ITP/Workstation
Document Production based on PC word processors
ITP/Workstation is used for the composition of individual, interactive documents on workstations.
Typical examples are:
- Letters from a correspondence system
- Tailor made quotations
- Certificates
- Statements
ITP/Workstation can be used directly from your desktop, your word processor or automatically triggered from your business application. It composes high quality business output directly from your applications and data repositories. The templates for ITP/Workstation are designed in your word processor. A specific ITP/Workstation feature is the option to add rich interaction to your ITP document templates, such as questions and choices.
Supported word processor formats
Documents generated by ITP can be edited as regular word processor documents. ITP can produce documents for the most commonly used PC word processors, like Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect and OpenOffice.org. See Supported Document Formats for a complete list.
Supported data sources
ITP can retrieve data from several sources. See Connection Types for a complete list.
Integration
ITP/Workstation can be integrated tightly into your business application. A number of options are available to invoke ITP/Workstation from your application:
| iSeries | Through WindowsEnabler/400 a native iSeries cmd is provided for invokingITP/Workstation. |
| COM | A COM library is provided for integration of ITP/Workstation in Windows based solutions. |
| Windows | Both a dynamic link library and a command line interface are provided for integrating ITP/Workstation in Windows based solutions. |
| MQ Series | Through WindowsEnabler/MQ an interface is provided for invoking ITP/Workstation from host based applications. |
ITP/Server is available to run document productions in a batch environment or as an on-demand document production server.
ITP/Workstation is a "fat-client" solution. The server/browser based ITP/OnLine Server is also available to create interactive documents. ITP/OnLine Server does support the interactive use of text-blocks - which is not possible with ITP/Workstation.