Processing a Draft Production

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Processing a Draft Production

Converting documents to images is an iterative process. The system processes documents in productions in 4 distinct "phases":

Phase

What the software is doing

When this phase executes

Sequencing

Checks to see that all documents have been assigned a sequence number. The sequence number determines the order in which documents will be processed and assigned Bates numbers. If new documents have been added to the production DWR will offer to either re-sequence the production so that the new documents are sequenced properly or add them on to the end of the production.

After configuring the settings for your production. See Production Settings.

Conversion

For documents being produced as natives, this phase is very fast as there is nothing to "print". During this phase, the production is examined for documents that have not yet been converted to images.

After right-clicking your production and selecting "Prepare Production..."

Bates Assignment

The production is examined to make sure all documents have a Bates number. If errors occur during conversion, documents will have a page count of 0. In these cases, DWR is unable to assign a Bates range. Resolve the errors or remove the problem documents from the production so that Bates numbers can be assigned.

After right-clicking your production and selecting "Endorse production..."

Endorsement

The production is examined to make sure all documents that have been assigned Bates numbers have been endorsed. For documents being produced as natives, this phase involves copying the native document into DWR's internal production location and generating the slip sheet.

After Bates numbers have been assigned.

If a document encounters an error at any phase, resolve the error and restart the appropriate production phase to continue. See Triaging Production Problems for more details on resolving problems.