Amicus Fields:

• ...Salutation
• ...Prefix - Mr., Mrs., etc.
• ...Title - President, etc.
• ...FirstName
• ...MiddleName
• ...Surname
• ...CompanyName
• ...Address
• ...PhoneNo
• ...FaxNo
• ...Role - Party's role on the file
• ...Attribs - Information associated with the person's role on the file (e.g. client the attorney represents)
• ...IsCorp - TRUE/FALSE

This explanation assumes that you have successfully set up a HotDocs template in Amicus Attorney. If you do not know how to do this, see "Working with Documents" your Amicus manual.

These examples use the default Amicus Attorney field names. If you have mapped your Amicus fields to HotDocs fields, you will need to change the field names accordingly.

Contacts linked to an Amicus file are referred to here as "Parties." When you generate a document from an Amicus file, you have access to the contact information for each party linked to the file. (Note that you are limited to the information on the party's Primary contact card). This data is sent to HotDocs in two different variable mappings. Descriptions of the mappings follow. You may use either or both.

Mapping #1: Numbered Variables. Amicus places each piece of party contact information in its own variable. These variables are named PeopleX..., where X is an integer representing the party's place on the file's list of parties. For example, the name for the second party on the file can be accessed through these variables: Party2FirstName, Party2MiddleName, and Party2Surname. See "Variables for Document Assembly" in the appendix of your Amicus Attorney manual for more information.

Mapping #2: Repeated Variables. Amicus also places all of the party contact information into repeated variables. This way all or select parties can easily be used in lists or placed in multiple choice variables. The variables are simply named Party..., followed by a reference to the specific piece of information. For example, the names for all parties on the file can be accessed through these repeated variables: PartyFirstName, PartyMiddleName, and PartySurname. It is recommended that you create a repeated dialog, such as Amicus Parties, and place the repeated variables in that dialog. The examples above show how to make use of these repeated variables.

Address Issues: The one difficulty with using Amicus addresses from a File is that the entire address is mapped to a single multi-line field. If you want to use a single-line address, you must reformat the Amicus field as a single-line field. The last example above shows how to do this. The technique used in this example is described in more detail in Computation 94 - Amicus Attorney Addresses. Alternatively, you could use the looping technique described in Computation 15 - Loops via REPEAT.