Under Writer, Labels and Business Cards are substantially identical functions: a page array of frames (optionally linked?) to serve as containers for printable data (text or images). [For labels, the data are typically (though not necessarily) entered via fields defined from a database.] Though these forms might be regarded as templates, they are not under the Templates manager. For several reasons, it would be nice to manage them more effectively, as a forms library. I would elaborate the reasons, but don't want to lengthen this post before getting to some basic information, like: Where are these definitions stored?
Checking LibreOffice Paths, there are User Paths and Internal Paths; presumably the Internal Paths point to resources available to all users. All Internal Paths are of the form (under Windows): C:Program Files\LibreOffice\program\..\share\<X>, where <X> is: "autocorr" (for AutoCorrect) "autotext\en-US" (for AutoText (which is language-specific)) "wordbook" (for Dictionaries) "gallery" (for Gallery) For Templates, there are two Internal Paths: C:Program Files\LibreOffice\program\..\share\template\common; C:Program Files\LibreOffice\program\..\share\template\en-US; So "share", like "program", is a first-level subdirectory under "LibreOffice", containing 31 (possibly more) shared subdirectories. Among those are five {"autocorr", "autotext\en-US", "gallery", "template", "wordbook"} from the "Internal Paths" list, as well as 26 others NOT listed in "Internal Paths" -- but there is no "template\en-US". [By comparison with "autotext\en-US", I infer that there may be language-specific templates, but that there is no such directory as listed in "Internal Paths" because there are no "en-US"-specific templates. Does that explain it? If so, are there ANY language-specific templates, for any language? It would be interesting to see how that works.] Among the 26 shared subdirectories NOT listed in "Internal Paths" is one for "labels". That sounded promising for my purpose, but had only a single file, "labels.xml", dated 2021-09-08, so this is obviously not where my labels definitions are stored. [However, labels.xml does include definitions of business cards (and all other such cards), and I could at least edit it to put the manufacturers in alphabetical order -- small comfort. ;-) ] But that still does not expose user-defined labels definitions (which are appended when LibreOffice loads to the shared definitions in labels.xml) and I could not find those user-defined definitions. The only thing I could find under LibreOffice user Appdata, that was at least timestamp-compatible, was a file pack\registrymodifications.pack. It is a binary file, not readable, and I don't know how to decode it. Could that be where user definitions reside? If so, (a) How is that file read and edited? (b) Why are user-defined label definitions not in the same kind of XML file as shared definitions? John <with profound apologies for the length> -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy