| Release Notes for LAW PreDiscovery |
| Version 5.2.17 |
(Release Date: June 9,
2008) |
| Bug Fixes |
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| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
ED Loader |
The default file type definition
file incorrectly set the SourceApp for "AutoCAD Drawing" files
(FileType=26) to the "Binary/Hex Printer" instead of "VoloView
Express". This only affected new installations of LAW that did not have
an existing file type definition database. The defaults file was also updated
to account for the updated file engine included with the 5.2.15 Hotfix. |
| 2 |
Grid Display |
Attempting to set page-level
tags for multiple records (eg. Tag All Rows as Yes) in the standalone grid
causes a run time error (Type mismatch) that causes the application to close.
Note: This bug only occurred
in the 5.2.15 Hotfix, and only applied to the standalone grid. |
| 3 |
Image Import |
The Raw Image Import function
would not correctly mirror source folders for selected folders using
recursion in which the top-level checked folder did not contain any images. Note: This issue only exists in the
5.2.13/15 builds. |
| 4 |
Installer |
The full installer has been
updated with a newer version of PSAPI.dll and now performs a version check on
this file. In some cases, the installer could overwrite this file with an
older version and prevent some applications that rely on it from running (including
Internet Explorer). |
| 5 |
LAWtsi |
LAWtsi could not access a SQL
case using integrated security unless the LAW_User existed on the server. |
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| Version 5.2.15 |
(Release Date: May 23,
2008) |
| Bug Fixes |
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| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
Batch Processing |
Passwords for Acrobat specified
in the TIFF/E-Print options were not being applied correctly for Acrobat 8.0.
Note: If Acrobat 7.0 is used
for printing, passwords containing ampersands ("&") cannot be
set by LAW due to a limitation in Acrobat. If this character exists in the
password, the file will have to be opened and printed manually. |
| 2 |
Batch Processing |
Batch process initialization for
non-distributed batches generated from query results in SQL cases has been
optimized to significantly decrease the load time. |
| 3 |
ED Loader |
Custodians cannot be assigned in
the ED loader in certain instances if the short date format in the regional
settings is set to something other than "m/d/yyyy". |
| 4 |
ED Loader |
Files with a leading space in
their filenames were not being extracted from archives. |
| 5 |
ED Loader |
OLE-embedded attachments in
Outlook e-mail were not being extracted from certain messages. |
| 6 |
ED Loader |
E-mails with corrupt or
malformed timestamp data cause an "invalid argument to date encode"
error and prevent attachment extraction. |
| 7 |
ED Loader |
Filenames without
extensions were not being extracted from archives if the "Use nested
filename for items extracted from archives" was enabled. If this option
was enabled and "Auto-assign suspect extensions" was also enabled,
the files would get extracted as expected. |
| 8 |
ED Loader |
In certain message
types, attachments were being recognized as embedded images and records were
not created for the attachments in LAW. |
| 9 |
ED Loader |
Metadata
was not being captured for PDF files extracted with 5.2.13 due to a bug in
the file recognition engine. An updated file engine (2.19) is included that
corrects the issue. A custom command is also included that will re-extract
metadata for PDF files in an ED case if needed. It will update and flag all
documents that get modified at the time of the scan. The command requires a
TAG field to be created prior to running named 'PDFMetadataMod'. This field
can be used to track which documents have been scanned and modified. To run
this scan, select Tools -> Run Command -> PDF Metadata Scanner. |
| 10 |
Exports |
The export process aborts with
"The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
(Errcode=123, Line=800, ProcName=CShell)" when it encounters a multipage
TIFF that was created from single document TIFF conversion (printed directly
from source application after launching a native file from its hyperlink). Note: This does not affect images
created from a batch TIFF conversion or serialized images. |
| 11 |
Grid Displays |
List field values
composed of multiple list items (separated by delimiter specified in
preferences) do not display in the grid views. |
| 12 |
Licensing |
The "Force
Reclaim" link for reclaiming expired undocked keys in the profile
manager has been renamed to "Reclaim Undocked Key(s)" and will now
serve the same purpose as the menu item under the Server menu. The link will
now always appear rather than only when a key has expired. This feature will
work as it did in previous versions with one exception. If no undocked keys
are attached to the machine, but an undocked key has expired for the server
key, the user now has the ability to force the reclaim of all expired keys. Note: Expired keys reclaimed in this
manner must be physically attached and have a reclaim run on them before they
can be used again to undock a license. |
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| Version 5.2.13 |
(Release Date: May 12,
2008) |
| New Features |
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| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
ED Loader |
The ED Loader has been
modified to support the import of folders and files containing Unicode in the
path(s) and the viewing of Unicode characters in the interface. This is
supported in new LAW cases only (created in this version or later). Please
see the Help file topic Appendix->Unicode Support for more information
regarding Unicode in LAW. |
| 2 |
Exports |
Additional text option,
Printed, has been added to the text options (Formats/Documents tab) in the
Export Utility to allow this type to be exported. This type of text may be
optionally created during a batch TIFF Conversion or single document TIFF
conversion when using the LexisNexis Image Driver. In addition to OCR,
printed text may be exported single-page. Please note, not all export formats
support single-page text. |
| 3 |
Exports |
If Unicode data exists
in any exported index fields, it will now be included in the CaseLogistix
load file when this export format is selected. Optionally, Unicode data may
also be included when exporting to the Delimited Text export. The setting,
Allow Unicode data, is located in the Configuration settings for Delimited
Text. |
| 4 |
Grid Displays |
While viewing data in
either of the grid displays, any Unicode data existing in a field may be
viewed within the grid by floating the mouse pointer above the cell. The
Unicode data will appear in a pop-up text box beside the cell. |
| 5 |
Grid Displays |
Unicode data in index
fields can be included when saving records from the grid displays by
selecting the "Unicode Text" option in the "Save as type"
drop-down. |
| 6 |
Licensing |
LAWtsi licenses may now
be undocked from the LAW server key. |
| 7 |
Pixel Image Library |
Pixel Image Library
version 8.0 (Build 4727) is now shipped with the full install for versions
5.2.05 and later of LAW PreDiscovery. This version will prevent an issue with
images appearing pink after imports into LAW. |
| 8 |
Printers |
The LexisNexis Image
Driver 5.0, based on the Zan Image Printer, is now included in installations
of LAW. This image printer may be used to convert native files to TIFF images
using the batch TIFF Conversion process and single document TIFF conversion
feature. |
| 9 |
Scanning |
Scanned images may now
be stored in serialized (single-page) format. When using this storage schema,
resulting images will be stored in the $Image Archive folder located in the
root of the case folder. To choose between serialized and multi-page, click Tools->Options
and select the desired "Storage Schema" on the Imaging tab. |
| 10 |
Text Display |
When more than one type
of text exists for a record, the type of text displayed in the viewer on the
main form may be selected by right-clicking in the viewer and choosing one of
the three new options: Open Text (OCR), Open Text (Extracted), Open Text (Printed).
All available text states will be enabled. Once a text state has been
manually selected by the user, it will be checked and become the default text
state. |
| 11 |
Text Extraction |
Text may now be
extracted during the batch TIFF Conversion process and single document TIFF
conversion feature when using the LexisNexis Image Driver (installed with
versions 5.2 and later). The option to enable this feature, "Save text
with images", is located in TIFF Options->TIFF Output in the Batch
Processing dialog. This type of text, referred to as 'Printed' text, will be
stored with the TIFF output below the <caseroot>\$Image Archive folder. |
| 12 |
User Interface |
The LAW PreDiscovery
interface has been modified to support the viewing of Unicode data within the
application. The standalone and embedded grid displays do not currently
support Unicode, but a pop-up text box to display this type of data will
appear when the mouse pointer is positioned over a cell containing Unicode.
This is supported in new LAW cases only (created in 5.2 or later). Please see
the Help file topic Appendix->Unicode Support for more information
regarding Unicode in LAW. |
| 13 |
Windows Vista |
Windows Vista has been
added as a supported operating system for LAW. Please see the notes regarding
Vista support in the System Requirements topic in the Help file. |
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| Modifications |
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Category |
Description |
| 1 |
Documentation |
Help->Quick Start
Guide has been changed to Help->User Guide. This menu item will launch the
new user guide included with LAW installations and will be located in
\Law50\LAW PreDiscovery User Guide.pdf. The Quick Start Guide has been
removed due to outdated content. |
| 2 |
ED Loader |
New version of the file
recognition engine, used to identify file types during ED Loader imports, has
been implemented. A prompt to update the file type database with changes will
appear when the ED Loader is initially launched after installing this version.
This updated version will correct a number of e-mail recognition issues. |
| 3 |
ED Loader |
The menu item,
Tools->Open Summary Database, has been moved and changed to File->Open
Summary. Additional menu items and button labels have changed in the ED
Loader interface, but all items perform the same functions as previous
versions. |
| 4 |
Exports |
The default image
component used to manipulate images during the export process has changed to
use Pegasus image libraries. This change was made to prevent common
'Assertion failures' from occurring and causing problems with the export
process. A new option, 'Use Pegasus Image Library', has been added to the
Options tab of the Export Utility to control which image component is used.
To revert back to the older Pixel Translations libraries for any reason,
uncheck this new setting. NOTE: If performing multipage PDF exports, the
Pegasus setting will be ignored. |
| 5 |
Exports |
The NativeFile field
will now only appear in Concordance DAT load files once to avoid issues when
loading into Concordance. This field appears by default in the DAT and would
previously appear twice when the field was also selected manually in the
Fields tab. |
| 6 |
Exports |
Summation export has
been modified to force the @T to appear below @PST and @StoreID tokens in the
DII load file to avoid potential problems when loading into Summation. |
| 7 |
Exports |
User-defined page-level
fields may now be selected as the File Naming Scheme and Image Tag when
exporting. |
| 8 |
Grid Displays |
Page-level fields set as
visible in the grid view will now reappear as visible columns the next time a
page-level query is executed. |
| 9 |
Index Display |
Page-level fields are
now locked on the main form Index Display. The only way to populate these
fields currently is using the Import Tag List and Bates
Numbering/Auto-numbering features. |
| 10 |
OCR |
New version of the
Expervision OCR engine is included. The new version should be listed as
7.1.120.309 in the OCR tab in Tools->Options. |
| 11 |
OCR |
The OCRStatus field
value is now set to 'Y' after a document has been re-converted to TIFF
provided the previous status was not 'N'. This will help users determine
which documents are in need of OCR if using this feature. |
| 12 |
Printers |
The Informatik Image
Driver is no longer packaged in the full installation file; however, this
image printer may still be used for TIFF conversion in LAW. |
| 13 |
TIFF Conversion |
When utilizing the
single document TIFF conversion feature, documents may now be converted to
serialized format and will be saved to the $Image Archive folder to remain
consistent with batch TIFF conversions. Printed text is also now supported
with this feature by enabling the option prior to the conversion. The desired
image format and text options should be set in the Batch Processing TIFF
Output options prior to using this feature. |
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| Bug Fixes |
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| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
Batch Process |
A run-time error and
crash may occur if attempting to select a folder in the Batch process that
was previously processed in a batch and later deleted. |
| 2 |
ED Loader |
After setting the 'Application'
to 'Shell Printer' in the File Type Manager for one or more file types and
then importing that file type via ED Loader, the SourceApp was being set to
'No Source Specified' for that file type instead of 'Shell Printer.' |
| 3 |
ED Loader |
In certain situations,
the following error would occur when attempting to restart an ED Loader: The
field is too small to accept the amount of data you attempted to add. Try inserting or pasting less data. (3163). |
| 4 |
Exports |
Attachment records were
failing with an 'Object variable or with block variable not set' error when
exporting to Ringtail CaseBook. |
| 5 |
Exports |
Creation of a new
partition may fail with the following error if the partition was created
around a set of EDD records: The system cannot find the file specified. |
| 6 |
Exports |
Date format in iCONECT
load file was not being set correctly based on the selected setting in the
Export Utility. |
| 7 |
Exports |
If an oversized text
file was created during an Introspect export, it was being placed in the
wrong location in the export output location (version 5 Introspect exports
only). |
| 8 |
Exports |
Object variable or with
block variable not set error would occur prior to export when certain options
were enabled in the Summation configuration options. |
| 9 |
Exports |
Parents and attachments
were potentially being split across volumes when exporting to Introspect. |
| 10 |
Exports |
The multi-entry field
delimiter specified in the Introspect options was not being applied to any
fields listed after the image tag field in the Selected Fields list. |
| 11 |
Exports |
The number "9"
character was not being included for Concordance DCB exports if the character
existed in any exported fields. |
| 12 |
Exports |
When multiple volumes
were created during Introspect exports, the Batch Name was not being
incremented properly for each volume. |
| 13 |
Grid Displays |
In certain situations,
page-level fields were not set as visible columns in the grid after a
page-level query and had to be manually selected from the field list. |
| 14 |
Grid Displays |
The PageSize field was
not sorting properly in the grid displays. The values were being sorted based
on their associated numeric values in the database rather than their textual
values. |
| 15 |
Grid Displays |
View->Attachment
fields was not displaying all four fields if the query had already been run
in the current grid session and the one or more of the fields had been set as
hidden using the Field List. |
| 16 |
Index Display |
Long index field names
were not displaying properly in the Index Display. Tooltip will now appear
when floating the mouse pointer over the field name in the display if not all
characters in the name can be displayed. |
| 17 |
Index Display |
System field values no
longer appear to be removed after clicking the Clear button on the Index
display. Only editable field values will be cleared when using this feature. |
| 18 |
Index Fields |
An error would occur
when attempting to rename a user-defined page-level index field in
Index->Modify Fields. |
| 19 |
OCR |
If 'Auto deskew' is
enabled for OCR, in rare cases, an image may cause an automation error to
occur. This error will be followed by a check constraint error message when
updating the record, and all subsequent OCR operations will fail. |
| 20 |
Profile Manager |
LAW would not accept a
license server name less than 6 characters in length. |
| 21 |
Reports |
EDD reports were being
created with an "evaluation version" footer. |
| 22 |
Text Indexing |
A document was not being
flagged for re-indexing after OCRing that document individually. Documents
OCR'd via batch process were being properly flagged. |
| 23 |
TIFF/E-Print |
Due to a bug in
Microsoft Visio, only the first page of Visio documents were being printed
during a TIFF Conversion or e-Print process when the SourceApp was set to
Microsoft Visio. |
| 24 |
TIFF/E-Print |
The "Empty Excel
workbook encountered" placeholder was being displayed along with actual
data in the printed output when certain types of text boxes were contained on
the worksheet. |
| 25 |
TIFF/E-Print |
The setting in Lotus
Notes to expand recipient names was being ignored when printing in LAW using
the option to print e-mails natively from Lotus, resulting in the To, CC, and
BCC fields being limited to 3 lines. |
| 26 |
User Interface |
The Thumbnail and Image
viewers were not being displayed properly when running LAW for the first time
on a machine. |
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| Version 5.1.19 |
(Release Date: January
14, 2008) |
| New Features |
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| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
ED Loader |
An error/warning will
now be logged by default when importing Lotus e-mails if an e-mail contains
an RTF body. These warnings can be disabled if user decides they do not want
them. The logging is enabled by default, so it will require manual user
intervention to disable them. To do this, a new setting has been added to the
E-Mail section of the ED Loader. To disable the warnings, uncheck the 'Log
warning messages for e-mails containing RTF body content'. |
| 2 |
Index Fields |
New page-level system
fields have been added to track the source, color, and size of scanned or
imported images and images created during TIFF conversions in LAW: PageColor,
PageSource, PageSize, PageWidth, PageHeight. A new batch process, Update Page
Data, has also been added to populate the color and size of imported images,
as this information is not pulled during the actual import. All 5 fields are
populated for scanned pages at the time they are scanned. |
| 3 |
TIFF Conversion |
Support for the Zan
Image Printer (http://www.zan1011.com) for TIFF conversion has been added. If
this printer is installed, it will be available in the list of available
drivers for TIFF conversion in the TIFF Output options. **Note: The retail version of this driver will install 2 different
printers, one for B&W and one for color. Either printer can be selected
as the active driver. LAW will set the color format automatically based on
the settings configured in the TIFF Output settings. |
| 4 |
TIFF/e-Print |
An option to 'Print
Lotus Notes e-mails natively from Lotus' is now available in the TIFF and
E-Print batch process options to allow printing of e-mails directly from
Lotus Notes vs. the HTM output file created during ED Loader imports. Using
this option, the output LAW produces will retain the original Lotus
formatting, including inline images and RTF content. **Note: If you plan to use this setting, you MUST leave the Lotus mail
stores (*.NSF) in the same location from which they were imported. This
setting requires access to the source mail store during the print process, so
if the mail stores are moved after the import, attempts to use it will fail
and log error messages for all e-mails. This new option will be disabled by
default for existing cases, and enabled by default for new cases. |
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| Modifications |
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| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
ED Loader |
The text extraction process has
been modified to produce cleaner text extraction results during ED imports.
Text from embedded files/attachments is no longer included in the text of the
parent for MS Office documents. The extracted text is also screened against
known binary formats that would typically result in large amounts of binary
data or "garbage" text, and if these one of these types is
detected, the text will be ignored and a warning logged. **Note: Screening for known binary formats is disabled if the 'Enable
binary scanning in text extraction' setting is enabled. |
| 2 |
Exports |
When exporting to
Concordance DCB, a new DCB will be created in each partition to address an
issue with linking to native files in the Concordance database. A new option
has been added to the Concordance DCB export options, 'Concatenate DCB's
across separate partitions', to allow users to treat all DCB's in the
partitions as one DCB. |
| 3 |
Full text Search |
Full text searches have
been optimized to reduce the amount of time required to return results. |
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| Bug Fixes |
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| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
ED Loader |
Shell Printer was not available
in the Application drop-down in the File Type Manager. |
| 2 |
ED Loader |
Records were failing to import
if the regional settings on the processing stations were set to 'English
(United Kingdom)' or the short date format was set to 'dd/mm/yyyy'. |
| 3 |
ED Loader |
UNICODE metadata (e.g. Author,
Subject, Title, etc.) captured during import was being converted to ANSI. |
| 4 |
ED Loader |
DateLastPrnt values were not
being extracted from files imported via ED Loader. |
| 5 |
Exports |
TrialDirector load file was
displaying '0' for records instead of '1' or '2' to indicate black and white
or color images. |
| 6 |
Import Load File |
Load files with
extensions in all caps were causing errors to occur upon import. |
| 7 |
Text Indexing |
Unicode characters in
e-mail text were not being indexed. |
| 8 |
TIFF Conversion |
Batch stiffing using
Peernet driver with 'Drop blank pages' enabled would cause resulting tiff
images to be uncompressed. |
| 9 |
TIFF Conversion |
When converting Excel
files to TIFF, the DPI setting was being pulled from Excel Page Setup instead
of the image printer resolution setting. |
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| Version 5.1.11 |
(Release Date:
November 14, 2007) |
| Modifications |
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| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
Z-Print Import |
Z-Print load files may
now be imported into an end-enabled case. The Custodian field will be mapped
to the existing Custodian lookup field and RecordType values will be mapped
to the existing _DocCat field. Imported records may use LAW's EDD features,
such as TIFF Conversion and native file exports. |
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| Bug Fixes |
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| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
ED Loader |
AttachPID values were
being set incorrectly when archive items with attachments are imported and
the 'Treat archive items as attachments' option is disabled. |
| 2 |
ED Loader |
In certain situations,
LAW was not properly translating the PR_SMTP_ADDRESS when processing e-mail
via ED Loader. |
| 3 |
ED Loader |
An error would occur if the
Session Label exceeded 255 characters. The UI now limits the value to 255
characters. If the variables exceed 255 characters when expanded, LAW will
notify you and truncate the value to 255. |
| 4 |
Exports |
Hard returns were
appearing in the IPRO OCR LFP file in certain situations. |
| 5 |
Exports |
Certain attachment
fields, when exported, were using the wrong Image Tag field value when using
the format-specific override option in the Fields tab. |
| 6 |
Grid Display |
Application may crash
when the space bar is pressed while a grid display is the active window. |
| 7 |
Grid Display |
Data was possibly
truncated (even if 255 characters or less) when performing a memo to text
field column copy in the grid in SQL cases. Note: Truncation is expected when
the source memo field is over 255 characters. A warning message will occur in
this situation, prior to copying the data. |
| 8 |
Scanning |
The ledger/tabloid scan
page size did not work for the Canon DR-7080C scanner. |
| 9 |
TIFF Conversion |
Comments in Word
documents were appearing in certain docs, even when the option was set to
hide them. |
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| Version 5.1.05 |
(Release Date: October
12, 2007) |
| New Features |
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| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
Administration |
The custom command functionality
has been extended to allow running of scripts (VBScript, Javascript), in
addition to actual executables. |
| 2 |
Batch Process |
Pause button added to Batch
Process status dialog. |
| 3 |
Deduplication |
Addition of deduplication
utility accessible via Tools->Deduplication Utility from the main form.
This utility is intended to replace deduplication as a batch process. The
deduplication utility offers a status for viewing deduplication information
in the current case as well as built in filters for deduplicating only
untested items and selected custodian(s). The deduplication utility is
intended to optimize the deduplication process providing greater control,
faster speed, and increased flexibility for future enhancements. |
| 4 |
ED Loader |
Pre-process summary function has
been added to the ED Loader. This feature is used to collect a high level
inventory of sources placed in the queue for reporting and reviewing
purposes. The new options are located under the Tools menu in the ED Loader
(Summarize Queue and Open Summary Database). |
| 5 |
ED Loader |
Three new insert modes for
e-documents have been added: Edit->Insert->E-Document(s)->After
Current, Edit->Insert->E-Document Attachment(s)->Before Current and
After Current. The Before/After current items allow for precise control over the
placement of the newly inserted documents. The attachment inserts allow for
the direct insertion of new documents as attachments. |
| 6 |
ED Loader |
Added support for Exchange
public folders and delegate mailboxes in the 'Select Outlook Folder' option. |
| 7 |
Exports |
Export formats for iCONECT and
CaseLogistix are now available. |
| 8 |
Exports |
Predefined system field has been
added for ID field in LAW (displayed as "<ID>" in field
list). |
| 9 |
Exports |
Summation export now allows
customization of included eDii tokens. To configure which tokens are
included, open the Summation export configuration dialog, ensure the option
to 'Allow advanced (iBlaze) dii features' is enabled, and press the [eDii
Tokens] button. |
| 10 |
Exports |
The
UNICODE text format (UTF8) used for text extracted from e-docs/attachments
(UTF16 is used for parent e-mails) can be forced to ANSI during the export
process if desired. To force this conversion, select the 'Decode UTF8 to
ANSI' setting from the text options dialog. Because this setting will force
all output text to ANSI, it cannot be selected in conjunction with the 'Allow
UNICODE in text' setting. **NOTE: This
setting is processor intensive and will slow down the export process
slightly. |
| 11 |
Exports |
UNICODE text can now be retained
in exports. To allow UNICODE text output, select the 'Allow UNICODE text'
setting from the text options dialog. |
| 12 |
Grid Display |
An advanced sort function is now
available in the external grid which enables the user to sort by up to 4
fields with a different sort direction per field. The advanced sort can be
accessed via the Tools->Sort Records->Advanced menu item or a new toolbar
button located directly to the right of the 'Sort Descending' button. |
| 13 |
Import LAW Case |
File->Import->LAW
Case->3.x | 4.x has been changed to File->Import->LAW Case. This
feature has been expanded to support EDD cases and linked images. Please see
the help file for a list of known issues with this feature. |
| 14 |
Online Help |
Online help file is now complete
and available. |
| 15 |
Query Builder |
A report can now be generated by
custodian for full text hits. The report (HTML) will display the number of
document hits and total hits by custodian for all current full text search
terms and provide totals by term and by custodian. To generate the report,
enter the search terms to use and select the 'Custodian Report' button. |
| 16 |
Query Builder |
Full text search terms can now
be loaded from file. To do so, select the 'Load Terms' button. |
| 17 |
TIFF Conversion |
Printing of TIFF placeholders
for documents that error during conversion is now optional and can be
controlled via the 'Print placeholders for documents that error during
conversion' setting. |
| 18 |
TIFF Conversion |
Support for the latest Peernet
TIFF driver (TIFF Image Printer 7.0) has been added. This driver does not
ship with LAW, it must be purchased retail from Peernet
(http://www.peernet.com/tiff/index.html). |
| 19 |
TIFF Conversion |
The Informatik Image Driver now
contains color reduction settings to optimize color TIFFs or reduce to
greyscale. Both of new settings will detect pure black and white pages and
save those to Group 4 TIFFs, while allowing further control via the color compression
setting to choose alternate compression formats for those pages determined to
actually contain color (JPEG, LZW, Packbits). |
| 20 |
TIFF Conversion |
"Reduce to black &
white' setting has been added to the list of color reduction settings for the
Informatik image printer. NOTE: The use of this setting and other color
reduction settings no longer require any settings on the printer itself to be
modified. LAW will automatically adjust the printer output settings based on
the selected color reduction setting. |
| 21 |
TIFF/e-Print |
New Excel options are available to print as black & white,
remove repeating rows, and remove repeating columns. |
| 22 |
TIFF/e-Print |
Microsoft Visio has been added
as a supported source application for TIFF Conversion and e-Print processes. Supported versions: MS Visio 2003 and higher. |
| 23 |
TIFF/e-Print |
VCF (vCard) files can now use
Internet Explorer as a source application when printing to TIFF or paper. |
| 24 |
TIFF/e-Print |
New source application, Shell
Printer, has been added to the SourceApp field in LAW. When assigned to this
source app, files will print through the application assigned to that
particular file type in Windows, provided the application supports command line
printing. |
| 25 |
User Interface |
Total Litigator button has been
added to the main toolbar in LAW. |
|
|
|
| Modifications |
|
| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
Batch Process |
The watermark endorse/print
settings are now retained at the case-level. The recent watermark list is
still shared globally to allow for easy selection of a common watermark
in new cases, but the settings must be manually set for all cases to prevent
inadvertent watermark branding of images. |
| 2 |
Batch Process |
Document/page counts for
each category are no longer calculated until the option is selected to
prevent unnecessary delays with extremely large cases. |
| 3 |
Control List |
The 'Build Control List'
feature, located in the standalone grid's Tools menu, has been modified to
support extracted text in addition to OCR text. |
| 4 |
Deduplication |
Deduplication is no
longer available as a batch process, it must be performed using the new
deduplication available from the main form (Tools -> Deduplication
Utility). |
| 5 |
ED Loader |
Added configuration
setting to deactivate generation of .ver files created during imports
(File=<App Path>\EDLoader\edloader.app.config.ini,
Section=GENERAL_SETTINGS, Key=GENERAL_GenerateVersionStamps, Value=0 or 1
(0=disabled)). |
| 6 |
ED Loader |
Modified compound
document processing to not generate empty records for files that failed to be
extracted. Instead, the warning is logged on the parent record. |
| 7 |
ED Loader |
File/folder selection
view now displays UNICODE filenames correctly. |
| 8 |
ED Loader |
Modified 'Session
Viewer' to display and give access to all sessions associated with the case
via the 'Show all sessions' option located at the bottom of the dialog. This
previously was limited to only sessions initialized by the current
workstation to prevent invalid session restarts. The Resume command will only
be enabled when a session that was initialized by the current workstation is
selected. |
| 9 |
ED Loader |
Read-only attribute on
PST files are now automatically cleared (if possible) to allow Outlook to
open them. |
| 10 |
Embedded Grid |
Save menu items in embedded grid
have been renamed to match the buttons in the standalone grid ('Save Selected
Records' and 'Save All Records'). |
| 11 |
Exports |
CaseLogistix: SourceType field
added to the CLXdata section in the XML load file. Also, the 'datetime' field
definition was modified to 'dateTime'. |
| 12 |
Exports |
Exported text for
parents and attachments is now merged when exporting using the 'Combine
Parents/Attachments' option. Previously, only the text of the parent would be
exported in this scenario. |
| 13 |
Exports |
When exporting images
created in LAW as single page from electronic documents to a single page
format, the re-saving of images is now bypassed if the output format is set
to 'Default' and merging of annotations is not enabled. This significantly
improves the speed and stability of exports if these conditions are met. |
| 14 |
Exports |
Records for native files
skipped during the export process because the native file does not exist are
now logged as warnings. If export logging is enabled, such records will be
logged with a status of 'N'. |
| 15 |
Exports |
The single page text
setting has been moved to the text options dialog. |
| 16 |
Exports |
Concordance Direct
(*.dcb) export now sets the Keyed property to true for all created
TEXT/NUMERIC/DATE fields, and sets the Indexed property to true for all
OCR/Full text fields. |
| 17 |
Exports |
DateSent/DateRcvd fields
exported to a Summation eDii file are now formatted with the current regional
date format. |
| 18 |
Exports |
Inclusion of file
extensions for all naming schemes is now enabled by default with all formats
(image, text, native). |
| 19 |
Exports |
Native file paths in
Concordance exports now respect the relative/hard/UNC path options
(previously only applied to images and text). If a relative path is used, the
path of the create-hyperlinks.cpl/cpt will be prepended to the path when the
hyperlinks are created. |
| 20 |
Exports |
The prompt to overwrite
or append an existing Opticon load file will now use the same result that was
set for Concordance to prevent prompts in the middle of the export process
(when the first image-based record is encountered). |
| 21 |
Full text Dictionary |
Both Hit Count and Doc
Count are now displayed for each term. UNICODE support for terms was also
added. |
| 22 |
Image Merge |
Merging images that have
been imported and linked in place (rather than copied) no longer modifies the
original images on disk. Merging will now create a new image in LAW's default
structure. The merge function also now allows the merging of text files associated
with linked images (also stored in LAW's default structure). |
| 23 |
Import Tag List |
Default range delimiter has been changed from a '-' (hyphen)
to a ':' (colon). |
| 24 |
Licensing |
Users can now access licenses
from more than license key rather than only the 'active' key. Note: Keys must be hosted on the
same machine. Previously, only one key could be set as the active key at any
given time and accessed for license checkout. |
| 25 |
OCR |
Splitting/deskewing of
images for the OCR process has been updated to use new image libraries. In
addition to increasing stability and eliminating assertion failures, it will
now optimize color images for the OCR process, which can increase the OCR
speed for color images by 500-600%. |
| 26 |
Online Help |
Online help can now be
viewed from a network share without requiring a patch for Windows. |
| 27 |
Query Builder |
Queries
on the ‘DupStatus’ field now return NULL values when the ‘Does Not Equal’ or
‘Does Not Contain’ operator is used. For example, if you execute the query,
DupStatus Does Not Equal G, fields with a DupStatus of NULL will now be
included in the search. |
| 28 |
Query Builder |
UNICODE values can now
be specified as query conditions for standard database fields. |
| 29 |
Query Builder |
Added case-wide full
text report. This report is accessed the same way as the custodian full text
report that was added in build (h). The output file dialog has been modified
to select the report type, and the query builder has had the command to
invoke the report generator changed from 'Custodian Report' to 'Full Text
Report'. |
| 30 |
Query Builder |
The combo box selection
for list fields now allows typed text or selecting existing entries. |
| 31 |
Scanning |
Insert->New Page(s),
Insert->Scanned Document, and all Replace options have been disabled for
native records that happen to be images. |
| 32 |
Summarize Images |
The Summarize Images function
has been modified to skip e-docs converted to TIFF to prevent a 'Can't open
file' error message that aborts the summary. |
| 33 |
TIFF Conversion |
Using color reduction
settings for Informatik printer no longer requires manually adjusting the
default printer preferences. LAW now automatically matches up the printer
output format for the specified reduction setting. |
| 34 |
TIFF Conversion |
Support for the ICE
TIFFWriter 6.0 driver has been removed. Support for this printer was only
temporary for testing purposes. The only benefit to using this driver was for
the Optimal Palette output setting, which is now available with the
Informatik driver that ships with LAW, and is approximately twice as fast as
the TIFFWriter in this mode. |
| 35 |
User Interface |
The thumbnail tab on the
main form is no longer present. Thumbnails will now be viewed by default as
part of the main image control with a splitter interface. The image view can
be configured (from the View menu) to display a single page, just thumbnails,
or a page/thumbnail combination (default). |
| 36 |
User Interface |
The Log Viewer, formerly
located in File->Administration, has been moved to the Tools menu in the
main interface. |
| 37 |
User Interface |
Using the Edit->Insert->E-Documents functions
will now automatically refresh the current folder after the import. |
|
|
|
| Bug Fixes |
|
| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
Administration |
Editing case properties
from the open case dialog causes the database engine value to get cleared. |
| 2 |
Batch Process |
Invalid procedure call error occurs when attempting to run the
Image Cleanup batch process with no filters selected. |
| 3 |
ED Loader |
Fixed improper validation of
source names in the ED Loader queue that would previously allow \ and /
characters to be present in source names. If the 'Use source names as top
level folder' option was set, this would result in invalid paths being loaded
into law. |
| 4 |
ED Loader |
Fix for errors updating
attachment information on records written to LAW if the session was paused,
then subsequently un-paused. In this scenario, the records would have
still been written to LAW, but the attachment information would have failed
to have been applied. |
| 5 |
ED Loader |
Loading file lists
produces invalid paths in LAW when items in the file list are mapped to and
reside on another drive or reside above the lowest common directory in the
file list in the input directory structure. NOTE: When a file list is loaded
with the 'Relative Pathing' option set, the ED Loader will attempt to resolve
the input paths using the location of the file list. If the location of the
file list is not related to the paths in the file list, mirrored output paths
may be produced in LAW. |
| 6 |
ED Loader |
"Type mismatch
Error Code 5013' error occurs processing Lotus Notes mail stores with the GMT
option enabled for e-mails without received dates. |
| 7 |
ED Loader |
ED Loader sessions may
not resume properly if the original source name contains invalid characters. |
| 8 |
ED Loader |
Inserting an e-document
into an existing attachment range causes the e-document to import as a parent
doc with its viewable children belonging to the previous parent. |
| 9 |
ED Loader |
Object
variable or With block variable not set' error may occur when attempting to
import a large number of Outlook mail stores at one time. |
| 10 |
Embedded Grid |
The Modify Fields dialog could
be opened while the embedded grid was loaded. Added prompt to close the grid
prior to launching the field editor. |
| 11 |
E-Print |
Placeholders do not
print for mail store items set to 'No Source Specified'. |
| 12 |
E-Print |
Folder breaks were not
printing when specified. |
| 13 |
E-Print |
Slip sheets for e-mail
attachments used an eDoc template instead of an e-mail attachment template. |
| 14 |
E-Print |
Slip sheets for e-mails
may contain invalid numbering (i.e. 15 of 10) as part of the folder
information. |
| 15 |
Exports |
Updated LAW export utility to
locate associated extracted text from Z-Print when a Z-Print case was
imported with the 'Link to images in place' option is selected, allowing the
text to be exported properly. |
| 16 |
Exports |
Updated the CaseLogistix format
to encode all full text as UTF-8 before writing out to XML. This problem also
exists in the iCONECT format and was addressed in the same manner. |
| 17 |
Exports |
Added additional checks
to prevent issues with folder/filename paths exceeding the Windows limit of
255 characters. |
| 18 |
Exports |
DateCreated field also
contains time stamps when exporting from the grid or Export Utility, under
certain conditions. |
| 19 |
Exports |
Exporting images and
text for electronic documents to Summation causes a 'Bad file name or number
(52)' error to be logged for records without images if the set contains some
records with images and some without. These records should not be logged if
'Include Native Files' is not selected, and are now logged as a warning that
no image was found. |
| 20 |
Exports |
Merging of parents and
attachments during PDF export does not use searchable PDF (OCR) if available
for images that were TIFFed from electronic documents. |
| 21 |
Exports |
'Overflow'
error occurs when the Summation DII's record number exceeded 32,767. |
| 22 |
Exports |
ParentID value
calculated incorrectly when exporting attachments without their parents. |
| 23 |
Exports |
The XML tags for
embedded text in the CaseLogistix export are incorrect (closing tag does not
match opening). |
| 24 |
Exports |
Checking the 'Exts'
setting in the file naming scheme can cause the output text filename not to
match the image filename in some situations. |
| 25 |
Exports |
Concordance Direct (DCB)
exports truncate field values if the field in LAW is TEXT (instead of MEMO)
and the field value is over 60 characters. Text fields in LAW with a maximum
length over 60 characters are now created as paragraph fields in Concordance
to prevent truncation. |
| 26 |
Exports |
Use of alternate image
libraries (specified via ini setting) for splitting images during the export
process to eliminate assertion failures does not function correctly. If this
setting has been specified, the user is now alerted of success or failure when
the export utility is loaded. |
| 27 |
Exports |
Attempting to merge
parents and attachments into a PDF during an export may cause an
"Automation error, Catastrophic failure" error in certain
conditions. |
| 28 |
Exports |
UNC paths for native
file paths in Concordance receive a trailing backslash after filename that
prevents them from opening via hyperlink in Concordance. |
| 29 |
Fulltext Search |
'Stop
statement encountered' error occurs after executing a full text search and
attempting to save the results to a file from the standalone grid display. |
| 30 |
Fulltext Search |
Fix for error $0120
occurring when the 'Abort Search After' full text setting is set to a
non-zero value and the search returns more documents than the specified
value. |
| 31 |
Grid Display |
Attempting to view
attachments from the grid may cause a row size error and fail to complete
building the attachment table. |
| 32 |
Grid Display |
Fix for row-length error
sometimes occurring when using the 'View->Attachment Fields' function when
using a SQL Server database. |
| 33 |
Grid Display |
Sort and filter-by
functions do not work correctly for 'PageFilename' field. |
| 34 |
Grid Display |
Summary function yields
inconsistent results if the grid is not fully loaded into memory. |
| 35 |
Grid Display |
Summary function yields
incorrect page counts for queries where page level records were returned. |
| 36 |
Grid Display |
Find operations did not
work correctly for empty lookup values. |
| 37 |
Grid Display |
Saving the grid results
to file causes a 'Subscript out of range' error in some cases. |
| 38 |
Import Tag List |
Once all the Target Fields
are added in Import Tag List window, the application will close if the Delete
button is clicked. |
| 39 |
Image Manipulation |
Attempting to rotate an image
causes a run-time error if the image is an e-doc that has been imported via
the ED Loader and has not been converted to TIFF in LAW. Such images may now
be rotated for display purposes in the viewer, but the orientation cannot be
saved until the e-doc has been converted to TIFF. |
| 40 |
Image Manipulation |
Under certain
circumstances, an image will no longer display in the main image viewer after
inserting an image into an existing image. |
| 41 |
Index Display |
The 'Default Field'
points to incorrect index field after specifying the desired field, then
opening and closing the field editor. |
| 42 |
Index Fields |
List type fields do not append
new values entered into the list field unless there is at least one value
already in the list. Unable to add new values to the field if the list is
empty. |
| 43 |
Licensing |
In rare cases, the
profile manager fails to detect the internet connection and LAW 5.0 upgrades
are not allowed. |
| 44 |
Licensing |
In some cases, the LAW
4.0 upgrade process will fail and return an invalid status of UP. |
| 45 |
Licensing |
Temporary licenses may
not work in some cases if internet access is controlled by a proxy server. |
| 46 |
Licensing |
In rare cases, the
profile manager fails to detect the internet connection and LAW 5.0 upgrades
are not allowed. |
| 47 |
OCR |
The OCR server does not
recover as expected from certain errors (PRTKClient) resulting in errors for
all documents after the point of failure. |
| 48 |
OCR |
Scanned/imported single
page images may fail to OCR under certain conditions with a 'File Write
Error' in version 5.0.31 (g). |
| 49 |
OCR |
The OCR server does not
recover as expected from certain errors (PRTKClient) resulting in errors for
all documents after the point of failure. |
| 50 |
Query Builder |
Selecting combo
drop-down on lookup fields (Custodian, EDSession, EDFolder, EDSource) causes
a 'Type mismatch' run time error in version 5.0.31 (g). |
| 51 |
Scanning |
Hot keys for changing scan color settings were not working
(CTRL +1 CTRL +2 CTRL +3). |
| 52 |
Scanning |
The legal scan page size
does not work for the Canon DR-7080C scanner. |
| 53 |
Scanning |
Performing a Replace
Pages scan operation on a single page document with multiple pages causes an
'Object variable or With block variable not set' error for every page after
the first and loses the first page. |
| 54 |
Show OCR Flags |
When
the thumbnails are not displayed and Page->Show OCR Flags is clicked, LAW
jumps to the embedded grid instead of the thumbnails. |
| 55 |
TIFF/E-Print |
TIFF/e-Print settings may not be
applied for new cases unless they are first displayed and accepted by the
user. In some cases, this behavior will result in an error message that the
default printer cannot be set and the TIFF/e-Print processes cannot be started. |
| 56 |
TIFF Conversion |
Attempting to TIFF a
color document with the Informatik printer set to 24-bit color may fail with
a 'Subscript out of range' error. |
| 57 |
TIFF Conversion |
Printing blank
placeholders for e-docs is not possible if 'Drop blank pages' is enabled, no
pages will be saved. |
| 58 |
TIFF Conversion |
Printing with Excel 2000
causes a crash in the print server. |
| 59 |
TIFF Conversion |
In some cases, Excel
documents printed in 24-bit color may not capture all pages during manual
prints. |
| 60 |
User Interface |
Deleting pages from an
image in an Access case may fail with a 'Key column information is
insufficient or incorrect. |
| Too
many rows were affected by update.' error message. |
| 61 |
User Interface |
In rare cases, a long
sequence of error messages pertaining to grid updates may occur when closing
LAW. |
| 62 |
User Interface |
Replace pages function
causes 'Item cannot be found in the collection corresponding to the requested
name or ordinal' error if the case was created in an older version of LAW 4.0
and does not contain a PageFilename field. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Version 5.0.31 |
(Release Date: April
3, 2007) |
| Modifications |
|
| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
ED Loader |
Added special handling
for e-mails that contain an HTML body, but no corresponding plain text body,
which resulted in extracted text without a body. |
| 2 |
ED Loader |
Compound document
extraction (embedded file support) now uses native extraction by default. |
| 3 |
ED Loader |
Empty folders are no
longer created in LAW during imports. |
| 4 |
ED Loader |
Improved e-mail address capture
for FROM,CC, and BCC fields. Previously the CC/BCC fields may have only
contained names without bracketed e-mail addresses. |
| 5 |
ED Loader |
Rules for extracting and
loading text for 'File Filters' and 'Duplicates' have changed. The new rule
dictates that if a record is generated in law, then normal text extraction
rules apply, and text will be extracted and loaded even if the native file is
not copied. This is applicable to the 'Include' and 'Partially Exclude'
actions associated with 'File Filters' and 'Deduplication'. |
| 6 |
Exports |
Documents in excess of
3600 pages may fail to export if using a single page export format with a
naming scheme that does not preserve file extensions (i.e. 'abc00001.001'). |
| 7 |
Exports |
Native and exported text
file naming now checks to ensure an existing file is never overwritten. This
is necessary to prevent output filename conflicts that could be created by
the user during the export, and in the event that the extracted text file name
is the same as the native file name. If a file name conflict is detected, the
latter file to be written will be named with a copy sequence (i.e.
"abc001.txt", "abc001 (Copy 2).txt", etc.) |
| 8 |
Exports |
Summation export will now remove
soft returns from the Subject and Headers fields (E-Mail), and any other
user-defined fields to prevent problems loading the DII file. |
| 9 |
Grid Display |
Removed grid position
check when loading, as this prohibits setting grid position on dual-monitor
systems to a monitor left of the default monitor. If the grid is placed off
of the screen due to the removal of a monitor from the display, the window
must be repositioned from the taskbar to bring it back into view. |
| 10 |
TIFF Conversion |
Output image resolution for
images printed with Excel will now match the specified printer resolution. |
| 11 |
TIFF Conversion |
Save speeds for single page TIFF
conversions have been dramatically improved for large documents (500+ pages). |
| 12 |
TIFF Conversion |
Single document TIFF capture is
now available with the TIFF, QC/Edit, or Scan (Unlimited only) licenses. |
| 13 |
User Interface |
Document per folder
limit of 32,767 has been removed. **NOTE: This does not indicate an
endorsement of putting that many documents in a single folder. Extremely long
waits opening folders may occur when placing that many documents in a single
folder. |
| 14 |
User Interface |
The DocID/DocExt columns in main
document list are no longer visible if the case does not contain these
fields. |
|
|
|
| Bug Fixes |
|
| # |
Category |
Description |
| 1 |
ED Loader |
Categories field was not
being populated for E-Docs (now mapped from Category field). |
| 2 |
ED Loader |
Embedded e-mail (Outlook
only) attachments sometimes lose UNICODE metadata when extracted from their
parent and saved in their native format (*.msg). |
| 3 |
ED Loader |
Embedded file extraction
may fail in certain rare instances (missing CompObj stream) and fail to log a
warning. |
| 4 |
ED Loader |
Fix for EOF error that
occurs in rare cases during processing of Lotus mail stores (*.nsf). |
| 5 |
ED Loader |
Office 2007 documents
were being processed as archives, producing unnecessary output. **NOTE:
Native compound document processing (embedded file extraction) does not
currently support the Office 2007 format. |
| 6 |
ED Loader |
Office documents with
missing or invalid 'Last Saved Date' fields may use the creation time of the
file itself for the last modification time instead of the last modification
time from the file system itself. |
| 7 |
ED Loader |
Outlook mail stores
(*.pst) names or source names containing leading or trailing spaces generate
invalid path entries in LAW. |
| 8 |
ED Loader |
Overflow error occurs on
folders containing more than 32,767 items. In order to account for folders
with this many items, the case must be created with LAW 5.0.31 or higher (or
the DocOrder field in tblDoc must be manually updated and changed to a long integer
for older cases). |
| 9 |
ED Loader |
Revision field was not
being populated. |
| 10 |
ED Loader |
Some Excel sheets have
their workbooks hidden when extracted from another document. This applies to
e-docs with embedded files only. It does not apply to e-mail attachments.
**NOTE: This may still occur on Excel files with certain types of protection
and is still being investigated. |
| 11 |
ED Loader |
UNICODE data in
recipient fields (To;CC;BCC) is lost on e-mail imports. |
| 12 |
ED Loader |
ZIP file extraction may
fail on files with extremely long filenames |
| 13 |
Exports |
Assertion failures that
occur during exports when splitting to single-page images should be greatly
reduced, if not entirely corrected. If they do still occur in any situation,
there is now an alternate image engine available (enabled via ini setting) that
can be used to perform the image manipulation during the export process. |
| 14 |
Exports |
Embedding text directly
in fields in Concordance exports (DAT or DCB) can cause LAW to hang under
certain conditions if the size of the text exceeds the maximum size of a
field in Concordance. |
| 15 |
Exports |
Numeric values are used
instead of the corresponding text value for lookup fields (Custodian,
EDSession, EDSource, EDFolder) if used in a custom folder output scheme. |
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