OpenOffice Templates

[reinier]

We are evaluating Alfresco for a customer, and one of the requirements is to be able to manage the Corporate OpenOffice templates in Alfresco.

Creating a Space with templates is an easy start, but it would be very nice to be able to populate the OpenOffice templates, once they are instantiated, with things like User information, document number, etc.

I have read through the templating documentation which explains how to populate xml templates with Alfresco data. Would it also be possible to do the same with OpenOffice templates. And if so, how?

[kevinr]

What format are the Open Office templates? Are they XML? It is easy enough to output XML (or any other textual format) from a template - so if they are XML or similar then it should be perfectly possible using rules, javascript API and the template facilities available in Alfresco. If they are a binary format then you would need to write a custom Java action (which you can then call from the JavaScript API once it is written).

Hope this helps,

Kevin