Setting advanced options

The options on the Advanced tab control when thumbnail images are generated; various performance, viewer behavior, and warning messages; and miscellaneous options.

The following table lists the options and their descriptions.

Advanced options
Option Description

After document import

Creates a new thumbnail image.

Select this option to ensure that new documents display a thumbnail.

After releasing a Quick Change or submitting a working copy

Creates a new thumbnail image.

Note:

Select this option to ensure that changed documents display an updated thumbnail.

After changing the document workflow state

Creates a new thumbnail image.

Note:

Select this option to ensure that thumbnail images containing title blocks that are linked to vault data are updated.

Use existing preview image, if available

Displays the preview image embedded in certain files instead of creating a redundant image.

Note:

Select this option to improve system responsiveness and save disk space.

Warn when a folder contains more documents than

Displays a warning message when expanding a folder or selecting another view might take longer than expected because it contains many documents.

Note:

Limiting the number of documents per folder maintains system performance. The optimum number of documents per folder depends on the system configuration.

Maximum size of a tableview per call

Limits the amount of information that the Meridian client application requests from the server at one time.

Note:

Optimizing this setting may improve system performance. The optimum size depends on network performance and the average number of items per folder.

Automatically refresh property pages

Causes Meridian to refresh the values shown on property pages automatically when you return to Meridian from other applications. Otherwise, the values are refreshed when a document is selected.

Note:

Enable this option if critical property values are changed from within other applications, such as via title block links. Enabling this option may reduce system responsiveness.

Refresh the viewer pane with every document selected

Causes Meridian to refresh the property values shown in Navigation views automatically every time you select another document. Otherwise, the values are refreshed when a view is opened.

Note:

Enable this option if critical property values may be changed by other users. Enabling this option may reduce system responsiveness.

Load Navigation view data on demand

Causes Meridian to retrieve only the data for the number of items that can be shown in the current Navigation view, depending on its size. More data will be retrieved only when more items need to be shown.

Enable this option to improve system performance, especially when folders contain fewer than 1,000 items.

Note:

When this option is enabled, the column filters that are described in Working with Navigation views are disabled.

Threshold

The number of records above which on-demand Navigation view loading will be used.

Note:

Decrease this number to the approximate average number of items per folder.

Suspend viewing the document

Causes Meridian to release the document shown in the viewer to prevent conflicts when the document is opened in another application, such as by the Open in application command. Otherwise, Meridian keeps the document open in the viewer.

This setting has no effect on AutoVue client/server deployments.

When focus is returned, reopen document after (msec)

The number of milliseconds for Meridian to wait before reopening a suspended document in the viewer. This allows other applications, such as those opened by the Open in Application command, to save and close the file before Meridian reopens it.

Debug event script

Enables the Script Debugger sub-menu on the Tools menu if a valid debugger is installed on the computer.

Leave data on the Clipboard when opening another vault

Enable this option if you want to paste documents between vaults.