Defining the application

Most customers define an application for each different source of input data that they plan to load into Content Manager OnDemand. This section provides information about some of the key properties of the application. You can use the Content Manager OnDemand administrative client to define an application.

Application Group

You must assign an application to an application group. Assign the application to the application group that was created in Defining the application group.

Data Format

The Data Format determines the kind of data that is found in the documents that are stored on the system. If the type of the data that is found in the original input file is different than the type of the data that is found in the documents that are stored on the system, then you should specify the type of the data that will be stored in Content Manager OnDemand. (In this example, the type of the data is the same: a TIFF image.) Select TIFF as the Data Type. When saving the scanned image of a letter, save the data as a TIFF image.

Indexer

The Indexer determines the indexing program that Content Manager OnDemand uses to index and convert input data. Select Generic as the Indexer. To store TIFF images in the system, you must index them with the Generic indexer program that is provided with Content Manager OnDemand.

Note: some users may get the following error when trying to load TIFF data to Content Manager OnDemand:

"arsload: Processing file >D:\SourceDBHK\SOURCE\120040511.txt<           
arsload: 05/20/04 18:13:06 -- Loading started, --UNKNOWN-- bytes to process    
Unable to allocate enough memory.  File=arslacif.c, Line=402            
OnDemand Load Id = >5242-3-0-20040101000000-20040101000000-5243<                         
An error occurred.  Contact your system administrator and/or consult 
the System Log.  File=arsadmin.c, Line=1651 
Unable to store the object >27FAAA<.  Object size 8                     
Loaded 0 rows into the database".

The failure is because of the 0 byte file. It does not work to try to reallocate a buffer to the 0 byte file. OnDemand issues a generic allocation message "Unable to allocate enough memory. File=arslacif.c, Line=402". The 0 byte file loading is not supported by Content Manager OnDemand.

Data Compression

The Data Compression determines whether Content Manager OnDemand compresses the input files.

Select Disable, so that Content Manager OnDemand does not attempt to compress the input files. In this example, the scanned image files are saved as compressed TIFF images, Therefore, it is not necessary for the system to compress them.