Understanding project definitions

All of the functionality of Managed Change revolves around project definitions. Project definitions are the elementary building blocks upon which project folders are created to contain project copies of master documents for revision.

Project definitions are created by a system administrator with the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Configurator tool. Project definitions determine the following characteristics of a project folder:

• The associated custom folder type that can have custom properties and can limit where project folders may be created within the vault’s folder structure.

Although project definitions can be complex, from the end user’s perspective, using project folders is relatively straightforward. Any project folders available in a vault are listed on menus alongside available folder types and document types for easy selection.