Description: hi, I have had this several times, but always thought it was just an accidental incident, I mean, it couldn't be repeated, I thought. ANYWAY: You close Libreoffice. Exit. Go to the directory where your templates reside. Find your favorite one, and copy and paste it there, under a different name. Say, my_fav_template_25.ott (from my_fav_tempalte_24.ott). You do this and it just doesn't work... - - - I don't want to import it. Cause I would have to place it somewhere else, from where I could import it. If you import it from your template directory, it will have a different name.... Don't ask :) This should just work. But it doesn't. I have restarted my machine, still no success. The new template doesn't appear in the list. Steps to Reproduce: 1. exit libreoffice 2. go to the template directory (find it in Tools/ Options / paths) 3. pic a template and copy-paste it under a different name Actual Results: The new template doesn't show up in the template list. Expected Results: The new template should show up in the template list. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: [Information automatically included from LibreOffice] Locale: en-US Module: StartModule [Information guessed from browser] OS: Linux (All) OS is 64bit: yes
additional experiments: #1 on another machine which shares the same template directory with this machine (through cloud syncing), I found the new template! However, it's not how it is supposed to be :) "my_temp_25" wasn't there.. but I opened "temp_25" for editing, and it turned out to be "temp_25.ott" ... - - - #2 On this (original machine) I right click (in a file manager) on my_temp_25.ott and... a new document (untitled) opens.... and I check what template it is based on, and it's... my_temp_24 :) Now it's beginning to make sense! the problem "is" that within that template a template name is being recorded, I mean hardcoded... written in it... I sense that this is a VERY COMPLEX system... including handling documents whose template is not available on that machine... etc, etc.. I guess there must be a dozen scenarios... not to mention old stories... STILL... copy-pasting a template under a new name in the template director should work...
hi! new "developments"!! :) (I know this is only new to me :)) So, I extracted that my_temp_25.ott and opened (in a text editor) the meta.xml and it has info in it... especially within one "tag": <dc:title> and it had the value: "my_temp_24" ........... I have corrected it to my_temp_25 BUT after I zipped it back... in the templates list it was displayed as a corrupted template... and Libreoffice couldn't repair it, even though it offered to... so... there's no easy / manual solution... but I think there should be :)
SOLUTION!!!! (archive manager -- linux mint) (3.36.3, archive manager for GNOME) I have done this (finally): I copied "my_temp_24.ott" to another directory. Right click, open with --- archive manager... then selectd manifest.xml (by right clicking) and "open with" again... and chose a text editor... then changed the "<dc:title>" tag's content... to "my_temp_25" and then closed it.. and chose "update" (meaning updating the content of the compressed file) AND pasted this file back to the template dir... and it was there!!!! and I could open it for editing!!! ................... my conclusion: after I pasted back "my_temp_25.ott" to the template directory... it wouldn't be visible cause it had the same title as another template... which you can correct by using archive manager (which will re-compress the zip the same way as it was compressed originally) and opening the manifest.xml and editing the <dc:title> tag... and updating the zip... (the .ott-file) Now I can handle templates :) I wish there was an easier way which anybody could use! Peter * * * * * thank you for developing Libreoffice * * * * *
ONE important CORRECTION: meta.xml NOT manifest.xml it was META .. meta.xml that I was talking about, not the manifest.xml (it has no role in this story :)) sorry! Peter
(In reply to peter josvai from comment #3) > SOLUTION!!!! => INVALID (no issue) > I wish there was an easier way which anybody could use! The documentation might help you https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/sTfTQ2p6TBMQHRo, including tips for the Template Manager.
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