In my opinion, the features mentioned above are worth the price alone, but ScanEZ offers a lot more. Besides being able to play in documents, you can also see and edit profile documents. I had, as I'm sure most of you, NotesPeek installed to see profile documents. We have an application where what the user can see and do is controlled through profile documents. We sometimes have profile documents that get corrupted or that have some missing fields. With ScanEZ, I can not only find the bad profile, but I can actually fix it by copying missing fields from a good profile and edit the new fields as necessary. That is a great time saver.

I also demonstrated the usefulness of ScanEZ to our admins: one of them was looking at a way of deleting the out of office profile document from a mail file. Instead of coding him an agent, I showed him how easy it is to do this with ScanEZ. He then asked what other cool things that tool is capable of and bang! The "I want it" phrase came out of his mouth. "I'll show that to the others admins. Where can we buy this tool?" was his next sentence.

One nice thing about ScanEZ is what they call "My Selection". It's like a folder that contains the documents you want, either by searching with formulas or UNIDs, or any other ways ScanEZ provides to build that collection. What is really great is that you can actually build and name as many "My Selection" folders as you want. That way, you can have several search criteria used and you can do batch work in documents in a flash. There are so many ways to build such a collection in ScanEZ that I am sure I am not covering them all in this article. But trust me, each and every way to build a collection is very useful.

Other than that, you can also navigate through responses of a document. Figure F shows the tab that appears when one or more responses are available for a specific document.

FIGURE F


When one or more responses are available for a specific document, a new tab appears. Roll over picture for a larger image.

I even learned that there can be replication conflicts to profile documents with this feature, as replication conflicts show up as response documents. You can also change the replica ID, template that the database inherits from, database title, categories (for the DB catalog), see the replication history as well as the user activity of the database, shown in Figure G.

FIGURE G


You can see a lot of database information. Roll over picture for a larger image.

A "Conflict Solver" and a "Document Analyzer" are also part of ScanEZ. Conflict Solver has a pretty clear utility: help resolve replication conflicts. It has a very useful feature that lets you hide identical fields so you can concentrate on fields where there is an actual difference. The Document Analyzer gives useful information on a document, but it can also be used to find orphan documents. You can add the orphans to "My Selection" (list of documents you build to work on them in batch) and do whatever you need to do with them in a very simple operation.