Alchemy Administrator User Guide

354 Pages·2005·8.07 MB·English

by  Captaris, Inc.

Alchemy Administrator
Release 8.0
User Guide
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
GETTING STARTED................................................................................................................1-1
1
1.1 ALCHEMY® OVERVIEW..........................................................................................................1-1
1.1.1 THE ALCHEMY DATABASE ARCHITECTURE.......................................................................1-2
1.2 ABOUT THIS GUIDE.................................................................................................................1-3
1.3 WHAT THIS GUIDE ASSUMES...................................................................................................1-3
1.4 DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS.............................................................................................1-3
1.5 CONTACTING CAPTARIS..........................................................................................................1-4
1.5.1 ENGLEWOOD OFFICE....................................................................................................1-4
1.5.2 EDUCATIONAL SERVICES................................................................................................1-5
1.5.3 TECHNICAL SUPPORT....................................................................................................1-6
1.5.4 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES..............................................................................................1-7
1.5.5 SALES..........................................................................................................................1-8
1.5.6 DOCUMENTATION FEEDBACK..........................................................................................1-8
1.6 ANNUAL MAINTENANCE PROGRAM..........................................................................................1-8
1.7 SUPPORTED HARDWARE.........................................................................................................1-9
CHAPTER 2
NAVIGATING ALCHEMY.........................................................................................................2-1
2
2.1 GENERAL NAVIGATION AND WORKSPACE ORGANIZATION..........................................................2-1
2.2 OPENING AND CLOSING DATABASES........................................................................................2-2
2.2.1 OPENING A DATABASE BY BROWSING.............................................................................2-2
2.2.2 OPENING A READ-ONLY DATABASE USING THE ALCHEMY URL PROTOCOL.......................2-2
2.2.3 CLOSING A DATABASE...................................................................................................2-3
2.3 MOVING BETWEEN OBJECTS...................................................................................................2-3
2.4 ABOUT SECURITY...................................................................................................................2-4
2.4.1 OPENING SECURE DATABASES.......................................................................................2-4
CHAPTER 3
CREATING A NEW DATABASE................................................................................................3-1
3
3.1 CREATING A NEW DATABASE...................................................................................................3-1
3.1.1 ALTERNATE LOCATIONS FOR DATABASE BUILD SETTINGS.................................................3-4
3.2 FILES AND FOLDERS CREATED WHEN YOU CREATE A DATABASE...............................................3-5
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CHAPTER 4
ADDING FILES TO A DATABASE .............................................................................................4-1
4
4.1 DRAGGING AND DROPPING FILES INTO DATABASES..................................................................4-2
4.1.1 USING THE DESKTOP TAB..............................................................................................4-2
4.1.2 USING WINDOWS EXPLORER.........................................................................................4-3
4.1.3 CREATING MULTIPAGE DOCUMENTS................................................................................4-3
4.2 USING THE ADD FILES DIALOG BOX.........................................................................................4-4
4.2.1 GENERAL TAB...............................................................................................................4-4
4.2.2 OPTIONS TAB................................................................................................................4-6
4.2.3 BATCH PROFILE OPTIONS..............................................................................................4-8
CHAPTER 5
DATABASE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE.............................................................................5-1
5
5.1 CREATING FOLDERS AND SUBFOLDERS...................................................................................5-1
5.2 MOVING FOLDERS..................................................................................................................5-2
5.3 MOVING DOCUMENTS.............................................................................................................5-2
5.4 CHANGING A DOCUMENT OR FOLDER TITLE..............................................................................5-3
5.5 DELETING A DOCUMENT OR FOLDER........................................................................................5-3
5.6 SORTING DOCUMENTS AND FOLDERS......................................................................................5-3
5.7 CREATING COMPOUND DOCUMENTS........................................................................................5-4
CHAPTER 6
BUILDING A DATABASE.........................................................................................................6-1
6
6.1 QUICK STEPS.........................................................................................................................6-1
6.2 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BUILD A DATABASE.......................................................................6-2
6.2.1 WHAT HAPPENS DURING THE COPY PHASE.....................................................................6-2
6.2.2 WHAT HAPPENS DURING THE INDEX PHASE.....................................................................6-3
6.2.3 WHAT HAPPENS DURING THE WRITE PHASE....................................................................6-4
6.3 PERFORMING A BUILD.............................................................................................................6-5
6.3.1 DETERMINING THE BUILD STATUS...................................................................................6-5
6.3.2 BUILDING THE DATABASE..............................................................................................6-5
6.4 BUILDING TO A CD-ROM.....................................................................................................6-11
6.4.1 ESTIMATING CD-ROM CAPACITY.................................................................................6-11
6.4.2 CALCULATING THE SIZE OF A DATABASE.......................................................................6-13
6.4.3 SETTING UP A CD-RECORDER (ISO)............................................................................6-14
6.4.4 SETTING UP A RIMAGE CD DUPLICATOR.......................................................................6-15
6.5 BUILDING DATABASES WITH A DVD RECORDER.....................................................................6-16
6.5.1 USING DVD WRITER TO SPAN MULTIPLE DVD DISCS....................................................6-19
6.6 BUILDING AUTOCAD DATABASES..........................................................................................6-20
6.6.1 PREPARING TO BUILD THE DATABASE...........................................................................6-20
6.6.2 MISSING FILES............................................................................................................6-24
6.7 MOVING AN UNBUILT DATABASE............................................................................................6-25
CHAPTER 7
CHANGING A BUILT DATABASE..............................................................................................7-1
7
7.1 QUICK STEPS.........................................................................................................................7-1
7.2 ADDING, MOVING, AND RENAMING DOCUMENTS OR FOLDERS....................................................7-2
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7.2.1 ADDING FILES TO A BUILT DATABASE..............................................................................7-2
7.2.2 MOVING A DOCUMENT OR FOLDER.................................................................................7-2
7.2.3 RENAMING A DOCUMENT OR FOLDER..............................................................................7-2
7.3 DELETING A DOCUMENT OR FOLDER........................................................................................7-2
7.4 CLEARING A DATABASE..........................................................................................................7-3
7.5 CHANGING A DATABASE TITLE OR PASSWORD.........................................................................7-5
7.6 DATABASE COPY/MOVE UTILITY...............................................................................................7-6
7.7 CHANGING SECURITY GROUP NAMES AND PASSWORDS............................................................7-8
CHAPTER 8
USING LIBRARY SERVICES....................................................................................................8-1
8
8.1 EDITING A DOCUMENT WITH LIBRARY SERVICES......................................................................8-3
8.2 EDITING DOCUMENT CONTENT................................................................................................8-6
8.2.1 EDITING DOCUMENTS IN ALCHEMY.................................................................................8-6
8.2.2 EDITING DOCUMENTS IN THE NATIVE APPLICATION..........................................................8-7
8.3 EDITING DOCUMENT METADATA (PROFILE INFORMATION AND OCR TEXT).................................8-9
8.4 CONTROLLING DOCUMENT VERSIONS....................................................................................8-10
8.5 USING THE LIBRARY SERVICES ADMINISTRATOR FEATURE.....................................................8-13
8.6 VIEWING THE DOCUMENT STATUS.........................................................................................8-13
CHAPTER 9
PROFILES AND INDEXING.......................................................................................................9-1
9
9.1 QUICK STEPS.........................................................................................................................9-3
9.2 BATCH PROFILING..................................................................................................................9-3
9.3 CREATING A NEW PROFILE FIELD ............................................................................................9-3
9.4 CREATING A LOOKUP TABLE....................................................................................................9-6
9.5 MODIFYING AN EXISTING FIELD OR LOOKUP TABLE...................................................................9-7
9.5.1 MODIFYING AN EXISTING FIELD.......................................................................................9-7
9.5.2 MODIFYING AN EXISTING LOOKUP TABLE.........................................................................9-8
9.6 COPYING A FIELD OR LOOKUP TABLE.......................................................................................9-8
9.7 DELETING A FIELD OR LOOKUP TABLE......................................................................................9-8
9.8 CREATING PROFILES..............................................................................................................9-8
9.8.1 DOCUMENT OR FOLDER PROFILE....................................................................................9-9
9.8.2 SIMPLE SEARCH (QUERY PROFILE)...............................................................................9-10
9.8.3 BATCH PROFILE...........................................................................................................9-12
9.9 POPULATING PROFILE FIELDS................................................................................................9-13
9.9.1 TYPE TEXT DIRECTLY INTO PROFILE FIELDS..................................................................9-13
9.9.2 SELECT A VALUE FROM A LOOKUP TABLE......................................................................9-13
9.9.3 DRAG AND DROP TEXT.................................................................................................9-14
9.9.4 COPY AND PASTE TEXT................................................................................................9-15
9.10 GLOBAL SEARCH AND REPLACE PLUG-IN .............................................................................9-15
9.11 REDUCING THE INDEX FILE SIZE..........................................................................................9-17
9.11.1 INDEXING FEWER FIELDS ON PROFILES.......................................................................9-18
9.11.2 EXCLUDING WORDS FROM THE INDEX.........................................................................9-18
9.11.3 SPECIFYING INDEXABLE CHARACTERS........................................................................9-18
9.11.4 COPYING INDEXES TO A CENTRAL LOCATION...............................................................9-20
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CHAPTER 10
FORM OVERLAYS................................................................................................................10-1
10
10.1 QUICK STEPS.....................................................................................................................10-2
10.2 OPENING THE OVERLAY DESIGNER.....................................................................................10-2
10.3 OPENING THE FORM IMAGE FILE..........................................................................................10-2
10.4 ADJUSTING THE IMAGE.......................................................................................................10-3
10.5 OPENING THE SAMPLE TEXT FILE........................................................................................10-3
10.6 FORMATTING THE TEXT......................................................................................................10-3
10.7 ALIGNING THE IMAGE WITH THE TEXT..................................................................................10-4
10.7.1 CHARACTER GRID.....................................................................................................10-4
10.7.2 TEXT LAYOUT DIALOG BOX........................................................................................10-5
10.7.3 IMAGE LAYOUT DIALOG BOX.......................................................................................10-6
10.8 CREATING MULTIPLE-PAGE FORM OVERLAYS.......................................................................10-6
10.9 SAVING THE OVERLAY........................................................................................................10-7
10.10 ASSOCIATING OVERLAYS WITH DOCUMENTS......................................................................10-7
10.11 SENDING A DOCUMENT WITH AN ASSOCIATED OVERLAY.....................................................10-7
10.12 RETRIEVING A DOCUMENT WITH AN ASSOCIATED OVERLAY.................................................10-8
CHAPTER 11
ANNOTATIONS....................................................................................................................11-1
11
11.1 QUICK STEPS FOR CREATING ANNOTATIONS........................................................................11-2
11.2 USING THE ANNOTATION TOOLS..........................................................................................11-3
11.2.1 SELECT ANNOTATIONS TOOL.....................................................................................11-4
11.2.2 FREEHAND LINE TOOL...............................................................................................11-4
11.2.3 HIGHLIGHTER TOOL...................................................................................................11-5
11.2.4 STRAIGHT LINE TOOL................................................................................................11-5
11.2.5 FILLED RECTANGLE TOOL..........................................................................................11-5
11.2.6 HOLLOW RECTANGLE TOOL.......................................................................................11-6
11.2.7 TYPED TEXT TOOL....................................................................................................11-6
11.2.8 ATTACH NOTE TOOL..................................................................................................11-7
11.2.9 ARROW TOOL............................................................................................................11-8
11.2.10 REDACTION TOOL....................................................................................................11-8
11.2.11 TEXT FROM FILE TOOL............................................................................................11-9
11.2.12 STAMP TOOL.........................................................................................................11-10
11.2.13 HOLLOW ELLIPSE TOOL.........................................................................................11-15
11.2.14 FILLED ELLIPSE TOOL............................................................................................11-15
11.2.15 EMBEDDED IMAGE TOOL........................................................................................11-15
11.3 CUSTOMIZING ANNOTATION PROPERTIES...........................................................................11-16
11.3.1 SETTING DEFAULT ANNOTATION PROPERTIES............................................................11-16
11.3.2 CHANGING ANNOTATION PROPERTIES ON A SINGLE ANNOTATION...............................11-16
11.3.3 CUSTOMIZABLE PROPERTIES....................................................................................11-17
11.4 FORCING ANNOTATIONS TO APPEAR WHEN BUILDING DATABASES.......................................11-19
11.5 SEARCHING ANNOTATED DATABASES................................................................................11-19
11.6 ENABLING AND DISABLING THE VIEWING OF ANNOTATIONS..................................................11-19
11.7 PRINTING ANNOTATIONS...................................................................................................11-20
11.8 RETRIEVING FILES WITH ANNOTATIONS..............................................................................11-20
11.9 DELETING ANNOTATIONS..................................................................................................11-20
11.10 USING ANNOTATIONS WITH OCR....................................................................................11-21
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CHAPTER 12
SECURITY...........................................................................................................................12-1
12
12.1 DATABASE-LEVEL PASSWORDS..........................................................................................12-2
12.1.1 ADDING A PASSWORD WHEN YOU CREATE THE DATABASE...........................................12-2
12.1.2 ADDING OR MODIFYING A PASSWORD FOR AN EXISTING DATABASE..............................12-2
12.1.3 CLONING A DATABASE THAT HAS A DATABASE-LEVEL PASSWORD.................................12-2
12.2 ENCRYPTING A NEW DATABASE...........................................................................................12-2
12.3 ENCRYPTING AN EXISTING DATABASE..................................................................................12-3
12.4 SECURITY GROUPS ............................................................................................................12-3
12.4.1 CREATING GROUPS...................................................................................................12-4
12.4.2 ASSIGNING GROUPS..................................................................................................12-5
12.4.3 MODIFYING GROUP NAMES OR PASSWORDS...............................................................12-6
12.4.4 DELETING GROUPS....................................................................................................12-6
12.4.5 IMPLEMENTING SECURITY..........................................................................................12-6
CHAPTER 13
SEARCHING A DATABASE....................................................................................................13-1
13
13.1 QUICK STEPS FOR PERFORMING A SEARCH.........................................................................13-2
13.2 OPENING DATABASES TO SEARCH.......................................................................................13-3
13.3 OPENING THE SEARCH DIALOG BOX....................................................................................13-3
13.4 CHOOSING SIMPLE OR ADVANCED SEARCH..........................................................................13-4
13.5 ADVANCED SEARCH MODE: SELECTING WHAT TO SEARCH....................................................13-5
13.5.1 SEARCHING DOCUMENT CONTENTS............................................................................13-5
13.5.2 SEARCHING DOCUMENT PROFILE FIELDS ....................................................................13-5
13.5.3 SEARCHING ANNOTATIONS.........................................................................................13-7
13.5.4 SEARCHING UNINDEXED (UNBUILT) DOCUMENTS.........................................................13-7
13.6 ADVANCED SEARCH MODE: SELECTING WHERE TO SEARCH..................................................13-7
13.7 ADVANCED SEARCH MODE: CONFIGURING SEARCH SETTINGS...............................................13-9
13.7.1 GENERAL SETTINGS THAT AFFECT SEARCHING..........................................................13-12
13.8 ADVANCED SEARCH MODE: SELECTING SEARCH FIELDS TO DISPLAY ON A PROFILE..............13-12
13.9 ADVANCED SEARCH MODE: ENTERING SEARCH CRITERIA....................................................13-13
13.9.1 LOOKUP TABLES......................................................................................................13-13
13.9.2 BOOLEAN OPERATORS.............................................................................................13-14
13.9.3 WILDCARDS............................................................................................................13-14
13.9.4 PHRASE SEARCHING................................................................................................13-15
13.9.5 ADJACENCY SEARCHING..........................................................................................13-15
13.9.6 PROXIMITY SEARCHING............................................................................................13-15
13.9.7 NUMERIC AND DATE RANGE SEARCHING...................................................................13-16
13.10 EXECUTING THE SEARCH................................................................................................13-16
13.11 REFINING A SEARCH (SEARCHING THE SEARCH RESULTS)................................................13-16
13.12 SEARCHING WITHIN A DOCUMENT....................................................................................13-17
13.13 SEARCHING A DATABASE THAT SPANS MULTIPLE DISCS....................................................13-17
13.13.1 SEARCHING DISCS IN A JUKEBOX...........................................................................13-18
13.14 SEARCHING DATABASES UNDER LIBRARY SERVICES........................................................13-19
13.15 SAVING ADVANCED SEARCH QUERIES..............................................................................13-21
13.15.1 SAVING A SEARCH QUERY......................................................................................13-22
13.15.2 EDITING A SAVED SEARCH QUERY..........................................................................13-22
13.15.3 DELETING A SAVED SEARCH QUERY.......................................................................13-22
13.15.4 USING A SAVED SEARCH QUERY TO SEARCH DATABASES........................................13-22
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CHAPTER 14
VIEWING INFORMATION.......................................................................................................14-1
14
14.1 USING THE TREE VIEW PANE..............................................................................................14-2
14.2 USING THE VIEWER PANE...................................................................................................14-3
14.3 USING THE PROFILE PANE.................................................................................................14-4
14.3.1 VIEWING MULTIPLE WORKSPACE PANES......................................................................14-6
14.3.2 MOVING WORKSPACE PANES.....................................................................................14-7
14.3.3 SIZING WORKSPACE PANES........................................................................................14-7
14.4 SETTINGS THAT AFFECT VIEWING........................................................................................14-8
14.4.1 IMAGE SETTINGS.......................................................................................................14-8
14.4.2 VIEWER PANE SETTINGS..........................................................................................14-10
14.4.3 THUMBNAIL SETTINGS..............................................................................................14-10
14.4.4 FONT SETTINGS......................................................................................................14-11
14.4.5 AUTOCAD SETTINGS...............................................................................................14-12
14.5 VIEWING DATABASE OR FOLDER CONTENTS.......................................................................14-13
14.5.1 VIEWER PANE TOOLBAR BUTTONS............................................................................14-13
14.5.2 DATABASE SHORTCUT MENU....................................................................................14-14
14.5.3 FOLDER/DOCUMENT SHORTCUT MENU......................................................................14-14
14.5.4 DATABASE ROOT FOLDER SHORTCUT MENU..............................................................14-15
14.6 VIEWING DOCUMENTS IN THUMBNAIL MODE.......................................................................14-15
14.6.1 REARRANGING MULTI-PAGE TIFF FILES.....................................................................14-16
14.6.2 CREATING MULTI-PAGE TIFF FILES USING DRAG AND DROP........................................14-16
14.7 VIEWING LINKS.................................................................................................................14-17
14.8 BROWSING PREVIOUSLY VIEWED DOCUMENTS...................................................................14-19
14.9 CHANGING THE COLUMNS IN THE VIEWER PANE.................................................................14-20
14.10 VIEWING PROFILE INFORMATION......................................................................................14-21
14.11 VIEWING DATABASE STATISTICS......................................................................................14-21
14.12 DISABLING OVERLAYS OR ANNOTATIONS .........................................................................14-22
14.12.1 DISABLING OVERLAYS............................................................................................14-22
14.12.2 DISABLING ANNOTATIONS......................................................................................14-22
14.13 REFRESHING THE DISPLAY..............................................................................................14-23
CHAPTER 15
VIEWING DOCUMENTS.........................................................................................................15-1
15
15.1 VIEWING PDF AND TEXT (*.TXT) FILES, GIF IMAGS, AND DOCUMENTS WITH ATTACHED OVERLAY
FILES.........................................................................................................................................15-1
15.1.1 VIEWING PDF FILES, GIF IMAGES AND DOCUMENTS WITH ATTACHED OVERLAY FILES...15-2
15.1.2 VIEWING TEXT (*.TXT) FILES.......................................................................................15-9
15.2 VIEWING OTHER TEXT DOCUMENTS...................................................................................15-12
15.2.1 SHORTCUT MENU OPTIONS......................................................................................15-12
15.3 VIEWING IMAGES..............................................................................................................15-14
15.3.1 TOOLBAR BUTTONS.................................................................................................15-14
15.3.2 SHORTCUT MENU OPTIONS FOR STANDARD IMAGE FILES...........................................15-16
15.3.3 SHORTCUT MENU OPTIONS FOR DICOM STANDARD MEDICAL IMAGES.......................15-16
15.3.4 RESIZING AN AREA OF AN IMAGE..............................................................................15-17
15.3.5 SYNCHRONIZING OCR TEXT WITH ITS IMAGE............................................................15-18
15.4 VIEWING AUTOCAD DRAWINGS..........................................................................................15-19
15.4.1 TOOLBAR BUTTONS.................................................................................................15-19
15.4.2 SHORTCUT MENU OPTIONS......................................................................................15-20
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15.4.3 SELECTING LAYERS.................................................................................................15-20
15.4.4 NAMED VIEWS.........................................................................................................15-21
15.5 VIEWING COMPOUND DOCUMENTS....................................................................................15-22
15.6 VIEWING SEARCH RESULTS...............................................................................................15-22
15.7 USING THE PANNING VIEW................................................................................................15-22
15.8 VIEWING HTML DOCUMENTS............................................................................................15-23
CHAPTER 16
RETRIEVING INFORMATION..................................................................................................16-1
16
16.1 SELECTING AND COPYING TEXT OR IMAGES.........................................................................16-1
16.1.1 SELECTING TEXT.......................................................................................................16-1
16.1.2 GATHERING TEXT......................................................................................................16-2
16.1.3 SELECTING IMAGES...................................................................................................16-2
16.2 PRINTING DOCUMENTS.......................................................................................................16-2
16.2.1 PREVIEWING DOCUMENTS BEFORE PRINTING..............................................................16-3
16.2.2 PRINTING DOCUMENTS..............................................................................................16-3
16.2.3 INDEPENDENT PRINTER FONTS...................................................................................16-6
16.3 RETRIEVING FILES AND PROFILE DATA.................................................................................16-7
16.3.1 RETRIEVING COMPOUND DOCUMENT PROFILE INFORMATION......................................16-11
16.4 RETRIEVING FILES WITH DUPLICATE FILE NAMES TO THE SAME DESTINATION.......................16-12
16.5 CREATING A NEW DATABASE FROM RETRIEVED INFORMATION.............................................16-13
16.5.1 DEFERRING THE INDEX MERGE OPERATION...............................................................16-15
16.6 USING EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS.......................................................................................16-15
16.6.1 LAUNCHING EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS.......................................................................16-16
16.6.2 DRAG AND DROP TO AN EXTERNAL APPLICATION.......................................................16-16
16.7 SENDING DOCUMENTS AS FILE ATTACHMENTS...................................................................16-17
CHAPTER 17
WORKING WITH RECORDS...................................................................................................17-1
17
17.1 OVERVIEW OF ALCHEMY® RECORDS MANAGER..................................................................17-1
17.2 BEFORE YOU BEGIN ...........................................................................................................17-2
17.3 ADDING PAPER FILE REFERENCES.......................................................................................17-2
17.4 DECLARING RECORDS........................................................................................................17-3
17.4.1 DECLARING RECORDS FROM THE RECORD LOCATION..................................................17-3
17.4.2 DECLARING RECORDS FROM THE FILE PLAN................................................................17-4
17.4.3 DECLARING RECORDS FROM A MICROSOFT OFFICE APPLICATION................................17-5
17.5 VIEWING RECORDS.............................................................................................................17-5
17.5.1 VIEWING RECORDS IN THE CONTENTS TAB.................................................................17-5
17.5.2 VIEWING RECORDS IN THE RECORDS MANAGEMENT TAB............................................17-6
17.6 SEARCHING RECORDS........................................................................................................17-6
17.7 EDITING RECORDS USING LIBRARY SERVICES......................................................................17-6
CHAPTER 18
CUSTOMIZING ALCHEMY PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES...................................................................18-1
18
18.1 CUSTOMIZING THE ALCHEMY USER INTERFACE AND INSTALLATION.......................................18-3
18.1.1 USING ALCHEMY.INI TO CUSTOMIZE ALCHEMY PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES..........................18-3
18.1.2 USING AUSEARCH.INI TO CUSTOMIZE ALCHEMY SEARCH ATTRIBUTES.........................18-3
18.1.3 MODIFYING AUSEARCH.INF TO INCLUDE CUSTOM FILES...............................................18-5
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18.2 WHITE LABELING PARAMETER DEFINITIONS..........................................................................18-5
18.2.1 PROGRAM LOGO (AND SPLASH SCREEN).....................................................................18-6
18.2.2 PROGRAM ICON.........................................................................................................18-6
18.2.3 PRODUCT NAME........................................................................................................18-6
18.2.4 “ABOUT” INFORMATION..............................................................................................18-6
18.2.5 CUSTOM ALCHEMY SEARCH INSTALLATION ATTRIBUTES..............................................18-8
18.3 MODIFYING ALCHEMY.INI TO ACCELERATE THE VIEWING OF MULTIPAGE TIFF FILES..............18-9
18.4 COPYING CUSTOM AUSEARCH.INF FILE SETTINGS FOR AN UPGRADE/UPDATE......................18-10
18.5 TESTING YOUR CHANGES TO THE SEARCH INTERFACE.......................................................18-10
CHAPTER 19
ALBATCH: THE ALCHEMY COMMAND LINE INTERFACE..........................................................19-1
19
19.1 HOW TO EXECUTE INDIVIDUAL ALBATCH COMMANDS FROM AN MS-DOS PROMPT.................19-3
19.1.1 OVERRIDING ALCHEMY.INI SETTINGS WHILE EXECUTING INDIVIDUAL COMMANDS FROM AN
MS- DOS PROMPT..............................................................................................................19-4
19.2 HOW TO EXECUTE ALBATCH COMMANDS IN A BATCH FILE....................................................19-4
19.2.1 OVERRIDING ALCHEMY.INI SETTINGS USING A BATCH FILE...........................................19-5
19.3 HOW TO EXECUTE ALBATCH COMMANDS FROM AN INI FILE..................................................19-6
19.3.1 OVERRIDING ALCHEMY.INI SETTINGS USING A CUSTOM .INI FILE..................................19-8
19.4 ALBATCH COMMAND OVERVIEW...........................................................................................19-9
19.5 COMMAND SYNTAX AND EXAMPLES...................................................................................19-10
19.5.1 PASSWORD-PROTECTED DATABASES........................................................................19-10
19.5.2 CREATING A NEW DATABASE....................................................................................19-11
19.5.3 ADDING FILES.........................................................................................................19-13
19.5.4 BUILDING A DATABASE.............................................................................................19-15
19.5.5 USING ALCHEMY DATAGRABBER.............................................................................19-15
19.5.6 CLEARING A DATABASE............................................................................................19-17
19.5.7 DELETING A DATABASE............................................................................................19-17
19.5.8 SEARCHING AND RETRIEVING...................................................................................19-18
19.5.9 INTEGRITY CHECKING..............................................................................................19-24
19.6 ALCHEMY COMMANDS......................................................................................................19-25
CHAPTER 20
MAINTENANCE....................................................................................................................20-1
20
20.1 PURGING FILES..................................................................................................................20-1
20.1.1 PURGE FILE OPTIONS................................................................................................20-2
20.2 BACKING UP A DATABASE...................................................................................................20-2
20.2.1 BACKING UP A DATABASE..........................................................................................20-2
20.2.2 RESTORING A DATABASE...........................................................................................20-3
20.2.3 REBUILDING A DATABASE...........................................................................................20-4
20.3 DELETING A DATABASE.......................................................................................................20-4
20.4 USING ALCHEMY AS A BACKUP AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM ......................................................20-4
20.5 COPYING CDS...................................................................................................................20-5
20.6 AUDIT LOGGING.................................................................................................................20-6
20.6.1 AUDIT LOGGING AVAILABLE THROUGH ALCHEMY API..................................................20-6
20.6.2 VIEWING LOG FILE INFORMATION................................................................................20-6
20.7 MIGRATING A DATABASE FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF ALCHEMY......................................20-7
20.8 THE ALCHEMY.INI FILE........................................................................................................20-7
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