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Adding a downloaded tif file to a Laserfiche document

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Updated January 17, 2018

asked on January 16, 2018

I have a third-party service that is providing a multi-page tif file. I'm downloading this using an HTTP GET activity. I want to attach it to an existing Laserfiche document as tif pages, so that users can open it in the regular Doc Viewer, browse the pages and place annotations.

Are there any activities in WF that do this? I tried Attach Electronic File but that attaches the tif as an edoc, even though it's a tif...

I'm hoping to avoid using scripts but I will do that if there is no other way.

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replied on January 16, 2018

Since they are both tiff files would you use the Move Pages activity? Not sure if the Move activity can see the GET but I bet you could save the tiff you download to the repository into a temp folder. Then use Find Entry so you can use the Move Pages.

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replied on January 16, 2018

Move Pages activity unfortunately does not accept the Content File of a Get Activity.

How do I save the downloaded file as a new document? In the past I have done it by creating a dummy entry (using Create Entry) and then attaching the downloaded file using Attach Electronic Document. But that only works with actual edocs, such as word docs and PDFs. I need to create a "native" LF doc from the downloaded multi-page tif.

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replied on January 16, 2018

Ah, then as far as I am aware you would have to script the saving of the tiff to Laserfiche using the SDK.

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replied on January 17, 2018

Hi Ege

When you down the file from the service, could you put it into a network folder monitored by import agent which would then ingest the file into LF as a tif file. Then it become a normal tiff file that can be enacted on by workflow, move entry, move pages, etc.

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