Kameleon Help

Document template categories

    This page describes how to

    • create document tree (catecories and subcategories) to end-users

    • use smart folders for documents - also called default values for documents

    Inside portal navigate to Contents > Documents

    Create document category

    1. Press New-button to create category

    2. Fill in fields

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    Create category -panel

    • Display name is shown for end users in Kameleon Office

    • Language: select language for categroy

    • Visibility: select user groups to see category or let it be visible to all

    Document defaults / smart folder defaults

    After creating the document category, you can save default values for new documents added to this category - also called as smart folder.

    Open the document category and click Category defaults.

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    Defaults can be saved for

    • General: Authors

    • Layout: Default values for layout checkboxes and template to use for softwares

    • Templates: Layout templates to be used in Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents

    • Metafields: Metagroups to use for new documents

    • Default values: Default metafield values for contents under this category. Can be overriden per content.

    • Saving: Default metafields and characters to generate filename of the document. Default location to save document

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    Create subcategory

    • Navigate to category where to create subcategory
      Subcategory can also have subcategories

    • Press New-button and select Subcategory

    • Fill in fields in Category-panel

    Subcategory inherits the default values ​​of the main category, but you can change your own default values ​​for it. If you change main category’s default values, subcategory’s default values do not change.