The properties of a document type belong to the following categories:

• General

• Validation

• Field validation

• PDF generation

Consider the following as you create document types:

• A child document type inherits all field groups and fields from the parent document types. A child document type cannot inherit a field group from multiple parent documents types. However, you can modify the inheritance hierarchy at any point. If you change the parent of a document type, TotalAgility replaces the previously inherited field groups and fields with the new inherited field groups and fields. If the change in inheritance results in any two fields or any two field groups in the inheritance hierarchy having the same name, you cannot change the inheritance and TotalAgility generates a message.

• If you have an existing job on a process which uses inherited fields but the inheritance has changed, the job will continue because the job refers to the previous version of the document group.

• If you create a new job on a process which uses inherited fields, but the inheritance has changed, the job will suspend because those fields are removed from that document type.