Document production flow with Smart Communications for PolicyCenter

PolicyCenter starts the document production flow after it finishes creating the draft document. If successful, the document production flow results in a Document object, which holds the completed document. The document production flow triggers the process shown in the following illustration:

In the illustration, the following actions occur at each numbered item:

1. PolicyCenter, triggered either by the synchronous or asynchronous document creation flow, calls SmartCommsDocumentProduction plugin. This plugin implements the IDocumentProduction plugin interface.
2. The SmartCommsDocumentProduction plugin calls SmartCOMM to create the document from the draft document.
3. SmartCOMM generates the document and returns it either as an input stream for synchronous production or as an XML payload for asynchronous production.
4. The SmartCommsDocumentProduction plugin returns the document to PolicyCenter.
5. PolicyCenter creates a Document object and saves it in the PolicyCenter database or in the document management system, if one is integrated.