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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.”

We are proud to finally announce three new enhancements for LOOP DDP, our document automation service.

New Editions

In addition to our free Standard edition, we now offer expanded services and functionality to Premier and Enterprise users. Some of the features include: (i) Unlimited DDPs, (ii) Private DDPs, (iii) SSO / API Deployment, and (iv) Private-Labeled Mini Site.

Embed

Our new embed with Microsoft Silverlight or HTML allows companies to automate document creation anywhere on the Web. With LOOP DDP, you can customize, control and manage document creation at the enterprise level for all users. You can dynamically customize and package any combination of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files into a single file. This new PDF file can then be delivered through virtually any web service, like electronic signatures. LOOP DDP with Silverlight or HTML makes implementation fast and easy. The automated dynamic document package (DDP) can run from LOOP Exchange, from within your website or from your blog using the embed code.

Mini Site

Premier and Enterprise users can now customize and deploy a private labeled website or “Mini Site” for their DDPs. You can deploy Public, Public - Unlisted and Private DDPs for your entire organization on a custom and password protected site with a unique URL.

For an example of a Mini Site, please visit http://acme.drawloop.com to see how you can deploy dynamic document packages (DDPs) on your own custom website.

All of this and more is available on LOOP DDP.

What do you need? Just your documents, that’s it! Our on-demand document automation service allows you to work with the same Microsoft Office documents you have used for years. There are no templates or file conversions required.

We have been busy over the past several months, but not too busy to launch a new way to embed Dynamic Document Packages (DDPs) on LOOP Exchange using Microsoft’s new Silverlight Technology. Our embed functionality for DDPs will help our enterprise customers easily deploy document automation anywhere on the Web.

The initial embed functionality exists within LOOP Exchange. You can dynamically customize and package any combination of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files into a single combined file. LOOP Exchange with Silverlight makes implementation fast and easy. The dynamic document package or DDP can run from LOOP Exchange, from within your website or from your blog. To embed a DDP, just copy the code from the “Embed” box on LOOP Exchange. Once you’ve copied the code, just paste it into your website or blog to embed it.

Take a look at a sample embed on our website.