Setting a property value

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Setting a property value

Set Property Value is a very powerful command intended for use by system administrators only. It is available only if you have the Change Properties and Set Property Value privileges.

It is useful for several purposes:

To set the value of a property that is not visible on a property page and therefore cannot be set manually otherwise.
To set the value of a property for many documents at one time, such as after importing a batch of documents for which the data was not available for import.
To copy the value of one property to another.
To calculate the value of a property based on the values of other properties.

To set a property value:

Select the documents for which you want to set the property value.

On the Edit menu, select Set Property Value. The Set Property Value dialog box appears.

Select options and type text using the descriptions in the following table and click OK. The selected property is updated.

Set Property Value options
Option	Description
Property	Select the property that you want to set. If you select a property that uses a lookup list, the available values will appear as a list of the Value property.
Value	Type or select the value that you want to set in the property selected for Property.
Value of property	Select a different property from the selected document, the current value of which you want to set in the selected property.
Expression	Type a VBScript expression to calculate the value you want to set in the selected property. Click the Meridian Script Editor button to display the Meridian Script Editor dialog to help you build and validate an expression.
Ignore validation rules	Enable this option to bypass any lookup list and input restriction rules configured for the property.

Related tasks

Opening a document from within Meridian

Editing properties

Changing a document s type

Changing the revision number of an existing document

Issuing a new file name