Specify Options to Upload Answers

You can allow users to upload answers they use with certain templates to a Web server. To do this, you must specify uploading options at each template's component file.

If you plan on uploading answers, make sure your templates don’t contain variables with names longer than 30 characters. HotDocs uploads the variable name along with the answer, and it can only upload 30 characters for the variable name.

To enable users to upload answers for a template

1. Edit the template's component file using Component Manager. (See Open and Close Component Manager.) The Component Manager window appears.
2. Click the Properties button. The Component File Properties dialog box appears.
3. Click the Answer Upload tab.
4. Type the URL of the Web page to which you want the answers uploaded in the Upload URL field.
5. Type a description of the page to which the URL points in the Friendly name field.
6. Optionally, select Upload answers without asking to force the answers to always be uploaded, according to the instructions you have specified.

When users assemble documents that have answer uploading enabled, at the end of document assembly, HotDocs will either prompt them to upload their answers, or it will upload the answers automatically (depending on whether you select Upload answers without asking). If users choose to upload their answers later, they can select Upload Answers from the Tools menu of the HotDocs library.