Documents the change to pre-consume script and improves the readability

diff --git a/docs/advanced_usage.md b/docs/advanced_usage.md
index 61b1c072eec008a0b1c64a5ccd4e53ba5e5e9742..9a1abcfffdf908bf1585e32d3111ab5b9c399e9e 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/advanced_usage.md
+++ b/docs/advanced_usage.md
@@ -121,7 +121,17 @@ Executed after the consumer sees a new document in the consumption
 folder, but before any processing of the document is performed. This
 script can access the following relevant environment variables set:
 
-- `DOCUMENT_SOURCE_PATH`
+| Environment Variable    | Description                                                  |
+| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `DOCUMENT_SOURCE_PATH`  | Original path of the consumed document                       |
+| `DOCUMENT_WORKING_PATH` | Path to a copy of the original that consumption will work on |
+
+!!! note
+
+    Pre-consume scripts which modify the document should only change
+    the `DOCUMENT_WORKING_PATH` file or a second consume task may
+    be triggered, leading to failures as two tasks work on the
+    same document path
 
 A simple but common example for this would be creating a simple script
 like this:
@@ -130,7 +140,7 @@ like this:
 
 ```bash
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-pdf2pdfocr.py -i ${DOCUMENT_SOURCE_PATH}
+pdf2pdfocr.py -i ${DOCUMENT_WORKING_PATH}
 ```
 
 `/etc/paperless.conf`
@@ -157,26 +167,36 @@ Executed after the consumer has successfully processed a document and
 has moved it into paperless. It receives the following environment
 variables:
 
-- `DOCUMENT_ID`
-- `DOCUMENT_FILE_NAME`
-- `DOCUMENT_CREATED`
-- `DOCUMENT_MODIFIED`
-- `DOCUMENT_ADDED`
-- `DOCUMENT_SOURCE_PATH`
-- `DOCUMENT_ARCHIVE_PATH`
-- `DOCUMENT_THUMBNAIL_PATH`
-- `DOCUMENT_DOWNLOAD_URL`
-- `DOCUMENT_THUMBNAIL_URL`
-- `DOCUMENT_CORRESPONDENT`
-- `DOCUMENT_TAGS`
-- `DOCUMENT_ORIGINAL_FILENAME`
-
-The script can be in any language, but for a simple shell script
-example, you can take a look at
-[post-consumption-example.sh](https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/blob/main/scripts/post-consumption-example.sh)
-in this project.
-
-The post consumption script cannot cancel the consumption process.
+| Environment Variable         | Description                                   |
+| ---------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
+| `DOCUMENT_ID`                | Database primary key of the document          |
+| `DOCUMENT_FILE_NAME`         | Formatted filename, not including paths       |
+| `DOCUMENT_CREATED`           | Date & time when document created             |
+| `DOCUMENT_MODIFIED`          | Date & time when document was last modified   |
+| `DOCUMENT_ADDED`             | Date & time when document was added           |
+| `DOCUMENT_SOURCE_PATH`       | Path to the original document file            |
+| `DOCUMENT_ARCHIVE_PATH`      | Path to the generate archive file (if any)    |
+| `DOCUMENT_THUMBNAIL_PATH`    | Path to the generated thumbnail               |
+| `DOCUMENT_DOWNLOAD_URL`      | URL for document download                     |
+| `DOCUMENT_THUMBNAIL_URL`     | URL for the document thumbnail                |
+| `DOCUMENT_CORRESPONDENT`     | Assigned correspondent (if any)               |
+| `DOCUMENT_TAGS`              | Comma separated list of tags applied (if any) |
+| `DOCUMENT_ORIGINAL_FILENAME` | Filename of original document                 |
+
+The script can be in any language, A simple shell script example:
+
+```bash title="post-consumption-example"
+--8<-- "./scripts/post-consumption-example.sh"
+```
+
+!!! note
+
+    The post consumption script cannot cancel the consumption process.
+
+!!! warning
+
+    The post consumption script should not modify the document files
+    directly
 
 The script's stdout and stderr will be logged line by line to the
 webserver log, along with the exit code of the script.

diff --git a/mkdocs.yml b/mkdocs.yml
index 6314a44d309871ded2832cbbe7ac2fe461092268..03f24c4f36f5bf09fcfd2cdbe0f322157b64f864 100644 (file)
--- a/mkdocs.yml
+++ b/mkdocs.yml
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ markdown_extensions:
       anchor_linenums: true
   - pymdownx.superfences
   - pymdownx.inlinehilite
+  - pymdownx.snippets
 strict: true
 nav:
     - index.md