Deploying standard preferences

If necessary, you can deploy a standard set of preferences for all existing Meridian Power users. This might be useful for important options that the users can configure themselves, such as:

• Use Oracle AutoVue Client/Server deployment to view documents: To enable document viewing
• View renditions: To discourage viewing source documents that might not yet be released
• Current time zone: To ensure correct time values

The default values for the preference options can be set in the following Meridian web server registry key that is described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Administrator's Guide:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cyco\AutoManager Meridian\CurrentVersion\WebLink\UserPreferences\Default

The values are overridden by the user’s own selections that are stored in their personal profile file on the web server. By default, the profile files are stored in C:\inetpub\AMM\Profiles.

If you do not have access to the server registry but you do have access to the file system, you can deploy standard settings using the profile files. The name of each profile file looks like S-1-5-21-1753209238-1745623247-3704251221-1004.prf and the user’s name is not stored in the file. Therefore, it is not obvious which one is the profile file for a specific user.

Tip    You can see the creator of a file by adding the Owner column in Windows Explorer. If the owner is a member of the local or domain Administrators group, the group name will appear instead of their user account name.

To deploy standard preference options:

1. Identify a user’s profile file that you want to use as a template for the other users, for example, your own profile file. Which user you choose is not important except that the preferences for that user will become the preferences of all other users to which you copy the template.
2. Log in to Meridian Power with that account, set all the preferences to meet your requirements as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise User’s Guide, and log out.
3. Open the template profile file in any text editor.
4. Copy the settings to the Clipboard that you want to deploy to the other users.
5. Modify each of the other profile (.prf) files:
   1. Open the profile file in any text editor.
   2. Paste the Clipboard settings over the existing settings.
   3. Ensure that none of the settings are duplicated within the same profile file.
   4. Save and close the file.

The changes will take effect in the users’ next Meridian Power session. The users can still override the settings, but the standard settings will get them started. This technique only works for existing Meridian Power users who have an existing profile file; it will not affect new users. Their preference settings are determined by the web server registry key previously described.