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["Mark Hughes (Zim mailing list)" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jaap,

Dev pace is what it is - your speed of support/response is very helpful.

Another way to handle this case might be a "Copy Subtree" / "Paste 
Subtree" on tree node context menu (which is how I do this in KeyNoteNF).

I can do a scripted solution, but won't go there while I'm mainly on 
Windows!

Regards,

Mark

On 11/02/2013 11:35, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Mark Hughes (Zim mailing list)
> <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Zim uses the term "template" for and export.
> >
> > I'm interested in having templates for creating new Zim pages and wonder if
> > there is a mechanism for this.
> There is a "hidden feature" in the code that I will enable after
> fixing number of outstanding design items. (As you may have noticed,
> dev pace is slow at the moment, so may take some time.) But the
> intended feature is single page only, not sub-tree.
>
> > If not, what would the neatest way to create
> > new pages -- or rather a subtree of several pages -- based on some a
> > pre-defined subtree of Wiki content? I currently use KeyNoteNF for this but
> > am migrating gradually to Zim.
> >
> > My scenario is that whenever I set up a new project for a website client I
> > have a pre-defined wiki (actually KeyNoteNF subtree) with placeholders for
> > client information, standard tasks and so on. I create a copy of this and
> > then rename/search and replace with the client name/web domain etc.
> I think you could do the copy & replace in a small shell script. Add
> this script to zim as a "custom tool" that takes page name as input.
> This would enable a work flow where you go to a new page and then
> trigger the tool from the tools menu to populate the page.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaap