Help a judge rule faster

[Ferdi]

Hi guys,

I´m a judge here in Brazil and I´m proud do annouce that my State Court (Maranhão- www.tj.ma.gov.br) has moved to OOo (I´m talking about almost 150 cities with 6 computer per city, not counting with the capital ). I hope you can help me speeding up dispute resolution by telling me how to develop a document with many aternatives to choose from and that only the choosen ones got printed.

If not too complicate, it would be better if the choosen alternatives could be altered before printing (like hidden sections) beause sometimes we have to change some references (like the page number of a proof).

I tried using hidden sections but could develop the programming necessary.

I have almost no programming skills. And I´m sure that a form like that would be a unvaluable shortcut to us.

I thank you all in advance.

[]´s
Ferdinando

The layout would be like that:

HEADLINE

TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT
alternatives (short paragraphs)
DATE
SIGNATURE

[jrkrideau]

[Ferdi]

Tanks, Jrkrideau.


Yes, I think that wold work, but that´s not quite what I´m looking for. The catch is what you already said. I alone work in three different computers. I´d have to program the autotext in each and ensure that each one uses the same shortcut. That´se why I hope somebody help me to develop something more like a form, that one would simply check and uncheck items.
Thanks, anyway.
Here is an small part of the form I´m using right now (I have do check the items manualy after they are printed).

1-Vistos em correição (Provimento nº 04/99-CGJ/MA) Processo nº: _____/2005
2-Em conseqüência, determino:
2.1- ( )Processo regular. Nenhuma providência a ser tomada. V. conclusos.
2.2- ( )Cumpra-se o despacho de fls. ________
2.3- ( )Mantenham-se os autos suspensos até o final do prazo de fls._______
2.4- ( )Reitere-se o ofício de fls. ___________
2.5- ( )Solicite-se informações sobre o cumprimento da precatória.
2.6- ( )Mantenham-se os autos em Secretaria para o cumprimento da decisão de fls.________
2.7- ( )Vista ao enxeqüente/Intime-se o exeqüente de fls. __________
2.8- ( )Dê-se vista ao _________________________________________________________
2.9- ( )ARQUIVE-SE COM BAIXA NA DISTRIBUIÇÃO
2.10( )Devolva-se ao Juiz deprecante com nossas homenagens.
2.11( )Encaminhe-se estes autos ao Egrégio Tribunal de Justiça.
2.12( )Permaneçam em arquivo provisório.
2.13( )Cumpra-se integralmente a sentença de fls._________
2.14( )Aguarde-se a devolução da carta precatória.
(this goes until 2.45)

[]´s
Ferdinando

[DrewJensen]

[Ferdi]

DrewJensen

That´s exactly what I want. The big deal is that I´m only alowed to use hand-filled forms in a specifc period of the year (called "correição"), so, if i´m not in this period, I have to have multiple documents with one paragraph each. Just to give you the Idea, I have directories in my computer with 80+ documents with only one or two paragraph each.

So, you understood what I want. Having that I can produce a great amount of templates and distribute it to my colleges. I would cut down the time for us.

The renumbering isn´t really necessary. With a document like that each checked item would be like a paragraph of the document (disguising the fact that it was done in a form).

[]´s
Ferdinando

[MikeL]

Hi Ferdi,

I am in law school during the night in the US and I do custom programming for a living during the day. For the past several years I have been working with processing OpenOffice.org documents from a rich Java application. I think what I have done may help you. I'm putting together some examples right now and will post them soon and send you the link.

Regards,
Mike.

[MikeL]

[MikeL]

Also, have a look at this project on sourceforge.net: http://jooreports.sourceforge.net/

Quoted from it's project page: