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Thursday, 18 Sep 2008

Template Browser

Bettina Haberer

As this is my first blog at Gullfoss I like to give a short introduction of myself. I am a member of the User Experience team of Sun Microsystems in Hamburg and I am working on OpenOffice.org in different areas.

Today I would like to introduce the upcoming OpenOffice.org template browser.
A typical user scenario is a quick search for a single template and to use it immediately.
Currently we have templates available only as template pack extensions in the extension repository, each with an amount of templates the user needs first to sight respectively sort out those ones he does not need.

The template browser will provide the download and upload of templates which are accessible as single documents. 'Download' means in this context to select a template, which opens in the appropriate OpenOffice.org application.

Finding certain templates is provided by some main categories with their subcategories. Furthermore search results can be narrowed down e.g. by selection of the application type or the period of availability. The results and the user interface can be shown in dependence of a selected language.

In a next release these features will be offered from within the OpenOffice.org via a redesigned “Templates and Documents”-dialog so that the user can interact with the web site content directly from within the user interface and work online and offline on his templates.

I hope I have raised your curiosity. :)

tags: templates

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Comments:

Hi Bettina,

This sounds interesting. Is it going to be released as an extension for the current version of OpenOffice.org or do we have to wait till the next major release of the office suite?

Thank you!

Kind regards,
Dmitri

Posted by Dmitri Popov on September 18, 2008 at 07:03 PM CEST #

Hi Bettina,
do you have screenshots of the new template browser? Or is it in an too early developing stage?

Posted by Thomas on September 18, 2008 at 10:32 PM CEST #

Is it related to OpenTemplate client ?

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenTemplate_Client

Posted by Gouchi on September 19, 2008 at 09:48 AM CEST #

Thank you for your interest. The template browser will be available as a web site. It will not be available as an extension. As it is on a too early developing stage, there are currently no screenshots available.
Concerning the last question: Concerning the usage of a web frontend it is similar. But we try a close cooperation with the OpenOffice.org application, as we already do with the extension web site.

Posted by Bettina Haberer on September 22, 2008 at 05:50 PM CEST #