Working with folders

A Meridian vault may contain an unlimited number of folders. Meridian Enterprise folders work very similar to Windows folders. Anything that you can do to a Windows folder, you can do to a Meridian folder:

• Create and rename
• Copy and move
• Delete and restore
• Assign inheritable security to the contents

But Meridian folders are also capable of doing much more than Windows folders:

• The name can be calculated automatically
• The properties of a document can be determined by its parent folders
• They can have custom properties, such as Project Number
• Commands run on a selected folder can apply to all of the documents in the folder
• A special type of folder called a project folder can have a workflow associated with it similar to a document workflow. The workflow can be interlocked with the workflow of the child documents or with the workflow of the parent folder. This requires the Meridian Advanced Project Workflow Module.
• They can be linked to a shared network location where multiple users can edit copies of the same files with certain multi-user applications. The files are automatically synchronized with the vault copies.

Working with these features and more is described in the following topics.