Automatic Actions

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Automatic actions can be used to archive documents in an audit-proof way, to export or import data, or to automatically perform system maintenance tasks.

Automatic actions are configured as individual actions or as action sequences. You can start automatic actions manually from within enaio® administrator or schedule them to be automatically executed by enaio® start.

Automatic actions are integrated in a modular manner by using libraries. Libraries are registered with enaio® on the 'Additions' tab of the Entire system configuration dialog. They are located in the directory of the administration components.

Automatic actions can only be configured once this has been done. Certain automatic actions are automatically integrated during installation.

The following automatic actions are available:

Action

Function

Library

 License

Import and export of data and document files

Data/document import

Creates archive objects from many external data formats. This is configured using a wizard.

 axacimp.dll

AIE

Data/document export

Index data and document files can be exported. This is configured using a wizard.

 axacexp.dll

AIE

XML tag extraction *

Generates delimited ASCII files from XML files.

 axacxmle.dll

 

XML transformation *

Converts XML files into other XML formats.

 axacxmlc.dll

 

Actions for archiving

Archiving

Archiving documents.

 axacarch.dll

 

Dearchiving

Dearchives documents.

 axacunac.dll

 

Media dearchiving

Dearchives the contents of media.

 axacunme.dll

 
Verify the archiving process Actions to verify the archiving process, consistency check, and directory comparison. axactarc.dll  

Edit retention time

Enter the scheduled retention time as the retention period.

 axacadjr.dll

 
Non-technical retention scheme Edit the planned retention time. axacaret.dll  

Actions for document processing

Document retrieval

Retrieves documents from another server group.

 axacpref.dll

 

Object encryption

The action encrypts and decrypts document files.

 axaccrypt.dll

KRY/

SKR

Pagination

Labels image files which are assigned to each other.

 axacpage.dll

PAG

Full-text indexing

Performs full-text indexing on pre-existing archive objects.

 axacidx.dll

 

Full-text export at object level

Also indexes pre-existing archive objects which are specified in a configuration file which contains the search criteria for the documents to be indexed.

 axacvexp.dll

 

Database query

Performs SQL database queries and allows the requested documents to be arranged as portfolios.

 axacreq.dll

 

Run script

Executes VB script code.

 axacscript.dll

 

Rendition

Creates variants in 'TIFF' or 'PDF' file format for module-spanning W-Documents.

 axacdok2tif.dll

 

Actions for system maintenance

Subscription maintenance

Deletes subscription entries according to specified rules.

 axacabo.dll

 

Database update

Updates the database statistics.

 axacdbst.dll

 

Cleanup of configuration and log files

Deletes old configuration versions and logs according to specified rules.

 axaccl.dll

 

Cache maintenance

Deletes files from the server cache. The server cache contains document files of which the originals are either in the working directory of another server group or stored on archiving media.

 axaccach.dll

 

History maintenance

Deletes entries from the editing history, e.g., entries for deleted documents.

 axachist.dll

 

Follow-up maintenance

Deletes follow-up entries according to specified rules.

 axacwdvl.dll

 

Cleaning workflow history

Deletes the history entries of workflow processes according to specified rules.

 axacwfhclear.dll

 

System check

Checks for and corrects inconsistencies in the database.

 axacsysc.dll

 

Start external application

Starts external Windows applications.

automatically integrated

 

COM action interface *

Can encapsulate COM libraries and makes them accessible as automatic actions.

 axaccom.dll

 

Run SQL command

Enables SQL commands to be run directly and results to be transferred to VB scripts in the form of record sets.

 axacolfr.dll

 

Creation of multi-page TIFF

Converts TIFs of a given document type into multi-page TIFs.

 axacmtif.dll

 

Empty recycle bin

Empties the recycle bin according to specified rules.

 axaccleantrash.dll

 

Sign

This action creates hash values for pre-existing documents. Hash values can also be signed at this point.

Hash values are needed to ensure document integrity and to check for identical documents.

 axacsign.dll

 

Hash check

This action checks the hash values of documents stored on archiving media or in the WORK directory.

 axachash.dll

 

Hash check on the object level

This action checks the hash value of documents that are specified in a query file.

 axachashd.dll

 

Delete objects

This action deletes all objects that are specified in a query file.

axacdel.dll

 
Batch change of
rights group fields		 This action changes entries in fields of the 'Rights group control' type. axacrgref.dll  
Rights group conversion This action converts an index data field that has the rights group add-on into a 'Rights group control' field. axacrgcnv.dll  
User administration

Export users/groups

Import users/groups

 Exports and imports user and group data. axacdirectorysync.dll  
XSLT directory synchronization Synchronization with data from LDAP-enabled directory services. axacdirectorysync.dll  
enaio® directory-sync

Synchronization with Microsoft Entra ID or LDAP systems.

enaio® directory-sync is configured as part of an action sequence consisting of 'Export users/groups' and 'Import users/groups'.

 enaio-aad-sync.exe  

Actions for controlling automatic actions

Action sequence

Can be used to build sequences of automated actions.

automatically integrated

 

Start external program from a command line

Starts external windows applications and batch files, and allows return codes to be evaluated.

 axacexec.dll

 

Synchronization

Enables the synchronization of automatic actions with external applications.

 axacsync.dll

 
* The configurations of the actions 'XML tag extraction', 'XML transformation' and 'COM action interface' are not saved centrally, but locally in a configuration file in the directory of the file.

When performing automatic actions, the appropriate license keys must be available for the workstations.

Setting Up Automatic Actions

Follow these steps to set up automatic actions:

  1. Click the Automatic actions button.

    The Automatic actions window will open.

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  2. Select an action from the list of actions.
  3. Click the Add button.

    The action will be added to the list of actions and the configuration dialog will open.

  4. Configure the action in its configuration dialog or select an existing configuration.
  5. Enter a time when enaio® start is scheduled to start the action automatically (optional) and click the Apply button. The specified time will be added to the list of actions.

You can run the action right away by clicking the Start button, or you can launch enaio® start. In the latter case, enaio® start will automatically run the action at the specified time. enaio® start is found in the same directory as enaio® administrator.

enaio® start must be running at the time when the action is scheduled to be started. Otherwise, the action will not be executed. enaio® start requires the license key 'AXA'. If available, enaio® start can start any number of actions.

enaio® start can be started externally using other applications, scheduled tasks, batch files, or via the command line. To determine the parameters which will be sent to enaio® start when it starts up in order to trigger an automatic action, select an action and click on the AxStart-String button. The path and the start parameters are displayed in the Generation of the AxStart command field.

enaio® start can only be started externally if the asinit.cfg configuration file located in the application directory of the administration components does not open a dialog for selecting a connection.
Start parameters cannot contain Unicode characters or umlauts in Ansi installations.

If errors occur while enaio® start is running, these are logged and enaio® start is automatically closed. If you add the '/Verbose' parameter to the generated start parameters, enaio® start will not be automatically closed in the event of an error, though it will wait for input from the user. If you add the parameter '/X' to the generated start parameters, the value '0' will not be returned every time in the event of an error; instead, a value for the action during which the error occurred will be returned (see 'Error Return Values for Actions'). This allows the relevant action to be identified in a series of actions.

Automatic actions can be selected from the list (in the Action (Configuration) field) and edited using the following buttons:

  • Delete

    The automatic action will be removed from the list.

  • Reset

    The scheduled time will be deleted.

  • Configure

    The configuration dialog will open. You can change the configuration.