Pdf Progress.

policy.pdf

Some colours and shading and more content on the pdf…

Personal details masked with —’s for privacy

 

28th March 2008

Productive Day Today

Implemented a workaround today to fix what was stopping my retrieved form fields from being populated. The problem was that their destinations had not been created yet, so I created a temporary variable for each field to be stored in the meanwhile.

After that I started working on the PDF creating servlet, the results of which can be seen in the previous post. Just more fields and “chrome” to be added to that.

 

PDF working..

A link to the first pdf i’ve created in the webapp.

A bit to go to decorate it more and add the rest of the fields, but the name fields are generated dynamically!

Policy PDF

 

8th March 2008

Product Purchase almost complete.
Connected the live quotes system to the flex front end, had to update the flex with the new fields and process. DM Office is sent an email with all the client and quote details once a client confirms.

Need to add printable pdf with client details filled in for him to post to client, returned and sent to insurance company. Also need to send email with
DM’s regulatory requirements, such as declaration of commission etc.

Got some good answers to a few requirements questions from DM last night, regards some terminology surrounding the requesting and responses of quotes.

The process works quite nicely, will focus on the UI aspect of this process and then replicate it across the front end. We’ve put the component into the management system side too, so that DM can quickly generate quotes for clients on the phone or in the office.

 

Link to Java pdf sample

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-javapdf/