Supported Template Formats
ContactsLaw supports a number of different formats for the body of a document template. Different formats offer slightly different capabilities.
Feature Matrix
| Content Markers | Formatting | Fragments | Styles | Emails | Text Messages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Markdown (.md)
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Microsoft Word (.docx, .docm, .dotx, .dotm)
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Microsoft Excel (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .xltm)
|
✓ | ✓ | ||||
Portable Document Format (.pdf)
|
Form fields only | |||||
Plain Text (.txt)
|
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| ABA/Cemtext Direct Entry File | Fixed fields | |||||
| eLodgment Data File (Magistrates Court of WA) | Fixed fields |
Attachments
Markdown (.md)
Attachment functionality depends on the output format:
- Email Message (
.eml)- Attachments can be inline or otherwise
- Inline image attachments are only included if they appear within the message body
- Inline Cascading Style Sheet (
.css) attachments are incorporated into the message body - All other inline attachments are ignored
- Markdown (
.md)- All attachments must be inline
- Only images can be attached
- Images link to the DMS App (as they cannot be embedded)
- Microsoft Word (
.docx,.docm,.dotx,.dotm)- All attachments must be inline
- Only images can be attached
Microsoft Word (.docx, .docm, .dotx, .dotm)
Attachment functionality is the same regardless of the output format:
- All attachments must be inline
- Only images can be attached