Initialize Card

Initializes a newly-imported fiche card.

Remarks

This activity performs two key functions. Firstly, it sorts the raw tiles and organizes them into subfolders by strip. Secondly, it assembles a low-resultion preview of the fiche card surface from the contents of the "previews" subfolder.

Inherits from: Unattended Activity

Properties

The following 7 properties are defined.

Property Name Description
General
Ordering Pattern Type: String, Default: (?<Row>[A-Z])\d\d-(?<Column>\d+)\.jpg$

A regular expression which is used to parse row and column numbers from tile filenames.

Strip Count Type: Int32, Default: 7

The number of horizontal strips expected for each fiche card.

Tile Count Type: Int32, Default: 22

The number of tiles expected for each strip.

Overscan Size Type: String, Default: 0.1in

The amount of vertical overscan included in each horizontal strip.

Processing Options
Error Disposition Type: IssueDisposition, Default: Flag, Log

Determines what happens when an error occurs processing an activity.

Maximum Consecutive Errors Type: Int32, Default: 0

The maximum number of consecutive errors, after which a critical stop will be raised. A critical stop will cause services to stop running.

Concurrency Mode Type: ConcurrencyMode, Default: Multiple

Specifies the parallel processing mode for this activity. Can be one of the following values:

  • Multiple - Multiple instances can run concurrently.
  • PerMachine - Only a single instance can run per machine.
  • Single - Only a single instance can run per Grooper repository.
This value determines the type of Thread Pool on which the activity can be executed.

Used By

Batch Folder - Apply Activity, Batch Process Step