The DataSetLifeSpan Element - Front Office Scanning - Foundation 23.1 - Foundation 23.1 - Ready - OnBase - Premier - external - Standard - Essential - Premier - Standard - Essential

Front Office Scanning

Platform
OnBase
Product
Front Office Scanning
Release
Foundation 23.1
License
Premier
Standard
Essential

The DataSetLifeSpan element is used to configure the amount of time Data Sets are available to the Front Office Scanning workstation before they expire and are deleted.

<DataSetLifeSpan>12</DataSetLifeSpan>
Tip:

This feature allows unused Data Sets to be automatically deleted from the system or it prevents Data Sets from accruing indefinitely if your solution is configured to allows Data Sets to be reused (i.e., the reusedatasets setting in the FOSCONFIGURATION parent element is set to true).

Enter the amount of time (in hours) that Data Sets are to be available to the Front Office Scanning client directly between the DataSetLifeSpan tags. If the DataSetLifeSpan setting is not present, or is set to 0, this feature is disabled.

When this feature is enabled, the Front Office Scanning client will check the difference between the current time on the Front Office Scanning workstation and the time that the Data Set XML files were created each time the Available Data Sets list is refreshed. If a Data Set has not been used by the time its lifespan expires, the Data Set XML file associated with it is deleted from the sharepath and the Data Set is no longer available to the Front Office Scanning client.

Tip:

When this feature is enabled, you can prevent a Data Set from being deleted by marking its Data Set XML file as read-only.

CAUTION:

If a user manually changes the clock on the Front Office Scanning workstation, Data Sets may be deleted even if they have not existed for the amount of time specified by the configuration setting.

CAUTION:

NTFS file systems store the file times in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) whereas FAT file systems store the file times in local time. Therefore, time changes due to Daylight Savings do not affect Data Sets on NTFS systems but could shorten or lengthen the time a Data Set is considered valid on a FAT system.

For more information on this feature, see Configuring a Data Set Lifespan.