Release Notes
Release Notes
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Table of Contents
Release Notes
... 31 Enhancements
... 372 Resolved Issues
... 643 Known Issues
... 654 Additional Information
Index
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This document provides release details for the current release and all previous releases.
Enhancements
This topic lists product enhancements introduced in the current and previous releases of LAW PreDiscovery.
Version 6.0.05
New Features
Administration
The ability to delete SQL databases from the server on case deletion may now be disabled w ith an ini setting. See help file for details.
Batch Processing
The machine name of the station processing a document during batch processing is now stored in the BatchStation field. Note: This is only supported in ED-enabled cases.
Early Data Analyzer
The Early Data Analyzer module is now available (http://w w w .lexisnexis.com/eda). This module allow s early culling and analysis to reduce data sets prior to processing w ith LAW. Note: This module requires an additional license.
ED Loader
A new setting w as added to restrict language identification to the most commonly encountered languages.
ED Loader
Metadata extraction capabilities have been enhanced for the ED Loader. Custom metadata fields may be extracted from PDF and MS Office Files (Word, Excel, and Pow erPoint). EXIF metadata may be extracted from TIFF/JPEG files. Detection of comments and tracked changes is available for Word/Excel files. Detection of hidden sheets, row s and columns is available for Excel files. A new Metadata settings category w as added to allow configuration of these settings. Note: None of these enhanced metadata properties are stored in the main document table, they are stored as extended properties in an alternate storage schema. Because of this, they are not visible in the grid displays in column format. They must be view ed in grids by enabling the extended property view (View -> Extended Properties or new toolbar button).
ED Loader
The elapsed time taken to process an import session is now displayed in the session brow ser dialog.
ED Loader
The machine name of the station performing an import is now stored in the ImportStation field.
ED Loader
ThreadID field w as added to the ED Template. This field can be used to group message threads together. Note: This field is currently only supported for MS Outlook.
Exports
Concordance exports now support the creation of load files for the Concordance Native View er (CNV). Support for CNV must be enabled from the configuration dialog.
Licensing
Undocked keys can now be created w ithout an internet connection. Note: This requires special authorization from LexisNexis to enable support for this functionality on the master key. Keys w ith this functionality enabled are not backw ard compatible w ith previous versions of the softw are.
Modifications
ED Loader
Accuracy and performance of language analysis has been significantly improved.
ED Loader
Modified logic used to detect embedded images in Outlook messages than can significantly improve import speed in certain situations.
ED Loader
The 'Preserve X.400 addresses' setting is now enabled by default.
ED Loader
The memo title header w as removed from e-mails extracted from Lotus Notes stores. Note: This header w as only present in version 5.9.
Grid Views
Second confirmation on grid view save w as removed.
Version 5.9.25
New Features
ED Loader
Distributed processing is now available in the ED Loader. This feature can be enabled from the 'General' settings. Distributed processing is only available for SQL cases, and LMC must be properly configured to create a distributed import.
Embedded images in RTF content can now be extracted from Lotus Notes e-mails. This feature can be enabled from the 'E-Mail' settings. Extracted images w ill be treated as normal attachments (ie. Not rendered in the HTML output).
imports. This feature can be enabled from the 'Text Extraction' settings. If hidden text is detected, the document w ill be flagged (HiddenText field), and the detected hidden text w ill be inserted at the top of the extracted text for easy review .
Language detection is now available in the ED Loader. This feature can be enabled from the 'Text Extraction' settings.
Meeting items in Lotus Notes mail stores are now rendered w ith a customized template specific to meetings, instead of the standard e-mail template.
Support has been added for AOL, MSN, and Yahoo instant message archives. Theses archives w ill be rendered to HTML for display during the import process.
Support has been added for Outlook Express mail stores (*.dbx). Outlook Express is not required. Messages extracted from OE stores w ill respect the same output setting as Outlook messages.
Exports
A new option is available in the EDRM XML export settings to link to images and files in their current location.
A new option is available in the Summation export to include an @EDOC token for e-mails extracted from mail stores.
Modifications
Deduplication
The Deduplication Utility w as updated to handle connection drops for SQL cases.
Grid Views
If a user modifies the current view in a grid, and has not saved it before exiting the grid, the Manage Grid View s dialog w ill now appear instead of a simple save prompt. This w ill allow the user to see the active grid view before saving, and create new ones.
Management Console
Jobs in the management console (LMC) are now separated into tw o types, standard "Batches" and "ED Imports".
OCR
Several performance enhancements w ere made for the ABBYY OCR engine (30-50% faster).
System
Microsoft .NET Framew ork 4.0 is now required to run LAW PreDiscovery.
TIFF/E-Print
The eDraw ings View er source application now references the 2011 version. It w ill no longer w ork w ith previous versions.
User Interface
The Reports button is now disabled unless the user has an Admin license in the current session.
New Features
Administration
Implemented consistent database reconnect behavior for SQL cases in the follow ing areas of the application: batch processing, imports, exports, and several key manual operations. This allow s LAW to automatically reconnect w hen a SQL connection is lost during a session. While performing automated processes (import, export, batch), if a SQL connection is lost, LAW w ill w ait indefinitely for the SQL connection to be restored before resuming processing.
Batch Update
The batch update process w as modified to improve performance significantly on large updates.
ED Loader
dtSearch engine w as updated to version 7.65. See http://w w w .dtsearch.com/ ReleaseNotes765.html for details.
The default source application for MSG files (filetype=148) has been changed to the "Shell Printer" to allow for increased print speeds. This change applies w hen creating new file type management databases. If the database already exists, it must be edited manually to apply this change.
Imports
Select All and Clear All buttons have been added to the Import Fields dialog for Summation and EDRM load file imports. Columns can now be sorted ascending or descending by clicking the column header.
Log Viewer
Error logs for LAW case and load file imports are now stored in the case folder ($Logs\Import) and w ill be displayed in the Log View er.
Management Console
Improved handling of stalled client machines during a distributed batch processing job. Client node names w ill turn red and w ill be restarted automatically if they are stalled longer than the amount of time listed in the new "Auto Restart Client" LMC setting (Tools -> Options). A client can also be manually stopped and restarted using the End Process button located on the client details panel.
Client activity times are now reported in GMT for consistent logging regardless of client station's time zone. Note: The job start time is still displayed in the time zone of the station that created job, but the actual job start time is based on GMT to allow clients to start at the expected time for jobs scheduled to start in the future regardless of current time zone on the client station.
Reporting
Modified the ED Loader Session Report to more accurately summarize the record types imported into the LAW case.
Run Command
Minor SQL server related performance improvements made to the TextPathExtractor command.
The "Max Files to Retrieve" full text search setting default for new cases has been changed from 500 to 0 (unlimited).
TIFF/E-Print
If documents have been processed in alternate time zones, or a time zone different than the current, the TIFF/E-Print process w ill prompt the user to synchronize the time zones during processing by changing the current time zone during processing. This is required in many cases to ensure that date/time fields w ithin documents that may contain dynamic date fields (ie. MSG e-mails, office documents, PDF files, etc.) match the desired time zone in the paper or TIFF output.
User Interface
A button to launch the View Reports dialog has been added to the toolbar on the main form (to the right of the Export Utility button).
Modifications
Administration
Cases can now be deleted from SQL Server w hen removing cases from the case list. The option to back up the case prior to deletion is available.
Top-level folders and all sub-folders below them can now be deleted from w ithin LAW using the folder deletion function.
ED Loader
A date range filter for e-mails has been added to the ED Loader Exclusion settings. The ED Loader now supports MBOX e-mail archives.
The time zone used w hen importing electronic files can now be specified from the ED Loader General settings ("Time Zone Selection" section). The "Translate date fields to universal time (GMT)" setting w ill be disabled for new cases as the new time zone setting replaces it. How ever, it w ill still be available for legacy cases for backw ard compatibility. The time zone chosen for processing w ill be stored in a "TimeZoneProc" field (created automatically in new cases only).
Exports
Native files can now be optionally included at the document level for image+native exports based on a tag field. The "Include native for tagged documents only" setting on the Advanced tab controls this functionality.
Page markers can now be specified and applied to OCR and Printed text (upper left corner) during the export process. The "Insert page markers in text" setting is located in the Text Options dialog.
Help
A new online help system has been added (requires Internet access). In addition to an online version of the help file, it contains tutorials and information on training. To access this new help system, select Help -> Online Answ er Center from the main form or the export utility.
Imports
Existing images in a case can now be replaced using the Import -> Image Replacement Load file feature. There is an option to rename the original instead of replacing it available. Supported load files are *.LFP, *.OPT, and *.LOG files.
Numbering
Page-level numbering now suppports a "++" suffix syntax to auto-increment a document at the page level using a document level index field as the seed (ie: "&[<FieldName>]+ +").
The "Allow parent/attachment families to span across sections" option has been added to control w hether rolling numeric sections span across document families.
Searching
In addition to the grid view s, query results can now be sent directly to the Batch Process, Export Utility, Batch Update, or Report View er using the "Send Results To" option on the Query Builder form.
TIFF/E-Print
Microsoft Office 2010 is now officially supported. Note: The use of ED Loader on a machine w ith Outlook 2010 (64-bit version) is not yet supported.
Version 5.7.05
New Features
Exports
Records for native files that do not have an associated file in LAW can now optionally be included in native exports by selecting the 'Include records w ithout files' option under the 'Include Native Files' setting on the Formats/Documents tab of the Export Utility. Text files (or content if embedded) can now optionally be excluded during exports at the record level by selecting the 'Omit text for tagged documents' option on the Text Options configuration dialog of the Export Utility.
Imports
A character encoding option is now available in the delimited text import. Auto-detection of the selected load file w ill be performed w hen a file is selected for import. LAW can auto-detect betw een Unicode, UTF-8 (requires BOM), and standard ANSI (ISO-8859-1) automatically. If another encoding is used, it must be set manually.
OCR
Support for the ABBYY FineReader OCR engine is now available. The ABBYY engine includes support for CJK (Asian) languages and PDF/A output. Note: This requires an additional license. Please contact your sales representative for purchase information.
Reports
New reports w ere added to the new reporting engine (File -> Administration -> View Reports). The follow ing reports are now available: Deduplication Report, Page Properties (source, size, and color), and a Tally Report (on a selected field).
Run Command
A new custom command is included to capture the file sizes of text extracted during ED imports. The command w ill show up as "Capture Text File Sizes" in the Run Command menu.
Modifications
ED Loader
dtSearch engine w as updated to version 7.64, see http://w w w .dtsearch.com/ ReleaseNotes764.html for details.
The file identification engine w as updated to version 2.27.
Imports
The handling of attachments in EDRM imports w as modified to force an attachment into the same folder as the parent. EDRM files produced by Encase may place attachments in separate folders than the parent document, w hich is not permitted in LAW.
Reports
The new reporting engine can now also be accessed from the external grid display (Tools -> View Reports).
The new reporting engine now persists all settings at the case level.
The new reporting engine now supports reports based on the current recordset if a grid display is active.
The new reporting engine now supports the ability to control the position of a report logo if specified.
Version 5.6.14
New Features
Batch Update
An "Auto-increment selected text/memo fields" option has been added to the Batch Update dialog in the standalone grid display. When enabled, the values entered for all selected text and memo fields in the Batch Update dialog w ill increment by one for each document in the grid. The Batch Update feature has also been optimized for improved performance on SQL cases and can now be used to auto-number document sets in a fraction of the time required by the document numbering batch process.
Deduplication
LAW cases can now be deduplicated against each other using the standalone Inter-Case Deduplication Utility. A link to this utility can be found in the LAW PreDiscovery program group. This tool is intended for use after cases have been populated w ith documents via ED Loader imports. Documents may be deduplicated globally or on a custodian level using the MD5 or SHA-1 hash values calculated during the import process.
ED Loader
A "NIST" filter has been added to the ED Loader Settings tab and can be used to filter e-documents based on the collection of SHA-1 hash values published and maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST").
An "Export to Excel" function has been added to the File menu and toolbar in the
Session View er and is used to save all tabs in the Session View er to a single Excel file at one time.
Tw o new tabs have been added to the Session View er: Overview and Settings. The Overview tab contains a number of different totals for the selected session, such as total
number of records w ritten and error counts. The Settings tab lists all ED Loader settings and the state of the settings for the selected session.
Exports
A "Truncate text values that exceed their field size" setting has been added to the Concordance Direct (DCB) export configuration settings. When enabled, records w ith text values that exceed their field size w ill still be added, and have any offending text values truncated, w ith a w arning logged. When disabled, records w ith text values that exceed their field size w ill not be added and the previous behavior of listing offending fields and their destination field sizes w ill apply.
Fo
ldersFolders in the main folder navigation display can now be moved by clicking Folder -> Move and selecting the new location in the brow se w indow .
Grid View s
Field delimiters can now be specified w hen saving record data from the grid displays. The Save button or menu item in the grid displays (previously Save All Records and Save Selected Records) w ill invoke a Save Options dialog to specify the document range (all or selected), output filename, text format, and delimiters.
Licensing
License keys for LAW now support the use of remote desktop sessions correctly w ithout using hard licenses of the key for every sublicense used. This requires an update to the Sentinel system driver to version 7.5 or later, w hich is included in the installer and w ill be automatically installed. NOTE: If the host system w ith the hardw are key does not have LAW installed, the driver w ill needed to be updated there as w ell or LAW w ill not run after installing this update. The driver can be dow nloaded directly at http://w w w 2. safenet-inc.com/support/tech/latestdriver.asp
Reporting
Additional functionality has been added to the Full Text Reports dialog in the Query Builder and the reporting capability has been revised. This feature can now be used to report on and execute multiple search requests at once (as opposed to the single request supported via the Query Builder). Document and hit counts are returned the Full Text Reports dialog instead of the standalone grid, eliminating the w ait time involved w ith loading a large number of records into the grid.
New reporting functionality has been added. Four new reports are available for ED-enabled cases: ED Loader Session Report, Exception Report, Files by Type, and Files by Type Summary. These reports are available from the File -> Administration -> View Reports menu. These new reports are intended to supplement the ED Reports available from the grid display. The File by Type reports are similar to the grid-based reports, but additionally contain file size information.
Text Indexing
A "Text Priority" setting has been added to the text index options (Tools -> Options -> Indexing tab) and can be used to set the priority of the text files used for the full text indexing process. The default priority order is OCR, Printed text, Extracted text.
A "Verify Index" function has been added to the "Full Text Index Properties" dialog. This function w ill validate the full text index for the current case.
A new function, Purge Duplicates, can be accessed from the full text index properties (enable text search from query builder, hit options button in text area, hit Index
Properties button). This function w ill scan the text index looking for any documents that are flagged as duplicate in LAW. If any are found, the number w ill be reported to the user and prompted w ith a confirmation to remove. Removing duplicates from the text
index w ill improve the efficiency of text searches by eliminating any duplicates from being searched and returned.
A new setting has been added to the OCR and TIFF options to allow more control over the text index flag (_FTIndex). The state of the "Reset text index status" setting w ill control w hether documents are re-flagged for full text indexing after OCR or printed text has been added for a document. The default behavior (disabled) is to update the index status w henever new text is added, or modified.
An "Ignore duplicate documents during indexing" setting has been added to the text index options (Tools -> Options -> Indexing tab). When enabled, records flagged as duplicates in LAW (DupStatus=G or DupStatus=C) w ill be omitted from the full text indexing process.
Text Search
A new function, Tag Text Hits, has been added to the query builder. This function allow s tagging of text hits w ithout actually running the text search. This feature is optimized to conserve memory allow ing results sets to be tagged that cannot run directly due to memory constraints. This process is multithreaded so it w ill take advantage of multicore systems distributing the search across multiple cores. NOTES: 1) This function is limited to the text search term only, it does not incorporate database conditions, 2) Available fields for tagging are unlocked, non-system TAG or NUMERIC fields. Selecting a TAG field w ill tag each record that contains a hit w hile selecting a NUMERIC field w ill store the number of hits per document for the term.
Modifications
ED Loader
Added support for Date/TimeAppStart and Date/TimeAppEnd metadata fields for Lotus Notes appointment/meeting items.
ED Loader database reconnection behavior has been extended to cover time-out errors on SQL Server.
HTML and Text converted from Lotus Notes appointment items w ill now contain a Start and End time in the header if this data is available and considered valid.
HTML converted from mail stores is now saved as UTF-8 if the encoding specified in the HTML is explicitly declared as UTF-8. Previous implementations w ould save the HTML file as UCS-2, potentially resulting in some Western-European characters not rendering correctly w ithout changing the encoding in the w eb brow ser.
LAW w ill now respect the system's daylight savings setting for timestamps extracted from Outlook e-mails (previously, DST adjustments w ere universally applied to metadata dates regardless of system setting).
Text is no longer extracted for records marked as duplicates w hen using the "Partially Exclude (Log record but do not copy file)" action is selected.
The case list and case selection panel has been removed from the Session View er. The File -> Open command has been modified to allow the selection of a different case or specific session database (job.mdb).
The custodian assignment can now be modified w hen the ED Loader is launched in insert mode (Edit -> Insert -> E-Document(s) | E-Document Attachment(s)).
Endorse
LAW w ill no longer force JPEG compression on all non-binary (color/greyscale) images during the endorse process. It w ill attempt to retain the original compression of non-binary images. Supported compressions are: None, Packbits, LZW, and JPEG. If the
compression cannot be detected, or is not one of these, JPEG w ill be used as a default. An INI setting is available to revert to the previous behavior if desired.
Exports
The contents of the Control List created during exports no longer w raps data in quotes. The specified image tag is now used instead of the ID field in LAW to populate the AttachmentRangeBegin and AttachmentRangeEnd fields in the BlueTrace load file.
Imports
Support for UCS-2 and UTF-8 Unicode files has been added to the Import Delimited Text feature.
When a load file import is initiated, IPRO, Opticon and Summation (@I and @V) volumes are now automatically detected if the image volume is either the folder containing the load file or its parent. If the volume folder cannot be automatically detected, LAW w ill prompt to select the folder manually, w hich w as the default behavior in previous versions.
Version 5.5.07
New Features
Batch/Export
An option to "Calculate total pages in batch/export dialogs" has been added to Tools > Options > Preferences. This option can be used to disable the calculation of page counts w hen launching the Batch Process and Export Utility dialogs to avoid delays in cases w ith a large number of pages. A "Calculate total documents" option has been added to the Select Folders dialog for this purpose as w ell. The number of folders to be processed w ill now be displayed w hen choosing folders from the Select Folders dialog.
Create Outlook PST
Outlook PST files can now be created (or appended) from LAW for messages in Outlook mail stores, loose Outlook messages (*.msg), and loose RFC-822 (*.eml) messages on disk. The "Create Outlook PST" feature is located in the Tools menu in the standalone grid. Note: When creating a mail store, only top-level messages and loose e-mail items w ill be added (any attachments w ill be part of the parent items). Also, the mail stores and any loose messages must be in their original locations from w hich they w ere processed by the ED loader or they w ill not be found.
Deduplication
A new setting, "Include attachment hashes in e-mail metadata hash", has been added to the ED Loader Deduplication settings. When enabled, e-mail attachment hashes w ill be included in the hash for e-mail records as opposed to the attachment file name hashes only w hich is used in previous versions and w hen this setting is disabled.
ED Loader
Using the new archive option, "Include Embedded Archive" located in the Archives settings, the ED Loader w ill now create a record for the archive file itself (in addition to its contents) w hen an archive attached to another file is encountered.
Improved support for digitally signed S/MIME e-mails and introduced support for encrypted S/MIME e-mails.
enabled, the ED Loader w ill not convert X.400 addresses to an auto-generated SMTP addresses.
Exports
A "Link to images and files in current location" setting has been added to the Introspect configuration settings. When enabled, the images and files associated w ith exported records w ill not be copied to the export path and the load file w ill reference the existing files in LAW. Note: When using this setting, images MUST be in multi-page format in the LAW case in order for Introspect to view all pages of the images. Also the IDX load file w ill alw ays be w ritten to the image path of the case so relative paths to the documents can be used (required by Introspect) and named according to the batch name as configured in the Introspect settings. A shortcut to the load file w ill be created in the export path referencing the load file in the image directory of the case.
Grid Displays
A "Doc/Page Totals" setting has been added to the View menu in the standalone grid. When enabled, the total number of documents and pages w ill be displayed in the low er right corner of the grid for the current record set. This setting also determines w hether the document and page totals are displayed in the embedded grid.
Three options have been added to the grid displays: "Shrink Column to
Window " (shrinks column so the right edge is accessible in the w indow ), "Send Column Left-most" (moves current column to the first position in the grid), and "Send Column Right-most" (moves column to the last, or right-most, position in the grid).
Index Fields
Four new fields w ill now be created w hen a case is ED-enabled: DateAppStart,
TimeAppStart, DateAppEnd, and TimeAppEnd. These fields w ill capture appointment start and end dates/times during ED Loader imports.
Log Viewer
Records can now be tagged directly from the Log View er in LAW. A drop-dow n list in the view er w ill display existing tag fields. The "Tag All Records" and "Tag Selected Records" can then be used to tag desired records w ithin the Log View er.
Management Console
The LAW Management Console ("LMC") w ill now support the use of more than one instance of SQL Server w hen managing and configuring distributed batch processing jobs.
Printing
When batch printing from LAW, the jobs sent to the print spooler w ill now be named in the format of "LAW Batch 000000" follow ed by the DocID, BegDoc#, or ID for the document (w hichever is found first in that order). Native files w ill be sent to the spooler w ith their original file names.
Review
Lotus Notes and Outlook top-level e-mail messages can now be launched in their native applications by enabling the "Review Parent E-Mails Natively" setting (Open File menu) or by right-clicking the hyperlink above the image view er and choosing "Open Source E-Mail Natively."
Searching
Hit highlighting for full text searches has been implemented. The highlighted hits are displayed automatically follow ing a search in a new text pane attached to the
or Bottom from the standalone grid View menu.
An option to "Include hits by w ord in search results" has been added to the full text search options. When enabled, a column (ft_HitsByWord) w ill be included in the grid containing the hit value(s) and the number of hits for each search term. This field is available during the current grid session only. To preserve the hits permanently, use the Persist Text Hits feature located under the Tools menu in the standalone grid. This feature w ill place text hits into a user-defined memo field, separated by semi-colons. Hit counts are not retained in this field. Unique values w ill be appended to existing entries each time the feature is used.
Separator Pages
A "Print separator pages only" setting has been added for the E-Print batch process. When enabled, LAW w ill print the separator pages for the selected records and w ill not print the actual documents.
A "Show comments field" setting has been added to the Separator Page Options dialog to show or hide the Comments field that may appear on separator pages and
placeholders. The text that appears in this Comments field can also be modified by entering desired text in the "Unsupported file type message" text box. These new additions apply only to the Custom template for the TIFF Conversion and E-Print batch processes.
Folder-level separator pages may now be included in standard print jobs (Print batch process) by enabling the "Print folder break separator pages" setting in the Batch Print Options dialog.
The "Selected Fields" area in the Separator Page Options dialog has been changed to a grid display and now contains a "Display As" column for specifying an alternate display name for fields included on custom separator pages and placeholders.
Field names can be hidden on separator pages and placeholders w hen the field does not contain data for any given document. This behavior can be enabled by selecting the "Do not print field names for blank values" setting in the Separator Page Options dialog.
Text Indexing
An option to "Reset Fulltext Flags" has been added to the Tools menu in the standalone grid. This option can be used to updated the full text indexing flag for the entire case or just a record set.
TIFF Conversion
Documents that are converted to TIFF images manually (launching the native from LAW and printing to one of the supported image printers) w ill now receive a value of "Manual TIFF Conversion" in the PageSource field. Previously, these records w ould receive a value of "TIFF Conversion", but that value is now reserved for records converted during a batch TIFF Conversion.
The "Reduce to optimal palette" and "Drop blank pages" settings are now supported w hen manually converting files to TIFF images in LAW using the LexisNexis Image Driver 5.0. In order to use these settings, be sure they are selected in the Batch Process TIFF Output options prior to launching and converting native files.
TIFF/E-Print
A new Excel option has been added to "Limit output to <N> pages" w hen printing. When enabled, LAW w ill only print the number of pages specified in this field w hen a file is printed or converted to TIFF w ith Excel. A w arning message w ill be logged to the ErrorMsg field w hen the pages are limited as a result of this setting or if the total page count happens to match the value set in the options.
Modifications
ED Loader
The ED Loader w ill remain active w hen the connection to the SQL database has been lost and a notification w ill be displayed in the Progress dialog w hen this loss of connectivity occurs. Processing w ill resume once the connection is reestablished; otherw ise, the process can be manually cancelled by the user.
The "Filesize" for Lotus Notes e-mail w ill now match the size of the HTM file created during the import. In previous versions, the size value reported by the Lotus Notes API w as being used w hich w as typically larger than the file after the conversion to HTML. Soft returns are now removed from the follow ing fields during import: Author, Subject, Title, and ApplicationName.
Files identified as 1262 (Internet message MIME) w ith an MHT extension w ill now be assigned as file type 1910 (MHTML w eb archive) to prevent conversion to e-mail.
File engine
An updated version of the file engine is included w ith this release. After installing the update and launching ED Loader, a prompt w ill appear to update the file type database.
Grid Display
Copying and pasting from column to column is now supported in the embedded grid view .
Licensing
Added license reconnect attempts for the batch, import, and export processes in the event the connection to the license key is dropped due to connectivity or other issues.
Numbering
Page-level batch numbering process w as modified to significantly increase performance for SQL cases.
Searching
Null values are now returned w hen utilizing the "Does Not Contain" or "Does Not Equal" operator in a database search. The "Tag (Boolean)" field type w as not included in this modification.
Full text only searches can now be saved in the Query Builder.
Separator Pages
The 'Use same fields for all placeholders' option has been renamed to 'Synchronize field settings for all types' and the behavior has changed to include all settings in the fields section.
Text Extraction
Updated dtSearch engine to version 7.62. Release notes for this version may be view ed here: http://w w w .dtsearch.com/ReleaseNotes762.html.
TIFF Conversion
Documents receiving a placeholder due to being "unsupported" for conversion or due to an error occurring w ill now receive a "P" value in the TiffStatus field. If placeholders w ere not enabled, these documents w ould receive the traditional TiffStatus values.
Version 5.4.13
New Features
Compound Documents
Extraction of embedded files is now supported for Office 2007 files. Extraction of attachments/embedded files is now supported for PDF files.
Document Numbering
A new option, "Allow page level numbering to span across sections", has been added to the Numbering tab in Tools>Options. When this sub-option of "Use rolling numeric sections" is disabled, LAW w ill not allow the page-level section of a number to span across one or more sections. Please see the Coding>Numbering Documents/Pages Help topic for more information.
Exports
Login information can be specified w hen exporting to a secure Concordance database. The "Security" button is located in the Concordance Direct DCB configuration options in the Export Utility and is used to enter a user name and passw ord. This feature w ill be disabled if the version of Concordance installed does not support this feature (i.e. version 7.3).
An "Allow Unicode data" setting has been added to the Concordance export
configuration settings. This setting w ill create Unicode load files that can only be loaded correctly w ith Concordance 10. Support for version 10 of Concordance has also been applied to the Concordance Direct DCB export. In order to create a version 10 database w hen multiple versions of Concordance are installed, enable the new option "Create Concordance 10.0 database" in the export configuration settings. Note: This setting w ill only be available if Concordance 10 is installed.
An INI setting is now available to allow users to change the @MEDIA Summation token value from the default "Attachment" to "eMail" for e-mails attached to e-mails. See the Exporting > Format-Specific Settings > Summation Help topic for more information. An error counter and error details grid have been added to the Export Utility status dialog. Errors can now be view ed during the export process instead of w aiting until completing and view ing the log.
Folders
Expand and Collapse commands have been added to the Folder menu.
Index Fields
The ED Loader w ill now extract the "last accessed" date and time for documents and store the results in the DateAccessed and TimeAccessed fields. These tw o fields are automatically created in new ED cases, but must be manually created in existing cases if these fields are required. Note: This timestamp is updated in Window s w ith most
operations (ie. dragging a file into ED loader source list, view ing file properties, etc.), so it is generally useless UNLESS the use of this field by the Window s shell is disabled. A registry script (DisableLastAccessUpdate.reg) is included in the application path that w ill disable updates to this field by Window s (requires reboot after running) and should be run prior to running any new ED sessions if this metadata is required.
Licensing
LAW license modules may now be released or acquired from the Help > About > Licenses form, eliminating the need to first close LAW, launch the Profile Manager, and re-select
licenses.
Management Console
A Licenses node has been added to the LAW Management Console ("LMC") to allow tracking of license usage for machines connected to the same SQL Server and the LMC. All attached LAW server keys w ill be displayed along w ith license details including total licenses, available licenses, licenses in use, and machine and user names using those licenses.
Printing
A "Reveal Hidden Text" option has been added to the Word options. When enabled, this feature w ill reveal text in the output TIFF or hard copy that is not otherw ise visible due to the text matching the background color (i.e., w hite text on a w hite background) or text matching the highlight color in the source document.
Profiles
The location for global profiles, currently the \Law 50\Shared folder, may be changed by entering a new path on the Preferences tab in Tools>Options. This preference is labeled "Global storage path for index field profiles, grid view s, and saved filters."
Run Command
A new run command, "Populate RecordType Values", is included in the Commands folder and can be executed from Tools>Run Command. This command can be used to populate an existing field in an ED-enabled LAW case w ith values to indicate the type of record, such as E-MAIL or E-DOC. These values w ill match the values used for the <RecordType> field available only in the Export Utility, so running this command is only necessary if you w ish to have the field populated in the case for reasons other than exporting.
A new run command, "Text Path Extractor", is included in the Commands folder and can be executed from Tools>Run Command. This command can be used to populate an existing field in an ED-enabled LAW case w ith the path to the active text file (extracted, printed, or OCR), as specified in the utility. This command can be used in conjunction w ith Equivio to offer near duplicate detection in a LAW case.
Separator Pages
A "Separator Page Options" dialog has been added for the E-Print and Print processes and contains field selection and other options to customize separator pages. This feature is also available in the batch TIFF Conversion options to allow custom placeholders for excluded/unsupported documents and documents that received an error during the conversion. Please see the Help file topic Batch Processing > Separator Pages for information on this feature.
A "Print separator pages only" setting has been added for the Print batch process (standard image print only). When enabled, LAW w ill print the separator pages for the selected records and w ill not print the actual documents.
Text Indexing
The indexing process can now be run in the background, referred to as auto-index mode. When running the indexer in this mode, the indexer w ill continue to poll the database for new documents to index until it is cancelled. This allow s you to index documents during the import process, so that w hen an ED loader session is complete, the documents are indexed and ready to be searched. Auto-index mode can be enabled on the new index options tab.
An "Indexing" tab has been added to Tools > Options and contains a number of options for handling of w ords and punctuation during the full text indexing process.
Modifications
Administration
SQL connection retry w as added to account for dropped connections that may occur w hen deleting a large number of records.
ED Loader
Outlook "out of office" replies w ill now be saved as HTML files instead of MSG if the e-mail output format is set to HTML in the ED Loader e-e-mail settings.
Metadata extraction for PDF files has been optimized to increase speed and extract certain types of encrypted metadata that w ere previously not supported.
LAW's main interface is now hidden w hen the ED Loader is launched.
Exports
The default delimiters, w hen launching LAW for the first time on a machine, for
Concordance exports are now set to the Concordance default delimiters rather than the comma (,) and quote (") characters.
Records exported to a path or w ith a file name that exceeds 255 characters w ill be placed in an $Invalid_Paths folder in the root of the volume folder.
The "Create as new database" and "Append to existing database" options have been removed from the Concordance Direct (DCB) configuration settings as they are
redundant. LAW w ill create as new if the export path does not contain an existing DCB and w ill append if the export path does contain an existing DCB.
The BlueTrace export format now uses the DocID field values for the ControlBegin and ControlEnd values.
Imports
Both single-page and multi-page image files imported into LAW via load file w ill be stored in <case root>\$Image Archive. This applies to all load file imports except Z-Print.
Page Count Extraction
Accuracy on PDF page count summaries has been improved.
Printing
Improved performance w hen printing electronic documents using Microsoft Word (all versions).
Text Indexing
The full text indexing process has been modified to greatly enhance speed and stability. Obsolete document detection and compression have been added for the full text
dictionary. When documents are deleted from the index, or re-indexed, obsolete documents remain in the index until the index is compressed. These documents do not come back in searches but do remain in the full text dictionary. When obsolete
documents are detected, a banner w ill appear in the full text dictionary to notify and provide a compress option.
The full text indexing process is now supported for all case types (no longer limited to ED cases).
PageColor is now populated automatically for images affected by the "Treat native TIFF images as image for record" setting. The Update Page Data w as needed previously in order to populate the field for these types of records.
Watermarks
Watermarks applied during the endorse and print processes now support non-binary images w ithout loss of content w hen applied to B&W images.
Version 5.3.14
New Features
Exports
A "JPEG subsampling" option has been added to the Options tab in the Export Utility to allow potential improvement of the image quality for JPEG files. Values include: 1:1:1 (no subsampling, 2:1:1 (2 to 1 horz), 4:1:1 (4 to 1 horz and vert, and 2:1:1 (2 to 1 vert). Note: These values may be referred to differently in other applications w hen view ing the image properties. For example, 2:1:1 (2 to 1 horz) may be listed as 4:2:2 outside of LAW.
Log Viewer
A "Save As" button has been added to the Log View er (Tools menu) to allow saving of error logs to a *.CSV file directly from the view er.
Management Console
The LAW Management Console ("LMC") is now included w ith LAW PreDiscovery. The LMC can be used to manage distributed batch processing jobs and to automatically join LAW w orkstations to those shared jobs. During processing, stations w ill report their progress on the batches and users can view this information from a single location. The console can be launched and added to Window s startup, if desired, by launching the Options dialog w ithin LAW (Tools>Options), view ing the Preferences tab, and checking the box to "Start the Management Console on Window s startup." Please see the Help file or User Guide for more information.
Profile Manager
The tw o system profiles in the Profile Manager, <Any Available Licenses> and <Custom>, can now be hidden to assist w ith easier management of license usage. Users must be in administrative mode in order to hide or restore these profiles.
Profiles
Global profiles and search filters may now be created for the grid displays, Index display, and Query Builder. Shared profile support has also been added for index profiles. A "Field Profiles" button has been added to the Modify Fields dialog (Index menu) w hich allow s the selection and management of the profiles. Also, the "Add New Profile" button has been removed and replaced by "Save" and "Save As" buttons. Global profiles and searches can be created, saved, and used across all LAW cases; commonly used profiles and queries w ill no longer need to be created in each case. Please see the Help file or User Guide for more information.
Exports
Color pages can now be resaved during the export process as JPEG files w hen exporting a serialized image containing color pages to a single-page format using "Default" as the Output Format. In order for this to occur, the PageColor field must be populated. This is now automatically set for documents converted to TIFF in LAW 5.3.14 or later. If the images w ere imported from another application, the 'Update Page Data' batch process w ill need to be run on the images to populate the PageColor field.
Printing
If LAW is unable to locate the notes.ini file in the Lotus Notes installation path, LAW w ill now look for the notes.ini file location in the registry. This change w ill prevent the follow ing error from occurring w hen attempting to initialize a batch process w ith the "Print Lotus Notes e-mails natively from Lotus" option enabled: <Error> = The Lotus Notes configuration file (notes.ini) w as not found, unable to verify recipient expansion (ErrCode=53, Line=170) (-1)
LAW w ill now only support version 2009 of E-Draw ings for use as a print source
application. If 2008 is installed, an error w ill be logged for any records w ith E-Draw ings as a source application (An installation of eDraw ings 2009 w as not found.). We
recommend uninstalling 2008 prior to installing version 2009 to avoid potential complications w ith this application w hen printing in LAW.
Version 5.3.08
New Features
Document Numbering
The "Use rolling numeric sections" option has been added to the Numbering tab in Tools->Options. This feature may be used to alter the w ay LAW increments w hen a particular value in a numbering scheme has been reached (i.e. 001.9999 increments to 002.0001). Please see the Help topic Coding->Numbering Documents/Pages for more information.
Exports
The "EDRM XML 1.0" format has been added to the list of available export formats in the Export Utility.
New Ringtail configuration setting, "Include reference to native file in Pages table", has been added. The state of this setting w ill determine how files are view ed upon import into Ringtail.
Tw o new settings have been added to the "Custom" folder naming dialog in the Export Utility: "Split folder(s) on custom delimiter" and "Drop last folder level." These settings allow additional configuration w hen using index field values to build the folder structure upon exporting.
Imports
The setting, Link to source files in place w hen importing load files, has been added to the Preferences tab in Tools->Options. When enabled, LAW w ill link to the source files outside of LAW w hen importing load files rather than copying the files to case folder structure.
LAW w ill now retain images in single-page format w hen importing load files. Note: All imported images, regardless of page format, are now saved to the $Image Archive folder during the import process. In previous versions, the images w ere merged into multi-page files (if serialized) and stored in the folder structure displayed in LAW's main interface.
An additional image printer, "LexisNexis Image Driver 5.0 (300 DPI)", is now included in the full installation. This image printer w ill create 300 DPI images ONLY to account for the DPI changing w hen certain Microsoft Excel files are encountered. If a different DPI setting is required, please use the original LexisNexis Image Driver.
Modifications
Exports
The "BCC" field is now included in the Parties table in the Ringtail MDB load file rather than the Export_Extras table w hen chosen as a selected field.
Image Manipulation
The Insert Existing Page feature now supports the combining of mixed image formats in a single serialized scanned document. For example, a tw o-page document could contain one TIF page and one JPG page.
Import Tag List
LAW w ill now prompt to apply the "Indexed" property to the selected Document ID field if not already indexed. Applying this property can significantly increase import speeds in larger cases.
Installer
The w arning message to remove dongles (hardw are keys) during the Sentinel install portion of the LAW full installation process has been removed. The vendor providing these keys has confirmed no issues w ill occur w hen installing this service w hile a key is attached to the system.
LAW w ill now perform a check during updates to ensure the version being installed is supported under the maintenance contract linked to the dongle (hardw are key). If the key cannot be reached during the install, LAW w ill prompt for the key number (i.e. N10-XXXX). A w arning message w ill appear if the version should not be installed. This check is to prevent users from installing a version they w ill not be able to run due to an expired contract.
OCR
The setting, "Create w eb optimized PDF", has been added to the OCR tab in Tools->Options.
A new version of the Expervision OCR engine (7.1.157.1124) is included. This version resolves issues w ith the "w eb optimized PDF" setting causing corrupt PDFs to be created, improves OCR accuracy on complex images, and addresses several conditions that could cause the OCR engine to hang or crash.
Text Extraction
A new version of dtSearch, 7.60.7728.1, is included. This version resolves the follow ing tw o issues: 1) The "*" (asterisk) character w as being converted to a UTF-8 version of the character in some cases, and 2) The w ords "true" and "false" w ere not being
included in the text extracted from Excel files.
TIFFConversion
The option to bypass TIFF conversion on native images has been changed to "Treat native TIFF images as image for record (bypass TIFF Conversion)" and only applies to TIFF images (file IDs 321, 298, and 146) by default to account for issues w hen endorsing extremely small image files, such as 2x2 JPGs. An INI setting is available to add
additional image file types. Please see the Help section Batch Processing->E-Print/TIFF Conversion->E-Print/TIFF Output Settings for more information.
UserInterface
A "Numbering" tab has been added to the Options form under the Tools menu. The follow ing options have been moved from Preferences to this tab: Use document/level separator for Page IDs, Use alpha-numeric bates numbering, and Use document level attachment numbering.
Version 5.2.42
New Features
ED Loader
A new output setting, HTML/MHTML, has been added for Outlook e-mail conversions. This setting w ill force MHTML output for any e-mails w ith RTF content, HTML messages w ith embedded images, or non-email items. Standard text or HTML messages w ill be saved as HTML.
Imports
The EDRM XML 1.0 specification has been added to list of available imports. This provides support for import of electronic discovery that has already been processed outside of LAW.
TIFF Conversion
Native images can now be skipped during TIFF conversion so that the original TIFF image file becomes the w orking image in LAW. This behavior can be toggled from the TIFF Output options. If desired, the TIFF conversion settings can still be forced on the native image bypassing the TIFF print process for improved performance.
Modifications
Admin
Error message returned on SQL case creation failures has been updated w ith additional information.
ED Loader
Attachment extraction w as enhanced to support office documents w ith attachments saved as e-mail attachment streams.
OCR
Web optimization for PDF output has been disabled due to potential corruption on large images. Web optimization can now be enabled w ith an ini setting if desired.
User Interface
Folder view control w as updated to improve performance on folder refreshes. The updated folder view also respects Vista folder themes.
Version 5.2.37 New Features
ED Loader
The dtSearch engine is now used to extract metadata for PDF files.
Scan for Errors
Automatic retries have been added to a number of areas w hen scanning for invalid images in an attempt to address high traffic netw orks that suffer from unusually high numbers of dropped SQL Server connections.
Modifications
Run Command
A new run command (Tools -> Run Command) is included to re-extract all PDF metadata for a case using the dtSearch engine. The command is named 'PDF Metadata Extractor'. It w ill re-extract metadata for all PDF files in the current case logging any changes it makes to a field.
Version 5.2.36
New Features
Document Numbering
Field codes, such as &[DocID] may now be used in the Starting # field w hen numbering a document- or page-level index field. This applies to Edit->Auto Number as w ell as the Document Numbering batch process. For example, "&[Page] of &[Pages]" (w ithout the quotes) w ould result in the text "1 of 20" in the selected target field. Please see the Coding->Numbering Documents/Pages topic in the Help file for a list of possible values. This feature is not currently supported w hen the "Use document level attachment numbering" setting is enabled (see #2 in New Features for a description).
A new setting, "Use document level attachment numbering", has been added to the Tools->Options->Preferences tab. When enabled, LAW w ill append a suffix in the format of [<attach number>-<total # of attachments>] to the specified Starting # w hen
numbering a document level index field. This applies to Edit->Auto Number as w ell as the Document Numbering batch process. Please see the Coding->Numbering Documents/ Pages topic in the Help file for more information.
Metadata extraction is now fully supported for Office 2007 (binary and OpenXML only) and OpenOffice documents.
Exports
Native file exports are now supported for the Delimited Text export format. The *.CSV load file w ill now include a "NativeFile" field for ED records and w ill contain a path to the exported native file.
Page Count Extraction
LAW now has the ability to provide estimated page counts for most of the common native file formats that have been imported into a LAW case via the ED Loader. This feature may be accessed in the standalone grid by clicking Tools->Extract ED Page Counts). Page count estimates w ill be stored in the EDPages field for each record. Please see the Working w ith Native Documents->Extracting Page Counts topic in the Help file for more information. Also, these estimates w ill now be displayed in the four types of reports LAW generates for ED records (Tools->ED Reports in the standalone grid display).
Query Builder
A new setting, "Use NOLOCK setting to improve performance (SQL only/read-only)", has been added to the Advanced tab in the Database Query Builder. This setting w as added to prevent locking of records in SQL cases w hile a query is being executed. This should not be a concern in smaller LAW cases. Please see the Searching->Query Builder topic in the Help file for a complete description.
Modifications
Annotations
Annotations may now be merged to serialized image files.
Control List
The Build Control List feature in the standalone grid w ill now include printed text w hen available.
ED Loader
To prevent misidentification and therefore mishandling of e-mail, EML and MSG files w ill alw ays be sent through LAW's e-mail processor. If the file is truly not an e-mail, a w arning w ill be logged and the file w ill be handled as an e-document.
Exports
CC and BCC have been added to the list of available eDii tokens in the Summation export settings.
Image Manipulation
ED image records (records imported via ED Loader and converted to TIFF in LAW) may now be split and merged. When splitting, the user can choose from three different metadata retention options and w ill have the ability to apply an auto-incrementing suffix to DocID's for records created as a result of the split. Please see the Manipulating Documents->Splitting Documents topic in the Help file for more information.
New version of the Expervision OCR engine is included. The new version should be listed as 7.1.135.515 in the OCR tab in Tools->Options. This version of Expervision w ill create w eb-optimized PDF files w hen the OCR output format is set to one of the Adobe PDF options.
Version 5.2.27
New Features
ED Loader
Additional archive formats are now supported w hich include: TAR (*.tar), GZIP (*.gz; *. gzip; *.__z), and Z (*.z).
Outlook messages can now be converted to HTML, MHTML, MSG, or RTF during import. The format can be specified w ith the 'Save Outlook messages as' setting in the E-mail settings section of the ED Loader.
Embedded files/attachments w ill now be extracted from Pow erPoint files in addition to other Office documents if the 'Enable Compound Document Extraction' setting is enabled during imports.
Unicode metadata extraction is now supported for PDF files.
TIFF/E-Print
The source application "eDraw ings View er" is now supported to provide improved support for printing CAD files (*.dw g, *.dw f, *.dxf, plus many more). See http://w w w . edraw ingsview er.com/pages/products/eDraw ingsView erpage.html for details. **Note: The "Image Printer" source application now supports printing DWG/DWF files natively, and is the recommended and new default source for these file types.
The source application "AutoVue Suite" is now supported as an alternative source application to Quick View Plus and supports over 450 file types. See http://w w w . cimmetry.com/_products/autovue_office.html for details. AutoVue can be set as the default native view er if desired by checking the "AutoVue Suite Review Mode" menu item from the "Open File" button above the main document view er.
Modifications
Import
Significant performance enhancements have been made to the LAW 5.x case import function.
Index Fields
The follow ing fields have been added to the ED case template: LastAuthor, ApplicationName, and Template.
OCR Flags
Performance improvements have been made to reduce the amount of time required to reset OCR flags in large cases.
The "Image Printer" source application now supports printing DWG/DWF files natively, and is the recommended and new default source for these file types.
Version 5.2.13
New Features
ED Loader
The ED Loader has been modified to support the import of folders and files containing Unicode in the path(s) and the view ing of Unicode characters in the interface. This is supported in new LAW cases only (created in this version or later). Please see the Help file topic Appendix->Unicode Support for more information regarding Unicode in LAW.
Exports
Additional text option, Printed, has been added to the text options (Formats/Documents tab) in the Export Utility to allow this type to be exported. This type of text may be optionally created during a batch TIFF Conversion or single document TIFF conversion w hen using the LexisNexis Image Driver. In addition to OCR, printed text may be exported single-page. Please note, not all export formats support single-page text. If Unicode data exists in any exported index fields, it w ill now be included in the
CaseLogistix load file w hen this export format is selected. Optionally, Unicode data may also be included w hen exporting to the Delimited Text export. The setting, Allow Unicode data, is located in the Configuration settings for Delimited Text.
Grid Displays
While view ing data in either of the grid displays, any Unicode data existing in a field may be view ed w ithin the grid by floating the mouse pointer above the cell. The Unicode data w ill appear in a pop-up text box beside the cell.
Unicode data in index fields can be included w hen saving records from the grid displays by selecting the "Unicode Text" option in the "Save as type" drop-dow n.
Licensing
LAWtsi licenses may now be undocked from the LAW server key.
Pixel Image Library
Pixel Image Library version 8.0 (Build 4727) is now shipped w ith the full install for versions 5.2.05 and later of LAW PreDiscovery. This version w ill prevent an issue w ith images appearing pink after imports into LAW.
Printers
The LexisNexis Image Driver 5.0, based on the Zan Image Printer, is now included in installations of LAW. This image printer may be used to convert native files to TIFF images using the batch TIFF Conversion process and single document TIFF conversion feature.
Scanning
Scanned images may now be stored in serialized (single-page) format. When using this storage schema, resulting images w ill be stored in the $Image Archive folder located in the root of the case folder. To choose betw een serialized and multi-page, click Tools->Options and select the desired "Storage Schema" on the Imaging tab.
When more than one type of text exists for a record, the type of text displayed in the view er on the main form may be selected by right-clicking in the view er and choosing one of the three new options: Open Text (OCR), Open Text (Extracted), Open Text (Printed). All available text states w ill be enabled. Once a text state has been manually selected by the user, it w ill be checked and become the default text state.
Text Extraction
Text may now be extracted during the batch TIFF Conversion process and single document TIFF conversion feature w hen using the LexisNexis Image Driver (installed w ith versions 5.2 and later). The option to enable this feature, "Save text w ith images", is located in TIFF Options->TIFF Output in the Batch Processing dialog. This type of text, referred to as 'Printed' text, w ill be stored w ith the TIFF output below the <case
root>\$Image Archive folder.
User Interface
The LAW PreDiscovery interface has been modified to support the view ing of Unicode data w ithin the application. The standalone and embedded grid displays do not currently support Unicode, but a pop-up text box to display this type of data w ill appear w hen the mouse pointer is positioned over a cell containing Unicode. This is supported in new LAW cases only (created in 5.2 or later). Please see the Help file topic Appendix->Unicode Support for more information regarding Unicode in LAW.
Windows Vista
Window s Vista has been added as a supported operating system for LAW. Please see the notes regarding Vista support in the System Requirements topic in the Help file.
Modifications
Documentation
Help->Quick Start Guide has been changed to Help->User Guide. This menu item w ill launch the new user guide included w ith LAW installations and w ill be located in \Law 50 \LAW PreDiscovery User Guide.pdf. The Quick Start Guide has been removed due to outdated content.
ED Loader
New version of the file recognition engine, used to identify file types during ED Loader imports, has been implemented. A prompt to update the file type database w ith changes w ill appear w hen the ED Loader is initially launched after installing this version. This updated version w ill correct a number of e-mail recognition issues.
The menu item, Tools->Open Summary Database, has been moved and changed to File->Open Summary. Additional menu items and button labels have changed in the ED Loader interface, but all items perform the same functions as previous versions.
Exports
The default image component used to manipulate images during the export process has changed to use Pegasus image libraries. This change w as made to prevent common 'Assertion failures' from occurring and causing problems w ith the export process. A new option, 'Use Pegasus Image Library', has been added to the Options tab of the Export Utility to control w hich image component is used. To revert back to the older Pixel Translations libraries for any reason, uncheck this new setting. NOTE: If performing multipage PDF exports, the Pegasus setting w ill be ignored.
The NativeFile field w ill now only appear in Concordance DAT load files once to avoid issues w hen loading into Concordance. This field appears by default in the DAT and w ould previously appear tw ice w hen the field w as also selected manually in the Fields tab.
Summation export has been modified to force the @T to appear below @PST and @StoreID tokens in the DII load file to avoid potential problems w hen loading into Summation.
User-defined page-level fields may now be selected as the File Naming Scheme and Image Tag w hen exporting.
Grid Displays
Page-level fields set as visible in the grid view w ill now reappear as visible columns the next time a page-level query is executed.
Index Display
Page-level fields are now locked on the main form Index Display. The only w ay to populate these fields currently is using the Import Tag List and Bates Numbering/Auto-numbering features.
OCR
New version of the Expervision OCR engine is included. The new version should be listed as 7.1.120.309 in the OCR tab in Tools->Options.
The OCRStatus field value is now set to 'Y' after a document has been re-converted to TIFF provided the previous status w as not 'N'. This w ill help users determine w hich documents are in need of OCR if using this feature.
Printers
The Informatik Image Driver is no longer packaged in the full installation file; how ever, this image printer may still be used for TIFF conversion in LAW.
TIFF Conversion
When utilizing the single document TIFF conversion feature, documents may now be converted to serialized format and w ill be saved to the $Image Archive folder to remain consistent w ith batch TIFF conversions. Printed text is also now supported w ith this feature by enabling the option prior to the conversion. The desired image format and text options should be set in the Batch Processing TIFF Output options prior to using this feature.
Version 5.2.19
New Features
ED Loader
An error/w arning w ill now be logged by default w hen importing Lotus e-mails if an e-mail contains an RTF body. These w arnings can be disabled if user decides they do not w ant them. The logging is enabled by default, so it w ill require manual user intervention to disable them. To do this, a new setting has been added to the E-Mail section of the ED Loader. To disable the w arnings, uncheck the 'Log w arning messages for e-mails containing RTF body content'.
