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Working with Document Types
 
Creating an IS Document Type
Editing Document Types
About Universal Names and Document Types
Printing an IS Document Type
Publishing Documents as JMS Messages
An IS document type contains a set of fields used to define the structure and type of data in a document (IData object). You can use an IS document type to specify input or output parameters for a service or specification. You can also use an IS document type to build a document or document list field and as the blueprint for pipeline validation and document (IData object) validation.
IS document types can provide the following benefits:
*Using an IS document type as the input or output signature for a service can reduce the effort required to build a flow.
*Using an IS document type to build document or document list fields can reduce the effort needed to declare input or output parameters or the effort/time needed to build other document fields.
*IS document types improve accuracy, because there is less opportunity to introduce a typing error typing field names.
IS document types make future changes easier to implement, because you can make a change in one place (the IS document type) rather than everywhere the IS document type is used.