Letter Templates

Editing Letters can be daunting if you are new to the process and it can take awhile to learn how to make all the edits you want to make. To make this process easier you can use templates created by staff in the CSU where you only need to make minor edits to customize it for your campus. This page will show how to download and upload templates in Alma, and the next few pages will show templates you can either download or Copy and Paste from online. 

To download a template you should first find the Letter you want to edit by going to Configuration > General > Letters > Letters Configuration and open the Letter you want to edit. You can see if there are available templates to download by clicking the ellipses (...) in the XSL section and selecting Shared XSLs. 

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On the following table you will see all the letters contributed to the Alma community as well as the email address and institution who contributed the Letter. If there is a template you would like to try, select it and click Select. Your previous XSL will be replaced by the template and you are free to make additional edits to ensure your information is displayed correctly. 

If you make a Letter and want to share it with the wider Alma community you can upload it to Alma for everyone to download. Go to Configuration > General > Letters > Letters Configuration and open the Letter you want to upload. Make sure all the final edits are complete and click Save. Click the ellipses (...) in the XSL section and select Contribute to share your custom Letter. 

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After clicking the Contribute add a title for the template in the description field and click Confirm to finish the upload.