I have 2 clients asking for a workflow activity to retrieve the text contained within stamps.
I don't think this can be done in WF 9.0.2, so is there any plan out there?
Regards,
Lou
Thanks for the additonal information.
I'd recommend using a script or custom activity for now.
The tokens at the bottom (_Date, SessionCount, etc.) are not generally available when retrieving data and depending on security (like private) workflow may not have access to all of the stamps but the rest seem reasonable.
i do not believe this is possible with stamps. Maybe other types of annotations.
You may want to try and have a workflow start off whenever a stamp is applied and schedule OCR (will need Web Access 9.1 with distributed processing. This would re-OCR the document and then you' have the content of the stamp inside the searchable text.
That's the only way I can think to do this assuming you cannot do an advanced search
There isn't currently a plan to retrieve text contained within stamps for 9.1.
If you can post the stories for the customers (what they want to do with the text within the annotation), that'll help us in creating the feature for a future version of the product.
Some obvious questions that occur to me right away is
a) Are you trying to OCR the stamp?
b) Are you trying to figure out if a stamp was applied?
c) Are you using the custom "The user can type the text in" type of stamp?
If its case a or b, you should look into the 'Document: Stamp Names' condition. You'll have to scroll down a bit in this to the section "The Stamp Name condition" http://www.laserfiche.com/support/webhelp/workflow/9.1/en-us/LFWorkflow.htm#cshid=Resources/Activities/Using%20Condition%20Editors.htm
Hello Ed,
Thank you for your timely reply. Both clients effectively require a WF activity that retrieves text in custom "The user can type the text in" type of stamps. Given this requirement makes sense to me, could Laserfiche make a feature request out of this post?
Thanks again,
Lou
We still require some more specifics. Often with an activity we need to figure out what options are required to meet the use case and what the output would be. Usually the output is in the form of tokens, and determining what those tokens are ahead of time will lead to a more successfull chance of any activity we implement actually being something useful to your customers.
What would they be using the text for?
Would they want the text from all stamps? From a single page? From a particular user? All of the above?
Also, there is a very good chance the activity will not be released in the near future. The functionality is relatively easy to achieve with a script or custom activity.
Hello Ed,
Your questions very appropriate... let me try this:
(new) Activity 'Retrieve Stamp Values' would return the following multi-value (as per the number of stamps applied to the document) tokens:
_Name: the name of the stamp
_Page: the page where the stamp is applied
_Text: the text stored in the stamp
_List: the list the stamp belongs to (either Public, Personal or Quickstamp)
...as well as multi-value tokens for the stamp's metadata:
_Creator
_DateCreated
_LastModified
_Comments
_Style (either Private or Protected)
...and finally the value of the tokens available to build up the text, namely:
_Date
_SessionCount
_RepositoryCount
_UserName
_Parent Name
_EntryID
_ParentID
_Percent
Thank you for considering,
Lou
Thanks for the additonal information.
I'd recommend using a script or custom activity for now.
The tokens at the bottom (_Date, SessionCount, etc.) are not generally available when retrieving data and depending on security (like private) workflow may not have access to all of the stamps but the rest seem reasonable.