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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 4 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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