Thank you so much Ben for replying.  Basically the Word, JPEG's and PDF's are being created by our clients and emailed to us.  From there we tried using Snapshot however it didn't really work out for us.  I would like to end user just to be able to take the email and attachments and drop them into a folder that would convert them into Tiffs.  

Ben, I am also quite anxious to have a tool like this.  It is my understanding that Quick Fields can be set to watch folders and do this on a schedule, but I haven't managed to get this set up right yet.  QUESTION:  How would this tool of yours compare to using the QF tool on a schedule?  Are there plus's and minus's to both options?  What would those be? 

I thought QF could only convert PDFs.

Pros and Cons:

The tool of mine, is a workflow actifity can be added to any workflow and doesn't require a QF or QF Agent license. Mine is designed to take a mix of PDFs and TIFFs and merge them into a single TIFF. The tool could be re-written in Workflow SDK, I wrote it as an activity to make it easier for support staff and customers to use.

QF: However, if you already have QF and Agent, then you have an existing solution that just requires a bit of configuration. Getting QF to merge pages would likely require some additional SDK (within QF) or the Move Pages activity in WF. Having said that, with enough SDK, why not write the whole process in workflow anyway.

I think adding the ability of converting more file types to my sotware will really set it apart. Perhaps I should!

I like the idea of being able to get workflow to do it all. 

What I need is workflow watching the incoming forms processes and being tasked to combine any applications and supporting documents that are uploaded at time of submission so that they are together as one document.

We can't achieve that right now because the uploads are usually word documents.

I have my workflow set up and working, but it terminates when it comes across any uploads that are not tiff documents (which is most of the time!).

Additional Note regarding your comment "I thought QF could only convert PDFs".  Well, I guess that's why I haven't been able to get it to work yet!

I was hoping someone from Laserfiche would have chimed in to say that I was wrong and you were right :)

Can you share your workflow activity?

Hi Jim:

Not sure if you were requesting Ben Birns workflow, but I now have workflow converting our pdfs into tiffs so that we can have the attachments combined into the main form submission that saves into the LF repository as a tiff.  Unfortunately, it required purchasing a Third Party tool to do it.  The TP tool (Noscotek Workflow Custom Activity Bundle) is an additional set of workflow activities and the one I use for this is called "Generate Pages".

So, I have a workflow that is just this Generate Pages activity and it activates every time a new entry is created within my incoming forms folders where the name of the entry starts with ATTACHMENT.  It generates the LF images on each attachment.  

Another workflow (or, a set of workflows) are also watching these incoming forms and they activate on the main forms that have templates attached (all attachments are set to go in without ttemplates).  I call these my forms filing workflows.  These main filing workflows are activated, check for attachments, combine the images if any are found, delete any remaining portions (the pdfs) and file the forms into their targeted folders based on other criteria the workflows are set to look for.  

This is working very well for me at this time.

Thank you very much!  I will check it out.

Hi Jim,

Happy to share my workflow. It'll cost a little but because it relies on a toolkit from e-iceblue to do the heavy lifting. Once in place, it is executed through Workflow. I'm working on something else right now though, when do you need it by?

-Ben