iWork templates?

Which templates ?

I guess that they are custom templates.

Are you really asking about true templates, those named

aaa.template, bbb.nmbtemplate, ccc.kth

or are you using template to name standard documents, those named :

aaa.pages, bbb.numbers, ccc.key

If you ask about true templates, store them in the folder of your choice on the network and every user will be able to create new documents starting from these templates.

The only drawback is that these templates will not appear in the templates chooser.

If you are in fact asking about standard documents, you may do the same but you must know that there is no provision to prevent conflicts so, a document may be open by two users at the same time and this is a very efficient way to kill the documents.

iWork was not designed for collaborative work.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 9 août 2011 15:58:59

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0

My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>

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Very often I don't store custom templates in their standard location.

I store them in a folder from which I trigger them thru a simple double-click.

You may also use an edited version of scripts which are available on my iDisk (address below)

For_iWork:iWork '09:for_Pages09:open_a_Pages_custom_template.zip

For_iWork:iWork '09:for_Numbers09:open_a_Numbers_custom_template.zip

At the very beginning you may see :

--{code}

(*

Grab the localized names of the templates folders *)

tell application "Pages"

set templates_loc to localized string "Templates"

set myTemplates_loc to localized string "My Templates"

end tell -- to application a

(*

Define the path to the folder storing custom templates *)

set chemin_des_modeles to "" & (path to library folder from user domain) & "Application Support:iWork:Pages:" & templates_loc & ":" & myTemplates_loc & ":"

--{code}

Replace these lines by :

--{code}

set chemin_des_modeles to "path:to:the:folder:in:which:you:stored:the:templates:on:the:network:"

--{code}

In which you will define the templates's folder.

This way you will be able to select the templates in a Choose From List dialog.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 9 août 2011 17:14:43

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0

My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>

Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community

To be the AW6 successor, iWork MUST integrate a TRUE DB, not a list organizer !