Case documents

This section of the site covers what you can do with documents at a case's Documentation tab.

For full, system-wide details about the way that documents are managed in Case Manager, including templates, merge fields and locking/unlocking start at Documents overview.

Brief review

Case Manager manages and makes case documents available through a case's Documentation tab.

There are many different kinds of documents that must be filed, studied, written and managed for a case. Case Manager can work with all types of documents, including emails, plain and formatted documents, MS Word and Excel files, images, videos and repx files. Some types of documents can be created completely within Case Manager and other kinds of documents, such as Word documents, are managed in Case Manager and edited outside Case Manager, see Types of documents.

For many kinds of documents you can create a template for standard reports, emails or letters and add merge fields to it. When a document is created using the template, Case Manager automatically inserts the appropriate case details into place. This speeds up and standardises document creation and reduces transcription errors.

Documentation grid

At the Documentation tab you can view and access all documents and emails linked to the case. Each document has a creation time and date, so that documents can be displayed in chronological order.

The list of documents is a grid, so it can be ordered, grouped and filtered as you do with other grids in the system. Similarly, you can select the document columns to be displayed in the list:

• A preview of the selected document is shown below the grid in the Content sub-tab.

For plain and formatted text documents you can also edit the document in this window.

• The Attachments sub-tab enables you to access any email attachments.
• The Properties sub-tab enables you to view email from and to addresses.

Note that the screenshot above reflects the new document manager functionality for linked documents, in this case a Word file.

When the classic document manager is operating the bottom of the screen provides extra tools to manage downloading, etc:

You can export the grid to an Excel spreadsheet. See List tools for details.

You can also print the list of documents with several useful options.

Click here for simple video demonstrations of documents and the Documentation tab. Note that this is the Windows version of Case Manager, however you should still find it useful.