Quick Documents

Quick Document allows you to generate a new document with just a single click.

1. Select the EA package, element or diagram you want to print,
2. Choose Specialize | eaDocX | Quick Document.

This will generate a new document containing content from the package, element or diagram you selected.

How it Works

Doing a Quick Generate will :

1. Open a new Word document, using your default Word template (in UK English, this is Normal.dotx)
2. Add three sections to it.
   1. Document information: document title, comments, date/time generated, author and the name of the repository.
   2. The package, element or diagram that you selected to print. By default this includes any diagrams and hyperlinks where connections exist between contents in the document.
   3. A glossary of terms (but only if your document contains terms that you have defined in your model)
3. Auto-generate a profile for the document. By default, this will use the structure of only the Package you have selected, and not that of the whole model.
4. Generate the document.

Next steps

Using Free Quick documents

That’s as far as you can go.

With an eaDocX license (or using the free 30-day trial)

You can then save the document, and start to make changes to it so that it looks the way you want.

For example:

• Add more sections
• Change the way that EA elements are formatted, either tables or inline.
• Change the Word Style Settings which the document uses
• Add information showing the relationships in your model, either as simple attributes, tables of attributes or more complex relationships.
• Update the EA terms to include items in your document and re-generate the Glossary.
• Modify the document information.
• Include Change Marking.

Options

The first time you create a Quick Document, you will be shown some setup options.