Grooper Web Client (Application)

This article is about the current version of Grooper. Note that some content may still need to be updated.
2025	2023

The Grooper user interface is accessed using a web browser from a URL. The Grooper Web Client is the application that installs the Grooper website on a web server.

• Internet Information Services (IIS) must be installed prior to installing the Grooper Web Client.
• Grooper must be installed prior to installing the Grooper Web Client.
  • The Grooper installer lays down the program files required for the application to run.
  • The Grooper Web Client installs the Grooper website which provides the application's user interface.

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⚠	The Grooper Web Client DOES NOT support Internet Explorer. The following browsers are supported: Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Apple Safari Other modern browsers may work but have not been fully tested.

After the Grooper Web Client is installed, Grooper users can connect to the Grooper website and access one or more Grooper Repositories. Different areas of the Grooper application can be accessed by one of nine main navigation pages.

The nine Grooper pages:

• Home Page - Where Grooper users can navigate to other pages and see recent events in the Grooper Repository's event log.
• Design Page - Where Grooper designers make processing resources like Batch Processes and Content Models and perform administrative functions.
• Batches Page - Where Grooper Review users can select work from a list of Batches in production. This page also provides administrative functions to start and stop Batch processing, reset steps and update the Batch Processes assigned to Batches (if the user has appropriate rights granted to them).
• Tasks Page - Where Grooper Review users can access a continuous flow of Review tasks. Filtering can be set to only receive Review tasks meeting a defined set of criteria.
• Imports Page - Where Grooper users can perform ad-hoc (or "user directed") imports and view the status of Import Jobs created by an Import Watcher.
• Jobs Page - Where Grooper users can inspect information about Processing Jobs executed by Activity Processing services.
• Stats Page - Where Grooper users can generate reports about Batch processing statistics.
• Search Page - Where Grooper users can perform search queries for documents indexed by Grooper AI Search.
• Chat Page - Where Grooper users can select an AI Assistant, a conversational AI that is knowledgeable about different resources a Grooper designer connects to it. This can include documents, data in a database and data returned by an API.

You may also want to refer to the following articles pertaining to the Grooper Web Client.

1. Install and Setup
   • This article shows you how to install the Grooper product suite, including the Grooper Web Client.
   • Information about installing the Grooper Web Client (including information on installing IIS) can be found in the Setting up and installing Grooper Web Client section.
2. Review User Guide
   • This article is geared towards end users who will use Grooper to review the automated document processing results in a Batch Process.
   • Detailed information on how to use the various modules to review document classification, data extraction, and more is included in the article.
3. Review Designer Guide
   • This article is geared towards Grooper Design users in charge of architecting Grooper resources (Batch Processes, Content Models, etc).
   • This contains information and advice for Design users on how to configure Review steps in a Batch Process and other tips to increase the value of the user's review experience.