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Routing Decision - if PDF or electronic doc exists - even if you generated Laserfiche pages run this branch

Updated May 3, 2018

asked on March 12, 2018

I am wanting to use a routing decision to run one branch if the document includes an electronic document , say if I have a document that was a pdf but also has Laserfiche pages, I would like to process it differently than a tiff image only.

Is there any way to do this with a standard workflow function?

thanks

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replied on April 26, 2018

Another way to do this would be the "Has Electronic Document" property in a Find Entry activity.

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replied on March 12, 2018

There's an option for the document's extension in the "Document" category of conditions in Conditional Decision.

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replied on March 12, 2018

Thanks Miruna,

I looked at that, so basically you will need to know the file extension of the file type you want to segregate, correct?

So condition is like this,

Document : Extension - equals - PDF (or File extension of the electronic doc)

Then Run this branch.

I'll try that and see what happens.

Again thanks for the quick response.

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replied on March 12, 2018

That's correct. The existence of an extension indicates the document has an electronic component, so if you want to excluded all e-docs, that's possible too.

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replied on March 12, 2018

Great,

How would I Exclude all edocs using condition?

Thanks again!

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replied on March 12, 2018

"Document extension is not empty"

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replied on March 15, 2018

Thanks for that Miruna!

Very helpful.

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replied on April 26, 2018

Miruna, Not sure why this is not working but when the Workflow runs no branch conditions are met.

Again I have documents in LF and I want to run a business Process on these,

if PDF run branch 1,

if TIF run Branch 2.

I used your suggestion as to conditions

if documents extension equals PDF ran branch 1 etc.

even though I have pdfs branch 1 says value brought back "Empty" (so condition not met)

I am adding a screen clip to show condition and value actually found.

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

Thanks for your kind attention.

Milton

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replied on April 26, 2018

Does the document display an extension if you look at its properties in the Laserfiche Client?

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replied on May 3, 2018

Hi Miruna,

Thanks for the response.

My workflow creates a copy of a document that has "Extension" pdf

Then the Routing decision is working with the Copy.

So since the copy is only temporary and gets deleted as part of the workflow. I cannot check it's property. However the original document that was copied is a pdf.

As you see from my screen shot of running workflow the routing evaluator shows "none" for the extension.

John idea below worked for me so for now my problem is solved.

But I still do not understand why result from routing evaluator was none.

Thanks again for all your help.

Milton

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replied on May 3, 2018

John, that was a great work around and worked for me.

really appreciate the suggestion.

Regards,

Milton K

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