Integration with desktop authoring tools is not a NovaWeb strength. Neither native clients nor browser clients support the Open Document Management API standards that give the user access to the document store through applications' File menus. NovaSoft says ODMA will be a spring '98 addition to the native client. The system is designed for integrators or IS to snap in third-party viewer utilities. No HTML-rendition ability is included.
Users can have compound documents where a master document is made up of several component files.
The system can expose the relationships between files, which can have hierarchical parent-child connections. Files can also cross-reference other files. Administration is mixed. The administration console works from NovaManage, not NovaWeb, which will be an inconvenience for those administrators who like to manage away from the native client. The workflow capabilities are solid.