Add AutoVue capabilities to an existing application  Improve the efficiency of an existing application by integrating collaborative visualization capabilities. Add functionality like document viewing or compare, collaborate more easily using AutoVue’s markups or real-time collaboration capabilities, or customize the user interface. Integrating AutoVue’s capabilities into an application can save time, improve the document review process, and enhance product development. With AutoVue’s APIs, virtually any AutoVue functionality can be added to an existing application, resulting in improved efficiency and productivity. Add AutoVue Advanced Functionality for an Efficient and Effortless User-Experience Add Simple AutoVue Functionality to Facilitate the Document Viewing Process ADD AUTOVUE ADVANCED FUNCTIONALITY FOR AN EFFICIENT AND EFFORTLESS USER-EXPERIENCE Oracle provides APIs that allow organizations to embed AutoVue's collaborative visualization functionality within an existing application. These APIs allow solutions to interactively display any AutoVue supported file inside an application, compare files, create markups on top of them, and access AutoVue's feature set. One possibility is to embed the entire AutoVue User Interface into an application, complete with menus and controls. Another is to embed the viewer window, and use the existing application’s menus and controls. It is also possible to use a mixture of the standard AutoVue menus and controls and custom ones. How an organization chooses to embed AutoVue will depend on corporate workflow and requirements. For example, a manufacturing company has developed its own application to manage its product data. The integration of AutoVue’s collaborative visualization capabilities into the custom application could be a tremendous asset, enabling users to control the display of products from one single application and to collaborate more easily. An example of a custom integration of AutoVue into an application Users can add this advanced functionality to both the Desktop Version and Web Versions of AutoVue. The functionality can be accessed in the Desktop Version and Web Version respectively via a series of ActiveX controls and Java APIs (referred to as the VueBean APIs). Further information on the ActiveX controls and VueBean APIs can be found in the corresponding product documentation.   ADD SIMPLE AUTOVUE FUNCTIONALITY TO FACILITATE THE DOCUMENT VIEWING PROCESS In addition to the more advanced APIs, such as VueBean and ActiveX, Oracle offers a number of simpler scripting APIs for controlling much of the basic AutoVue functionality. These scripting APIs provide organizations with a quick and easy means to integrate AutoVue standard functionality into their application. AutoVue Desktop Version functionality can be integrated using DDE/OLE Automation APIs, whereas AutoVue, Web Version features can be added using Javascript APIs. Scripting/OLE Automation APIs for AutoVue Desktop Version Functionality AutoVue Desktop Version can be dynamically controlled at runtime through a set of scripting commands, either from an external application or through a script file. This same set of commands can be executed via OLE Automation, for example through Visual Basic or from a Microsoft Office product. AutoVue’s scripting commands provide such standard functionality as: Opening files Changing view display (layers, rotation, zoom level, page number, etc) Opening Markups Printing Converting Applying overlay files Exporting Bill of Materials Modifying configuration options Configuring AutoVue UI (menus, toolbars) Scripting/OLE automation is valuable in many situations that require automated processing of documents located on the user’s local filesystem or on the LAN. This might be for example a script to batch print documents with their associated Markups, or perhaps automated generation of thumbnails or renditions of specific regions of CAD drawings. Scripting/OLE automation can also be used to control the user’s AutoVue environment (user interface such as menus and toolbars) when launching AutoVue through an existing solution. Javascript APIs for AutoVue, Web Version Functionality It is also possible to access functionality of the AutoVue Client, including loading, printing and comparing files, using javascript embedded in the web page displaying the AutoVue Client. Javascript can be used via static or dynamically generated web pages to automate simple tasks. Thus, it would be possible to add, in a home-grown document management system, links to a web page in order to view a document, compare it to previous versions or simply print it. Web Page Using Javascript to Control AutoVue Client An example of using javascript to control the AutoVue Client applet can be found in the AutoVue, Web Version install directory as “batchPrint.html” in the “html” subdirectory.