Short Message Format Workflow

1. Under Selective Set Module, create a New Selective Set.

2. Under Selective Set Builder use the dropdown arrow to choose Short Message.

3. You may check Apply Date Restriction and then choose a date or dates After, Before or Between specified values. This will filter on Master Date.

4. Under the Short Message tab, you may choose to:

   1. Specify the Conversations for export, recalling that RSMF conversations are grouped by day (in PDF digest documents) and continuing conversation are threaded together in PDF metadata.

   2. Specify the Participants of interest for export (using either CONVERSATIONPARTICIPANTS or CONVERSATIONSLICESENDERS as set out under Exports below).

5. Add these values to the Selective Set Table.

6. Run Search.

   

RSMF Export

• CONVERSATION - This should be populated with the display field in RSMFConversations for all exported events.

• CONVERSATIONID - This should be populated with the Id field in RSMFConversations for all exported events.

• CONVERSATIONPARTICIPANTS - This should be all participants in a given conversation.

• CONVERSATIONSLICESENDERS - This should be all participants who sent messages within a given 24-hour window.

• CONVERSATIONPLATFORM - RSMF text application, capturing values such as SMS, WhatsApp, etc.

Note

If the Parentid field is populated inside of the source rsmf_manifest.json, Reveal Processing will group these events together as a family/thread instead of grouping together by time slice. In this event, the exported record will include all events for that family/thread regardless of their date/time.

Keyword searching and selective set filtering can isolate individual events within a conversation. If isolated events are exported, they will be exported without the rest of the conversation. The exception to this is if the events are part of a Parentid field family/thread as described above.

Note

Native Only exports allows for some export capabilities of RSMF data by exporting parent RSMD Events to create an EML.

HTM is the default export format when Conv. by Day is the method chosen for handling short messages.

This rendering should include inline images, icons, and avatars as appropriate. Responses and Reactions should be indicated with a tab structure. Given a FileID for a short message within a conversation, create a rendering of a 24-hour window of messages within the conversation. Ultimately what is developed here is what will be utilized at export time.

RSMF in Review

Once exported to Review from Processing, the RSMF conversation slice documents and metadata will be available for review.

For additional technical information about RSMF, please see Processing Short Message Format (RSMF).