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Saarbrücken and Veldhoven Infoland - a Dutch independent software vendor - has developed a document management solution called iDocument, which is highly successful in the Dutch and Belgium healthcare sector. iDocument offers WYSIWYG editing of HTML documents, powered by edit-on® NG. Infoland has realised seamless integration of RealObject’s editor into its own solution, using the available API’s and customization options of edit-on® NG. This has been the result of close cooperation between RealObjects and its OEM-partner Infoland.

The document management system iDocument is based on Microsoft® ASP.NET technology, with a Microsoft® SQL Server back-end. Although all kinds of documents can be stored in iDocument, most customers primarily use documents in HTML format. The document content is stored in the SQL Server database, which also contains version history, metadata, managed hyperlinks, permissions and audit trails.

Infoland integrated the edit-on® editing component in its ASP.NET web application. When an HTML document is edited, its content is retrieved from the database and loaded into the editor. When the document is saved, the modified content is retrieved back from the editor, parsed for newly added hyperlinks and then stored in the database again.

The user interface of the editor was customized; the standard icons were replaced by icons matching the look & feel of iDocument and toolbars and menus were modified to fit Infoland’s needs. In order to keep the layout of documents uniform, various layout features were made unavailable for end users; instead the usage of layout profiles (like "Heading 1", "standard text", "important text") was offered, including an administrative feature for editing and creating layout profiles.

Infoland successfully embedded edit-on® NG into its document management system iDocument, resulting in an powerful and very user friendly editing environment. Seamless integration of the editor in iDocument was made possible by the extensive customisation options of edit-on NG and outstanding support provided by RealObjects.

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About Infoland

Infoland is an independent software vendor, focusing on developing software which helps organisations to improve the overall quality of their products and services and to make organisations more transparent and more profitable. Founded in 1998, Infoland now employs over 75 professionals, mainly active in software development, customer support, consultancy and training.

Covering the Dutch and Belgium market, Infoland’s headquarters are located in Veldhoven, The Netherlands. Additional sales offices are located in Geel, Belgium and Houten, The Netherlands.

About RealObjects

Headquartered in Saarbrücken, Germany, RealObjects is a manufacturer of standards-oriented, cross-platform software tools for content authoring and electronic publishing. The company ranks as a pioneering developer of easy-to-use, affordable and quick-to-deploy WYSIWYG HTML/XHTML/XML editor solutions, which enable content authoring in Web- and Java-based applications.

The privately-held software company has more than 2000 corporate customers in over 30 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and non-profit organizations. RealObjects has a strong network of key business alliances, value added resellers and OEM partners.