System Configuration

Overview This screen is enabled only for super-admin role. It contains following features: 1. Application Regex Pool Generate Key Regex Builder 2. Workflow Management It contain plugins and their respective dependencies needed by any workflow and criteria on which these plugins will be working. 3. Connection Manager 4. License Details Below screenshot shows an…

Integrating IIS with Ephesoft Tomcat Server

Applies to: Ephesoft Transact 3.1 and above IIS 7, 7.5, and 8 Overview The process to integrate Internet Information Services (IIS) with Ephesoft follows these general steps: Create a new site named "Ephesoft" in the IIS manager. Configure the AJP connector so that the Ephesoft Tomcat server works with the IIS web server. Create Ephesoft Site in IIS Manager Open the…

How to Configure Active Directory

Active Directory (AD) is a directory service that Microsoft developed for Windows domain networks and is included in most Windows Server operating systems as a set of processes and services. Ephesoft can integrate with this Directory service in order to Authenticate and Authorize users as a way to control access to different aspects of the application like: Login Access Access to…

How To Configure Apache Tomcat Users and Groups

Please follow the below steps to setup Apache Tomcat authentication for your Ephesoft application. Apache Tomcat configuration is enabled in four different files:   1. user-connectivity.properties located in Ephesoft Installation Folder\Application\WEB-INF\classes\META-INF\dcma-user-connectivity\user-connectivity.properties  This file contains the settings necessary to populate…

Control Log File Size

Applies to: All versions of Ephesoft Transact Note: You will need administrator permissions. Open the log4j.properties file, located at \EphesoftReports\WEB-INF\classes\log4j.properties. Write the following sample configuration to limit the size of the catalina.log file and its back up count: log4j.appender.CATALINA=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender…

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…

Issue with LibreOffice PDF Generation

Applies to: All versions of Ephesoft Transact Issue A document conversion error may occur if the current profile in OpenOffice is corrupt. This causes the font capture in the converted documents to be inaccurate. Solution Refer to your version of Ephesoft Transact: Ephesoft Transact 2020.1.03 and above Ephesoft Transact 2020.1.02 and below Ephesoft Transact 2020.1.03 and Above…

User Management

Overview This module is responsible for handling the user's connectivity to the application. It handles authentication as well as authorization process for the user. Configuration Login configuration For a user to login into Ephesoft, we need to configure “server.xml” file located in the <Ephesoft installation path>\JavaAppServer\conf folder. The admin will configure a tag named…

Single Sign On

Overview Single sign-on (SSO) is a mechanism of access control that can be applied on multiple related, but independent software systems. With this mechanism a user logs in once and gains access to multiple systems without being prompted to log in again for each individual application. Conversely, single sign-off is property mechanism whereby a single action of signing out terminates access to…

How to Perform Routine Ephesoft Transact Backups

On a Daily Basis: Create a backup of the Ephesoft Transact system database by executing command:mysqldump -uephesoft -pephesoft ephesoft2 > ephesoft_daily_12082011.sql Note: In this example, the database is being saved to a file that reflects its status as a daily backup, and includes the date information (12/08/2011). For additional details, please review the Create a Full Database…

How to Administer Ephesoft Users and Groups

Ephesoft supports Tomcat, OpenLDAP and Microsoft Active Directory protocols for maintain a roster of users and groups. OpenLDAP is the default management system that is enabled and configured following a clean installation of Ephesoft Transact. There are two main configuration files:…

General Startup and License Issues

Applies to: All versions of Ephesoft Transact Issue General Ephesoft Startup and Licensing Issues Solution Try the following. You can always restrict permissions after you have verified a successful startup. With Ephesoft SHUTDOWN: STEP 1: For and (if not in Ephesoft folder): For folders in file explorer, Set Owner to Everyone and apply to all child objects. Add Role of Everyone with…

Application Level Script

Overview The Application Level script is global to the Ephesoft Transact environment and is fully configurable to add additional logic. Ephesoft Transact will execute the Application Level script at the system or service level. Some common customizations to the script include: Running stored procedures in the database Restarting batch instances upon error Executing custom imports into…