Combine Default Dialogs

To decrease the amount of dialogs in the interview you can use the Combine Default Dialogs option to have HotDocs ask all interview questions on one dialog.

In the 11.1 release, this feature is valid only for templates published to the desktop environment.

To generate combine default dialogs in an interview

1. Open Component Manager.
2. Click the Component File Properties button.
3. Click the Interview tab.
4. Select Combine Default Dialogs.

When HotDocs assembles a document from the this template, HotDocs asks the questions in the interview in one dialog where it arranges the questions based on the order of the corresponding variables in the template. If you also have a dialog component in your component file, HotDocs asks all the questions until it encounters the first variable used in that dialog. HotDocs will then ask the dialog, followed by all the remaining questions in the template.

If you want to determine the appearance of one or two dialogs in an interview yourself, you can insert ASK instructions at the place in the template where you want your questions asked. If you want to control more aspects of your interview, you can use a custom interview script.