Extended Field Property Manager

The Extended Field Property (XFP) manager may be used to assign custom properties and their values to any field in Web Capture.

These custom properties are carried forward into the user interface, where they may be used by custom clients to determine additional behaviors or rendering for the field. These properties may also be used for custom styling in clients, including the Web Capture client, by adding markup to the HTML, which can be targeted by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) selectors.

Web Capture includes some prepopulated properties for supporting Kofax Mobile Server and they cannot be modified or deleted. For more information on using the XFP for Kofax Mobile, see the Kofax Mobile Server configuration guide.

The Properties panel in the Extended Field Properties Manager form displays each property and its values. The Applicable Fields panel displays all the fields Web Capture supports and which fields are associated to the XFP currently selected in the Properties panel.

The toolbar at the top of the form allows your own custom properties to be added, edited, and deleted. The Add and Edit toolbar buttons will open the Property dialog box, where the property name is defined with its list of values and whether more than one value can be selected for the property.

See more information on styling the Extended Field Properties in Custom Styling in Web Capture.

Configuring an image field

There is not an Image field type, but the Extended Fields Properties Manager can be used to configure an input field to attach an image on a Web Capture form using the Signature field type.

First, define an extended field property named BCInput and add Image as an option in its values list.

On the Extended Field Property Manager dialog, click Add Property. Enter BCInput for Name and Image for Value, then click OK.

Then, for each intended image field, use a Signature field type and assign the field’s BCInput extended field property as Image.

Select a form (or add a new form) from the Menus tab of the Web Capture Properties dialog to launch the Form Settings dialog. On the Fields tab, for each desired image field assign Signature as Type and under Extended Field Properties add BCInput name with a value of Image.

Each signature field’s metadata entry is checked on Business Connect's javascript layer to verify that a BCInput key with Image value exists. As these values are case-sensitive, there might be an additional step needed on the Business Connect server to refine the signature field metadata to improve client side detection and accuracy.

Detected image fields display an upload/attach icon on the right of the input field on the form.

Images that are attached to index fields won’t be included in the attachment list and won’t be affected by the AutoStore form setting Maximum number of files.