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Structuring your document (12)

Table of contents

1Package Section

2Report Section

3Other Section Types

4Access

Adding Sections

Table of contents

1Package Section

2Report Section

3Other Section Types

4Access

To insert a new section:

  1. Open your document in eaDocX
  2. Place the cursor in the Word document where you want the new section to appear.
    Remember that there is hidden text in the document, where other sections are defined, so it’s a good idea to make all this hidden text visible for a moment, using the ‘View’ in eaDocX, and choose ‘Show Markup’
  3. If you accidentally put the cursor inside another section, eaDocX will warn you about this, and won’t create an impossible section. Just move your cursor somewhere outside of any section.
  4. Now you have specified where the section will go, you can choose what to add. Do this by either:
    1. In the EA Project Browser, find the package, element or diagram to want to add, and choose

Package Section

A Package Section documents the contents of an EA package. It follows the order of the EA package structure and automatically allocates headings to match. The formatting of all elements is that specified in the Element Profile.

Report Section

Instead of adding an EA package to a section, you can also define an eaDocX Report to be inserted at that point

Report types are:

  • Element Report
  • Matrix Report
  • Gap Matrix

Other Section Types

There are a number of other types of section you can add. These add a variety of project and document data.

Access

The Insert menu allows you to insert new Sections into your Word document.

Open an eaDocX document > Place your cursor at the location in your Word document where the Section is to be inserted

eaDocX window > Top Menu > Insert

Section type Description See Also
Current EA selection Inserts a new eaDocX section into your Word document, at the point where the Word cursor is positioned, and adds the contents of your current selection in the EA Project Browser EA Structure = Document Structure

Printing diagrams
Element Report Inserts a new eaDocX section into your Word document, and opens a new Element Report Element reports
Matrix Report Inserts a new eaDocX section into your Word document, and opens a new Matrix Report Matrix Reports
Model View Lets you add a section which will include the contents of a Model View Favorites folder Using Model Views
Document Information Inserts a new eaDocX Document Information section into your document – containing Document Information as created and stored by eaDocX. Document information must be enabled for this section to be added. Document Information
Glossary Inserts a new eaDocX project glossary section into your Word document. This is from the list of terms defined in the glossary of the EA model. To find the EA glossary, click (in EA, not eaDocX) View>> More Project tools >> Project Information. Project Glossary is one of the tabs in the resulting window. Document glossary
Document Field Inserts a document field into your document – particularly useful for populating standard information into document headers and footers.

For documents using eaDocX Document Management (part of Revision Manager), relevant EA and eaDocX attributes can be added. These are just single variables, which you can put into your own tables, into the header or footer, or anywhere in your document

 Document management