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Document Repositry Assistant (DRA)

What is DRA?

EzeScan’s Document Repository Analyser (DRA) is a powerful component of the EzeScan WebApp suite, purpose-built to streamline the identification and ingestion of documents into your intelligent processing workflows. DRA can be configured to crawl network file shares, email servers, and supported EDRMS platforms, automatically locating and cataloguing documents. It compiles a detailed inventory of files, capturing essential metadata such as repository name, file name, location, creation date, and processing status.

When integrated with EzeScan’s Remote Indexing Assistant (RIA), DRA becomes part of a robust, end-to-end intelligent document processing solution - empowering your organisation to automate, analyse, and act on documents with confidence.

Creating a DRA Page

  1. Go to Admin Panel → App Pages → Add Page → Select DRAPage from the drop down menu

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General Tab

Under the General Tab you can give your page a custom name, ID and description. You can also set page permissions.

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  1. Configure your permissions

Display Tab

The display tab gives you the ability to configure settings for how the page will appear as a tile on the homepage.

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Display Tab

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Tile Displayed on Homepage

Hide From Home Page

Ability to hide the tile from the homepage screen but still selectable from the navigation menu. By Default this toggle is off which means the tile will appear on the homepage.

Panel Colour

This changes the background colour of the tile.

It is white by default.

To change the colour you can click the black square to select a colour from the colour pick or type a hex code into the text box.

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Font Colour

This changes the font colour of the text inside the tile.

It is blue by default.

To change the colour you can click the black square to select a colour from the colour pick or type a hex code into the text box.

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Icon

Allows you to select an icon that will appear beside the page name on the tile.

This can be done in 1 of two ways:

  1. Click inside the textbox and select an icon from the list

  2. Click the advanced button and type in the icon name.

The selected icon will appear in the grey box.

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Tags Tab

The tag tab gives the ability to create custom data tags that can appear on documents that have been workflowed in RIA.

Adding/Editing/Deleting a Tag

  1. Click the Add Tag Button.

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  1. Type in your tag name and click the blue tick

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  1. To edit a tag’s name click the blue pencil button. To delete a tag click the red rubbish bin button.

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Repositories Tab

This tab gives you the ability to connect a repository to be crawled. There are three types of repositories that can be configured:

  • Integration

  • Microsoft Email

  • Network drive

To add a repository click the blue Add button and select your repository type from the drop-down menu.

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Basic Tab

The basic tab is where you can set the repositry name, descriptio and watcher settings.

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Setting

Description

Name

Give the repository a custom name

Description

Describe what the repository is

Enabled

This is enabled by default. When disabled, this repository won't run or create a watcher.

Watcher Enabled

This is not enabled by default. When enabled, a watcher will be created for live crawling.

Source Tab
For Integration Repository

ADD here

For Microsoft Email Repository
For Network drive Repository

Outputs Tab

The output tab is where you can configure the output actions for that repositry.

To add an output click the Add Output button and select an output from the dropdown menu.

Note: The type of available outputs will depend on the type of repository being configured.

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For Integration Repository

Output Options

Description

Integration Output

Content Manager

  • Delete Record: The original record will be deleted once the file is output.

  • Replace Current Revision: The current version of file will be replaced with the output file.

    • Finalise Toggle: Ability to lock the record so no more changes can be made

    • Remove Previous Revisions Toggle: Remove all previous revisions of the record

SharePoint

  • Delete Document: The original file will be deleted once the file is output.

  • Replace Document: The original file will be replaced with the output file.

No-Op

No changes will be made to the original file.

A No-Op is applied by default.

For Microsoft Email Repository

Output Options

Description

Add Email Category

Adds an email category to the email.

Delete Email

The original email will be deleted once the file is output.

Move Email

Moves the email to the target folder once it has been output.

You will need to select the email folder to move the email to.

No-Op

No changes will be made to the original file.

A No-Op is applied by default.

For Network drive Repository

Output Options

Description

Delete

The original file will be deleted once the file is output.

No-Op

No changes will be made to the original file.

A No-Op is applied by default.

Replace

The original file will be replaced with the output file.

Throttle Tab

The throttle tab lets you configure a throttle limit to the number of records being discovered at one time and how often.

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Setting

Description

Batch Size

Set the number of records to process at one time.

This is set to 500 by default.

Delay Between Batches

Set the delay between processing each batch of records in milliseconds (ms).

This is set to 1000 by default.

Schedule Tab

The Schedulign tab gives you the ability to configure the discovery repository worker to run automatically on set days at a set time.

By default a schedule is not enabled.

To create a schedule you will need to click the toggle on the Schedule Enabled.

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Click the checkbox of the days you want the repository worker to fetch items and select a fetch time from the drop down menu.

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Using the DRA Pagec

Dashboard Tab

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Items Tab

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Column

Description

Respository

Displays the repository name of where it came from.

Items

Displays the name of the file.

Type

Displays the file type.

Location

Displays the file path within the repositry of where the item is located.

Created

The day the file was created.

Modified

The date the file was last modified.

Size

The size of the file.

Status

The status of the file.

tag

Ay worklow tags.

Repositories Tab

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Column

Description

Respository

Displays the repository name and its type.

Users can click the blue box with an arrow (Screenshot 2025-10-31 at 2.44.48 pm.png) to view the repository log.

Items

Gives a total of the items in the different stages.

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Last Fetch

Indicates the date and time of the most recent repository fetch.

Watch Status

Displays whether the repository is currently being monitored.

History

Hover over the value in this column to view:

  • Start and finish times of the last fetch.

  • Scheduled time for the next fetch.

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Provides options to:

  • Start a fetch.

  • Start or stop the watcher.

Duplicates Tab

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