Append Images and Create New Item

Copy this Item and Append another Image

This option also adds the pages from one Image to another Image. It differs from the option above in that a new Item is created for the new conjoined Image.

As with the first option, the screen allows you to pick two Items, the one you start with plus any other in the Case which has a .tiff image.

The objective here is to add another image file to the end of the one which is displayed, and to elect which Item Card information, if any, is used to populate a new Item Card. The need for this usually arises where the scanners have incorrectly split the pages of a single document into two or more documents.

The top part of the screen identifies the Item from which you are starting. This will be the one whose image will be the top part of the new, conjoined, image. You can opt to view the image. You can elect that the source image will be moved to backup as part of the process (you will do this if you are planning to delete the source Item Card, to save having to find the image file manually).

The bottom part of the screen allows you to choose which image file is to be added to the current image file. Often you will know its Item Number, in which case you can simply type it in. If there is an Item with that number, its Description will appear. If no Description appears, the Item either does not exist or, if it does exist, it has no Description. If the Item exists but has no image, a message will tell you so. The <Append> button only becomes active if the second Item both exists and has an image file to add.

If you do not know the Item No, you can find it by pressing the <Find Item> button. In the screen shown below, pressing the binoculars icon opens the Query Wizard, which you can use to find the required Item.

In this example, the user has found the Item whose image is to be appended to the current image by using the Query Wizard. Pressing <OK> will put the Item No of the Item into the Image Append screen. That screen will now be completed as shown below:

Using these default settings, the user will:

•	add the image from Item 4 to the image for Item 32
•	create a new Item Card with the next sequential Item No
•	populate it with the data from Item 32
•	move both the source images to a backup folder
•	add the new Item to the current Selection

Possible variants on this include:

•	populating the new Item Card with data from the second Item (4) rather than the first (32), or leaving it empty
•	leaving one or both of the images in place instead of moving to backup
•	not adding the new Item to the current Selection

Press <Append> to set the process going. You will see a message like the one below - its contents vary with the options taken.

At the end, a further message tells you what has been done: