HotDocs Model Naming Standards

When marking up HotDocs Models, you must adhere to the Markup rules, which requires you to follow certain standards when naming variables and other fields in the document. Failure to follow these standards, particularly #1, may result in errors or other problems when users attempt to assemble the HotDocs Model.

Specifically:

  1. You must use only letters, digits, and underscores. You cannot use spaces or other special characters.
  2. You should use names that are at least two words.
  3. You should make one of the words in the name the "subject" word (Client, Child, etc.).
  4. You should capitalize the first letter of each word, regardless of part of speech.
  5. You must never use names that are all capitals.

If you must include spaces or special characters in your variable and other field names, you can select a HotDocs option that allows this.