About custom commands

You can add custom commands to the vault to increase the functionality of your configuration. Custom commands can use any of the events, procedures, and objects available in VBScript. This generally limits command functionality to within a vault. To create custom functionality that extends outside of a vault, consider using external applications, as described in Configuring external pages and Linking to external applications or developing custom Visual Basic extensions as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Developer's Guide.

Custom commands can appear as buttons on a property page or as items on the shortcut menus of documents or folders.

Custom commands have the following limitations:

• They can be restricted to specific security roles.
• They do not affect folder contents recursively.

• Their scope is different depending on the object that is selected by the user, as listed in the following table.

  Custom command scopes

  Selected object	Command scope
  Normal folder	Documents within the folder
  Empty custom folder type	The selected folder
  Non-empty custom folder type	The selected folder and the documents that it contains
  Document	The selected document

The commands are defined in the Meridian Enterprise Script Editor as described in the following topics and using the event procedures described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise VBScript API Reference.