Configuring the scope of global searches

By default, when TeamWork users perform a global search (a search across multiple vaults), the default scope of the search is all of the vaults on the same server as the user’s current vault. This may not be desirable in some cases, such as:

• The user does not have access to all of the vaults.
• The user does not want to search all of the vaults.
• The user wants to also search vaults on different servers.

To save users the time required to specify the vaults that they want to search, the default list of vaults shown in the Find dialog of the TeamWork client applications when the All vaults option is selected is configurable. This list is configured by way of an INI file located on a shared network location.

The default vault list file is named AMDefaultVaultList.ini (the file must have this name). This file can be read automatically by the TeamWork client applications. The file stores the following information:

• Contexts: The number of context description sections in the file
• For each context:

• The name of the server hosting a vault to be searched.
• The name of the vault to search.
• An operator to apply to the wildcard pattern. Valid operator names are similar to those that can be found in the Condition list of the Find dialog in the TeamWork client applications (OP_CONTAINS, OP_STARTSWITH, and so on).

Following is an example AMDefaultVaultList.ini file:

[Global Search]
Contexts=2

[Context1]
’In MyVault on MyServer in the Main area 

Server = MyServer
VaultName = MyVault ’Matches ’MyName’ shown in TeamWork Admin
WorkAreaPattern=Proj*
WorkAreaOperator=OP_DOSWILDCARD

[Context2]
’All vaults on OtherServer
Server = OtherServer
VaultName = *

The shared network location of the file is set on each client computer in the following Windows registry value:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cyco\AutoManager Meridian\CurrentVersion\Client\DefaultVaultListLocation

The (String) value of the key should be the path to the folder containing AMDefaultVaultList.ini including a trailing backslash (\), for example:

E:\Test\

or

\\<Server>\AMConfig\