Understanding the effects of document type security

Enabling a vault’s Use document type security option has an adverse impact on performance. The reason for this is that the Meridian application server then has more security privileges to evaluate for each user action on a document. When you enable Use document type security, the current number of document type privileges is multiplied by the number of document types configured in the vault so that each document type will have its own privileges that you can assign. With Use document type security cleared, there is only one set of privileges for all document types. We recommend that you not use this option unless it is required for business reasons.