# Any help with understanding documents

**URL:** <https://community.open-emr.org/t/any-help-with-understanding-documents/13798>\
**Category:** OpenEMR Development\
**Created:** [February 27, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/any-help-with-understanding-documents/13798 "2020-02-27T15:37:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![sjpadgett](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/sjpadgett/32/21623_2.png) [@sjpadgett](https://community.open-emr.org/u/sjpadgett)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/any-help-with-understanding-documents/13798/7 "2020-02-28T19:29:33Z")

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I don’t know if many remember but I put in 5.02 a document template feature. Primarily had portal patients in mind but document templates from demographic documents can be any patient.

 ![image](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/6/62df954b980f28e470964408e86fab0d329a4bbc.png)  
 ![image](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/3/3a373ccc4e6b31a12ebb3f747f0d08dd98240165.png)

Template are managed for all patients or individuals from Miscellaneous-\>Portal Dashboard.

If you want signatures and such then worth a look. Also, easier to manage templates.

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