Creating and editing a share

After the GCF has been installed correctly, you can share documents to make them available to the GCF for collaboration. You must also define shares in the local system for the remote repositories with which the local users will collaborate.

To create or edit a share:

Open Meridian Enterprise Configurator with the vault that will collaborate with GCF.

Expand Environment in the configuration tree and select Vault Settings. The vault’s settings appear in property pages in the right pane.

Click the GCF Configuration tab. The GCF Configuration property page appears.

Click the Edit button in the lower right corner of the window. The page becomes editable.

To delete a share, select it and click Delete.

To edit a share, select it, and click the Edit button. The GCF Share Details dialog box appears.

To create a new share, click New. The GCF Share Details dialog box appears.

Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

Shared vault options
Option	Description
Share type	Select the appropriate system type for the share that you are creating.
Share name	The name of the share as you want to use it for GCF configuration, for example, PARISPROJECTS.
Remote vault name Project Portal site	The address of the repository to associate with the share. For Meridian Enterprise vaults, this is the Web Access location name. This is displayed in the Meridian Enterprise Administrator in the column labelled Name when Web Access is selected in the configuration tree. For other system types, this is the URL of the site.
Web Access address Web service address	For Meridian Enterprise vaults, the URL used to start a Web Access session with the vault, without the /Start parameter at the end. By default, this is http://<ServerName>/Meridian. For system types other than Meridian Enterprise, the URL of the GCF Remote Access Web Service, for example, http://<ServerName>/GCFRemoteWS/GCFRemoteAccess.asmx. Note You may leave this option empty or precede the URL with an underscore (_) character. For example, _http://<ServerName>/Meridian. In that case, you will create an offline share as described in Understanding offline shares and NEW Implementing a star topology.
User name	The name of a Meridian Enterprise user account with privileges to use Web Access.
Password	The password of the account specified for User Name.
Protocol	Select the protocol that you want the share to use. For share types other than Meridian Enterprise, select File Copy. Multiple transfer protocols can be configured on the same server, each for a different share. For a description of how the GCF uses the HTTP protocol and to configure the location that is used by Web Access to store incoming briefcases, see Understanding the HTTP protocol.
Address	If for Protocol you selected the FTP or File Copy protocols or if you specified a custom component protocol that uses a transfer folder, type the path to the folder that contains the incoming briefcases.
Configure portal GCF processor	For system types other than Meridian Enterprise, select this option and click Portal Account to specify an account with which the GCF processor can access the system.

Shared vault options

Option

Description

Share type

Select the appropriate system type for the share that you are creating.

Share name

The name of the share as you want to use it for GCF configuration, for example, PARISPROJECTS.

Remote vault name

Project Portal site

The address of the repository to associate with the share. For Meridian Enterprise vaults, this is the Web Access location name. This is displayed in the Meridian Enterprise Administrator in the column labelled Name when Web Access is selected in the configuration tree. For other system types, this is the URL of the site.

Web Access address

Web service address

For Meridian Enterprise vaults, the URL used to start a Web Access session with the vault, without the /Start parameter at the end. By default, this is http://<ServerName>/Meridian.

For system types other than Meridian Enterprise, the URL of the GCF Remote Access Web Service, for example, http://<ServerName>/GCFRemoteWS/GCFRemoteAccess.asmx.

Note You may leave this option empty or precede the URL with an underscore (_) character. For example, _http://<ServerName>/Meridian. In that case, you will create an offline share as described in Understanding offline shares and NEW Implementing a star topology.

User name

The name of a Meridian Enterprise user account with privileges to use Web Access.

Password

The password of the account specified for User Name.

Protocol

Select the protocol that you want the share to use. For share types other than Meridian Enterprise, select File Copy. Multiple transfer protocols can be configured on the same server, each for a different share. For a description of how the GCF uses the HTTP protocol and to configure the location that is used by Web Access to store incoming briefcases, see Understanding the HTTP protocol.

Address

If for Protocol you selected the FTP or File Copy protocols or if you specified a custom component protocol that uses a transfer folder, type the path to the folder that contains the incoming briefcases.

Configure portal GCF processor

For system types other than Meridian Enterprise, select this option and click Portal Account to specify an account with which the GCF processor can access the system.

Click OK to save your changes. If any required fields are not completed, a warning

icon will appear next to each field. Complete the empty fields and try again.

In the Local share name list, select the share name that you typed for Share name to represent the local vault.

Repeat steps 7 to 9 with corresponding values for each remote share with which the local share will collaborate.

For Meridian Enterprise shares, ensure that the vault is published as a web location in Web Access. For more information, see the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Administrator's Guide.

Related concepts

Understanding the HTTP protocol

Understanding the system requirements

Understanding offline shares

Related tasks

Installing the GCF

Registering the Meridian Enterprise extensions

Creating the tables

Importing the briefcase settings

Merging registry settings

Importing the VBScript code

Installing the GCF processors

Suppressing custom code during GCF operations

Upgrading GCF

Related information

GCF privileges

Contents of the distribution package


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