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System automatically changing date of documents

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Updated January 14, 2015

asked on January 14, 2015

I am using Laserfiche 8.3 - often when I import WORD documents into the repository the date on the document is automatically changed from the original date to today's date. Anyone else experience this? Any answers or solutions to this issue?

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replied on January 14, 2015

Here's a helpful link if it is on the page of the document, the issue is that the date field has been set to update automatically:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2349189,00.asp

This issue has nothing to do with Laserfiche - if you were to open this file off a windows hard drive or share it would do the same thing.

If this setting can't be changed going forward and you need a copy of the document as it was printed, you'll need to use snapshot to print the documents into Laserfiche. However even opening up the document outside of laserfiche (say off a company share drive) will probably trigger it to update to today's date.

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replied on January 14, 2015

Laserfiche 9.2 contains new tokens that can be used for file importing to retain the document's original creation date amongst other things. Please review the "Import File" tokens mentioned in this help page.

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replied on January 14, 2015

Thanks Alexander - are you saying there is no solution for this problem in 8.3?

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replied on January 14, 2015

The last modified timestamp from the original file should be in the "Electronic File Last Modified" browser column, if you import by dragging into the client.

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replied on January 14, 2015

Thanks Robert - I see that and that is helpful but is there any way to keep this from happening in the first place? It seems that this "date altering" is a function of or taking place in WORD - is there a setting that can be changed in WORD before I import into Laserfiche so that all the dates don't change when I open the files?

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replied on January 14, 2015

Here's a helpful link if it is on the page of the document, the issue is that the date field has been set to update automatically:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2349189,00.asp

This issue has nothing to do with Laserfiche - if you were to open this file off a windows hard drive or share it would do the same thing.

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replied on January 14, 2015

Yes, the date is text inside of the document - it's being changed as soon as the document is being opened. So a doc with an internal date of October 2, 2000 is being changed to January 14, 2015 as soon as I open it. It is also happening when I open docs outside of Laserfiche so I know the issue is with WORD notLaserfiche .

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replied on January 14, 2015

That link I added earlier should help then. Unfortunately I don't know of anyway to mass change that - the original template used is set to auto update that to today's date.

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