About vaults

The vault is the primary object of a TeamWork system and where the documents and other objects that TeamWork manages reside. Its configuration determines many aspects of how the system will function. The information about vault documents, as opposed to the information contained within documents, is stored in a database.

For TeamWork, the only database format available is Hypertrieve. TeamWork allows only one production vault (the default vault), and it does not have a limit on the number of documents. You can create other vaults (such as for test or development purposes), but these vaults can only hold up to 500 documents each.

Vaults are created and maintained with the TeamWork Administrator tool as described in the BlueCielo TeamWork Administrator’s Guide.

The key element to creating and configuring vaults is planning. You should create a detailed specification of all types of documents to be stored in a vault, and the rules that will apply to each individual document type. This up-front work will save you many hours when you actually start to configure the system. The following topics describe the major aspects of a vault’s configuration.