Trial guide #3 – Formatting your content

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

With eaDocX, generated documents can be defined 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, so you can apply your company standard Word document templates and table styles, making them look familiar to your readers.
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

Each eaDocX document contains the formatting definition for each EA type and stereotype. 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.

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

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.

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.

And use conditional formatting to draw attention to the parts of your document that need to be highlighted. (NB Conditional formatting can be applied to relationship matrices too).