Integration with custom applications, scheduled tasks and other automation using the command line interface.

Command Line Arguments

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Command Line Interface reference. In addition to running a particular SimpleIndex Job Configuration with a command line script, other features might be required. This could be stopping dialogs from turning on, suppressing dialog boxes or passing the input or output folder to the Job. Below you
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Command Line Sample

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Command Line Interface reference. When using the Simple Software products it can be beneficial to run the software from a command line script. With this you can run other Simple Software Job configurations or Windows Batch Files (.bat) or Task Manager or other command line methods automatically. You
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Command Line to Auto-close SimpleIndex

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete command line interface reference. This is used to closed SimpleIndex after the job has been completed automatically. This can be useful if you only run one batch in SimpleIndex at a time and don’t need it after that batch is complete. Instructions to Auto-close SimpleIndex when Batch is complete: Alternate
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Fixes for Service not Correctly Running

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Index & Batch Logging reference. If the ​Service stops and isn’t running properly there can be a variety of different causes for this.  You can follow the procedures below to fix this in most cases. Check Event Log, which is here: Administrative Tools>Event Viewer>Windows Logs>Application  Then select “Filter Current Log…”
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Stop Autorun When Double Clicking Configuration

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Settings Wizard reference. SimpleIndex jobs can be launched from an icon, just like opening a Word document saved on your desktop. However when you do this the default behavior is to automatically run the job file once it opens in SimpleIndex. If you just want to open the job without
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Continue with Post Process Command Line if Input Folder is Empty

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete command line interface reference. When running multiple jobs in a row or chain with the Post Process Command Line it is possible that an earlier Job in the process won’t have any files. This will stop the Job before reaching the Post Process step and cause later jobs not to
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Can I split a PDF based on bookmark values?

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the PDF Bookmarking reference. SimpleIndex can create PDF files with bookmarks based on the index data captured in your batch. Going the other way–splitting an existing PDF file based on the bookmark value–is not a built-in feature of SimpleIndex. However there are inexpensive command line utilities that you can integrate with
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