Can Pages Templates be Sorted in the Chooser?

Question

I doubt I will ever us any of he built-in templates and would prefer to have "My Templates" listed above them. Is there a way to sort the order in which template folders are displayed? At minimum, can the Word Processing template pages and Page Layout template pages be collapsed into their respective headings so they don;t take up so much of the display space?
Thanks,
Greg

Answer 1

Nothing bizarre.
The inthebox templates are stored in the application package itself.
The structure of the display in the Chooser is also defined in this package.
A plist file defines the two groups: WP and Layout and define subgroups in which templates are grouped by kind.
When we open this Chooser, the application displays the inthebox templates according to it's internal structure then complete with the list of templates grabbed from your custom templates folder.
You may dislike it but it's perfectly logical.
inthebox templates are completely different than custom templates.
I assumes that it's one of the reasons for this design.
If you don't want to see the in the_box templates, create an alias of your "custom templates" folder and put in in the dock or on the desktop.
You may also open it from the Menu Script where it would be reachable as a menu item like others.
--[SCRIPT iWork '09 my templates]
Enregistrer le script en tant que Script, Application ou Progiciel : iWork '09 mes modèles.xxx
déplacer l'application créée dans le dossier
<VolumeDeDémarrage>:Users:<votreCompte>:Library:Scripts/
Il vous faudra peut-être créer le dossier Applications.
menu Scripts > iWork '09 mes modèles
Si vous appelez ce menu depuis l'un des composants d'iWork vous pourrez sélectionner le modèle à ouvrir
depuis le dialogue "choose file" si la property 'fromDialog' a la valeur true
depuis une fenêtre Finder si cette property a la valeur false.
L'aide du Finder explique:
L'Utilitaire AppleScript permet d'activer le Menu des scripts :
Ouvrez l'Utilitaire AppleScript situé dans le dossier Applications/AppleScript.
Cochez la case "Afficher le menu des scripts dans la barre de menus".
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Save the script as a Script, an Application or an Application Bundle: iWork '09 my templates.xxx
Move the newly created application into the folder:
<startup Volume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Scripts:
Maybe you would have to create the folder Applications by yourself.
menu Scripts > iWork '09 my templates
If you call this menu from an iWork component you will be able to choose a template
from a "choose file" dialog if the property 'fromDialog' is set to true
from a Finder window if this property is set to false.
The Finder's Help explains:
To make the Script menu appear:
Open the AppleScript utility located in Applications/AppleScript.
Select the "Show Script Menu in menu bar" checkbox.
Yvan KOENIG (Vallauris, FRANCE)
10 mars 2009
property fromDialog : true
--=====
on run
set theApp to (info for (path to frontmost application))'s short name
if theApp is in {"Keynote", "Numbers", "Pages"} then
set dos to "Macintosh HD:Users:yvan_koenig:Library:Application Support:iWork:Pages:Modèles:"
set p2as to ((path to application support from user domain) as text) & "iWork:" & theApp & ":"
if theApp is "Keynote" then
set myTemplates to "Themes"
else
if my parleanglais() then
set myTemplates to "Templates:My Templates:"
else
set myTemplates to "Modèles:Mes modèles:"
end if
end if
set myTemplates to (p2as & myTemplates) as alias
if fromDialog then
tell application theApp to open (choose file default location myTemplates)
else
tell application "Finder" to open folder myTemplates
end if
else
beep 2
end if
end run
--=====
on parleanglais()
local z
try
tell application "Pages" to set z to localized string "Cancel"
on error
set z to "Cancel"
end try
return (z is not "Annuler")
end parleanglais
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 10 mars 2009 17:12:56)