Enter a descriptive display name. This text will be visible in the Meridian Enterprise Configurator and helps to identify the interface extension when assigning it to the objects that will be affected by the extension.

The Meridian Enterprise clients support interface extensions on many of the object types in a vault. The most common interface extensions are for documents. An interface extension can be assigned to a specific document type. If you are creating an extension that will affect documents, select AMDocument from the list. Otherwise, select any. This will cause the Meridian Enterprise Configurator to prevent the extension from being applied to other object types. It will also limit the events that you can modify to only those that are applicable to documents.

The most common purpose for an interface extension is to add custom property pages to documents or other object classes. Enable this option to cause the Meridian Enterprise clients to execute your extension to display its custom property pages and commands.

Enable this option to extend the process of creating new documents, folders, and work areas with custom pages that can be displayed by the object’s creation wizard. You may also use the events exposed by this option to respond to other object events.

Enable this option to extend work area events.

Working Copy Extension

Enable this option to extend the working copy events that occur when documents are revised and the vault’s Work Isolation Mode is set to On. When Work Isolation Mode is set to Off, these events apply to the Start Quick Change and Release Quick Change events instead.

Enable this option to extend the basic file and folder events.

Enable this option to extend the document workflow events that occur when the vault’s Work Isolation Mode is set to Off.

Enable this option to extend the events that occur when user role assignments are changed.

Depending on the extension type options you choose, corresponding lists of applicable events will either be enabled or disabled in this option grouping. The events are procedures or functions that you can customize in the code page of the Interface Extension designer. When your extension is running, the Meridian Enterprise client application will invoke these procedures when the user initiates the corresponding event.

Selecting an event and clicking the Edit Code button will create the event procedure declaration and insert some default code as the framework for your programming.