The DIPDocumentPerFile setting controls the way that consecutively-imported files are stored in the OnBase Disk Group after they are imported via a n XML Index DIP process.
By default, the XML Index DIP process stores each imported image file as a separate document unless two or more consecutive image files are indexed with the same Keyword Values and the same Document Type. In this case, the image files are imported as a single OnBase document.
Although represented as one document in OnBase, consecutively-imported files are stored as separate files in the Disk Group. The following example demonstrates how one document imported via a XML Index DIP process consists of four consecutively-imported files. Note that the single OnBase document is composed of four separate files in the Disk Group.
Setting the DIPDocumentPerFile.INI option to a value greater than 1 allows you to concatenate a number of consecutive files into a single file in the Disk Group, instead of storing them as individual files.
These files will still be represented as a single OnBase document regardless of how they are stored in the Disk Group.
For example, if your Import Index File lists 5 consecutive files and you have set the DIPDocumentPerFile option to 2(DIPDocumentPerFile=2), the XML Index DIP process will concatenate the first two files into a single Disk Group file, the second two files into a single Disk Group file and the last file will be stored as a single Disk Group file. One document, comprised of the five imported files, is created in OnBase.
The following example shows the same OnBase document from the example above, except in this case the XML Index DIP process was performed when the DIPDocumentPerFile setting was set to 3(DIPDocumentPerFile=3). Note that the first three consecutively-imported files were concatenated into a single file in the Disk Group and the fourth file was stored as-is in the Disk Group.