Classifiction Station drag and drop is broken

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When classifying with Classification Station (not in Action Center, I haven’t tried it in Action Center) it will not allow you to drag pages that aren’t split, and it won’t allow you to drag a page more than one line up. For example:

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If I want to drag the 2nd page from the 3rd section, I have to split the third section into three separate files first. I should be able to drag any page from anywhere to anywhere.

If I do split it into three separate files so it will allow me to drag the page I want, it only allows me to drag it up (or down) one level. I can’t drag from the third section to the first section.

I also cannot drag a page to move where it is within a section, it will only drag to the end of a section.

This interface is pretty poor, honestly. It’s so poorly designed that this could end up being a show stopper on an automation I’ve been working on for months, that is high visibility and high value.

And no, switching to Action Center is not feasible for this automation - never mind Action Center itself needs a lot of work to be truly usable.

I also noticed it’ll let me drag the first page of a section up to the previous section, or the last page down to the next section, but I can’t drag the first page down nor the last page up.

This is a mess, IMO. We should just be able to drag any page from anywhere to anywhere. And when we drop it, it shouldn’t automatically go to the end of the section we drop it on. The way it’s designed we cannot reorder pages the way we need to, the entire document would have to be manually resorted and rescanned - defeating the purpose of Classification Station.

And yes, I know the “drag from anywhere to anywhere” means the way we use page start and count to then split the pages into individual files wouldn’t work any more. But that’s because “page start + page count” is a poor way to design it. The range should just accept a delimited list of the pages. So I could split a PDF into two separate documents with the first one being pages “1,3,5” from the original, and the second one being “2,4,6” from the original. Or even out of order, it should be able to take pages “1,2,6,3,9,8,15” and put them into one document.

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Hello @postwick ,

this is on our improvements list, we are aware that reordering the pages within a file is an important missing feature.

Thanks,

Ioana

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That’s great news, thank you! I would add to this that I think Form, Classification Station, and Validation Station should all be one interface instead of three separate. I want my user to be able to enter high level information that applies to all documents, split and classify the document, and fill in fields specific to each document type - all in one step instead of three separate steps.