Batch Process Step

The type of activity to be executed by this step.

Configuration settings for the selected Activity Type.

The processing scope of this step. Can be one of the following values:

• Batch - One task will be created for the entire batch.
• Folder - One task will be created for each folder at a specific level within the batch.
• Page - One task will be created for each page.

The folder level at which tasks will process when the Scope is set to 'Folder'.

Determines the Thread Pool that will be used to process tasks for this step.

Generic property allowing an administrator to document the purpose of this Grooper Node.

An optional expression which determines whether tasks will be submitted for individual folders or pages. The expression is executed for each folder or page in scope, and should return a True or False value indicating whether the item should be processed. If False is returned for every item in the batch, this will essentiall skip the entire step. Below are various examples of should submit expressions:

Submit only items which are not flagged:
Item.Flagged = False

Submit only folders where the index data is valid:
DirectCast(Item,BatchFolder).DataIsValid = False

Submit only color pages:
DirectCast(Item, BatchPage).PixelFormat = GrooperImage.PixelFormat.Pixel24bppBgr

Submit only folders where the MIME type is PDF:
DirectCast(Item, BatchFolder).NativeMimeType = "application/pdf"

An optional expression which determines the step to be executed after this one. The expression must evaluate to a BatchProcessStep object, or to Nothing. Returning a value of Nothing will complete the batch. Below are various examples of next step expressions:

If the batch has flagged pages, go to Rescan. Otherwise, proceed to OCR:
If(Batch.HasFlaggedPages, Rescan, OCR)

If the batch has items with invalid index data, go to Data Review. Otherwise, proceed to Export:
If(Batch.HasDataErrors, Data_Review, Export)