The XBOUND Collect Service runs different tasks that must be carried out independent of processing documents in the process steps. For example:
Creating documents in XBOUND based on data from external sources.
Reimporting documents after their processing in external systems.
To do this, the XBOUND Collect Service loads collectors that carry out certain tasks. When the Collect Service is stopped, first all loaded collectors are stopped before the service itself stops. In other words, the purpose of the XBOUND Collect Service is simply to load, start, and stop the configured collectors.
Collectors work in a similar manner as system agents. The main difference between collectors and system agents is that collectors are configured globally. The configuration of a collector applies to the whole XBOUND system, and collectors are executed with this configuration by every Collect Service.
Collectors have a fixed polling cycle of 30 seconds. This means they check their sources every 30 seconds.
Collector | Used for |
Importing documents available in the file system. Using this collector is the simplest way to import media that do not belong to any specific system that describes the data. | |
Importing documents scanned by SoftTrac scanning software, which is used to run IBML ImageTrac scanners. | |
Importing documents that have been scanned by the XBOUND SCAN CLIENT. | |
imports email from mail servers that support IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). |
Limiting the data that a collector processes
How collectors select the correct "Scan documents" process step