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Supporting Documents - How to View/Edit a Document

Simpology Supporting Documents allows you to make comment, highlight, redact and add post-its to supporting docs as you view them

Kate Gubbins avatar
Written by Kate Gubbins
Updated over 10 months ago

Simpology Supporting Documents section has some clever functionality that allows you to 'edit' supporting documents as you view them - redact or highlight sections, make comment or add post-its. If you edit a document it will be saved as a new version and this is the version you can attach to send up to your lender.

The Edit functionality is Supporting Documents in made available when you drag a document to "View or Edit":

NOTE: the edit functionality will only work on a PDF document. If you drag a file of another type to 'view or edit', the system will recognise that it needs to be converted to PDF, and allow you to re-save as a PDF. Here I have uploaded a jpg - and the system is automatically suggesting a PDF file name to re-save the file:

Drag a File to the View/Edit Box

To View/Edit a document, grab the thumbnail of the document you want to view/edit, and drag it to the View/Edit box:

When you drag and drop a document into View or Edit, the document will appear in a third pane on the right:

You can expand the View and Edit screen by using the View Toggles here:

Edit Functionality

The Edit functionality is controlled by the functions along the top, and down the left of the document.

Thumbnails

This icon displays thumbnails of all the pages in a document for easy display and navigation to other pages.

Annotation Editor (Pencil)

This icon enables the edit functionality on the document. A key one is redact document:

For more information on editing documents, please go to:

Saving your edits and attaching the edited document to your checklist

When you have made your edits to your document, you can Save the document by adding a new title, and clicking SAVE:

Back in your default view, you will now be able to attach that document across to a checklist item:

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