Cover Sheet Page

Cover sheets are created by the Ricochet Coversheet server at your central site, but displayed for remote users in their Web browsers via the Ricochet Coversheet Web pages. Once displayed, the cover sheets can be printed via the browser’s print capabilities. For example, they can be printed by clicking the browser’s Print button, or selecting File | Print from the browser’s menu bar.

Information Contained on a Cover Sheet

The information contained on a cover sheet is used by the Ricochet Coversheet Image Importer to pass packages into the Ascent Capture workflow as batches. Each cover sheet contains the following items:

Pointer to Index Data

The information contained in the bar codes at the top of the cover sheet point to the location of the index data entered by the remote operator. The index data is stored in an XML file on the Ricochet Coversheet server, and used when the package is imported into the Ascent Capture workflow.

Creation Date

This is the date that the cover sheet was created. It is based on the date/time settings of the server station on which the Ricochet Coversheet server files are installed.

Expiration Time/Date

This is the date that the cover sheet will expire. Cover sheets expire at midnight of the day they are created. For example, if a cover sheet is created on 11/16/2001, it will expire at midnight of that same day.

Client IP

This is the IP address of the client station that originated the package. This information could be helpful to your central site system administrator when troubleshooting packages that cannot be imported into the Ascent Capture workflow.  

Package Type

This is the package type selected by the remote operator. Refer to the section Package Types on page 50 for more information about package types.

Site ID

This is the Ascent Capture site ID of the IIS Web server that created the cover sheet. It is used in Ascent Capture wherever “site ID” is used. For example, if the Ascent Capture Value {Site ID} is defined as a release value for a batch class used by a remote operator to create a package, the Ascent Capture value will expand to the site ID of the IIS Web server as shown on the cover sheet.

Index Fields

This is a list of index values entered by the remote operator. They are shown on the cover sheet for informational purposes only, because the values are also stored in an internal structure passed to the central site.

Create New Cover Sheet Button

Clicking the “Create new coversheet!” button (or link) from the Cover Sheet page returns you to the main Web page, from which you can create a new package.

Related Topics

Creating Packages