QAT Publisher is a CA Gen Plug-in that enables Gen to publish information to multiple different formats, including PDF, PDF Forms, HTML, Word, RTF, Excel, CSV, and Crystal Reports (RPT). The Plug-in generates CA Gen Action Blocks (not EAB’s) that produce XML and subsequently transform that XML into the target format. QAT Publisher benefits from existing XML technologies and integrates seamlessly with the CA Gen model-based approach. QAT Publisher uses a wizard-like interview to guide the process of selecting the elements (entities & attributes) for the publication. 100% of the CA Gen code necessary to publish information from an application in XML format and transform that to the target format is generated. Layouts are designed using style sheets or, in the case of PDF Forms, predesigned template forms. No external action blocks are required. A specialized wizard to consume and replace the external action blocks generated by other CA Gen report publishing products with action diagram code is provided.
This release includes the ability to fill PDF forms. In previous versions of QAT Publisher, PDFs could only be generated by designing the document using a stylesheet editor, and at runtime applying this stylesheet to produce the final result. While this approach is acceptable for typical reports and documents, the use of PDF forms is dramatically faster and easier for detailed forms that contain a lot of static text, specialized formatting, graphical elements, and placeholders for field contents. The majority of forms used by companies are either provided by third parties (government, partners) or by other departments within the company. Redesigning those forms using a stylesheet editor takes time and can be tedious, since every change on the original form would have to be reflected on the stylesheet design.
QAT Publisher 10 now includes a feature that inspects existing PDF forms and creates a publication that maps data from a CA Gen application into the fields of a PDF form. Using this feature, CA Gen applications can fill out fields in a blank PDF form and save the corresponding result as the final version. Since QAT Publisher uses custom functions in CA Gen, all this is done with no External Action Blocks. QAT Publisher will generate regular Action Blocks in the model, which can be fully traced using the CA Gen’s Trace tool.
As with any other type of publication created using QAT Publisher, this new feature is available for multiple environments, including C, Java and .Net.
Please contact sales at 402-391-9200 extension 5 or 800-799-8545 to purchase or upgrade to QAT Publisher 10 today.
CA Gen is also known as AllFusion® Gen, Advantage Gen, COOL:Gen
