Both FileSite and Outlook provide preview areas, but these are not interchangeable. Sometimes the Outlook Reading Pane becomes enabled – incorrectly – for a particular FileSite folder. Users often confuse the functionality of these two previews, and think that there is a FileSite problem because the Reading pane cannot display the FileSite item contents. “This…
Choosing a simple, complete set of patterns: the meat-and-potatoes of a content migration analysis. How do you take the ‘raw’ content on a network drive, and move it into a document management system with ‘the right’ metadata? How will you accomplish this on-budget and on-time? Make the hard choices during business analysis – to determine…
Unless you are already succeeding beyond your wildest dreams, your law firm should have a business plan. Complacency – or inertia – leads to “We want to make more money by doing more of what we’ve always done – somehow with the same people or reduced staff.” The attitude carries through to the use of…
Because Content Migration to a Document Management system usually involves a blizzard of details, it’s important to set your targets firmly and keep on track to producing usable requirements. An Environment Baseline represents a thorough, accurate description of the original content – both its structure and file distributions throughout the structure. By analyzing that baseline and characterizing…