HotDocs Hub Admin Guide Overview

HotDocs Hub is a modular suite of web applications that provide commonly-required functionality for HotDocs integrations. The functions the Hub applications provide – including template and user management – augment the core HotDocs interview and document generation functions.

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Overview

Third-parties who create applications to integrate with HotDocs Web Services typically require several additional features:

  • Template storage and organization
  • Template access permissions for users
  • Interview generation services
  • User authentication and authorization

HotDocs Hub provides components to perform these tasks, instead of developing them yourself. The core components of Hub are:

  • Template Hub – storage, organization, and permissions for HotDocs Templates
  • User Hub – authentication and authorisation for accessing HotDocs resources
  • Interview Service – Interview generation using templates stored in the Template Hub

By using HotDocs Hub, you save time on development and testing, and gain access to pre-built, robust, and flexible solutions. As HotDocs Hub is designed to be modular, its feature-set can easily be extended.

Definitions

  • HotDocs Hub – the HotDocs Hub is a suite of off-the-shelf-components providing commonly-needed features for HotDocs integrations
  • HotDocs Server – HotDocs Server is the server-based version of HotDocs that enables HotDocs interviews (data-gathering sessions) to be displayed by a standard Web browser and documents to be generated (assembled) on the web server, without requiring any special software to be installed on an end-user's computer
  • HotDocs Web Services – the Web Services API is a RESTful web service, hosted in IIS, which exposes fundamental HotDocs Server features to callers
  • HotDocs Interview – an interview is a questionnaire displayed to end users; it collects data used to assemble a completed document
  • HotDocs Template – a template is a software component created in HotDocs Developer. Templates are used to generate interviews and assemble completed documents. A template is comprised of:
    • Boilerplate text – the parts of the document which remain the same every time HotDocs generates the document
    • Variable fields – fields which are replaced with new information collected from the interview questions
    • Template logic – any HotDocs logic statements (e.g. IF conditions, computations) used in the template
  • Tenancy administrator – user with overall control of the HotDocs Hub, including configuration and user account creation

HotDocs Hub Overview

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Using the HotDocs Hub

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HotDocs Hub API

The functionality of each Hub component is accessible through an API. The Hub APIs are most commonly used by developers integrating Hub functionality with their own applications. For more information, see:

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