A dynamic user interface for document assembly

Authors:
Miro Lehtonen;Renaud Petit;Oskari Heinonen;Greger Lindén
Affiliations:
University of Helsinki, Finland;University of Helsinki, Finland;University of Helsinki, Finland;University of Helsinki, Finland
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Document engineering
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Document assembly has turned out to be a convenient approach to corporate publishing and reuse of large collections of documents. Automated assembly of a document reduces the amount of human effort when creating customized documents consisting of document fragments from a collection.However, most methods used require a number of parameters to be defined prior to the assembly process, and providing these parameters in the correct format is seen to be too demanding for an average user. We have designed and implemented a graphical user interface that provides the user with a simple way to specify the parameters of the assembly process. The interface, which is dynamically generated based on a given document configuration, lets the user create and customize documents such as technical manuals.In our example assembly case, the user can select the product, the manual type, the language of the manual as well as the optional components to be included in the manual.