How to Use and Create Document Templates

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Document templates help you automate and standardize document creation. With templates you can add predefined content and metadata to the document, so you don’t have to start from scratch every time.

Using Document Templates

Your M-Files solution might already come with various document templates. If the selected class has a template, it will be offered as the first option.

Note that the templates you see in this guide, might be different from what your M-Files solution comes with.

Under the Select Class dropdown menu, in the Recently Used are the templates that have been used recently.

Under All are all the document templates for your company, and under Blank, all the blank templates that don’t come with prefilled information.

With templates, you can use a standard layout with prefilled content for the document, and also prefill the document with information added to the Metadata Card.

Creating Document Templates

To make a document a template, you need to add the Is template property with the value Yes to the document metadata card.

Prefilling Document Content with Metadata

Document content can be prefilled with metadata by using metadata fields placed in the document template.

These metadata fields can be added in appropriate places in the document template with the Insert Property option that can be found in the M-Files ribbon.

This way, M-Files retrieves the metadata from the document metadata card, and insert it in the document content where the placeholders are.

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