For Duck Creek Author · Windows

See the whole field, not one tab at a time.

AssistIQ runs beside Author on your machine. Click a field, a table, a document set or a view model in Author, and a panel shows everything Author scatters across tabs, trees and dialogs, in one place, as you go.

Download for Windows What it shows →

Early access · free · runs locally · reads only

Field Sheet 1 of 1

Vehicle.Premium

policy/vehicle/premium

Referenced by: Policy.TotalPremium
References: BaseRate · Factor · Surcharge
Appears on: PolicyPages › VehicleDetails
Added in: DemoBase
This layer: overridden · +1 line
Checks: 6 ran · nothing found

One field of an invented product, as AssistIQ sees it the moment you select it in Author.

The AssistIQ panel showing a field card: who references the field, what it references, where it appears, its inheritance across layers, and the checks that ran.

Fig. 1 The field card, following Author's selection localhost:8098

What it shows

Author is where you change a manuscript. AssistIQ doesn't replace any of it. It shows what Author hides, or spreads across a dozen places, so you can see what a change will touch before you make it.

Fields

Who references it and what it references, followed down the chain. Every screen, view model, document and integration that carries it. What it controls. Fields that share its full path, and which one wins. Each rule stage in order.

Inheritance, layer by layer

The layer that added an item, and a line-by-line comparison of what each layer changed, from there down to your manuscript. That includes print jobs and view models, where Author offers no lineage view.

Tables

Every field that looks the table up, and with which keys. Lookups on a key the table doesn't have are flagged. One click exports the rows to Excel, labelled by key.

Documents and print jobs

What prints a document set and when, its templates, and every merged field with its type, option list and full path. References to fields that don't exist are flagged. Exports to Excel.

View models

The whole tree at once: each group, the fields placed in it with the fields that show, hide or lock them, and the actions it offers. References to nothing are flagged. Exports to Excel with types and option lists.

Checks, and what they didn't check

Defects, risks and inconsistencies, each in plain words. Every card also says which checks ran, so "nothing found" is never mistaken for "nothing was looked at".

A document set's card: merge fields with types, option counts and paths; templates; what prints it. — Fig. 2 A document set: merge fields, templates, what prints it

A view model's card: groups, the fields placed in them, and the actions they offer. — Fig. 3 A view model: groups, fields and actions, side by side

A table's card: the fields that look it up, with which keys, and the export. — Fig. 4 A table: every lookup into it, and missing keys

The manuscript overview: counts, findings by category, and print jobs. — Fig. 5 The manuscript at a glance

Safe to put in front of your Server

Written for whoever has to approve it. AssistIQ is a small local proxy: you point Author at it, and it forwards every request to your Server unchanged.

Author

localhost:8099

AssistIQ

unchanged

your Server

panel · localhost:8098

Runs on your machine. No cloud service and no account. Its own requests go only to your own Server.
Reads, never writes. The requests AssistIQ sends itself are reads, using requests Author itself makes. It never changes or saves a manuscript.
Recording is off by default. Nothing is written to disk unless you turn recording on. Even then, passwords are redacted before anything is stored.
No install. One self-contained program in a zip. No .NET runtime, no service, no registry changes.
One switch to undo. It sits in the path of your session, so if you stop it, change Author's Server back. It's one dropdown in Author's login dialog.
You can turn its own requests off. Setting ProbeEnabled=false makes AssistIQ purely passive. It then only reads what Author already exchanges.

Set up in three steps

You need Windows, an Author that already works against a Server, and two free local ports.

Point it at your Server

Unzip it. In appsettings.json, set TargetBaseUrl to the start of your Server URL: scheme, host and port only.
```
your Server URL   http://someserver:8080/duckcreek/dctserver.aspx
TargetBaseUrl     http://someserver:8080
```
Start it, open the panel

Run assistiq.exe, then open the panel in any browser.
```
http://localhost:8098/assistiq/
```
Point Author at it

In Author's login dialog, swap the host for localhost:8099 and keep the rest of the path. Log in, open a manuscript, and click around.
```
http://localhost:8099/duckcreek/dctserver.aspx
```

Runs on: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
Works with: Duck Creek Author, against your own Server
Ports: 8099 (relay) and 8098 (panel), changeable
Panel: Any modern browser

Download

Early access, free for now. The zip contains the program, its settings file and the full running guide.

AssistIQ for Windows

Early access · build 5cce9ac · x64 · 43 MB zip

Download the zip

Not code-signed yet, so Windows may warn you about it. Right-click the zip, choose Properties, tick Unblock, then extract it.