templates.
Thanks for the reminder about the Doc Properties prompt – for anyone who’s
searching for it, in 2013 it’s under the Developer tab > Document Panel and
check the checkbox “Always show Document Information panel …”
The Author field will automatically populate the registered user in MS Word.
That helps a little, but the author would still need to add in their title each
time.
Sadly without the file being a dotm or docm you can’t add in a macro to process
the DocProperty info more usefully. I would need the IT department - who are
flat out and really stretched to allocated some time – to do something that is
outside their expertise when they have so many other things to deal with.
Changing the image to include addins that can handle some automatic processing
would be optimal – but I think unlikely at this stage.
I was hoping that at a minimum they could run a template from the Intranet
which would at least enable them to leverage Building Blocks…. But alas, it’s
a dream :)
Kind regards Suzy
Suzy Davis
Microsoft Word Templates, Apps for Microsoft Office
& Documentation Projects
www. <http://www.appsforoffice.com/> appsforoffice.com
PO Box 404
Brighton VIC 3186
(Melbourne) Australia
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ;
<mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ] On Behalf Of Stuart Burnfield
Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2016 4:45 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: atw: Re: FW: Templates on Atlassian Confluence
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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