Working offline or remote

You work offline or remote from within your favorite editing applications just as if you were in Online mode by using Application Integration to select and save vault documents. One difference is that, before displaying the Application Integration window with a view of the vault, Application Integration prompts you to select a remote vault through Web Access, similar to the following figure.

Notes

• You must have an active Internet connection to the Web Access server to work in Offline mode or Remote mode.
• Errors can occur if you download documents to your local workspace using 32-bit Internet Explorer as described in Preparing to work offline but later open the documents for editing in a 64-bit application. Always use either the 32-bit or 64-bit editions of Meridian components together, not a mixture of both.

Another difference is that the Application Integration dialogs show you the status of vault documents compared to the information stored on your computer that has not yet been synchronized with the vault. It shows you the status by the color of document properties in the navigation views.

The meanings of the colors are described in the following table.

To synchronize the vault with your local changes, you must return to Online mode and either synchronize your local workspace manually or wait until the next automatic synchronization occurs.

Reference synchronization in Offline mode has certain constraints:

• Reference resolution is fully supported for the referenced documents that are cached in the same context (Main Area of the vault or Work Area) in the Local Workspace. This includes resolution of existing references and creation of new outgoing references also cached in the local workspace in the same context.

• Cross-context reference resolution is also supported for existing references, but only in the one direction: from a document in a Work Area to the submitted document in the Main Area. Cross-context reference resolution is not supported for newly created references in Offline mode.