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Working with Documents
 
When you start Globodox, the default node selected is All Documents. The All Documents node displays all documents that the currently logged-in user is allowed to view. By default 50 documents are displayed in the List View pane. To view more documents, use the navigation buttons at the bottom of the List View pane. To view documents as Thumbnails, click the Views button that is located towards the left of the Search box and then choose Small Thumbnails, Medium Thumbnails or Large Thumbnails. Select the List View option from the Views drop-down to view documents as a list.
 

 

 

Document Details Window
Details of the document selected in the List View pane are displayed in the Details View (Display) pane. You can also double-click any document in the List View pane, to open it in a separate window called the Document Details window.
 

 

The Document Details window has the actions toolbar on top, towards the right is the Annotation toolbar and at the bottom is the Image toolbar. The document title is displayed in the Title box. Modify the text in this box, to change the document title. Tags can be added to a document using the Tags box. You can also remove existing tags using this box. Use the Navigation buttons on the top right corner of the Document Details window to go the next or previous document. Use the Navigation button on the Image toolbar to navigate between the pages of the document.

On the left side of the Document Details window there are tabs, they are Information, Pages, Notes, Previous Versions, Event Log, Links and Other Details.

 

Close the Document Details window.
 
We will now create a folder and then add a document to our new folder.
 
To create a folder, expand the Folders node and click Create New. A new folder will be created, enter a name for the folder and hit the Enter button. The new folder will be created and automatically selected.
 

Now on the Home tab, click the Add from disk button. The Add Files window will now be launched. Select one or more files that you want to add and click the Open button. The documents will now be added to Globodox and will be listed in the new folder.
 

The simplest way of adding a document to Globodox is by dragging and dropping the document on the All Documents node, on any Folders node, on any Tag node or on any Document Type node. If you have an existing Folder structure that you use to manage your documents, you can use the Add Folders from Disk option to import the entire folder structure along with the documents to Globodox. You can also import multiple documents along with their indexing information from a CSV file.
 

Document Types
Double-click the document that you just added to the folder to open it in its Details window. In the Information pane, you must have noticed that there are no indexing fields. This is because no document type has been set for this document (see Managing your documents).
 

Now in the Information tab, select a Document Type for the document. You can create a new Document Type, if the document does not belong to the types that are listed in the Document Type drop-down. Document Types can be created from the Settings node of the Navigation pane.

To view documents based on their types, in the Globodox main window, expand the Document Types node in the Navigation pane and select a document type (e.g. Invoice). All the documents that have their Document Type set to Invoice will now be displayed in the List View pane.

 
Document Actions
All the actions that are required in order to work with documents, are available on the Home tab or on the right-click menu of the respective document in the List View pane.  Below are some of the actions that are available from the Home tab:

 
Annotation
You can use the Annotation toolbar on the right bar of the Details pane to mark, highlight, hide certain parts of the document and perform certain other actions. You can zoom, rotate or flip a document by using the Image toolbar at the bottom of the Details pane.

 

Full Text Search/OCR
Use the Full Text feature to search for text in a document. The Full Text Search feature works by extracting text from documents that you add to a Globodox DB and then indexing the text.

 

To extract text manually from the document(s), right-click the document and select the Extract and Index option.
 

Text extraction is done by using OCR (for image files) and IFilters (for other file types) installed on the user's machine. IFilters act as plug-ins and are a part of Microsoft Indexing Service (they are also used by Windows Desktop Search). For Globodox to be able to extract text from a file of a particular format, an IFilter for that file format must be installed on the user's machine.

OCR is done by using the built-in OCR engine or it can also be done by using the Microsoft OCR engine (to use this feature you must have Microsoft Office Document Imaging installed). To select your default OCR engine, click the Globodox button > Options... > User Options > Extract & Index.
 
Note: When a document is added or checked-in to Globodox, it is automatically indexed by the "ITAZ Globodox Indexing Service" at periodic intervals.
 

Working with Stack Types
 

For information about Stack Types, see Managing your documents

 
Stack Details Window: The Stack that is selected in the List View pane will be displayed in the Details pane. You can also double-click a Stack in the List View pane, to open it in its separate Stack Details window.
 

 

This is the Stack Details window. On the left side of the Document Details window there are the Information, Notes, Event Log and Links tabs. Towards the right is the Annotation toolbar and at the bottom is the Image toolbar. Use the Navigation button on the top right corner of the Details window to go the next or previous Stack. Use the Navigation button on the Image toolbar to navigate between the pages of the selected document.

On the left side of the Document Details window there are the Information, Notes, Event Log and Links tabs.

 
Close the Stack Details window. Now let’s add a Stack, assuming that the Vendors Stack Type is selected. In the Home tab, click the New button. The New Stack window will now be launched. Enter the information of the Vendor. Click the Save button to save the information.

Now, let’s relate the document(s) to this Stack. In the Information pane, click the Add button on the documents list section. To add documents from Globodox, select the Relate existing document(s) option. To add files from disk (outside Globodox) select the Add files from disk and relate option. The simplest way of relating a document to a Stack is by dragging and dropping the document to the document list section. A document can at anytime be part of only one stack. When a stack is deleted then all documents in the stack will also be deleted. If you do not want this, remove the documents from the stack before deleting the stack.

That's It! Now that you are familiar with Globodox, you can go ahead and start adding documents to it. We recommend you first learn to add documents and then learn things like creating Document Types and Stacks.

 

 

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