Without continuation, the AFP COLD processor will automatically continue a document if the next page is the same Document Type and has all of the Keyword Values of the previous document. In some cases this may be appropriate. However, if the Keyword Values do not repeat on subsequent pages, continuation should be configured.
If ID Strings appear on every page, and the same Keyword Values appear at the same location on every page of a document, no continuation is necessary. In this case, the AFP COLD processor will start a new document when a different Keyword Value or different ID String is found.
To configure continuation:
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Expand the Continuation branch in the Visual AFP Configuration window.
The first branch, [CONTINUE UNIDENTIFIED SAME DOCUMENT], can be toggled between Yes and No by double-clicking it. If the ID String of the Document Type only appears on the first page of each document, this branch should be set to Yes. The subsequent pages after the first page will be unidentified, but this flag will cause them to be appended to the current document until another instance of the ID String is found, indicating the start of another document.
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Select and expand the appropriate branch: Continuation String or Continuation Number, depending on the type of continuation you are configuring.
Note:
Only one type of continuation should be configured.
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Configure the appropriate options for the continuation. These options are explained in the tables below.
Configuration String Option
Description
[CASE SENSITIVE]
Toggle the Case Sensitive option to Yes if the string must be case sensitive in order to match.
[SEARCH ENTIRE LINE]
Toggle the Search Entire Line option to Yes if the string can appear anywhere on a particular line and you will not have to enter a column location.
[CONTINUATION STRING ON NEXT PAGE]
Toggle the Continuation String on Next Page option to Yes if the string actually is displayed on the next page of the document, as opposed to the page being continued.
Continuation Number Option
Description
[NUMERIC GREATER THAN ONE]
This option must be set to Yes to enable continuation numbers.
[STORE KEYS FROM FIRST PAGE ONLY]
If the keywords will not change on further pages of the document, or you do not need the values that appear on further pages, toggle the Store Keys from First Page Only option to Yes and the AFP processor will ignore any keywords on later pages.
When this option is enabled, the AFP processor can run faster, because when it encounters a continuation it does not need to look at the text to extract Keyword Values
- Select the TOP,BOTTOM,LEFT,RIGHT branch to define the location of the continuation.
- Drag the mouse over the value of the actual string or number on the sample file.
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Right-click over the selected area and select Update Continuation String or Update Continuation Number.
These values can also be edited by right-clicking the branch in the Visual PDF Configuration menu and selecting Edit.Note:
Continuation strings are limited to 63 characters.