Templates

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Templates is a tree folder structure to organise source documents. The idea is that an organization can create new documents ( for example fax, new project document templates, invoices, etc. ) from documents in the templates panel.


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Nota clasica.png You can learn more about creating document templates at Creating templates.

Create new document from template

First, from the Templates panel, select a document, and execute the option "create from template". A popup will appear requesting the destination folder.


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After that, optionally rename the document.


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If the selected document is a pdf and has some Property Groups (metadata) associated with it, then a creation wizard popup will appear. Property group fields will be requested in order to combine with the generation of the new PDF. You can create PDF forms with several applications:


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The wizard


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And finally, the generated PDF with property group fields added by the user.


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After that, optionally rename the document.


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OpenKM 5 and above

First, from the Templates panel, select a document, and execute the option "create from template". A popup will appear requesting the destination folder.


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After that, optionally rename the document.


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See also Creating templates.