User Template folder on server

We have changed in the office from 10.6 -10.8 with Pages 09 to 10.9 and Pages 5.2
With the old pages we had an alias of the server folder containing the templates in the template folder in teh users library.
I tried everything I found with google but didn't work.
Is there any possibility to get the templates from a shared folder?
Thanks in advace
Jens

Hi Peter,
I have thought about that before, but all new iMacs came already with Mavericks.
That is not an improvement, before I was only struggling "ONLY" with the Numbers templates which didn't work with the server share and now it is Numbers AND Pages...
That is a step back...
Or is there any other solution (and my boss hates MS Office.....)?
Jens

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