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The date created and date modified fields for a file are not user editable. Are they the only date fields available in the doumcnets window?  The created date records the date the file was added to smokeball not the date on whcih the document was created if it was created outside smokeball. 

I would like to suggest there be a “date of document” field which is user modifiable.

When evidentiary material is imported into smokeball it takes the created date but it is likely - certainly in litigation - to have a date which is different. The date of a document which has been imported is often cirtical to its role in the case. You should be able to sort on the date the document has within smokeball withiout changing the name of the document. This way the evidentiary folders in a smokeball matter can be sorted into chrnological order and you can read them in sequence or find them easily.

 

We would like to see that option added to SB as well..

In the meantime, our workaround is we stick to a file naming convention that starts with the date of the document: “YYYY-MM-DD - file description - matter”

 


Hello @Sheldon and @JG3 ,

If you have not already done so, please also submit a feature suggestion here for US and here for AU.

I agree that it would be especially helpful to have this option for documents that are scanned in, to put on the date the document was first issued rather than the date the scan was created.


To take this great idea a bit further, what about other document centric fields like date reviewed], reviewer], date disclosed], privileged], work product], etc. Add in a report for these features and you would have a light discovery review and production tool in the vein of https://www.relativity.com/.

 

Going really far out, SB could create a portal for law firm contractors to do discovery review and sell extra licenses for that purpose.


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