BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise 2017 Configuration Guide

Configuring hotspot navigation

By default, when a user clicks a hotspot in the AutoVue viewer, Meridian immediately navigates to the document or asset object (Meridian Asset Management Module only) that is linked to that hotspot. You can configure Meridian to show a dialog that lists the vault objects that are referenced by the linked document or object instead. If a hotspot is linked to another document, the dialog will show the linked document’s name and the objects that are linked to that document. Conversely, if a hotspot is linked to an object, the dialog will show the linked object’s name and the documents that are linked to that object. This can be useful if users typically want to navigate beyond the object that is linked to the hotspot.

Note    If the user does not have access to the folder that contains linked documents, they will be shown an Access denied error message.

Hotspots can be created manually as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise User’s Guide. They can also be created automatically from AutoCAD attribute tag names as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Asset Management Module Administrator’s Guide.

To configure hotspot navigation:

1. In Configurator, expand Environment in the configuration tree and select Application Link Settings. The settings for each application link appear in property pages in the right pane.
2. Click the Application Integration tab. The Application Integration settings page appears in the right pane.

3. Click the Edit button to modify the settings.

   Tip    To export the settings file to your computer, click the Export button. This can be useful if you would rather edit the file in your favorite text editor. You can then copy your changes to the Clipboard and paste them into Configurator.

4. Locate the section of the file titled [Hotspots] and locate the Action setting. If the [Hotspots] section or Action setting do not yet exit, create them at the bottom of the file as in the following example. The value of the Action setting determines what Meridian does when a user clicks a hotspot.

   [Hotspots]
   Action=SelectionDialog

5. Edit the value of Action using the descriptions in the following table.
6. Click OK to save your changes.