asked on October 19, 2015 Show version history

We have a workflow that takes a bunch of document metadata and applies a textbox. Here's the textbox content:

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User: %(Initiator)
Account: %(RetrieveAmountandAccount_Account)
Amount: %(RetrieveAmountandAccount_Invoice Amount)
Date:%(Date)

The resulting textbox looks like this:

Notice all the extra blank space at the bottom and on the right side of the textbox.

The users really don't like the fact that the current textboxes are bigger than they need to be (they are placed in a specific part of the page so as to not block any of the page content), and they've been having to open each and every single document and manually shrink the textboxes to look like this one:

Obviously, this completely defeats the purpose of workflow automation.

Is this a known issue? If so, will it be addressed in version 10? If it is not an issue, I'd like to file a feature request: we need workflow to dynamically adjust the size of the added textbox based on its contents, as opposed to using a static size.

(I should add that the reason we're having to use textboxes is because WF doesn't seem to have the ability to create metadata-based stamps. The use case is simple: certain metadata on the document -- such as the ones seen above -- also needs to get applied to the first page as an annotation because they are sometimes printed and sent out to the company's clients. Prior to Laserfiche, users were doing this manually: they would stamp the page, then write in the metadata seen above. When we implemented Laserfiche, we looked into replicating the functionality, and had to fall back on textboxes. But their large size is a problem!)