Create!form Bind Technical Note

Chapter 1: Introducing Create!form Bind1.1 OverviewCreate!form Bind is a component of the Create!form® Distributed OutputManagement (DOM) system. The Create!form Bind module extends your documentcontrol and management options by combining a related group of text or PDFdocuments into a single file for storing, e-mailing or faxing directly to your client.Create!form Bind works by watching a specified directory and combining all files inthat directory using a pre-defined schedule. The bind schedule can be delayed until atrigger for the directory is activated or can automatically occur at a scheduled time, orboth options can be specified, depending on the settings you define.Once a bound document is completed, the original documents can be moved to adirectory you nominate, and the bound document is sent to the nominated outputdestination. The output destination can be configured to send documents to aCreate!form Server print queue for further processing, or to a nominated directory.To complete the document management cycle, Create!form Server canautomatically deliver your completed, merged documents to Create!print,Create!email, Create!fax or Create!archive. Please refer to the appropriate userguide for further details.1.2 Installing Create!form BindThe Create!form installation CD contains the Create!form Bind application which isinstalled on the Windows e-forms server.RequirementsThe following is required to install Create!form Bind:• Create!form installation CD.• Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server.• Approximately 10 Mb free disk space.• It is recommended you install Create!form Bind on the same machine asCreate!form Server.6 Create!form Bind