Adding custom chapters and subchapters

You can add chapters and subchapters to customize the table of contents in documents generated by the Document Application tool.

1. Open the Document Application tool by clicking Application > Tools > Document from the Designer Studio menu.
2. Select the document that you want to customize. You can customize a new document, or modify an existing document in the Saved document configurations list.
3. Inspect the chapter preview. Each row represents a chapter or subchapter.
4. Select a row to precede your new chapter or subchapter.
   
5. Select one of the following options from the Edit menu:
• Add chapter — Inserts a custom chapter.
• Add subchapter — Inserts a custom subchapter. Only custom chapters support custom subchapters.
• Reset order — Resets chapters to the default order. Custom chapters are placed after standard chapters.
6. In the Chapter details window, specify the source of your custom content:
   • Name — Specify a heading to display in the generated document.
   • Type — Select the content source. You can select a rule type, or if you select Image/File Attachment, upload a file from your local system.

     Custom chapters sourced by a correspondence rule must be of type Mail.

   • Rule — Specify the name of a rule corresponding to the value entered in the Type field. The name must have an applies to class of PegaAccel-Task-DocumentApp and reside in the application ruleset stack.
     
7. Click Save. The chapter preview refreshes to include the new chapter or subchapter.

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