Does Laserfiche have a way to search the Repository and find documents that are identical down to the bit level? If there is can this be performed as a workflow so that exact duplicates can be replaced with a shortcut?
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Replicated Entries in Laserfiche
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While you can’t run a search based on the byte information of a file, you can run a search for other properties such as entry name and even the file size. Assuming that these identical entries have the same entry name, you can definitely use workflow to automate creating shortcuts to these documents. You would first have to figure out which one of those is the original document, then have the workflow delete all the other duplicates and create a new shortcut from the original document. I mocked up a quick workflow and was able to get it to work. I’ve attached a screenshot of the workflow I used to help you get started.
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Many clients use Laserfiche to prevent file replication through the use of fields among others. It would definitely be a plus for Laserfiche to have a built-in checksum mechanism (such as MSDN's MD5 Class) to check for potential duplicate entries.
Any idea how this can be implemented programmatically (read 'workflow') in the meantime?