Last week, I mentioned changes that we’re making to GroupDocs Assembly to make it more intuitive. Document assembly (also known as document automation) is an aspect of document management that you might not be familiar with, so this week I’ll discuss what it is and how it can be used in more detail.

Document management?

You’ve found your way to GroupDocs and the GroupDocs blog so chances are that you have an idea about document management. It’s simply the process of keeping track or and managing the various documents you use. Creating a professional-looking template, storing it online and sharing it with your colleagues so that they can all use it is all document management. So is customising contracts, sending them out for signing and archiving the signed documents.

Read More

We're continuing work on the new and improved GroupDocs look and feel. We're told you that we're making changes to the GroupDocs dashboard and GroupDocs Viewer, and we're also changing GroupDocs Annotation. We're not stopping there. We're also making changes to GroupDocs Assembly.

GroupDocs Assembly is an app that lets you automate document assembly and automation.

Think of your document as a form that you can use to create several new documents from. You start with a template document. In the template, there are a number of fields that will collect information, for example, name, address, date. (These are straightforward examples but you can use GroupDocs Assembly to create really sophisticated forms and collect all kinds of data.)

Read More

GroupDocs changes regularly as we introduce new features and update the interface. It's easy to keep up with what's happening:

• Follow this blog. We post weekly, sometimes even more often, with recent and upcoming changes.
• Read the GroupDocs newsletter. On the first of every month, we send out news about what we've been up to in the last month. We share what new features we are planning, our most popular blog post and any media we've had.

The May 2012 GroupDocs newsletter is our first issue. In it, you'll find out what we're working on right now, what new features we've released recently, what other people are saying about us, and what we're saying in this blog.

Read More