Our company has just implemented CLM and I found myself wondering about the use of forms and templates in the document generation section.
We have four different documents that are generated in CLM:
- standard contract
- standard amendment to an existing contract
- events (when our company hires an entertainment company for a specific period)
- custom (the user fills out a form but the legal instrument is going to be specifically built for this request)
Those consulting partner responsible for the initial setup decided to create, for each of those described above:
- 1 Configuraton
- 1 Template
- 1 Form
But when I started to study more about the logics of CLM, I realized that the system allows me to create different combinations of forms and templates (Word files) and use those combinations in various configurations.
I am aware the each configuration can start only one workflow. But besides that I don’t see anything that stops me from unifying some of my documents in the same form, and therefore in the same configuration.
Does anyone have an opinion about this?