DocFactory

A Document Factory is a system that automatically generates documents like mail merge letters with the help of Microsoft Office Templates (.dot or .dotx files).

You can extend the DocFactory to cover your project requirements. At the moment, it is implemented with the commercial Java Library Aspose that we ship with the Axon Ivy Platform.

Tip

The DocFactory currently bundles the modules aspose-words, aspose-cells, aspose-pdf, aspose-slides. There are additional Aspose modules such as aspose-barcode, aspose-ocr, aspose-diagram, that you can use in Axon Ivy. You have to add these modules from the Aspose repository to your Axon Ivy project and call the Java API. You can find the complete documentation on the Aspose website at Aspose. For correct license handling, kindly refer to the tips given in DocFactory Object

Microsoft Office templates contain fixed text and dynamic merge fields. A merge field is a placeholder for text information. Each merge field has a name and will be filled with the information you provide to the DocFactory. For example, a merge field could be the address or the name of a correspondent for a letter.

Terms and Definitions used in the DocFactory chapter

Document Factory	The Document Factory System implemented in the DocFactory Project
Template	A Microsoft Office template (document model)
Merge field	Placeholder in the template for data supplied
Document	If not defined, this is a letter or document generated based on a template after the mail merge operation
Mail merging	Document generation with the replacement of the merge fields with the corresponding information
Format	The format in which the serial document has to be saved (doc, txt, html…)

Read more about the DocFactory API and the merging of fields in Microsoft Office templates in the sections below.

Doc Factory

• Mail Merging
• Callable Processes
• Demos
• Document Factory Object
• Complex Mergefields (Field Update)