About Application Integration

Application Integration is the name for the lightweight Meridian client application that you can use from within almost every Windows application to access documents stored in Meridian vaults.

Application Integration is designed primarily to help you find documents, open them for editing, save them, and route them in workflows. The Application Integration window looks and works very similar to PowerUser except that Application Integration:

• Has no menu bar
• Has only a single toolbar
• Has no shortcut bar
• Has no status bar
• Cannot display history
• Cannot open other work areas than the one where the open document resides.
• Shows limited file and workflow status information in the properties pane. Click the View or edit properties button on the toolbar to view or edit all properties.
• Shows a thumbnail in the viewer pane. Click the View selected document button to open a new viewer window.
• Supports only the Quick Find search tools.

Otherwise, you can perform many of the same tasks with Application Integration that you can with PowerUser, but conveniently from within your favorite editing applications. Most tasks work the same from both Application Integration and PowerUser. For information on performing common document management tasks with Application Integration, see the topics elsewhere in this guide.

When Application Integration is installed on your computer and you select any commands such as Open, Save, or Save As, you will see one of two things:

1. The Application Integration window, similar to the following figure.
2. A standard Windows file dialog box with the Meridian vault button in the toolbar. If you click the vault button, the Application Integration window appears, similar to the following figure.

Note    Microsoft Word ignores any selection you make from the Files of type list in the Application Integration window. If you want to save a Word file as a different file type, select the file type from the Save as type list in the Word Save As dialog box first before you click on the Meridian vault button in the toolbar to save the document in the vault.

The Application Integration window can be opened from within any application that uses standard Windows file browser dialogs (and can therefore display the vault button) for its commands.