Update EA from a Word document

[Guillaume Finance]

Hi,

Once a Word document is generated with eaDocX, is there any way that updates carried in the word document would e.g. update an element’s name, description… ?

If not using eaDocX Word feature, would the upcoming Collaboration module let you achieve this via the web interface?

Thanks

[eadocX Support]

There is no way, and no plan for there to be a way, to update EA from the eaDocX Word document.
This is because the Word document doesn’t understand the identity of the source EA elements/attributes.
We go part-way to fixing this with Collaboration Edition. Here, the Reviewer doesn’t update the document, but adds comments and answers questions, which are saved in the EA model. But we still don’t let the Reviewer change the document, because we think this doesn’t scale.
We MAY in future allow Collaboration Edition to take a copy of a small part of the document, and suggest modifications to the text, but this still will not change the document, just create a richer comment.
So there is no intention in any product to allow changes in the document to get pushed into EA.

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