Bulk Document Exporter: Class II - Custom Selection List

NOTE: This exporter is used for non-SQL databases only.

Class II exporters are custom modules written for specific customers and specific vMedia database layouts, and have limited error recovery and reporting. They are documented; however, any use outside the original intended purpose is at the sole risk of the user. Most Class II exporters can be found in the Import/Export Module.

This Custom Selection List exporter is a derivative of the Juris/Kass Custom from the List exporter, modified to allow flexible field naming and searching; however, fields controlling the output file names are hard coded. This exporter reads records from a selection list and exports matching documents. Documents are placed in folders named by the selection criteria. Files are named CMT_DDATE_timestamp.PDF or CMT_DDATE_timestamp.TIF.

  1. Open the Import module.

  2. Select the desired vMedia database.

  3. Select the Custom Selection List bulk document export option.

Select Query File: Click to select the query file to use for determining the document or documents that are to be exported.

Query File Layout:

Row 1 (Indexed field to be searched/matched): TAG imfieldname, where TAG is a required string and imfieldname represents a vMedia field that will be searched for documents. The search criteria data is specified in Rows 2 through the end of the file. The specified field must be indexed (has the Fast Find Feature enabled) within vMedia.

Rows 2 through to the end of file contain the undecorated data upon which to search.

Example:
    TAG FILENO
    FILENO1
    FILENO2

Select Output Folder: Click to change the output folder which will contain the exported documents (Default is the Export folder inside the vMedia network folder).

Output Document File Format: Choose from TIF or PDF (Default is TIF).

Output: All documents matching are exported to subfolder(s) named by the data being searched. The image format is as specified by the Output Document File Format selection. Images are multi-page and are named CMT_DDATE_timestamp.TIF or .PDF

where CMT is a vMedia Database field

where DDATE is a vMedia Database field (date data type)

where timestamp is a file creation timestamp (milliseconds since midnight) included to ensure document uniqueness