Accruent Meridian Enterprise Server 2020 Administrator's Guide

Configure the Application Options

By default, the appearance and behavior of the Meridian Explorer client application are acceptable for most users but you can configure numerous options to further optimize their experience.

To configure the application options:

  1. In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the REPOSITORIES group, click Options. The User Defaults Options page appears.
  2. In the menu, click APPLICATION. The list of configurable options appears.
  3. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.
  4. Click SAVE.
Meridian Explorer application options
Option Description

APPLICATION OPTIONS group

Enable Meridian download control

 Enable (default) this option to use the Accruent Upload/Download control for file transfers. Meridian Explorer users can configure the options of the control as described in the Accruent Meridian Explorer User's Guide.

Enable draft print

If enabled (default), the Draft Print command is available to users in the viewer pane if:

  • The property page is configured to show document content from PowerWeb as described in Create And Edit Detail Page Layouts
  • The documents exist in the vault and are published as a PowerWeb location

Enable watermarks on draft print hardcopies

 If enabled and watermarks are configured in the source vault, they will also be printed on the output. The default is disabled. For information about configuring the appearance of watermarks, see the Accruent Meridian Enterprise Administrator's Guide.

Hide status columns from grid

If enabled, hides the column that show document status icons. The default is disabled.

Note:

If enabled, this will disable display of the number of available rows in the current view and the workflow status column in the results grid is hidden from view by users.

Include empty values in navigation view

 If enabled (default), navigation view levels for properties that are empty are shown instead of hidden. The default is enabled.

Optimize grid queries

 Leave disabled (default) unless directed by Accruent Technical Support. See also .
  MERIDIAN SCRIPT EVENTS group

Disable feedback comment events

If enabled, the following Meridian Enterprise events do not occur:

  • AIMS_AddComment
  • AIMS_UpdateComment
  • AIMS_CloseComment
  • AIMS_DeleteComment

Use Meridian impersonation

If enabled (default), the account of the IIS application pool under which the application runs will be used to connect to Meridian Enterprise for features like discussion comments, redlining, retrieving watermark data, uploading documents to the vault, and VBScript events. This prevents the Kerberos double hop problem. The application pool and the Meridian Enterprise server must run under the same service account.

If disabled, the connection to Meridian Enterprise impersonates the Meridian Explorer user. The application pool and the Meridian Enterprise server do not need to run under the same service account. The Kerberos double hop problem can occur if the Meridian Enterprise server is run on a different computer than Meridian Enterprise Server.

SYSTEM SETTINGS group

URL for viewer download

 If the Enable Accruent viewer control option is enabled as described in Configure the Viewer Options and you want Meridian Explorer users to download the control from a location on your network, type a URL where the control can be downloaded by users. This URL will appear in an empty viewer windows until the user installs the control. By default, a URL to the viewer control on the Accruent website will be shown.
SYNCHRONIZATION group

Synchronization

The method of synchronization that is done to synchronize Meridian Explorer repositories with their Meridian Enterprise source vaults, either by:

  • Batches of documents excluding the document content, which must be done as a separate task. This is the default method.
  • One document at a time including the document content

To select the synchronization method:

  1. Click EDIT. The EXPLORER SYNCHRONIZATION SETTINGS dialog box appears.
  2. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.
Meridian Explorer synchronization options
Option Description

Use batch synchronization

If enabled (default), documents are synchronized in batches and the document content is synchronized separately as described in Configure the Content Source Options. If disabled, documents are synchronized one document at a time including the document content.

Note:
  • If disabled after a previous batch synchronization, the date and time when the synchronization job was last run will be reset. To avoid re-synchronizing data that is already in the repository, reset it to a more recent date as described in Manage a Meridian Enterprise Vault. Also validate the next synchronization as described in Validate a Synchronization Job.
  • If enabled after a previous individual document synchronization, the date and time when the synchronization job was last run will not be reset but any documents that are still pending synchronization will not processed. Regardless, validate the next synchronization as described in Validate a Synchronization Job.
  • Not supported by repositories stored in Oracle.

Require Meridian stream files

If enabled, causes an error to be logged if the content for a document that is being synchronized cannot be found in the source vault.

Export batch size

The maximum number of documents to include in each batch during repository synchronization. The default is 10000.

Level of concurrency

The maximum number of simultaneous process threads to use to read the document content files from the source vault during synchronization. The default is 8 and assumes the server CPU has 8 cores. The Meridian Enterprise EDM server must be configured to use one of the multi-threading database engines (names that end with the number 5) in order to take advantage of this option.

 

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