Document Studio

Document Studio is a stand-alone application used for designing document templates. Document Studio provides various views and wizards which help you design templates with much ease. You can drag elements to create template contents without writing it manually.
You can do the following when designing your template:
Note: If you are prompted to choose a licensing option, see Connecting to a license server to learn how to specify the license server path.
When you launch Document Studio, you will start work with new empty template.

1. Palette view

The palette view displays all the elements that you use to create and design your document template. See Template elements for more details. This view also has the following object selection tools:
  • Select: Allows selecting elements in the editor area. A single click selects the clicked element. Ctrl + Click adds the clicked element to the selection.
  • Marquee: Allows you to select multiple elements.

By default, a palette element remains selected until you select a new tool.

2. Schema view

This view displays the data schemas in the template. Each schema is displayed in its own page.

3. Editor area

This is the core area of Document Studio. The visual content of the document template and the content of the master pages are created in this area. The editor area has one page for the template content and one page for each master page.

4. Outline view

Displays the content of the templates in a tree structure.

5. Properties view

Displays the properties of the selected element and enables you to edit it. However, some properties such as the query path are read-only. It also displays the accepted values in a tooltip for some formatting properties.

6. Problems view

Displays the list of errors and warnings in the template.

7. Zoom editor

The Zoom editor allows you to focus on a on a particular element or set of elements. This is useful when designing complex templates with many nested elements.

If your view does not look like the one shown above, you can restore it using the Window > Restore Default Perspective menu selection. These views can be hidden, undocked and moved. If you move your cursor over the borders between the panes in the editor you will find that they can be expanded or contracted either vertically or horizontally. You can view detailed hierarchies within a pane, or shrink a pane to get more space for designing.


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