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Create or edit the content of a contract type

How can you create, structure, translate, and secure the content of a contract type?

Feature available to administrators only.

When creating or editing a Contract type, you define:

  • The document template : The contractual framework used by your teams to create a Contract. This template is optional if you work with documents provided by your counterparties (for example, for vendor contracts).

  • The automations : All automatic rules linked to this Contract type, including:

    • Editing rights

    • Approval workflows

    • Dynamic storage folder

    • Automatic reminders


Access the creation of a contract type

  • Go to the Contract types tab.

  • Click + New contract type.

You can then:

  • Or continue without a template and configure only the automations


Add a Word document template

This option is recommended if you use an internal contract template.

  • Enter the contract type name in the top left

  • Import your Word document

    • Drag and drop your Word file, or

    • click Browse.

  • The formatting is preserved.

  • Upon import, Oro AI automatically analyzes the document to:

    • Identify relevant variables

    • Suggest smart fields

    • Structure the generation of future contracts

To learn more about AI data extraction, see this article.

  • You then access the contract content (layout, fields, clauses)


Edit the document

You can:

Editor toolbar

+ button

To learn more about the Tomorro editor, refer to the dedicated article.


Define editable areas

Editable areas allow you to control which parts of the document contributors can edit or only comment on.

Prerequisites : contributor editing rights must be correctly configured.

  • If editing is allowed by default, only non-editable areas can be defined.

  • If editing is locked by default (participants set to Can comment), only editable areas can be defined.

Define a non-editable area

  • Select the part of the document to restrict.

  • Click the lock icon.

  • Choose Comments only.

Result

  • Contributors can edit the document except in this area.

  • The area is outlined in grey with the mention
    "Contributors can only comment."

  • Only administrators can modify it.

Define an editable area

  • Select the part of the document to allow.

  • Click the lock icon.

  • Choose Editing allowed.

Result

  • Contributors can edit the document only in this area.

  • The area is outlined in grey with the mention
    "Contributors can edit."

  • Other parts remain reserved for administrators.


Translate my document

Add and manage languages directly from the Contract type.

To learn more about document translation, see this article.


Preview your contracts

Once editing is complete, click Preview to:

  • Check the layout

  • Test conditions

  • Review page breaks

  • Visualize the final rendering

No Contract is created during preview.

👉 Learn more about preview.


Configure the Contract type

Configure:

  • Editing rights

  • Approval workflows

  • Dynamic storage folder

  • Automatic reminders

  • Default participants

  • The review playbook associated with the contract type

👉 Refer to the dedicated collection about Contract type automations.


Publish the contract type

Once the content and/or automations are validated:

  • Publish the contract type

  • Smart fields are integrated into the Contract creation form

  • Variables and rules become mandatory during Contract creation and negotiation

This ensures your contract data is structured, reusable, and fully exploitable across your entire contract repository.


View or restore an earlier template version

Tomorro keeps a version history of your contract type's document template. You can view, preview, or restore a previous version autonomously, without contacting support.

Feature available to administrators only. Version history is kept per language: each template language (French, English, German…) has its own history.

Access the version history

  • Open the relevant contract type, Template tab.

  • Select the template language whose history you want to view.

  • Click the menu at the top right, then Version history.

The Version history — [language] panel opens on the right and lists timestamped versions from the most recent to the oldest.

Preview a version

  • In the list, click the eye icon next to the version you want.

  • The editor switches to preview mode and displays the content of that version. A banner appears at the top: "You are previewing a previous version — [date and time]".

  • The active template is not modified until you restore the version.

  • Click Close preview to return to the active version.

Restore a version

Two ways to restore:

  • From the Version history panel: click the restore icon next to the version you want.

  • From the preview: in preview mode, click the Restore button in the top banner.

Restoration brings back the full content of the selected version for the relevant language: text, layout, headers and footers.

Contracts already created from this template are not modified. Only the template content is restored, and restoration applies only to the language displayed in the drawer: repeat the operation for each language if needed.

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