Difference between revisions of "Templates online features"

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This site explains in short planned features for organizing and accessing templates online.

In a first step on the way to an OpenOffice.org 3.0 release a template web site will be created, where template can be uploaded and downloaded. A link from the current 'Templates and Documents'-dialog in OpenOffice.org will point to that planned template web site.

In a future release these features will be offered from within the Office via a redesigned / new “Templates and Documents”-dialog so that the user can interact with the web site content online directly from within the user interface.

List of features

• templates can be sorted into groups / categories
• search for templates
• short descriptions
• template versioning: templates get visible (marked) as updated ones on the site
• user feedback:
  • users can comment the templates and also give feedback by email directly to the template-creator
  • users can also vote the templates
• number of downloads is visible
• preview of thumbnails by mouse over the template thumbnail, so that the user can see the content of the template without the need to change the view..
• users can download a single selected template and also multi selected templates
• take over the meta data of the templates into the upload form
• download and upload should be possible on the template web site.. For upload authentication is needed
• link from Office to the template web site via inplementing an URL with tip help text in the templates and documents dialog
• perhaps offer different views on the web site: At least per default tiled (vertical navigation). Perhaps a further kind of view to switch between;