Create Link

Create Link activity

This activity creates a document relationship link between two or more Laserfiche entries.

To set up this activity:

  1. Drag the activity from the toolbox pane and drop it in the Designer pane.
  2. In the properties pane, type a name and description of the activity.
    The name and description editors
  3. In the Connection Profile property box, select the repository you want the activity to use.
  4. In the Link Settings property box under Source Entry, select the entry you want this activity to operate on by selecting the Edit button .

    Note: Select Starting entry to use the starting entry.

  5. Under Relationship use the drop-down menu to define the type of document relationship for the entries.
  6. Under Target Entry click Add to choose the entries you want to link to the Source Entry. Choose an entry from the Select Entry dialog box.

    Note: You can only create links to eight items with this activity. Those items can be single entries or a group of entries returned by an activity. For example, if the folder Meeting Minutes has one hundred entries and you use a Find Entries activity to find all entries in that folder, the Output Entries for that Find Entries activity would be one item even though it contains 100 entries.

  7. Optional: Click Add again to link more than one Target Entry to the Source Entry.
  8. Optional: Click Remove to remove a Target Entry from the document relationship.
  9. Optional: Select Warn if link already exists to report a warning in the Messages Tab of the instance details if the activity tries to link two entries that already have the specified relationship.

You may want to disable activities if you only want to test specific sections of your workflow. To disable activities:

  1. Select an activity in the designer pane to highlight it.
  2. In the Description property box, clear Enable.