WollMux

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WollMux is an OpenOffice.org plugin. It features letterhead generation, advanced form functionality such as plausibility checks and computed data, special printing functions that deal with requirements of a public administration, and much more.

The WollMux is an OpenOffice.org plugin developed by the Municipality of the City of Munich, Bavaria. It's main features are

  • Cross-platform operation (Linux and Windows)
  • A toolbar for accessing document templates, PDF files, web pages,...
  • On the fly template generation from separate files (e.g. letterhead, footer, form)
  • Pre-filling templates with personal and organizational data from a variety of databases (e.g. LDAP)
  • Advanced form support with auto-computed fields and input validity checking
  • Hiding and showing parts of the document based on form input
  • Advanced autotext support with identifier pattern matching and a shortcut syntax for filling in placeholders
  • Chainable printing plugins to provide custom dialogs and transformations when printing
  • Automatic printing of document variants according to Sachleitende Verfügungen.
  • Enhanced serial letter functionality that ties in with the form functionality (e.g. auto-computed fields) and the custom print plugins.

The four main components are:

  • Letter head system: gets the selectable user dates (correct name, telephone number, email, room, etc.) from a configurable source (text files over http or file service, ldap), fills them in unitized templates (also from different sources) and helps to keep the corporate identity
  • Form system: supports the staff when providing documents based on forms which require certain inputs, simplifies the template selection, automatic printing of different copies, automatic calculation of values from the inputs and inserting in appropriate places
  • Text module system: supports the specialists when providing documents from different text modules
  • Assistance for paper based workflows: automatic providing and printing of different document versions, described by the internal marks

You can get the WollMux from the project's web site www.wollmux.org.

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Operating System: System Independent
Official release: 5.4.2
Date: 2009-May-07
Size: N/A
License: opensource | Read license
Source code: Browse source code
Further product information: Product details

Comments

would have been nice

but the lack of understandable instructions of the needed components and how to install them on win xp, and how to troubleshoot things did cost me 2 hours of searching and trying, but without any success.
the wiki is completely incomplete on this. a typical piece of nerd-artship so far :(