Word Templates and SmartDocs?

[Scott Bellware [C# MVP]]

The examples that I've seen of using Smart Documents don't seem to involve a
template. The tutorials on MSDN are .doc based rather than .dot based.

My assumption (and I've been horribly wrong about Office dev stuff so far)
is that I can bind a Smart Document to a template so that when I create a new
doc from that template, the document actions pane is the one I created using
the Smart Document SDK (actually, the wrapper from Vertigo).

Is this a reasonable scenario? Are there examples that demonstrate this?

Cheers,

Scott Bellware
C# MVP
www.bellware.net

 

[Jim Vierra]

I just tested a Smart Doc by moving it to a template "DOT" and then creating
a new document from it. It worked correctly and the new document had a
functional Action pane included. Most examples of automation of automation
I have seen just use the "new document based on" method which is pretty much
identical to new using template. An attached template, however, is a
completely different animal as it just contribute definition to the document
but not necessarily content.

 

[Scott Bellware [C# MVP]]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

-s

 

[Jim Vierra]

You're welcome! You're welcome! You're welcome!

Let us know if you are able to get what you are trying to accomplish to work
with DOT files. I haven't had time to set up a test with this scenario.
The test I did just used an existing system to run a template based document
but it doesn't show all of the pieces.