Docs Tab

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Revision as of 22:25, 5 March 2010

General Info and Scope

Classified As: (large) component
Parent Mantis: 1686

Scope

This document covers:

overall design of Doc Tab
List of saved pdfs table
pdf selection dropdown

It does not cover:

pdf template generation
pdf generation

Business Needs and Requirements

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Save Pdf Draft feature

Add ability for operator to "save work". Common case: operator selects pdf; clicks "show template"; edits some info; get's distracted; opens some other CT, etc; opens that CT again - all edits from pdf template is gone. We need to be able to save and keep last changes to template for every doc.

Technical Specification

Summary

3 step process

There are 3 independent steps:

step 1) generate template based on CT record data
step 2) tweak template
step 3) generate pdf (based on template values) and print it

Important observation: generated pdf is defined only by template and not by default state of the template you get after step 1.

User Interface and Functionality

Entities and Attributes

Special Cases and Misc

Look And Feel

Figures

Figure 1: Docs Tab, Default state

Figure 2: Pdf template example

Figure 3: Pdf preview

Questions and RFC

Known Non Critical Bugs

History

Add file counter

http://mantis.jaguarfreight.com/mantis/view.php?id=1053
for both Master and CT

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 Add ability for operator to "save work". Common case: operator selects pdf; clicks "show template"; edits some info; get's distracted; opens some other CT, etc; opens that CT again - all edits from pdf template is gone. We need to be able to save and keep last changes to template for every doc.
 == Technical Specification ==