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In the transition from paper to electronic documents, file organization was never properly considered. With paper filing, although error prone and inefficient, at least offered logical and intuitive methodology. Specialized filing cabinets and folders became the standard throughout all industries, so anyone could find what they needed after the briefest of orientations. Digital documents, although far superior in every other way, were never as simple to organize as paper files. In the last article, we looked at how naming conventions helped user see document information in the file.

Early in the lifecycle of a new FileHold installation, we often find customers who have a list of dropdown menu options they would like to add that is too large to be practical to add manually as a FileHold managed list, but too small to warrant maintaining in an external database. They could use our configuration import tool, but that might be too cumbersome if there is just a single field that needs updating.

Powershell and the FileHold API to the rescue. If we have a text file with a list of our options, perhaps we could add them as simply as by using a single command line.

Just in case you missed it, check out part 1 for an introduction to this topic.

In part 1 we configured the FileHold application server to be able to decrypt any database columns encrypted with the SQL Server Always Encrypted feature. In part 2 we will help you find and encrypt a database column. Make sure you read part 1 before jumping in here.

Here at FileHold we talk to many organizations every day who are looking for document management software. These companies are looking at document management for a variety of reasons; sometimes it is compliance, efficiency issues, organizational growth, disaster recovery, remote workers, etc. In many of these cases, FileHold is exactly what they are looking for. Then we do not hear from them again. It is not that they found another solution, or did not like our offering, or even changed their mind on needing FileHold.