How to determine if a document was OCR’d with Workflow

We recently had a need to determine if a document was OCR’d within a workflow process.  With some help from Brett Hickinbotham, Sales Engineer at Laserfiche, we discovered that it is possible to use the ‘Retrieve Document Text’ activity to generate a token with the text of a document.  If the document has no text, the token will be blank.  In … Read More

Preview of Image Compression for the Laserfiche Mobile App

Laserfiche Mobile is an application for the iPad and iPhone that enables you to capture, upload, securely access and work with documents inside your Laserfiche repository while on the go. The next release of the Laserfiche Mobile app features the ability to apply image compression to documents before they are sent to your Laserfiche repository.

Getting more useful information into Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics (GA) for all our sites and most of our client sites.   It often provides the most bang for the buck and makes slicing and dicing your analytics pretty easy to do. On of the most interesting sections of Google Analytics is in the Visitors section and it is called User Defined.  This is an area that … Read More

GridView with DropDownList – Server tag is not well formed.

Ran across an issue today when trying to get my DropDownList embedded within a GridView.   Here is an extract of the code (the error is in the red text): <ItemTemplate>   <asp:DropDownList ID=”ddlMaker” runat=”server” DataSourceID=”odsMakers” DataTextField=”makerName” SelectedValue=”<%#Bind(“MakerID”) %>”   DataValueField=”makerID”>   </asp:DropDownList> </ItemTemplate> When I compiled I received an error “The server tag is not well formed.” After a bit … Read More

Clearing Email History Lists in Outlook

One of the great features of Outlook (but also sometimes annoying) is that it remembers all the email addresses of the people that you send email to or receive email from.  This makes it really easy for composing emails except for when you get an email address that is spelled incorrectly in that list.  That can be extremely frustrating. Turns … Read More

ASP.NET Session State in SQL Server

There are lots of places to get information about putting the Session State into a SQL Server database instead of in-memory. The information I have found most useful is the utility aspnet_regsql.exe. It performs a bunch of different tasks for ASP.NET and interaction with SQL Server and the membership interfaces. For example if you want to get session persisted across … Read More