Document Authoring Features and Functions

• Document can be edited while preventing records from being edited


• Only allow an author to edit a document once it has been checked out


• Allow someone other than the author to make annotations to the document


• Annotation can be overlaid on a record being viewed


• Document can be printed with or without annotations


• Store redlining, annotations, and highlighting separately but associates them with the original


• Support all core document types


• Outline what security controls are available (if any) for the creation, deletion, modification, and viewing of annotations or comments


• Provide templates for MS Office (or other office productivity) applications


• Allow templates to be added at any time


• Declare a template superseded and not to be used


• Present the current template to authors by default


• Link templates to metadata elements at capture


• Copy a portion of text in a document and add that to another document


• Copy an image in a document and add that to another document


• Change the font of text within a document


• Change the size of text within a document


• Split a single document into multiple documents


• Split a multi-page document into multiple single-page documents


• Insert hyperlinks in a document to refer to other documents