Email Import Intermittently Failing
Applies to: Ephesoft Transact 2020.1.02 to 2020.1.04
Issue
Email import intermittently fails to pick up emails at random intervals.
Root Cause
One reason this issue may occur is due to conflicts with email import-related JAR files.
Solution
This workaround should not be applied to versions prior to 2020.1.02. If you require TLS 1.2, see note at the bottom of this article.
Important: If…
How to Enable a Proxy Server with Email Import
Applies to: Ephesoft Transact 2020.1.03 and above
This page describes how to configure exchange email proxy server integrations with Email Import. By default, proxy configurations are disabled for email import.
Edit Properties File
Email import properties are controlled in the mail-import.properties file, located at \Application\WEB-INF\classes\META-INF\dcma-mail-import.
Stop Ephesoft…
Email Import
Overview
This article describes the types of protocols and security configurations Ephesoft Transact supports to connect with email services. Email import is one of the various ways to provide input files for processing in Ephesoft Transact.
An administrator can configure an email account for a batch class in Email Import. Ephesoft Transact monitors the configured email folder of that email…
Email Import Configuration
This section includes articles related to configuring your email account with Ephesoft Transact to efficiently import documents into your batch class.
Email Import
Email Configuration
Access Email Headers in Batch XML
Configuring Microsoft Email Services with OAuth2
Multi-Server Email Import
The optimal Transact email import configuration is to run email import on one server in a multiserver environment. However, if you do configure email import on multiple servers, it's best to have them check every 10 minutes and stagger at 5 minutes from one server to the other.
Configuration
Configure the mail-import.properties file as follows:
dcma.importMail.cronExpression=0 0/10 * ? * *……
Importing Additional File Types
The following article provides instructions for adding additional file types in the Folder-Import module.
Supported File Formats
Transact can process the following file types.
lucene-search-classification-sample
(Folder Only)
image-classification-sample
(Folder Only)
test-advanced-extraction
(WebUI Upload Only)
test-classification
(Folder Only)
test-extraction
(Folder…
Configuring Microsoft Email Services with OAuth2
This article describes how to register an application for email import configuration in Ephesoft Transact using Office 365 with OAuth2 as an authentication type. This will generate a client secret and client ID to be used in Email Configuration.
Register App on Azure AD
Follow the steps below to register an App to allow email ingestion in Ephesoft Transact using OAuth2:
Note: The permissions…
Importing Documents
This section will cover all the different methods and strategies for importing documents into the Transact Platform
Supported File Types for Import
Web Scanner
Email Configuration
CMIS Import Plugin
Upload Batch
Email Configuration
The purpose of the Email Configuration screen is to allow users to configure their email accounts with Ephesoft Transact. This screen works with the Email Import plugin to import documents from a user’s email account. This configuration is done per batch class. Multiple email accounts can be set up for each batch class.
Prerequisites
Complete the following steps in order to turn on the email…
Accessing Email Headers in Batch XML
Introduction
Ephesoft Transact enables a developer or administrator to access the email headers for the batches that use the Mail Import function. This information is available in the batch.xml file for the batch being processed.
In addition, each page of the batch holds a reference in the batch.xml file that cites the source email from which it came.
This document describes email metadata…
Importing and Exporting Batch Classes
Overview
Ephesoft Transact supports transferring batch class configurations and rules from one environment to another. You can import and export batch classes to build and configure in a test environment before transferring to a production environment. This helps reduce interruptions that affect document processing in a production environment.
Refer to the table below for key terms used…
Email Configuration
Overview
You can configure email import from the Email Configuration screen is responsible for configuring the user mail accounts and E-mail Import plugin is responsible for importing the documents present in a defined form from the user's mail account. User is allowed to configure any mail account as well as the type of documents which the plug-in will support. This configuration is done per…
Mail-Import.properties
Filename: Mail-Import.properties
Location: C:\Ephesoft\Application\WEB-INF\classes\META-INF\dcma-mail-import\
Purpose: Used to configure settings for importing batch instances from email (version 2022.1.01).
dcma.importMail.cronExpression=0 0/1 * ? * *
#multiple values separated by semi-colon(;)
dcma.supported.attachment.extension=doc;xls;zip
#Value indicating the threadpool size…
Supported File Types for Import
The following file types are supported in the Upload Batch screen, drop folder, uploadBatch web service, and email attachment import methods in Ephesoft Transact:
TIF
TIFF
PDF
BMP
DOC
DOCX
HTM
HTML
JPEG
JPG
ODF
ODG
ODP
ODS
ODT
PNG
PPT
PPTX
PSD
RTF
SXC
SXD
SXI
SXW
TXT
WPD
XLS
XLSX
ZIP
TIF, TIFF, and PDF…
Software Updates 2022.1.01
Introduction
Software updates provide enhancements to the latest version of Ephesoft Transact. This release includes compatibility enhancements and fixes for features.
Consolidated List of Software Updates
Several files were updated to resolve potential risks:
Upgraded to c3p0-0.9.5.5.5.jar (CVE-2018-20433).
Upgraded to geronimo-jta_1.1_spect-1.1.1.jar, which is part of geronimo-3.0.1…
Known Issues 2022.1.01
Known Issues
The following is a list of known issues discovered in this release for which there is not yet a workaround or fix.
Category
Known Issue
Table Extraction
Document type creation using Document Design Accelerator for table extraction fails because of incorrect table detection.
Cloud OCR Plugin
The previously saved API key is not cleared when the user switches…
Software Updates 2022.1.00
Introduction
Software updates provide enhancements to the latest version of Ephesoft Transact. This release includes compatibility enhancements and fixes for features.
Consolidated List of Software Updates
Update
The CronUtil version in 2022.1.00 has been upgraded from 9.1.2 to 9.1.6. This removes the CVE-2021-41269 vulnerability.
Log4j has been updated to version 2.17.1. See…
Software Updates 2020.1.06
Introduction
Software updates provide enhancements to the latest version of Ephesoft Transact. This release includes compatibility enhancements and fixes for features.
Software Updates
Salesforce ID
Category
Issue
00021054
Batch Class Import
Document Types Import
Transact took excessive time with import and export operations where content included a large number of document…
Software Updates 2020.1.05
The Ephesoft Transact 2020.1.05 release provides several software updates and product enhancements. The Ephesoft Transact 2020.1.05 release also includes several compatibility enhancements and fixes for features.
Consolidated List of Software Updates
The following is an abreviated list of the software updates and product enhancements included in the Ephesoft Transact 2020.1.05 release. For an…
New Relic
Introduction
In Transact version 2020.1.04, we introduced support for New Relic. New Relic is a widely used third-party monitoring tool that allows you to gather data based on custom events in Transact. You can use custom events to measure and monitor the following information:
The number of documents processed.
The number of pages processed per minute.
The average size of the…
Known Issues and Workarounds 2020.1.04
The following is a list of known issues discovered in this release for which a workaround is provided.
Category
Known Issue
Workaround
Batch Class Fields
Unrelated batch class fields may appear when scanning pages.
To resolve this issue, close the browser tab with the Web Scanner page (<server_IP>:8080/dcma/WebScanner.html) and reopen it.
Cloud HyperExtender
When…
Software Updates 2020.1.04
Software updates provide enhancements to the latest version of Ephesoft Transact. This release includes compatibility enhancements and fixes for features.
In addition to the updates listed in the Ephesoft Transact 2020.1.03 Service Pack, the following issues have now been resolved:
Salesforce ID
Category
Problem Statement/Background
Solution
00019026
Activiti
Batches would…
Software Updates 2020.1.03
Software updates provide enhancements to the latest version of Ephesoft Transact. This includes security and compatibility enhancements, and fixes for features.
In addition to the updates listed in the Ephesoft Transact 2020.1.02 Feature Pack, the following issues have now been resolved:
Salesforce ID
Category
Problem Statement/Background
Solution
00011565
Batch Class Import…
Known Issues and Workarounds 2020.1.02
The following is a list of known issues for which a workaround is provided.
Category
Known Issue
Workaround
Batch Class Import
If you are importing a batch class that creates or updates global document types in the global batch class, the import process will fail if there is a local document type in the Global Batch Class (BC0).
Importing will succeed if all local document types…
Software Updates 2020.1.02
Software updates provide enhancements to the latest version of Ephesoft Transact. This includes security and compatibility enhancements, and fixes for features.
In addition to the updates listed in the Ephesoft Transact 2020.1.01 Service Pack, the following issues have now been resolved:
Salesforce ID
Category
Description
00011263
Batch Import
After upgrading from 4.5.0.2 to…