Creating Templates

[jamal]

A Happy New Year to all at Milenix...

A quick question about templates..

I've created a document template, and it is working nicely.

To create a topic template, [the Help info says] create a new topic and insert the information you want it to contain.

My question is: then what?

If I need to manually copy the topic file into the templates folder as described under "Adding Templates," I think it would be helpful to add a pointer to that fact in the Help info above.

An even better suggestion would be to make the steps needed to create a topic template consistent with that for creating a document template. That is, I can create a document template by using the Save As Template dialogue when editing the document. Why not provide a File > Save As .. Template dialogue for topics as well?

[Petko]

Happy New Year to everyone!

Jamal, you are right. You should add the template as described under"Adding Templates" in the help file. We will correct that in the next release.

[jamal]

Thanks Petko..

Is there any downside to adding a File -> Save As Template option for topics?

[Petko]

Is there any downside to adding a File -> Save As Template option for topics?

I think that we have found a simple way to do that without adding new commands to the menus. We will just add a templates folder shortcut to My Topics folder, so you can easy jump to the templates folder when you open/save topics.

See the image for what it will look like:

[jamal]

That's a good idea.. Definitely a better implementation compared to the current situation in which the user must go outside MyInfo (into Windows Explorer) in order to complete a MyInfo function.