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Open Original Electronic Documents in Volume

Laserfiche

Updated April 28

asked on April 24

We have a process that is importing electronic documents (.docx) into Laserfiche, that is saving them correctly into the "e00" folders of the volume.

The customer has another application that displays documents from various local sources that they would like to also display these same documents but it can only use a UNC path (no URL's). This wouldn't be an issue if the electronic files were stored with their original extensions but they are actually stored as type "File".

Is there a way to:

Have Laserfiche store these documents into the volume with their original extension
Create a UNC path that forces the doc to be treated as a certain type of document
Some other method I'm not thinking of

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replied on April 25

What's the "... application that displays documents from various local sources that they would like to also display these same documents but it can only use a UNC path (no URL's)."? What's the use case here? It doesn't make sense to me to use Laserfiche as a repository and then bypass Laserfiche to access the electronic files directly, since you lose all functionality that Laserfiche provides when you do that.

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replied on April 25

They have an application that stores its documents in a local/UNC path. They want to migrate the documents into Laserfiche and update the pointers in the application to the path Laserfiche stores the documents so that they store the document only once but both applications access it.

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replied on April 25

The Laserfiche repository actually use to store electronic documents with their original file extension in the volume location but moved away from it several years ago.

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replied on April 28

It stored them with their file extensions for as long as I can remember and I never even noticed when they did make that change. Too bad there is not an option in the repository/volume settings to continue to store them with their original file extension.

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replied on April 28

There isn't a way to store e-docs with their extensions in the volume. Laserfiche does not support direct access (and modification) of files in the volume. Doing so would potentially result in inconsistencies between the database and volume that would affect the functionality of your repository.

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