The Meridian Web Client lets you work with Meridian Enterprise vaults using in an Internet Explorer web browser.
The Meridian Web Client is the ideal client application for:
Note If you will be making changes to documents and your connection to the Meridian application server is not over a LAN, set Application Integration to Remote mode as described in Setting Application Integration options. This will synchronize the vault with your changes using the Internet instead of DCOM, which does not work well except over a LAN.
The following figure identifies the various areas of the Meridian Web Client window when browsing a vault.
The following figure identifies the various areas of the Meridian Web Client window when viewing a document.
The following table describes each area of the application window.
| Number | Name | Description |
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1 |
Context bar |
On the left side, provides lists for changing the current vault, time context, scope, and navigation view. On the right side, provides icons to change your preferences and log off. |
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2 |
Toolbar |
Quick access to common commands. |
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3 |
Navigation pane |
One of various hierarchical views of the vault contents. Select another view from the list in the context bar. |
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4 |
Document pane |
Displays the property pages for the selected document or folder. |
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5 |
Property page tabs |
Click to display the same property pages as shown in the other Meridian client applications with only slightly different functionality. If the document is a hybrid, a special Hybrid Parts property page tab appears at the right side that will show a list of the available hybrid parts for the selected document. |
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6 |
Menu bar |
Menus of Meridian commands. Displayed only when a document is selected. The commands listed on the various menus are the same as those on the Document shortcut menu. |
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7 |
Property pages |
Property values for the currently selected document. The number and names of property pages varies with the currently selected document type. |
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8 |
Thumbnail |
A static preview image of the selected document. Click to view the document in a viewer window the same as described for PowerUser. |
| 9 | URLs |
Web Access addresses of the selected document and its rendition (if available) that you can copy to the Clipboard and paste in other documents or systems to create a link to the document. |
As with most web pages, blue text in the Meridian Web Client indicates a hyperlink. The Meridian Web Client displays hyperlinks for opening folders and the document log.
Warning Web Access saves session information on a per-user basis. This differs from PowerUser, which saves information on a per-session basis. To prevent errors and lost data, do not log on to multiple sessions of Web Access simultaneously with the same user account.
The following topics describe how to use the Meridian Web Client to perform common tasks.
Related concepts
Understanding the shortcut menus
About the Meridian desktop application
Understanding the Office Client
Related tasks
Showing master and project copies
Working with document workflows
Sending document shortcuts from Web Access
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