Advanced Document Workflow differs from Advanced Email Workflow by working with all document types, not just emails and instead of looking into email folders every 5 seconds to process them it processes documents AFTER a certain trigger. i.e After a document is saved.
The example we are going to use assumes you have a User-Defined property called Name, if you don’t that’s ok just change it to a User-Defined property you do have.
- The Advanced Document Workflow screen looks like:
- As you can see the Trigger types are set on creating the workflow. So in the example shown we are triggering the workflow to run ‘After loading a document to the add file screen’.
- We are going to create a workflow that will change a documents highlight colour to aqua based on a certain trigger after the document is saved to Info-Organiser.
- Type in a workflow name and press Create as per:
- The workflow is created, now highlight the workflow and choose ‘After saving a document……’ in the drop down list of triggers. The press Save as highlighted in yellow below.
- Select the newly created workflow and you will see 2 tabs are now shown, Triggers and Actions. Select Triggers and add a trigger like this one by choosing the same Category, Type etc as per the screenshot and pressing Add to list:
- You have now created a trigger that says if the User Defined type ‘Name’ has been set to ‘simon’ then run this workflow.
- Now for an action to perform in this workflow. We will create an Action that will highlight the document in Info-Organiser with the colour Aqua. Choose the options below and press Add to list, similar to the trigger but then choose Save to save the workflow.
- Finally go and add a document to Info-Organiser using Add-Docs
- After adding a document to the Add-Docs screen remember to change the Name to simon and save the document. Now goto Search and you can see the latest document has been highlighted Aqua.
Important Note:
You can use Advanced Email and Advanced Document workflows together to create really complex workflows for all your documents.