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How can I create a document template?
Select "New / New document template" in the "File" menu. Within the window dedicated to document template creation, you can define its ID and its affected files. Moreover the "Mask" textfield permits you to define the mask format for the IDs of documents that will instanciate this template.
Why create documents templates?
You often create documents of the same type (technical document, commercial proposal, fax...). To facilitate you work, create only once a document template on which you will rely on each time. Thus you standardize the format of the ID, the files to be completed and your own attributes (date, text, boolean or numeric) for each new document.
A little more explanation on the ID mask...
The mask permits you to define the mask format for the IDs of documents that will instanciate this template. Additionnaly to any regular characters, you can use "#" symbol for any valid number and "*" for any character. Thus if you define the mask "FAX_****_###", when you will create a document relied on this template, you will be able to give it "FAX_SENT_001" ID.
Note that you can choose to generate automatically the document ID by clicking the "generated document ID" checkbox.