Selecting multiple properties

Several places in the Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console allow you to select multiple properties to configure a feature of a view. Meridian Enterprise Server provides several ways that you can select the properties.

To select multiple properties:

  1. In the toolbar, click Add. The SELECT PROPERTIES dialog box appears.

    The dialog box shows all available properties grouped by property set in the left list and the properties that you have selected in the right list.

    The dialog box works in two modes:

    • Browse mode – You select properties from a list that can be filtered on text that you type.
    • Search mode – You type property names, validate that the spelling is correct and that they exist, and then add them to your selection.

    To switch between modes, select or clear the Toggle search mode checkbox.

  2. To browse for properties:

    1. Clear the Toggle search mode checkbox.

    2. Scroll the list to find the properties that you want. Collapse or expand property sets to help find a particular property.

      OR

      Filter the list to show only the properties that you want:

      1. Type the beginning of a property set name or a property name in the filter box. The search operator that will be used is Starts With.
      2. Press Enter or click the search icon . The list refreshes to show the results of your filter.
      3. To reset the filter results, clear the filter box and click the icon again.

    3. Add properties to the selected properties list:

      • Select the property and click Add.
      • Double-click the property name.
      • Drag the property and drop it in the list.

    To search for properties by name:

    1. Select the Toggle search mode checkbox.

      • Type one or more property names (case insensitive) in the text box. The property names may be separated by the comma (,) semi-colon (;) pipe (|) or newline characters. It is not necessary to type the property set name.

        If the list of property names already exists in a document, copy them to the Clipboard and paste the list into the text box.

    2. Click Check to confirm that the names are spelled properly and that all of the properties exist in the repository. If a property name is valid, its name appears in the Validation Result box in green text. If it is not valid, it appears in red text.
    3. Click Add to add all of the valid property names to the selected properties list.

    To remove a property from the selected properties list:

    • Select the property and then click Remove.
  3. When you have added all of the properties to the list that you want, click OK. The properties that you selected are added to the list of properties for the feature that you are configuring.