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We thought it would be helpful to share and summarize how our customers are deploying dynamic document packages or DDPs. Your business can automate document creation virtually anywhere on the web. Quick and easy deployment translates into more productive and profitable hours for your entire organization.

We offer our Premier and Enterprise customers several deployment options for their dynamic document packages or DDPs. Each option will allow you to automate document creation for your entire organization. All you need is your documents and a web browser.

Recently, we completed development on a Silverlight interface for LOOP Exchange.  During this development, we ran into some interesting issues with some fairly simple solutions.

Woe # 1
The first issue we ran into involves file downloads.  Downloading a file in a browser requires a user to initiate the process.  This is a security precaution and it makes perfect sense.  The problem comes in when you try to have a Silverlight control, when clicked on by a user, initiate a download.  In Firefox, this works without a problem. However, IE decides that this isn’t user initiated, and if you want to allow it, you must specifically okay the action.  If you choose to allow it in IE, this reloads the entire page, bringing you back to the start of what could be a long set of forms.

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Press Release - Drawloop Technologies today announced the successful launch of LOOP DDP with Silverlight, its first offering in support of Microsoft’s new Silverlight technology.

LOOP DDP with Silverlight provides an on-demand service helping businesses, organizations and individuals automate document creation. You can run all of your documents with the click of a mouse directly on your website using Microsoft Silverlight. LOOP DDP offers a free Standard edition as well as Premier and Enterprise subscription editions.

“Our new embed capabilities with Silverlight allow our customers to automate document creation anywhere on the Web,” said Vincent Cabral, Vice President, Product Development of Drawloop Technologies. “We are excited to expand how our customers can deliver document automation to their sales team, and in some cases, directly to their customers.”