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Suggest themes name when creating a new print layout #37433

Open MMR100 opened 4 years ago

MMR100 commented 4 years ago

I name each of my print layouts by the name of the paragraph to remember where to insert them in my reports on MS Word. I work a lot with themes and I name them to be matching with the print layout. It would be nice to have a connection between the list of themes and the layout manager. For example, when creating a new layout, the name can be picked up from the list of the themes.

roya0045 commented 4 years ago

Composer? And you also know that you can control the theme with a variable, you just make an atlas with your theme name in the attributes and you are set to go.

MMR100 commented 4 years ago

Sorry. "Composer" is similar to french "Composeur" which means "layout". I changed the text accordingly. Today, when one want to create a new print layout, no title is suggested. We could have an option such as "name the layout from a theme name"

DelazJ commented 4 years ago

For example, when creating a new layout, the name can be picked up from the list of the themes.

You mean, at the beginning when you hit the button "New layout", or at the end when you are exporting the finished print layout to another format?

MMR100 commented 4 years ago

For example, when creating a new layout, the name can be picked up from the list of the themes.

You mean, at the beginning when you hit the button "New layout", or at the end when you are exporting the finished print layout to another format?

At the beginning when hitting the button "New layout"

roya0045 commented 4 years ago

This doesn't make sense, its requesting feature to accommodate a very specific workflow that, at most, would benefit a few users.