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The Correspondence Management Solution contains three building
blocks:
Asset Composer building block
Data Dictionary building block
Expression Manager building block
Building blocks are product capabilities with clear technical
documentation that explains how they can be used for production
applications. The building blocks are fully supported under the
Platinum Enterprise support program.
Asset Composer building blockThe Asset Composer building block provides APIs to create,
update, and delete assets and render a document or dynamic form
based on complex data-driven expressions (rules). The Asset Composer
building block also provides user interfaces for users to author
correspondence assets and to create custom correspondence. The Asset
Composer building block leverages the Expression Manager building
block to evaluate the necessary content (such as text and images) required
for inclusion or exclusion to generate a personalized correspondence.
The Asset Composer building block consists of the following user
interfaces:
Editor to create the letter templates
Editors to create text, lists, nested lists with compound
numbering and dynamic lists with repeatable elements
User interface to upload images
Editor to create conditions
Editor to create and customize fragment layouts
Spell checker (in the text editor)
Editor to create categories and subcategories
User interface to upload layouts and fragment layouts
Create Correspondence user interface, using which business
users can create custom correspondence
Manage Assets user interface, for performing create, update
and delete operations on assets
Data Dictionary building blockAn important feature of the Correspondence Management Solution
is its ability to receive data from a backend data source as input
for use in a customer correspondence. A data dictionary enables
business users to use information from backend data sources without
knowing technical details about their underlying data models.
A data dictionary is an independent representation of metadata
that describes underlying data structures and their associated attributes.
A data dictionary is created using business vocabulary. It can be
mapped to one or more underlying data models.
The Data Dictionary building block consists of the following
parts:
A user interface to create a data dictionary (either
manually, or by importing XSD or another compliant data model) and
to maintain it.
A server-side component that integrates with backend data
sources and instantiates the data dictionary instance
Data Dictionary Browser user interface component which is
used in various editors
Expression Manager building blockThe Expression Manager building block performs computations
on data values provided by the Data Dictionary building block or
by end users.
The Correspondence Management Solution uses the result of the
expression evaluation to select assets such as text, images, and
templates. You can then use the Asset Composer building block to
assemble the selected assets into a completed correspondence.
The Expression Manager building block consists of the following
parts: A server-side expression evaluation module provides
the capability to evaluate expressions on the server side
A client-side expression evaluation module provides the capability
to evaluate expressions in a Flex client application, without a
server roundtrip
Expression Builder user interface component which is used
to create, modify, and delete expressions
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