Layout Check in Disclosure Management

In Lucanet Disclosure Management, the Layout Check automatically monitors the text and formatting consistency of a Word chapter. As soon as a chapter is checked out or updated in Word, the Layout Check checks the content for deviations from the stored text and formatting rules – without requiring any additional work step. The Layout Check also runs automatically when a result document is created.

Violations found are shown on the Layout violations tab of the Messages window in Word (see Reviewing Layout Check Violations).

On the Layout check tab in the Configure document workspace, you define which rules are monitored.

To open the Layout check tab in Disclosure Management, proceed as follows:

The Layout Check rules in Disclosure Management are divided into two groups in the Text rules area: Characters and Formatting.

Each rule has its own toggle switch that lets you enable or disable the rule individually.

Some rules depend on each other:

Disabling the parent rule also disables the dependent rule.

The header of Text rules, as well as of each of the two groups, shows the number of active rules, for example 15 of 15 active.

The following Layout Check rules are available in Disclosure Management:

Characters

Formatting

When the Layout Check is activated for a document in Disclosure Management for the first time, all existing violations of the active rules appear at once the next time a Word chapter is checked out. How many there are depends on the respective chapter.

You can mark intentional deviations as Approved directly on the Layout violations tab with a single click (see Reviewing Layout Check Violations) – this is a one-time but necessary effort. After that, these spots are no longer flagged as an active violation.