How to use Legal Review batch.exe

SYMPTOMS

• You notice that Legal Review is slow in showing the documents preview image representations. This may be the case for matters with a larger number of documents (>3000).
• You notice that Legal Review shows the documents preview image representations, but it is slow in showing hits for the pre-defined Keyword Highlighting groups (also known as "concept hits").
• You want to schedule Batch Assignment jobs to run at a pre-defined time of the day/night.

CAUSE

Not applicable.

RESOLUTION

You can improve the Legal Review performance in showing document preview image representations by running Legal Review batch.exe in 'pregen' mode. You can improve the Legal Review performances in showing hits for the pre-defined Keyword Highlighting groups by running the Legal Review batch.exe in 'concepthits' mode. You can also schedule Batch Assignment jobs by running Legal Review batch.exe in 'assign' mode.

A combination of the three modes (pregen, concepthits, and assign) can be started with a single call to the Legal Review batch.exe.

Legal Review batch.exe - pregen mode
You can launch Legal Review batch.exe in 'pregen' mode to start Tiff pre-generation actions for your matter(s), so that they don't need to be generated on the spot while revievers preview each document in Legal Review.
You can limit the scope of the Tiff pre-generation actions to a specific matter, and/or to a group of documents based on a query.

i.e. This is a valid example for eDiscovery Bundle 3.6:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\ZyLAB\EDiscovery\LegalReview\Tools\batch.exe" -q "reviewed=False" pregen -svc http://localhost/ediscovery/legalreview/Services/ClientService.svc -t 09:00:00 -v

NOTE: Legal Review batch.exe requires you to enter a time when the actions will start, it will remain running until the specified time comes.
NOTE: With the '-v' switch enabled, Legal Review batch.exe will output the actions on default output interface (display).

Legal Review batch.exe - concept hits mode
You can launch the Legal Review batch.exe in 'concepthits' mode to start "Concept hits pre-generation" actions for your matter(s). Keyword Highlighting groups have to be already defined in Legal Review for each matter.
You can limit the scope of the Concept hits pre-generation actions to a specific matter.

i.e. This is a valid example for eDiscovery Bundle 3.6:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\ZyLAB\EDiscovery\LegalReview\Tools\batch.exe" -q "reviewed=False" pregen concepthits -svc http://localhost/ediscovery/legalreview/Services/ClientService.svc -t 09:00:00 -v

NOTE: Legal Review batch.exe requires you to enter a time when the actions will start, it will remain running until the specified time comes.
NOTE: With the '-v' switch enabled, Legal Review batch.exe will output the actions on default output interface (display).

Legal Review batch.exe - assign mode
You can launch Legal Review batch.exe in 'assign' mode to start "Batch Assignment" actions for your matter(s). Batch Assignment rules have to be already defined in Legal Review for each matter.
You can limit the scope of the Batch Assignment actions to a specific matter.

i.e. This is a valid example for eDiscovery Bundle 3.6:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\ZyLAB\EDiscovery\LegalReview\Tools\batch.exe" -q "reviewed=False" assign -svc http://localhost/ediscovery/legalreview/Services/ClientService.svc -t 09:00:00 -v

NOTE: Legal Review batch.exe requires you to enter a time when the actions will start, it will remain running until the specified time comes.
NOTE: With the '-v' switch enabled, Legal Review batch.exe will output the actions on default output interface (display).

Legal Review batch.exe - Help content
You can access Legal Review batch.exe Help content by launching the tool in Command Line with no switches.

i.e. from Command Line launch the tool: "C:\Program Files (x86)\ZyLAB\EDiscovery\LegalReview\Tools\batch.exe"

Legal Review batch.exe -  Windows Scheduled Task
Legal Review batch.exe can be very handy when ran for all your matters in a Windows Scheduled task. The scheduled task can for instance be set to run overnight so that the reviewers will always have best performances in Legal Review during the day.

For instance you could create a weekly scheduled task to run all the above modes for all Legal Review matters in eDiscovery Bundle 3.6 using the following command.
schtasks /create /TN "Legal Review Batch Assign" /TR "'C:\Program Files (x86)\ZyLAB\EDiscovery\LegalReview\Tools\batch.exe' -q \"reviewed=False\" pregen concepthits assign -svc http://localhost/ediscovery/legalreview/Services/ClientService.svc -t 20:00:00" /SC WEEKLY /S localhost

APPLIES TO

3.2; 3.4; 3.5; 3.6