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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 a property value:

  1. Select the documents for which you want to set the property value.
  1. On the Edit menu, select Set Property Value. The Set Property Value dialog box appears.
  1. 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


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