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Data In Motion Triggers

Data In Motion triggers include general settings that let you specify which types of document you want the CPSA to detect. Edit your trigger settings as required. For example, you can specify search text to detect prohibited words or phrases in files being printed. Pay particular attention to these settings:

Which File Sources?

In each Data In Motion trigger, this setting instructs the trigger to analyze files or documents captured by various CA DataMinder agents. Verify that the following agent is selected:

• Client Print System Agent

  You must select this agent if you want to analyze documents being printed.

Targets (printers)

Use the Targets settings to define the names of printers that you want to monitor or exempt. You can specify lists of included or excluded printers.

Note: Depending on the Which File Sources? setting, the Targets settings can specify lists of removable devices, printer names, network folders, URLs, or writable CD drives.

The printer name typically comprises the printer model plus customized location details. For example, 'HP Color LaserJet 4650 PCL 6  1st Floor'. We recommend that you specify the exact printer name. Printer names are shown in the Devices and Printers applet. You can also use ? and * wildcards, for example, to specify all printers by a specific manufacturer.

If you set up the trigger to use:

• Included printers, the trigger only fires if a user tries to send a document to a listed printer.
• Excluded printers, these printers are exempted from control by the CPSA. But attempts to send documents to any other (unlisted) printer will cause the trigger to fire.

Top Level File Names

The concept of a file name is not valid for CA DataMinder print events. For example, you can print a single page from an unsaved (and unnamed) document. Therefore, you must set the Top Level File Names setting to * (an asterisk wildcard).

Important! Do not set the Top Level File Names setting to any value except '*'. For example, if you change the value from * to myreport.doc or *.docx, the Data In Motion trigger is unable to detect any print events!

About document titles

You can specify document titles. Although file names are not valid for print events, they do typically contain a document title. For Microsoft Office documents, the document title is often the same as the file name. You can therefore use an XML Attribute data lookup command to test the document title of a print event. Include the lookup command in the Data Lookup Command setting.

Intervention

In each Data In Motion control action, the Intervention setting determines how the trigger handles attempts to print documents. The available options include Inform, Warn and, in particular, Block. If set to Warn, CA DataMinder allows the user to choose whether to continue and send their document to the printer; if set to block, the print operation via the selected printer is denied.