Opening Smart Folders
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To start working with the contents in the smart folder, you have to open the smart folder. 

To open the smart folder

Attachment Type Smart Folders

Smart Folders for different attachments are indicated by different folder icons or legends as displayed in the following figure. This helps in organizing and managing different types of attachments easily,

Transmittal Smart Folders

Transmittals can be managed using the transmittal type smart folders. Transmittals in the folder are displayed in the grid with its details.  Entire data in a selected smart folder grid can be exported to Microsoft Excel using the option ‘Export to Excel.’ On clicking Download, transmittal details are opened as a PDF document.

Recent folders

Smart folders which are recently visited by the user but not set as favourites are listed under the Recent folder.

Recently accessed smart folders are listed based on the count defined for the setting Number of items in recently opened lists’, in WRENCH Desktop version.

Navigating using bread crumbs

Bread crumb navigation  allows users to retrace their steps, or go back to a parent smart folder. In cases where there are a lot of child smart folders arranged one inside the other, bread crumb navigation can greatly enhance the way users find their way around.

Bread crumbs typically appear horizontally across the top of the page, below title bars or headers. They provide links back to each previous folder the user navigated through to get to the current folder. Bread crumbs provide a trail for the user to follow back to the starting or entry point. A greater-than sign (>) serves as hierarchy separator.

A bread crumb trail or path based on smart folder selection history is  as displayed in the following figure.

Figure: Bread crumb Navigation

When the name of a folder hierarchy is larger than the horizontal space available, name of folders from the left is removed except the name of last smart folders in the hierarchy. In place of removed folders,  “<<”  is displayed.

Downloading attachments

Document attachments can be downloaded directly from the smart folder. Documents with attachments are indicated using the attachment icon as shown in the following figure.

  1. Click the attachment icon to download the attachment.

Document Attachments window is displayed.

Figure: Document Attachments window

  1. Select the attachment that you want to download and click Download.

Attachment is downloaded.

Filtering smart folder items

Items that are displayed in the smart folder grid can be filtered by applying filters on column headers. Once filters are applied, items based on the filters are only displayed in the grid.

To apply filters

Clearing filters

Once content in smart folder are filtered, data is displayed in the grid as required. When the user starts working on the documents at some point of time there are chances the user searches a document and will be unable to find it. User may not be sure about the multiple filters applied in the smart folder. User has to move through multiple column headers and check the filters. This is confusing and time consuming. To handle such situation option to view and clear the applied filters is available.

To clear filters

Advanced filtering

Though it is possible to filter the columns that are displayed in the grid, If there are addition columns available in the grid, instead of scrolling to the right side to view the columns and filter the documents, the advanced filtering option can be used. User can easily search using different parameters from that filter window.

To apply the advanced filter

Viewing transmittal released documents

Only latest transmittal released documents can be displayed in a separate Smart Folder. To make this possible while creating personal folders in WRENCH ENT server, option to create personal folders exclusively to display transmittal released documents is selected. 

From the smart folder on clicking download, latest transmittal released revision and version of the document will be downloaded. 

On clicking the document link, document details of latest transmittal released document revision will be displayed. 

When user view or download the document, the latest transmittal released revision and version of the document will be downloaded.

When user perform the following operations, system  download/view /print the respective attachment, attached to the transmittal released revision and version of the document.

Grouping smart folder information

Content in the smart folder can be grouped based on the column header. Grouping can be done for document, task and correspondence smart folders.

To group based on columns

Grouping Correspondences

It is possible to  group correspondence smart folder data in the grid using columns where the mail status is represented by images. Also confidential mails can also be grouped.

To group correspondence by mail status

To group confidential and non-confidential mails


Right-click menu operations

A right-click menu is available for smart folder, which displays only the operations that can be carried out for the current selection.

In the right-click menu of a single smart folder the following menu is displayed.

Figure: Right-click menu operations

Create: Click this option to create a smart folder. For more information see Creating Smart Folder.

Edit: After selecting a smart folder click this option to edit the smart folder details and smart folder rules.

Delete: Click this option to remove a selected folder and its sub-folders. On clicking this option an alert message Are you sure to delete selected folders and sub folders is displayed. On clicking folders are deleted and a confirmation message Folders are deleted successfully is displayed.

Favourite: Click this option to add a folder to the Favourite folder. For more information see Adding folders to favourites.

Copy: Click this option after selecting a folder to copy the folder and its contents. When a new project is created, user will copy the existing smart folder and paste it to the new project being created and rename the folder.

Paste: After selecting a folder and copying it click Paste to paste the contents of the folder to the desired location. When smart folders are copied and pasted, rules and views published in the source smart folder are also copied to the target folder.

Publish: Click this option to share the selected folder to users or user groups. For more information see Publishing Smart Folder.

Assign Custom Property LOV: Click this option to assign LOV values of a custom property to the selected folder. On clicking this option Select Custom Property LOV window is displayed. In the window different characters are listed. On selecting a character, values assigned to the character are displayed. Select the required value.

Hide: Click this option to hide the selected folder. For more information see Hiding and Unhiding folders.

Generate Template: Click this option to create an MS Excel template using which folder structures can be imported in bulk. In the generated folder enter the hierarchy of the folders,  name of the folder and save the file. 

Import Folder: On clicking this option Bulk Import Wizard is displayed. Click Choose File to select the MS Excel file that contains smart folder details for import and click Next button.

Properties: On clicking this option after selecting a folder details of the folder is displayed. 

On clicking the operations icon after selecting a single folder the same menu is displayed. If a user right-clicks on a smart folder directly, operations menu is displayed.

In the right-click menu for multiple smart folders the following items will be displayed.

The same menu is displayed when multiple folders are selected and smart folders operation icon is clicked.

In the right-click menu that is displayed for single or multiple folder selection from Favourites section only option Remove from favourites will be displayed.