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How to delete generate laserfiche pages

Laserfiche Workflow

Updated October 29, 2015

asked on September 30, 2015

Dear All,

I need a way to delete all laserfiche pages (.TIFF) that was generated when i have migrated all my documents from NTFS to laserfiche repository.

Note that this is consuming a lot of space and currently I don't have any plan to use this feature.

Is there any simple way to delete it.

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replied on October 1, 2015

Hi Iqbal,

If you go into the search pane and use the "Electronic Files" search box you can select "No electronic file component" which seems to bring up just Laserfiche pages, assuming this is what you mean? You can then delete all files found by the search.

Cheers, Dan.

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replied on October 1, 2015

If you are talking about pages that were generated when importing documents such as pdf's or word files, you can open the file in question by right-clicking and selecting open->pages. This opens them up in the Laserfiche document viewer, where you can delete the individual pages without impacting the primary document. Be aware that text pages on edocs are used to enable full text search.

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replied on October 6, 2015

I have tons of generate laserfiches pages which is using more than 1 terabyte of space on my harddisk.

Is there a simple way to delete those laserfiche pages without deleting the original document

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replied on October 8, 2015 • Show version history

Hello Iqbal,

Perhaps the discussion here would be helpful. You probably need a workflow.

To keep future imported e-documents from generating pages, you can uncheck the "Generate Laserfiche pages" option in the General tab of the Import dialog menu.

Hope this helps!

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replied on October 8, 2015

Iqbal,

One of the custom workflow activities I have developed will delete pages from documents. The custom activity will delete all pages or a selected page range. You can download the activity from the Products page at www.qfiche.com. The download is a fully functional 30-day demo and if you use it past the 30-day period you can request a free product key to continue using it.

Here is a screenshot for a very simple workflow;

In this example you would be doing a Repository Search for documents that meet you criteria, then the For Each Entry activity to step through the search results. The Delete Pages custom activity in the above workflow is set to delete all pages from each document in the For Each activity.

Note: One thing to keep in mind is that any pages deleted from a document actually go to the Recycle Bin. Once you delete all of the pages that you deem necessary you will have to go to the Recycle Bin and purge them to actually regain disk space.

(The custom workflow activities on the Qfiche website are designed for Workflow 9.1 or higher)

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replied on October 29, 2015

Hello Cliff,

I have been able to add the qfiche tool, however im stuck where i need to specify the query in search repository option.

can you help me out since im new to workflow

thanks

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replied on October 29, 2015 • Show version history

So reading through the thread it looks like you want to delete the pages from any document that has electronic file attached and has a page count > 0.

Typically what I do when I want to create a search query is open up the Laserfiche client and go to the Search pane to create the query there to make sure it is returning the documents that I want. If you include the Advanced Search option then you can copy/paste that query into the workflow Search Repository activity. Here is a client screen shot for a client search for any document that has an electronic file attached and has 1 or more pages;

So you would copy/paste the text from the Advanced Search into your workflow Search Repository activity (or just type {LF:Ext="*"} & {LF:pagecount > 0} in the Search Repository activity)

Here is a screenshot of that;

I would click the 'Test Search Query' link to make sure the document count is the same as the client search.

I would also recommend that you try this query on a test folder first before you run it on your repository to make sure you get the required results.

Also, I would highly recommend that you _do not_ check the 'Purge deleted pages from the recycle bin' option in the Delete Pages activity until you are absolutely sure the workflow is going to do what you want it to. If you check that option and delete the document pages there is no way to retrieve them! See below;

If you leave that option unchecked then you can always restore the pages from the Recycle bin or purge the pages from there. From the earlier thread; purging the pages from the Recycle bin will retrieve the disk space.

Finally; before you purge the deleted pages from the Recycle bin please make sure that deleting the document pages will achieve the results that you want without unintentionally impacting how your users access and use the documents.

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