An event is a representation of a

document

at a particular stage of processing. The

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server generates events as it processes

documents

, and it changes the status of the events as they go through the transformation process.

When the

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server receives a file that contains documents to process, it generates an event associated with the file. This initial event is a file-level event. It is the root event for the file and is the parent event for all other events that the

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server generates during the course of processing the documents in the file. The workflow that processes the document can generate child events of the file-level event during document processing.

An event changes status as it is processed. The

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server changes the status of an event based on a set of event statuses that you define in the Operation Console. .