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May 03, 2005

Use scripting to automate repetitive tasks.

Optix has a great scripting engine so you can automate tasks using VB or JavaScript.

Say you find yourself inserting the same or very similar annotations on multiple items in your worklist, you can easily script the process of adding annotations so that it becomes a single click step.

In the real world you might discover that one of your temps scanned a few hundred page documents upside down and now the originals are offsite. Well you wouldn't want to rescan them anyway so what a great place for a handy little script to go in and rotate all the images 180 degrees for you.

Perhaps you have an external database that contains some information that you want integrated with Optix. You can write a script that uses a field from an Optix screen to lookup data in that external database then pops up a message to the user or even inserts it into an Optix field for you automatically.

The scripting engine is COM enabled so if you would like to do something more sophisticated like auto-generate graphs in Excel based on Optix data it would be very easy to do. If you already have Optix installed do a search in the help file for OLE or give us a call for assistance.

Posted by DocuVantage on May 3, 2005 04:53 PM

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