Kofax Capture Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.
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Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................1 Additional Documentation ..................................................................................................................1 System Requirements ...................................................................................................................................
Contents Important Note About Installation ...................................................................................................10 Installation Instructions ......................................................................................................................10 Upgrading the Release Script ....................................................................................................................10 Important Note About Upgrade ..........................................
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Introduction This document contains the release notes for the Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services, which supports FileNet Content Services 5.2, FileNet Content Services 5.3, and FileNet Content Services 5.4.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes System Requirements The Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services requires the following components to be installed prior to installing this release script. FileNet Panagon Content Services Server Support The Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services requires the following network server components: FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Source Code The source code for the Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services is provided and it is located on the Ascent Capture Release Script installation CD. The source code can be opened, edited, and compiled in Visual Basic 6.0 with Service Pack 6. X To use the modified release script 1 Install the FileNet Content Services release script.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Features This section contains information about features provided with the Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services. Ascent Capture Values / Panagon Attributes The Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services provides an easy-to-use interface for linking Ascent Capture Ascent Values to Panagon document attributes and folder attributes.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Adobe Acrobat Capture PDF Support The Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services supports releasing Adobe Acrobat Capture PDF documents into your FileNet Content Services system. The software is provided by Adobe Acrobat Capture and is not included with the Ascent Capture product. To release Adobe PDF documents, you must install the Adobe® Acrobat Capture® 3.0 Clustered or Personal Edition software.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Additional Information This section contains additional information about the Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services. Unsupported Ascent Capture Features SecurityBoost This release script does not support the Ascent Capture SecurityBoost feature. The SecurityBoost feature allows you to enhance Ascent Capture security for systems using Microsoft Windows XP.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Security Rights The user specified for the release script must have security permissions to add and delete folders. Deletion rights are needed to remove release script created folders, OCR full text files, and secondary images if release fails.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Kofax PDF Options To release Kofax PDF documents, you must enable Ascent Capture Kofax PDF generation in your applicable document class and add the Kofax PDF Generator queue to your applicable batch class. X To add the Kofax PDF Generator queue to a batch class 1 From the Create Batch Class dialog box or Batch Class Properties dialog box, select the Queues tab.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Installing the Release Script You can install the Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services on an Ascent Capture client workstation or standalone workstation. Important Note About Installation To install the Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services you must have Windows administrator privileges.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Upgrading From Version 5.0 of the FileNet Content Services Release Script We recommend that you upgrade to version 6.0 of the FileNet Content Services release script first. Then, upgrade to Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services. Alternatively, you can uninstall version 5.0 of the FileNet Content Services release script. In some cases, you may need to re-enter your release setup settings.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Application Maintenance This section describes how to repair and remove the Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services. Figure 1. Application Maintenance Dialog Box Repairing the Script The repair option replaces missing, renamed, or deleted files. X To repair the release script 12 1 Insert your Ascent Capture Release Scripts installation CD into your CD drive.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Removing the Release Script The remove option will delete the release script. X To remove the release script 1 Insert your Ascent Capture Release Scripts installation CD into your CD drive. 2 From the Windows task bar, select Start | Run, browse to the FileNet\PanagonCS5 folder on the CD, and run Setup.exe.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Logging On to the Release Script Once you have associated a document class with a batch class in Ascent Capture, you may specify the release script to use when releasing your images, OCR full text files, PDF documents, eDocuments, and index data. X To log on to the release script 1 Start the Ascent Capture Administration module. The module’s main screen will display.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Figure 3. Ascent Capture FileNet Login Dialog Box Note The login information will be saved and used during Release. 7 Click OK. The Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 — Release Setup dialog box will display, as shown in Figure 4. Figure 4. Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 — Release Setup Dialog Box 8 Kofax, Inc.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Setting Up the Release Script The following sections describe the setup options available with the Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services. Note For more details about the setup options, refer to the online help available from the Ascent 7.0 Release Setup for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 — Release Setup dialog box.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Document Settings Tab This tab allows you to select from a list of available document classes, and link Ascent Values to Panagon document class attributes. Figure 6. Document Settings Tab Kofax, Inc.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Image Format Tab This tab allows you to select the desired image format(s) for releasing your images. You can specify a primary format and a secondary format. If Adobe PDF is selected as an image format, the PDF Settings on this tab will become available for selection. Figure 7. Image Format Tab 18 Kofax, Inc.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes General Settings Tab This tab allows you to specify a temporary storage location to be used at release time and specify whether to skip the first page of each document at release. You may want to skip the first page if you are using standalone separator sheets to separate your documents, and you do not want to release the separator sheets. Figure 8. General Settings Tab Kofax, Inc.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Publishing a Batch Class After you select all your batch class settings, you must publish your batch class before you can use it. The publishing process checks the integrity of the settings in your batch class, and makes the batch class available for use. If problems are found with any of the settings, error and warning messages will be displayed along with recommended actions for fixing the problems.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Releasing Batches With the Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services, the Ascent Capture Release module will process batches based on the settings of the associated batch classes. The Release module is responsible for releasing documents, as well as index data using the attributes defined during release setup.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Known Problems This section contains information about known problems with the Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services. Problems When Installing on Windows XP If you are installing the Ascent 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services on a Windows XP Professional workstation and you specify a mapped drive, you will receive the following error message. (SPR 31250) Error 1904.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Length of Text Constants If you are linking a text constant to a FileNet Content Services integer type property, the text constant cannot be more than 10 digits in length. If the text constant is longer than 10 digits, the release script will fail.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Processing OCR Full Text Files and eDocuments If you are using the Kofax Advanced OCR Full Text engine and releasing only eDocuments, the engine will automatically create a 0 byte OCR full text file. The release will fail with the following error message. (SPR 00009910) An empty version file cannot be indexed. Workaround: Do not use the Kofax Advanced OCR Full Text engine when releasing only eDocuments.
Ascent® 7.0 Release Script for FileNet Panagon Content Services 5.2-5.4 Release Notes Kofax Technical Support For additional technical information about Kofax products, visit the Kofax Web site at www.kofax.com and select an appropriate option from the Support menu.
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