2023.1:Secondary Types (Property)

Secondary Types allow the application of multiple Content Types to a single Batch Folder.

About

One of the most important questions to ask about a document traveling through Grooper is "what kind of document is this?". Of course, answering this question is represented in Grooper through the Classify activity. Specifically, Classification in Grooper associates a Batch Folder (or document) with a Content Type. Once a Content Type is applied to the folder, Grooper knows which Content Model to leverage for the remaining logical operations concerning the Batch Folder like what to extract from it, among other things.
Historically only one Content Type could be assigned to a Batch Folder, limiting the logical operations that could be applied to it, but with Secondary Types this is no longer a limitation.

A Simple Example

Following we will see a simple example of the role Secondary Types can play.

In the "Multiple Types, Single Document" Project we have two distinct Document Types with their own models, but the accompanying Batch has three documents, and one happens to be a document that could reasonably be seen as either of the two Document Types.