With this LAWLIFT template you can interactively get an idea of the different possibilities for inserting notes in your text.

Notes on questions

To add a content-related or technical note to a question, click with your cursor in the respective (already created) question and press Enter.

Now a light green field "INFOTEXT/EXPLANATION" appears below the question. Here you can insert your info text. Notes can be added to each question type (TEXT/SELECT/MULTIPLE-CHOICE/SERIES). 

The result will look like this:

The advantage of hints under questions is that the user can be guided precisely in answering the question. The hint texts should be kept as short as possible.

Notes on the text page

You can include notes in the body text (i.e. on the right side during template construction), which are then displayed in the document to be generated.

You create a note by inserting a paragraph on the text page at the respective position and writing the content of the note there.

Alternatively, and at the same time more suitable in order not to disturb the text flow, you can insert the notes at the end of each heading/document and indicate with superscript numbers what the paragraph refers to.

Notes can be formatted as in the image above if you insert the note into a single-column and single-line cell of a table. You can assign any formatting to this table using our "::customstyle" function.

Notes in a separate document

With the help of the multi-document workflow, you can create all notes in a separate tab, so that they are later output next to the generated document in a separate document (or in a separate Word file).

For this variant, too, you can of course mark the notes with superscript numbers or assign rules as described above. For longer templates, we recommend that you also use the structure of the template, e.g. the headings, for the notes. This can make it easier for you to assign the notes.

Notes and rules

An advantage of notes/hints on the text page and in a separate document is the possibility of linking notes with rules. In order to make displaying notes depending on a response, you can link each of them to rules as usual. This way you can also offer the user whether he wants to have hints displayed or not. You can thus easily set the notes to appear in the downloaded document according to the user's choice (similar to a "redliner version") or not.
 

Notes and the "::donotpublish" function

Also, you can set that notes are displayed only for certain groups of people, while they remain hidden for others (see here).