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Upon completion of this session you should be able to:
The following topics will not be covered in this session:
The Prerequisites to this session are as follows:
The above will be accomplished by Trumpet during our installation.
The Symphony Profiler add-on for Worldox ® is part of Symphony Suite, The Complete Imaging Solution. Symphony Profiler enables the user to quickly profile a stack of paper documents from their desktop using Symphony Profiler's pop-up "reservation" form.
Then that batch of documents can be handed to a clerical worker or intern to scan. The clerical worker does not need to know anything about Worldox or how the firm files its documents. In fact, once the filing reservations are made, the scanning and filing of documents is literally reduced to the push of one button.
This greatly reduces the time to get paper documents filed into Worldox while almost eliminating filing errors.
Symphony Profiler is made up of three main compontents, listed and illustrated below:
Network Symphony Installation is the main installation for Symphony Profiler. This is known as the *network* installation) gets installed onto a shared drive on your file server. The network Symphony installation consists of:
A quick page from the support department to hopefully answer some of your big picture questions.
Trumpet will install Symphony Profiler Processor on your Indexer workstation on your behalf.
By default, Symphony Profiler will install the workstation component to the Worldox menu and button bar of all users. Using the Symphony Imaging menu in the Worldox interface allows users to do most things directly from Worldox.
Note: If you would rather revert to the 'legacy' method of installing the workstation component to each machine individually, the steps are listed below. And if you would like to move away from the 'legacy' method and use the new Worldox integrated method, you can un-install the Symphony Profiler workstation component from each machine and begin using the integrated menu/button. One big advantage of using the new method is that nothing has to be touched on the workstation when installing a Symphony Profiler update.
Note: If you don't see the Symphony menu/button automatically when the feature is enabled (the default setting), the resolution takes about 5 seconds, and only needs to be done once on the workstation - How to Add the 'Create Reservations' button to Worldox.
The Symphony Imaging menu provides users with most of the functionality as you would have if you installed the Symphony Profiler Workstation. The major differences:
You can certainly opt to have most users take advantage of the Symphony Imaging menu and have select folks utilize the full Workstation installation.
In the Symphony Profiler Processor, navigate to Edit -> Preferences -> Worldox, and check the 'Add Symphony menu and button to Worldox'
These instructions apply to both regular Workstation and Terminal Server installations:
These instructions should be followed on all workstations that will use Symphony Profiler.
IMPORTANT! Ensure that all scanners in the firm are configured to scan at a minimum of 300dpi. Documents scanned with 200dpi or lower do not produce a clear enough barcode for Symphony Profiler to read.
If you wish to deploy Symphony Profiler Workstation using a batch deployment system, the Workstation installer can be run in silent mode - please refer to the Installing Symphony Profiler Workstation in Silent Mode article for details.
One of the first things that you'll want to understand in order to administer Symphony Profiler are the steps that the users will perform on their workstations in order to generate reservations.
It's important to understand these steps so that you can assist them with their day-to-day activities.
The following resources will also be of use for getting up to speed quickly:
Feel free to print the Quick Start Sheet for your users.
We'll go through the steps in detail next.
Before you can begin making reservations, you'll need to create some cover sheets.
Cover sheets are used to associate your document with a completed Worldox index card.
Here's how:
Tip: IF you have Symphony Profiler Workstation installed, you can also right-click on the Symphony icon in the system tray by your close and choose "Create Cover Sheets"
NOTE: We encourage you to print the cover sheets on pastel yellow paper so that it's easy to reuse them (do not print them on dark shades of paper). These cover sheets are not user-specific, so any other user in the firm can also make reservations with these cover sheets.
TIP: For regular use, print enough for the user to use between scanning sessions. It's also really simple for the user to create new covers when they need them, but that may involve a walk to the printer, so it's best to do it in batches.
IMPORTANT: The exact detail of this process is actually important to avoid problems caused by users scanning a cover sheet without ever having filled in an index card. Please emphasize to the user that they should NOT pick up the cover sheet until after they type the reservation ID into the Reservation ID dialog.
Now that you have cover sheets available to you, it's time to create a reservation:
NOTE: If you type in an invalid reservation ID, Symphony Profiler will prompt you that the ID is not valid.
You have now successfully created a Worldox filing reservation!
If you are doing a lot of back scanning you can optional use a handheld barcode scanner (like this one: Barcode Scanner) to input the Reservation IDs.
Here are the steps you'll follow:
Note: this works great when your scanning mass quantities of documents. If you're only creating a few reservations at a time, it may be more efficient for you to type in the Reservation IDs.
IMPORTANT: We strongly recommend that you purchase a scanner that detects misfeeds rather than specifying the page count. If you as a user miscount the pages, but the scanner does not misfeed, your Administrator will receive an Urgent Notification Email.
If you wish to ensure that the page counts of the scanned document match the physical page count, when creating your reservation,
If you wish for another party to receive an email once the reservation is fulfilled, you can do so.
You can find a reservation in Worldox in a number of ways.
To Find Reservations that you have created:
To Find reservations that anyone may have created:
If you need to edit the index card associated with the reservation (e.g., change its doctype or description), locate the reservation in Worldox (see Finding a Reservation) and perform an Edit > Profile operation, just like you would any other document.
If you have provided a page count with the reservation and need to edit it, locate the reservation in Worldox (see Finding a Reservation) and double click on it. This will open the reservation and allow you to edit it.
If you need to delete a reservation, locate the reservation in Worldox (see Finding a Reservation) and delete it, just like you would any other document.
Now, let's pause a moment to discuss the back end of Symphony Profiler, which is the Symphony Profiler Processor running on your Indexer PC.
The following is a representation of the steps that the Symphony Profiler Processor uses to fulfill reservations.
Let's actually look at the Symphony Profiler Processor so you can get a feel for the interface itself.
The Symphony Profiler Processor contains four quadrants:
Tip: Double clicking on entries in any of the lists will display the reservation and/or file.
You will see the reservation we created in the upper left hand quadrant. That reservation has been created, but not fulfilled.
Remember that Symphony Profiler Processor "monitors" a folder or set of folders on your network to look for scanned images.
The Monitored Folder(s) is the folder(s) that the Symphony Profiler Processor monitors for scanned documents that should be matched up to a Symphony reservation.
Note: We recommend that you configure the scanner(s) to place scanned documents into a dedicated Symphony input Folder on the network. For example, if your scanner supports creation of different scan profiles, create a scan profile on the scanner named 'Symphony' and have documents scanned with that profile placed into a dedicated Symphony input folder. You can use multiple folders if preferred. Visit the FAQs section for instructions on configuring dedicated scan paths for certain scanners.
When running Symphony as a service make sure to use the UNC path.
These instructions provide a more detailed look at the Symphony Profiler Monitored Folder configuration settings, which are available by navigating to Edit > Preferences in the Symphony Profiler Processor.
It's mentioned above, but it's really important that you configure your scanners to place scanned documents in a dedicated Symphony Input Folder on the network.
Let's go ahead and Configure your Symphony Profiler Processor to look at where you're scanner is placing documents.
Next we will discuss how your scanner handles blank pages.
These instructions provide a more detailed look at the Symphony Profiler Image Processing configuration settings, all of which are available by navigating to Edit > Preferences in the Symphony Profiler Processor.
The Symphony Profiler Processor can identify and remove blank pages from your scanned documents. Many scanners already have this capability, in which case we recommend that you let the scanner do the work of removing blank pages. If you have a scanner that does not do this, and you are going to be scanning double sided, here is how to configure the Processor to remove pages:
Tip: This threshold defines how sensitive the blank page detection algorithm is. The higher the number, the less sensitive it is. The default value should be fine for most cases, but if the scanner is dirty, or you are seeing some 'bleed through' of content from the front side, you may need to increase this number. At this point, we recommend you provide Trumpet with a document containing any blank pages that were not correctly identified, and we will analyze it and provide a recommended threshold level.
Tip: The block count also defines how sensitive the blank page detection algorithm is. The lower the block count, the more sensitive the processor will be to remove blank pages. For example, if the Required Block Count is set to 1 Symphony Profiler is more likely to treat a page as non-blank than if the Required Block Count is set to 8. At this point, we recommend you provide Trumpet with a document containing any blank pages that were not correctly identified, and we will analyze it and provide a recommended Block Count.
To fulfill your reservations, simply scan all of the documents (including the cover sheets) as one bulk scan operation. Save to one of the Symphony Profiler monitored folders. This can be done in a single scan operation, and there is no need to name the file in any particular manner.
Note: If you re-scan a document within one hour of its original scan, and an additional reservation has not been made for that Reservation ID in that time, Symphony Profiler Processor will create a new version of the original document and re-fulfill the reservation. This allows you an hour to re-scan a document if the scanner misfeeds, etc.
Let's go ahead and scan the document and watch as the Symphony Profiler Processor processes the scanned document.
You can check the status of any reservations that *you* have made using the "Favorite Files" button in Worldox. Use the "Just These" button next to the Symphony Profiler filter option, and it will show you both unfulfilled and recently fulfilled reservations. It follows the same rules as the other Worldox favorite matters, which means you should see about 30 days worth of history.
Note: This is workstation-specific, so it will only show reservations for that user.
To check on a reservation made by a different user, you'll need to refer to the Symphony Profiler Processor. See Checking on Reservation Fulfillment for more details.
Another way of checking is to use the Show History menu from the Symphony Profiler icon in your system tray. Note that this method is an older feature that is no longer supported by our development team.
Tip: If you have Symphony Profiler Workstation installed, you can also right click on the Symphony Icon in the system tray by your clock and choose "Show History"
Note: Both of those methods are workstation-specific, so it will only show reservations for that user
To check on a reservation made by a different user, you'll need to refer to the Symphony Profiler Processor. See Checking on Reservation Fulfillment for more details.
The most important tool in your arsenal as the Symphony Administrator are the Daily Status Emails. These help you troubleshoot items as they occur. Ignoring these emails will cause you no end of pain and struggle. If this wasn't a big deal, Symphony Profiler wouldn't have the capabilities of sending the emails to you!!!
Monday through Friday, the person(s) identified in the Symphony Profiler Processor Email Settings should receive an email with a status of all pending reservations, unprocessed files, or other alerts.
IMPORTANT: If you do not receive the daily email, check the Symphony Profiler Processor immediately.
Here's what the email will look like:
In this example, there were two files scanned that didn't have reservations (the Unprocessed Input Files) and a number of reservations that haven't yet been fulfilled. As reservations get older, they will switch from green to yellow to red.
Note: Unprocessed Input Files less than five days old will have a green status, less than ten days (but older than five) will be yellow and anything ten days or older will have a red status.
Tip: See Daily Status Email Troubleshooting Process to determine how to resolve these issues.
If the "Check page count" option was selected when creating a reservation and your page counts do not match, the person(s) receiving the daily status emails will immediately receive an email indicating that there was a problem.
These instructions provide a more detailed look at the Symphony Profiler e-mail configuration settings, which are available by navigating to Edit > Preferences > Email in the Symphony Profiler Processor. You can opt to either use Symphony's servers for sending email notifications, or you can opt to use the client's SMTP servers.
By default when you install Symphony Profiler Processor, it will be configured to use Trumpet's Email servers
If you wish to use this method:
Note: Emails will come from donotreply@symphonysuite.com so you'll want to ensure that you add that email address to your spam filter's whitelist.
If you wish to use this method:
Troubleshooting Tips: You may need to configure your Exchange server to support SMTP. In some cases, Exchange will configure itself to be very restrictive with which IP addresses it will allow incoming SMTP connections to come from, and you will need to adjust that list to include the IP address of the PC that the Symphony Profiler Processor will run from.
Again, this is the MOST important tool in your arsenal as the Symphony Administrator, so be sure to work with your system administrator to set up the Email Configuration!
Symphony Profiler does require attention to ensure that it's running at its optimal level.
Here is the list of things that we recommend that your check on a periodic basis:
1) Are nightly emails being sent and received?
2) Ensure the Daily Status Emails contain no errors. You can see what the Daily Status Emails contain by selecting "Symphony Imaging -> Show Processor Status" in the Worldox interface (or right click on the Symphony Profiler icon in the system tray by the clock and select Show Processor Status).