Configuring a Meridian Enterprise application server

After the Publisher components have been installed as described in Installing components on a Meridian Enterprise application server, the vaults that will serve as source or destination systems must be configured.

To configure the Meridian Enterprise application server:

In Meridian Enterprise Configurator, expand Environment in the configuration tree and select Vault Settings. The vault's configuration pages appear.

Click the BC Publisher tab. The Publisher configuration options appear.

Click Edit. The page becomes editable.

Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

Publisher vault configuration options
Option	Description
BC Publisher Services address	Accept the default address created during installation or type the address where the Publisher web services are installed, for example, http://<PublisherComputerName>/Publisher. Click Get Jobs to retrieve the names of the defined publishing jobs, page sizes, and pen settings filenames from the Publisher computer. Note This address must be correct before documents can be published.
Prevent duplicate registration	Ignores new publishing jobs for documents for which publishing jobs already exist in the queue. Note This option is not available if the Publisher database is hosted by an Oracle server. NEW If enabled, Fail the whole batch operation when any duplicate is found will cause the publishing job to be revoked if duplicate documents are detected within a batch submitted using the VBScript methods described in The MeridianQueue object methods.
Rendition job	Select the name of a publishing job to use to generate renditions in the vault.
NEW Synchronize rendition lookup lists	Populates the Rendition Page Pen Table and Rendition Page Size lookup lists with values retrieved from the Publisher computer. These and other lookup lists are created when the extension is installed as described in Installing components on a Meridian Enterprise application server. The lookup lists are described in the following table.

Publisher vault configuration options

Option

Description

BC Publisher Services address

Accept the default address created during installation or type the address where the Publisher web services are installed, for example, http://<PublisherComputerName>/Publisher. Click Get Jobs to retrieve the names of the defined publishing jobs, page sizes, and pen settings filenames from the Publisher computer.

Note This address must be correct before documents can be published.

Prevent duplicate registration

Ignores new publishing jobs for documents for which publishing jobs already exist in the queue.

Note This option is not available if the Publisher database is hosted by an Oracle server.

NEW If enabled, Fail the whole batch operation when any duplicate is found will cause the publishing job to be revoked if duplicate documents are detected within a batch submitted using the VBScript methods described in The MeridianQueue object methods.

Rendition job

Select the name of a publishing job to use to generate renditions in the vault.

NEW

Synchronize rendition lookup lists

Populates the Rendition Page Pen Table and Rendition Page Size lookup lists with values retrieved from the Publisher computer. These and other lookup lists are created when the extension is installed as described in Installing components on a Meridian Enterprise application server. The lookup lists are described in the following table.

NEW

The rendition lookup lists provide values for the properties in the Rendition Properties property set and appear on the Rendition property page in the Meridian Enterprise client applications. The Rendition property page appears when the Use renditions option has been enabled for the vault in Meridian Enterprise Configurator. The lookup list values may be modified to meet specific requirements.

Rendition property set lookup lists
Name	Description
Rendition Page Color	Color depths to render to: Color or Black and white.
Rendition Page Layout	Views available within the source documents to render.
Rendition Page Orientation	Orientations of the page to render to: Landscape or Portrait.
Rendition Page Pen Table	AutoVue pen settings filenames to apply to the renditions. Applicable only if the publishing job is configured to use the AutoVue rendering module. Filenames are those that are available on the computer. By default, they are installed at: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Cyco Shared\AutoVue For more information about configuring pen tables, see "Pen Settings" in the Oracle AutoVue Desktop Deployment Viewing Configuration Guide that can be downloaded from the Oracle website.
Rendition Page Size	Sizes of pages to render to. Values are retrieved from the global printing settings of the Publisher computer when the PublishDocumentUIExtension extension is configured.

Rendition property set lookup lists

Name

Description

Rendition Page Color

Color depths to render to: Color or Black and white.

Rendition Page Layout

Views available within the source documents to render.

Rendition Page Orientation

Orientations of the page to render to: Landscape or Portrait.

Rendition Page Pen Table

AutoVue pen settings filenames to apply to the renditions. Applicable only if the publishing job is configured to use the AutoVue rendering module. Filenames are those that are available on the computer. By default, they are installed at:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Cyco Shared\AutoVue

For more information about configuring pen tables, see "Pen Settings" in the Oracle AutoVue Desktop Deployment Viewing Configuration Guide that can be downloaded from the Oracle website.

Rendition Page Size

Sizes of pages to render to. Values are retrieved from the global printing settings of the Publisher computer when the PublishDocumentUIExtension extension is configured.

Click OK to save your changes.

Grant the privileges described in Security privilege descriptions to the Meridian Enterprise roles that you want to allow to use the command. For more information on granting security privileges, see the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Configuration Guide.

Tip In VBScript, use the User.HasPrivilege method with the Can Publish privilege to verify whether a user should be allowed to publish a particular document.

Related concepts

About publishing jobs

Configuring the BlueCielo File Publishing Service

Assigning security privileges

Configuring a Publisher job

Registering documents for publication

Configuring email notification

Configuring the Publisher Queue web application

Configuring a SharePoint server

Related information

Dex.exe command-line parameters

Security privilege descriptions


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