Work with Field Sets

A Field Set is a group of Fields containing data that can be used in template components, such as Text Blocks and Forms.

There are 2 types of Fields and Field Sets in KCM:

• Normal Field

  This data is primarily passed by a business application to KCM. During composition, KCM can merge it with content that is defined in the KCM Repository.

• Status Field

  This data reflects the interactive choices and edits that the user made during interactive composition. Status fields get persisted in the Data Backbone after composition, so that they can be used in subsequent interactive "modification" composition. This way the user can inspect and modify any interactive choices that were made earlier and produce output that is the result of multiple interactive sessions. For more information about this, refer to the following topics in the Kofax Communications Manager API Guide: DocumentPackInteractiveModifyV1 and DocumentPackInteractiveModifyFromReviewV1.

For example, you can create a Field Set, such as CompanyData, and add its Fields to a Text Block (see Include a Field). When creating question Forms, you can save the answers in the Fields of a certain Field Set (see Use Forms).