Aia Software has recently added a new feature related to text block correspondence. A lot of documents created with ITP are centered on user selectable text blocks. This is used for relatively simple and straightforward letters or correspondence, but is also used for more complicated negotiated documents, such a contracts, verdicts or London Insurance Market slips and cover notes.

Such documents could already be defined within ITP but would typically require technical components maintained by IT staff. Enter Content Wizards. The newly added Content Wizards allow business-managed definition of interactive document content.

End users are capable of defining Content Wizards that define such text block selections. Text blocks can be grouped and ordered and blocks and groups can be made mandatory or optional. Such a Content Wizard defines (part of) the body of your document. Headers, footers, company style, data retrieval etc are defined through the powerful regular ITP technology.

A simple Content Wizard shows a list of optional text blocks from which the user, that is composing the document, can choose. A more complicated Content Wizard shows a number of document sections and within each section a list of optional (and mandatory) text blocks. Multiple nested levels of sections are possible.

The most important benefit of Content Wizards: it provides enhanced capabilities for empowering the business to manage their own text block based content without IT losing control!