Understanding share creation

When a Meridian Enterprise user shares a folder with a Meridian Project Portal workspace, the following steps are performed:

1. The Collaboration (ProjectPortalExtension) extension retrieves the Meridian Project Portal user name and password that were entered during installation. The credentials are retrieved from a SQL Server table and then used to directly connect to the Meridian Project Portal web service, authenticate the Meridian Enterprise user, and to get the workspace and folder structures. After the share has been created, status updates occur through the GCF Remote Access Web Service as described in Understanding status updates.