Disclaimer The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way.
I have a site with some document libraries to store documentation based in multiple templates, to save each template in the correct folder, I have created a custom list thats contains the name of the template, the template and the folder where documents created with this tempalte must be stored.
Name - text - Template name
Template - hyperlink - The link to the template file
Folder - text - Folder where the document must be stored (site based path)
In the site main page I have a custom view (frontpage data viewer) of the list, that I have modified to open the template with a link and at the same time redirect this to the correct folder. The result is impressive. Now I can use so many templates and libraries as I want. The modified part of dvwp
<TD Class="{$IDARYQJD}">
<xsl:variable name="Field" select="@Template"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="substring-before(@Template, ', ')=''">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(@Template, ', ')"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<A HREF="{@Folder}" onclick="OpenTemplateInFolder('{substring-before(@Template, ', ')}','{@Folder}');">
<xsl:when test="substring-after(@Template, ', ')=''">
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="no" select="substring-before(@Template, ', ')"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</A>
</TD>
At the end of page I have introduced this small script thats get the template full path and the save path, I'm getting the path of site from context (ctx) and using the createNewDocumentWithProgId from ows.js.
<script>
function OpenTemplateInFolder(sTemplateWithFullPath,sSavePath)
{
sTemplate = unescapeProperly(sTemplateWithFullPath);
sSave = unescapeProperlyInternal(ctx.HttpRoot+'/'+sSavePath);
createNewDocumentWithProgID(sTemplate, sSave, 'SharePoint.OpenDocuments', false);
}
</script>
