DocFinity User Guide for Searching/Viewing
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Login
DocFinity can be accessed through the my.fairfield.edu portal. NetID credentials are required to login to the system.
Login Window Details
Username = Your NetID
Password = Your NetID password
Consent page = Opens to DocFinity Workspaces home page
Your Workspace
The workspace can be customized to display panels of data and documents. Select the Panels tab and then the panels to display when you login. With only search and view access, you will likely want to see the Search, Results, and Document Viewer panels.
The panels can be minimized, removed, and resized. You can resize the panels by hovering over the lines between each panel and moving them left/right or up/down.
Saving Your Workspace
Select the Workspace tab in the top left, then select Save Workspace As. In the Save Workspace As window that appears, select Add Custom from the drop down menu and enter a custom name. The homepage will default to this saved workspace after each login. It can be changed at any time.
Searching
After documents have been scanned and indexed, they can be searched for the document(s).
Select Workspace > Searching to open the Search panel.
Enter data in the fields to narrow the search. Documents can be searched for by document type and title or any of the other available fields in the Search menu.
The Search Results panel will display all documents that met the search criteria. The columns can be sorted and rearranged by selecting the column headers.
Double click on a document to view it in the Document Viewer panel. Use the controls at the bottom of the Document Viewer panel to zoom in and out and scroll from page to page.
Exporting Document Title List
Select Workspaces > Searching and perform a search as outlined above.
From the Search Results panel, select Export to Spreadsheet
Select Panels>My Desktop.
Select Export Queue in the My Desktop panel to view the status of the export.
Processing or ready for download will be displayed in the status column. When the file is ready for download, a link to the file will appears in the File(s) to download column. All requests and the date the file will expire will appear in this view.
Select the file link to open and review the list of documents. Select OK in the window that appears to open the file in Excel and format it as needed.
DocFinity Interface Basics
The interfaces across DocFinity share similar features as described below. The size of workspaces can be changed using the browser's zoom controls.
List Page Controls | Displayed when a list of items is too long to display on a single page. Click the navigation controls to display the other pages in the list. | |
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Help | Click to open online help for the pop-up window. | |
Panel Menu | Click to open an options menu on panels. | |
Close | Closes the panel or window. | |
Minimize | Minimize the panel to a simple menu bar. | |
Restore | Restore the panel to normal size. | |
Full Screen | Maximize the panel to full screen. | |
Open in New Window | Will move the Viewer to a new window. | |
Checkbox | Selects / de-selects the adjacent item. When the checkbox is in the header of a list of item, clicking the checkbox selects / de-selects all the items in the list. Use shift-click to select multiple checkboxes. | |
Filter | If a list column header items is preceded by this symbol, the list can be filtered by selected items in that column. Click to open the Filter options. Filtering displays any list entry that contains the entered characters. | |
Filter Applied | Indicates the column is filtered. Click to open the Filter options. | |
| Resizable Panels | Click and drag to resize panels. |
Collapse/Expand Panel | Click to collapse or expand a panel. | |
Adjustable Column Widths | Most table columns can be resized. Hold the cursor over the header column divider until the resizing cursor appears, and then click and drag the divider to adjust it. | |
Collapse/Expand | Collapse or expand the menu item to hide or show additional information / selections. | |
Sortable Columns | Most tables can be sorted by column. Sort the items in a list by the selected column, either in descending or ascending order. |