Addovation DocGen 2.0

Last updated: 2024-11-18

Addovation DocGen is an automatic document creation solution that helps to streamline your business processes. With DocGen, businesses can create professional-looking documents quickly and easily and thus saving time and effort.

What you get!

  1. It enables businesses to create customized reports and documents, ensuring that clients receive information tailored to their specific needs.
  2. Automating the creation of technical documents and presentations, DocGen makes it easier for businesses to communicate complex information to their clients clearly and concisely.
  3. With DocGen, businesses can improve efficiency and provide a more client-centric service, enhancing their professional image and helping them stay ahead of the competition.
  4. Professional looking reports instantly available based on your specific information, numbers and pictures.
  5. Complex and large information sources may be complied to a report with predefined layout.
  6. Templates for different layouts can be tailored to meet your requirements.

How it works

All the data is being sent to the API that will merge the information using an HTML template and output either a Word- or PDF file. A generic overview can be illustrated as following:

Key benefits

  • DocGen is an ERP agnostic service to generate PDF or Word output.
  • All data is being sent to service and output is a document.
  • DocGen is not dependent on any ERP or data source.
  • DocGen can be combined with workflow tools such as Azure Logic Apps to control logic and / or fetch data.
  • DocGen does support images.
  • Templates are controlled by HTML.

Example of possibilities in a produced output

*) Note! This represents a fairly complex layout with many data sources and logic.

Required competencies

  • ERP specific integration knowledge.
    • How to gather data either internally or externally in the system.
    • How to send data directly to API or integration framework.
  • ERP functional knowledge.
    • What objects to use, when to trigger the flow e.g. a button or automatically.
    • What document classes, format size etc. to use.
  • Preferred integration framework
    • Such as Azure Logic apps or Dell Boomi.
    • This will handle logic and conditions.
    • Handle the file e.g. check in as new, connect to an object or create new revisions.
  • HTML and CSS knowledge
    • This controls how the end-result will look like.

Technical documentation

Release notes

Release date Version Comment
2025-01-06 2.2 Improvements and fixes (performance, JS support, missing images, web fonts, page breaks, charts, Graph support,show last page without cover pages)
2024-04-10 1.1 Maintenance release
2023-10-15 1.0 First release to market