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Importing Briefcase - Viewing Source Entry IDs

asked on February 15, 2018

If I have a Laserfiche briefcase file, is there any way to see what the original (source) IDs were for the files inside it?

 

I know when importing the briefcase, the documents are treated as new documents and take a new ID. I was just wondering if that data was stored in the briefcase and was able to be extracted somehow.

 

My issue is this: sometimes I get a briefcase file from another Laserfiche system I don't have access to. Accompanying it is an index that lists out what the files are and has a reference to the LF ID of the inaccessible system. I want to be able to easily know what line on the index matches up to what document I'm importing.

 

Thanks.

 

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replied on February 16, 2018

The original integer entry id is not contained in the briefcase. There is another id, the uuid (from the toc_uuid column in the toc table), that is stored as the "id" attribute of the LF:doc element in the briefcase toc.xml (rename the lfb to .tar.gz and use a zip reader like 7zip to view toc.xml). Depending on how the accompanying index is generated, you could include the uuid alongside the entry id to make the correlation. You could also use the creation timestamp, although it wouldn't be totally unique.

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