Document formatting and branding
Customer branding on covers, headers and issue sheets - and the one thing branding cannot change.
Demonstration project - no figure here describes a real facilityChanges are not saved
Why
A change is reported field by field against what is currently set. A submission that changes nothing is refused.
Writes are validated against the engineering rules and then refused, because no database has been configured for this environment.
Branding
The draft watermark is not a branding option
It cannot be turned off, restyled into invisibility, or removed by setting its colour to white. A branded, watermark-free document that nobody has approved is indistinguishable from an issued one, and branding is exactly what makes it convincing.
What branding changes, and what it does not
| Element | Brandable | |
|---|---|---|
| Cover layout and logo | Yes | the customer's identity on their document |
| Header and footer | Yes | a loose page can be traced back to its document |
| Typeface and accent colour | Yes | cosmetic |
| Document control block | Position only | its fields are generated and cannot be removed |
| Draft watermark | No | it is a safety control, not a style |
| Approval signature block | No | generated from the approval record or absent |
No logo has been supplied
The cover shows no logo supplied, never a placeholder image. Why