Add a Graphic File to a Dialog

You can include images in your dialogs to help users understand interview questions or to display your company logo or other icon. The types of files you can add include .BMP, .JPG, .GIF, and .PNG.

Images with transparency may not appear correctly in dialogs.

To add an image to a dialog

  1. Open a dialog for editing. (See Edit a Custom Dialog.) HotDocs displays the Dialog Editor.
  2. At the Properties tab of the Dialog Editor, click the Dialog Element button and drag it to the Contents list. The Dialog Element Editor appears.
  3. Enter a name for the component in the Dialog element name field, or select Generate name automatically, which allows HotDocs to name the component.
  4. In the Style group, select Image.
  5. In the Image file field, click the Browse button and locate the image file.

Any images displayed in a browser-based (HotDocs Server) interview must be in the same folder as the template. Also, .BMP files do not work in browser-based interviews. Additionally, Silverlight does not support all possible color depths that are included in the PNG specification, specifically, gray scale and 64-bit true color.  

  1. Optionally, select an alignment option: Left, Center, and Right.
  2. Click OK. The Dialog Element Editor is closed.
  3. Drag the component up or down in the Contents list, depending on where you want the graphic placed on the dialog.