Trial guide #3 – Formatting your content

What’s the problem with generated documents anyway? Well, it’s that they so often look generated.

eaDocX generated documents have many features to make them look like they have been hand-crafted. So your stakeholders are more likely to believe the contents are current and really address their needs.

Document level formatting

eaDocX documents are fully functioning Word documents

You can apply your company standard Word document templates and table styles, so that all your generated documents look familiar to your readers.

Remove blank sections

You can also hide empty sections when parts of the model haven’t been populated yet, avoiding headings with pages of no content.

Element level formatting

Profiles for each element

Each eaDocX document contains the formatting definition for each EA type and stereotype it contains. So you can tailor for each one, exactly which element fields & TVs, relationships and related elements will print. That definition is included in the Element profile.

Find the profile definition for each element in a document by opening your document inside EA. Open the eaDocX Profiles tab in the eaDocX menu (to the left of the Word window) to see all the elements in this document – right click on the element type and select Profile.

Paragraphs, Tables, or both

You choose whether to print element content in tables, or in paragraphs (inline), or in a combination of the two – inline tables.

Hyperlinks

Simple definition of hyperlinks between elements – located in the inline and table formatting windows – to help your readers navigate to the information they are most interested in.

Relationship Matrices

Choose which fields to print in the source and target elements of your relationship matrices, and the content of the intersection cells in the matrix too.

Conditional formatting

Conditional formatting can be applied to the profile of any element type or stereotype – whether inline or table – to make your data stand out.