M2Doc 4.0.0 and template visibility

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Hello,

I just find out that M2Doc 4.0.0 provides the capacity to define a notion of visibility on a template code block.

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I assume that it would allow to define a template code block in one word template document, and reuse it in another word template, allowing to mutualize definition of small generic templace code block for different final templates.

However, I do not achieve to do this. The word template that I use for my documentation generation (the one configured in the genconf file) does not recognize the template code block that I can define in orther word template documents.

I guess that I would need to define some import or dependency between the word documents. But I couldn’t find how to do it in the M2Doc reference documentation…

Am I understanding this notion of template block visibility the wrong way?
If not, can you provide an example on how to do it?

Thank you

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Hello,

That’s exactly the idea. But it will be implemented when M2Doc will use AQL 8.x. At the moment we are still using AQL 7.x and I don’t know when we will be able to bump the AQL version. I introduced this change because it break the template format and since the support of Office 365 already break the template format I chose to add this in the same version.
In short M2Doc 4.0.0 doesn’t use this information but I hope it will soon be able to extends and import template to reuse and override template constructs.

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Hello Yvan,

Thanks for your answer. I will wait to see this feature appear in M2Doc!
It will be a real game changer in order to ensure proper configuration management of template blocks and reuse in different end templates :slight_smile:

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