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I've got a couple of different classes of document that I'm looking at automatically importing into M-Files via the File Source arrangement.
The idea I had, after seeing all the posts about using barcodes to locate existing documents in M-Files and updating them, or to add barcodes to existing documents, was to configure the barcode with appropriate information, including a Class Identifier, and have M-Files handle it.
Where I'm stuck, is that I'm not sure where the script should go (i.e. event handler, workflow with automatic state transition, other?), as I want M-Files to automatically create new documents based on the details in the barcode.
My intention was to use a compound barcode, i.e. DocClass-JobID-ClientID, and parse the values into appropriate properties, as the values are used in M-Files as external IDs anyway. Documents would have the barcode automatically generated by the external software, for use as automatic entry into M-Files.
As I understand it, the Importer can deal with single value barcodes (or OCR text values, for that matter), but since I want to preset the document type and the other information in the barcode, I don't know whether a workflow, event handler or similar would be the appropriate place for it. I've got workarounds available (separate file import tool per document class, reading from a separate folder, as an example) but would really prefer to be able to parse the barcode, set the document class and properties, and be done.
Any suggestions?
