Documents & Reports

Document Design The document design contains the instructions for how a document should behave and appear, including the visual appearance, properties, document content and behaviour. Adding or Modifying a Document Design is usually performed under direction or by request of Formpak personnel. This is because some document designs have dependencies, such as properties or the software application version, which may need to be updated first. You can ‘View a Document Design’ which will...

What languages are available for document translation? Documents can be translated into any language. Printing a document in another language is dependent on the language translation being available in your Formpak system. Formpak provide translations (for a small fee) which enable Safety Data Sheets and hazard labels to be printed in other languages. These are the current language translations available: Arabic (United Arab Emirates) Bulgarian (Bulgaria) Chinese (China) Czech (Czech Republic) D...

Add a New Document Supply Condition Documents include Safety Data Sheets, Certificates and Specifications which contain business critical information which is required to be kept up to date and passed on to customers. Document supply conditions allow you to specify the circumstances under which specific documents are updated to your customers. Documents can have unique supply conditions, for example to allow Safety Data Sheets to be resupplied in a different circumstance to a Specification. The...

Document Type A Document Type contains the key details about how the document is supplied, versioned and re-supplied. A critical part of automatic updates (versioning) of documents is the Versioning Properties and these are specified in the Document Type. The Document Type also captures which Document Design and Document Supply Condition are used. An example of a Document Supply condition can be phrased as ‘send the Safety Data Sheet for all sales and all samples of items, and resupply new...

Documents Overview This article discusses how documents work and is helpful for technical / regulatory administrators. If you want to know about Printing Documents see related help below. Many different types of documents can be produced in Formpak, these include Safety Data Sheets, hazard labels and allergen declarations. In addition to the documents and labels supplied upon installation, other documents are available. It is possible to modify existing documents or design new custom documents....

Process for Entering / Modifying Translations Go to Enter Translations In Entity enter the type of content e.g. Document Content, Property, Application In Language To Edit enter the language of the translation These are the compulsory fields, but further criteria can be entered to filter the search results. Click Search On this screen the translations can be entered or modified in the Language To Edit column Click Save   Last updated Apr 2016...

CLP Labelling – Are empty pictograms allowed on the label? The CLP legislation itself does not directly address this question. There is the potential for five pictograms on a label for a substance or mixture. Due to the apparent lack of robust colour printers for labelling, current thoughts of CLP and GHS labelling are centred around pre-printed labels containing empty diamonds, ready to take black symbols and text. In this scenario, will it be OK to have empty diamonds? Formpak has been i...