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title: "10/03/2025 Release Notes: User Defined Document Types"
description: These release notes document improvements to the Checkwriters software released to the Production environment on 10/03/2025.
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# 10/03/2025 Release Notes: User Defined Document Types

## These release notes document improvements to the Checkwriters software released to the Production environment on 10/03/2025.

For users with access to **HRAdmin → Document Center** → **Document Type Security**, you can now create your own user-defined document types.

These user-defined document types will be visible in:

- **Manage Employees → Documents → Add New** (button)
- **Manage Employees → Documents**
- **Document Center → Company Documents**

#### Document Type Security

To get started, navigate to **HRAdmin → Document Center** → **Document Type Security**.

![2025-10-02\_10-05-46](https://help.checkwriters.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2025-10-02_10-05-46.png?width=670&height=76&name=2025-10-02_10-05-46.png)

- Select **Add New ![2025-04-28\_17-52-01](https://help.checkwriters.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base/icons/2025-04-28_17-52-01.png?width=61&height=22&name=2025-04-28_17-52-01.png)** to create a new document type (refer to the screenshot below).
  
    - Enter a unique **Description**
      
          - The description cannot exceed 20 characters.
          - The description cannot include these reserved words: “esign”, “state-”
    - Specify if the document type should be marked as **Classified**.
    - Select **Save** to finalize the document type.
- Select **Edit ![2025-04-28\_17-52-41](https://help.checkwriters.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base/icons/2025-04-28_17-52-41.png?width=29&height=26&name=2025-04-28_17-52-41.png)**to edit an existing document type.
- Select **Delete ![2025-04-28\_17-55-24](https://help.checkwriters.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base/icons/2025-04-28_17-55-24.png?width=24&height=25&name=2025-04-28_17-55-24.png)** to delete the document type.
  
    - You cannot delete a document type if there are employee documents assigned to this type.

![2025-10-02\_09-54-24](https://help.checkwriters.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2025-10-02_09-54-24.png?width=670&height=86&name=2025-10-02_09-54-24.png)

#### Manage Employees

For users with access to **Manage Employees → Documents**, user-defined document types will be visible in the **Document Type** dropdown list when uploading an employee document.

![2025-09-30\_17-15-20](https://help.checkwriters.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2025-09-30_17-15-20.png?width=493&height=668&name=2025-09-30_17-15-20.png)

#### Company Documents

For users with access to **Document Center → Company Documents**, user-defined document types will be visible in the **Document Type** dropdown list when uploading a new Company document.

![2025-09-30\_17-20-15](https://help.checkwriters.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2025-09-30_17-20-15.png?width=493&height=365&name=2025-09-30_17-20-15.png)

 

 

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