EWS
Configure the properties of EWS import source and click Save.
The properties of EWS import source are grouped under the following headings:
General
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Type | Protocol for the import source. Select EWS. |
Display name | Name for the import source. |
Active | By default, the import source is active. |
Poll cycle in seconds | The time interval after which the import connector checks for new documents on the mail server. (Minimum/default value = 5 seconds, Maximum value = 86400 seconds) |
URL | The subscription URL for exchange web service. |
Poll mailbox | The Inbox folder is polled by default. Enter the name of the email folder to poll the messages from a different folder. |
Shared mailbox | Enter the name of the shared mailbox to poll the messages from a shared mailbox. |
Poll sub folder | Select this to poll messages from sub folders of the specified folder. |
Keep message on server | Select this to store processed messages on the mail server. |
Enable impersonation | Select this to enable access to the mailboxes of other users through impersonation.
Additionally, you must configure the
User name and
Shared mailbox fields in one of the following formats:
Where, domain is the domain name, user is the user having impersonation rights, and mailbox is the name of the shared mailbox to access. The mailbox can be a user's mailbox or a service account's mailbox. Ensure that you have enabled impersonation on the EWS Exchange Server.
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Enable NTLM authentication | Select this to enable authentication through NTLM.
NTLM authentication is only available for Exchange on-premise servers. |
Processed folder name | The folder name to store processed messages. This folder must exist at the same level as the
polled inbox folder. You cannot use a sub folder as a processed folder.
This option is only available if Keep message on server is selected. |
Mode | Configure whether one inbox can be polled by multiple message connectors simultaneously.
Available modes are:
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Credential storage |
Select one of the following for authentication with the EWS mailbox:
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Test mailbox | Verifies the connection between the import connector and mailbox. |
Error Handling | |
Message Connector service timeout | Timeout value for message processing. This value sets the timeout when calling the Message
Connector service. (Default: 1200 seconds (20 minutes). This value is suitable for processing most messages.)
To avoid timeout for messages with longer processing time, increase the timeout value. Maximum allowed value is 86400 seconds (24 hours.) |
Advanced
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Normalize images and create pages | Normalizes the incoming image files to TIFF and creates pages. (Default: Clear)
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Create document from body | Creates a document from the email body, classifies, and extracts information from it. (Default: Clear) | |||||||||||||||
Import content | Imports the required sections of the email and their occurrence. Select one of the following
options:
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Body with message header | Import the body with metadata in its header instead of the plain body. Available options are:
For more information about different use cases using this option with
File extraction, see
Document conversion file
extraction use cases.
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Include complete message as EML file | Imports an EML file the same as the original email including attachments. (Default: Clear) | |||||||||||||||
Include complete message as MSG file | Imports an MSG file the same as the original email including attachments. | |||||||||||||||
Skip importing files |
Allows you to set conditions to skip specific files for import. For example, to skip the import of .png files that are less than 10 bytes, do the following:
Only the .png files that are less than 10 bytes are skipped. Files greater than or equal to 10 bytes are imported. To edit the skip import details: Select the record to edit, click , make the required changes, and then click Ok. To delete the skip import details: Select the record to delete, click , and then click Yes. |
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Allow importing files |
Allows you to set a specific file extension for import. For example, to import .png files, do the following:
To edit the allowed import details: Select the record to edit, click , make the required changes, and then click Ok. To delete the allowed import details: Select the record to delete, click , and then click Yes. |
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File extraction | Allows you to select the file type allowed for extraction.
The available file types are:
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Document normalization
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Normalize non-PDF eDocuments to PDF/A |
Normalizes non-PDF eDocuments (MS Office documents) to PDF/A. (Default: Clear) Configure the following.
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Normalize incoming PDF documents to PDF/A |
Converts the PDF documents to the ISO-standardized PDF/A format, specialized for the digital preservation of electronic documents. (Default: Clear). Configure the following.
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Flatten XFA forms to PDF documents using Adobe Experience Manager |
Allows conversion of XFA forms to PDF documents. (Default: Clear) Ensure the following:
If support for Adobe LiveCycle is available, you can also use Adobe LiveCycle for conversion of XFA Forms.
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Import exception page for failed preparation |
Import the unprocessed document if there is any exception during the normalization process of a document. (Default: Clear). A document with error information is generated and the original document is appended to this document. |
VRS processing
Field | Description |
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Scan/VRS profile |
Name of the Scan/VRS profile. |
Extract text from PDF |
To extract the text from PDF, select one of the following options:
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Word separation characters |
The characters required as word separators. Default characters are: "/", ":", "(", ")", "-" and "#". When processing the PDF text, strings of text containing these characters are treated as separate words. For example, "1234/56" is treated as three separate words, "1234", "/", and "56". |
Apply scan/VRS profile to eDocuments | Applies the selected Scan/VRS profile to the documents. (Default: Clear) |
Save page PDF data |
If selected, saves the metadata which could be used later to render or add back the metadata. (Default: Clear) |
XML processing
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Any document (eDocument, image, or PDF) specified in the XML Page tag are imported along with the XML file. When the page tag is not available or empty, the document fields are not classified or does not have the field values mapped.
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If the process (Batch Name) is specified in the XML file, you need not specify the process in the Import source settings, as the process name will be derived from the Batch Class name in XML.
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Kofax XML import mode |
Select one of the following options:
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Kofax XML page tag processing level | Select one of the following options:
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Create document from XML content |
Creates a document from the XML content. (Default: Clear). Additionally, on the Process list, select the process which contains the Document conversion activity with the required XML rendering configuration. By default, you can only map the XML content to the XML process variable. You must select this option to use the XML rendering feature in the document conversion activity.
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Notification settings
Send notification emails to the configured email addresses when the document import process is successful, partially successful, and rejected/failed.
Field | Description |
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To |
The email addresses of the recipients to whom you want to send the notification. You can use an inline value, server variable, and metadata. |
CC |
The email addresses of the recipients to whom you want to send a copy of the notification. You can use an inline value, server variable, and metadata. |
Bcc |
The email addresses of the recipients to whom you want to send a blind copy (the email address of the recipient is not shown to other recipients in the list) of the notification. You can use an inline value, server variable, and metadata. |
From |
The email address of the sender. You can use an inline value, server variable, and metadata. You can add only one value.
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Subject |
The subject of the email notification. You can use an inline value, server variable, and metadata. |
Format | The format in which the notification email is sent. Available options are:
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Body |
The message included in the email notification. You can use an inline value, server variable, and metadata. |
Send email to originator |
Sends a notification to the originator (sender). The sender receives a copy of the email notification if this option is selected. (Default: Clear) |
Include complete email message as attachment |
Attaches the original message (in EML format) to the notification mail. (Default: Clear) |
Remove email attachments |
Removes attachments from the original email. (Default: Clear)
If the original email does not contain a body, an empty email is generated.
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Field values
You can provide an inline value, server variable, or metadata for the To, Cc, Bcc, From, Subject, and Body fields.
To specify an inline value:
Enter the inline value in the text box provided for the To, Cc, Bcc, Subject, and Body fields. For the To, Cc, and Bcc fields, delimit each email address with a semicolon when an inline value is used. For the From field, use the edit button to enter an inline value.
To use a server variable or metadata:
The server variable contains information such as server name, server ID, and server password. For more information, see Server variables. The metadata includes the data from the original message, such as Bcc, CC, and To. To select a server variable or metadata, do the following.
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Right-click inside the text box.
A pop-up window is displayed. By default, the Server variable tab is selected on the left pane.
For the From field, use the down button to open the pop-up window. - Do the following:
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To select a server variable, select a category and type to view the list of server variables, and then select a variable.
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To select metadata, select Metadata on the left pane to view the list of metadata, and then select metadata.
You can use the Filter search box to search for a server variable or metadata.
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The Test connection validation fails if metadata is used in the To field. However, this does not affect sending the email notification, the metadata is resolved while sending the email.
Document archiving
Configure one or more file formats for saving the successfully imported, partially imported, rejected, or failed documents.
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Archive folder |
Path of a local folder (such as C:\Archive) or a network folder to store the successfully imported documents. |
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Format |
Supported formats for successfully imported documents are:
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Test archive folder | Tests whether the archive folder is configured correctly. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Subfolder and file prefix |
The name of the subfolder and prefix for the archived files. You can also add predefined Fields (metadata) as subfolder names and filename prefixes. The value of these metadata is populated at the time of saving the archived files. If you do not add the "\" character in the field, all the fields are appended to the archived file names. For example, if you add {OK}\{Process-ID}, the files are stored in the OK folder with the process ID appended to the filename. The following fields are available:
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Archive folder |
Path of a local folder (such as C:\Archive) or a network folder to store the partially imported documents. |
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Format |
Supported formats for partially imported documents are:
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Test archive folder | Tests whether the archive folder is configured correctly. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Subfolder and file prefix |
The name of the subfolder and prefix for the archived files. You can also add predefined Fields (metadata) as subfolder names and filename prefixes. The value of these metadata is populated at the time of saving the archived files. If you do not add the "\" character in the field, all the fields are appended to the archived file names. For example, if you add {PARTIAL}\{Process-ID}, the files are stored in the PARTIAL folder with process ID appended to the filename. The following fields are available:
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Archive folder |
Path of a local folder (such as C:\Archive) or a network folder to store the failed/rejected documents. |
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Format | Supported formats for rejected or failed documents are:
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Test archive folder | Tests whether the archive folder is configured correctly. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Subfolder and file prefix |
The name of the subfolder and prefix for the archived files. You can also add predefined Fields (metadata) as subfolder names and filename prefixes. The value of these metadata is populated at the time of saving the archived files. If you do not add the "\" character in the field, all the fields are appended to the archived file names. For example, if you add {REJECTED}\{Process-ID}, the files are stored in the REJECTED folder with process ID appended to the filename. The following fields are available:
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Scenarios when a message may be partially imported
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"Normalize non-PDF e-documents to PDF/A" is enabled and the incoming message contains a file that cannot be normalized, such as a DAT file.
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A fax is partially received (fax with a reception error.)
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Documents for which the PDF/A normalization failed.
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"Normalize non-PDF e-documents to PDF/A" and "Normalize incoming PDF documents to PDF/A" are enabled, and an email with an attached password-protected file is ingested through Message Connector.
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“Unpack archives” is selected in the Message Connector configuration, and an email with an attached password-protected file is ingested through Message Connector.
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The message attachment has document conversion errors.
A document with conversion errors is imported as original file and is available in the workflow. Conversion of any non-supported document (.dat,.xyz,.psz) fails with document conversion error.
Scenarios when a message import may fail
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"Normalize non-PDF e-documents to PDF/A" and “Concatenate multiple PDF files” are enabled, and the incoming message contains a BIN/DAT file as an attachment.
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"Normalize non-PDF e-documents to PDF/A", "Normalize incoming PDF documents to PDF/A", and “Concatenate multiple PDF files” are enabled, and an email with an attached password-protected file is ingested through Message Connector.
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When the XML fields are mapped to the TotalAgility fields, “Map XML fields to TotalAgility fields and reject on mismatch” is enabled and there is some difference in the fields specified in the XML file.
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"Normalize non-PDF e-documents to PDF/A", "Normalize incoming PDF documents to PDF/A", and “Concatenate multiple PDF files” are enabled, and an email with an attached password-protected file is ingested through Message Connector.
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“Unpack archives” is selected in Message Connector configuration, "Normalize non-PDF e-documents to PDF/A", and “Concatenate multiple PDF files” are enabled in TotalAgility Designer, and an email with an attached password-protected file is ingested through Message Connector.
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Any of the message attachment content is null.
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The process map is not available for an import source.
Associated actions
On the Job type list, select one of the following job types to associate an action with the import source so that a job can be created at runtime for the successfully imported, partially imported, or rejected/failed documents.
Successfully imported / Partially imported / Rejected/Failed | |
Create new job (default) |
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Create new case |
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Create job in case |
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