I've developed a pretty efficient practice whereby I use the map manager to create topicrefs to topics that don't yet exist and then take advantage of the "Create new document?" feature to create the document from a template. Since there is no ambiguity about where the title of the topic goes, I think it would be reasonable in this case for Oxygen to set the title of the newly-created topic to the navtitle value in all cases (even where the template document has a non-empty title). I can't think of a reason why in DITA you would have topics with invariant titles that you would create more than one of. For clarity, it might be best to provide some sort of "put navtitle here" thingy to put in the template but in this specific case I think it would be acceptable to just blindly create the title. The only time this would fail would be in specializations where the title itself has required subelements (a pattern I use for specialized reference topic types) but I think that would be handled if the rule was "put the title text in the first leaf descendant or self of the topic title", putting the onus on the template to provide any required subelements of topic. Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com