Introducing Accruent Meridian Enterprise

Accruent Meridian Enterprise is a departmental to enterprise-wide engineering information management (EIM) and asset lifecycle information management system (ALIM). It can be installed with the following database engines: BlueCielo Hypertrieve, Microsoft® SQL Server®, or Oracle®. The number of vaults, documents, and concurrent users is limited only by available hardware resources on the host server computer. For the supported versions, see the Supported Software document for this release of Meridian available from your Accruent Partner or the Meridian Technical Library.

ClosedWhat's In This Guide

The primary method for customizing Meridian to meet your requirements, besides vault configuration described in the AccruentMeridian Enterprise Configuration Guide, is to use Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript). VBScript is a subset of the Visual Basic programming language that is built into Meridian and many other applications. VBScript provides programmatic access to many Meridian event procedures, functions, and objects such as vaults, folders, documents, properties, and so on, so that you can automate simple tasks. The Meridian objects that are accessible by VBScript are described in Meridian Object Model.

VBScript is used by Meridian in two ways:

This reference describes how to use VBScript with Meridian. For general information about the VBScript language, see the VBScript Language Reference web site.

Note:

  • VBScript is not as complete a programming language as Visual Basic for Applications, which is built into Microsoft Office and other applications such as AutoCAD.

  • The examples shown in this document are for educational purposes only, may not represent a complete solution, and are not intended for use in a production environment.

ClosedWho Should Read This Guide

This guide is intended for advanced Meridian users who are responsible for vault configuration and security. You should be familiar with:

  • The Windows® operating system, including its use in a network environment

  • All aspects of using Meridian from an end user's perspective

  • How your organization uses and manages documents as it conducts business

  • The practices and requirements of user groups who will use the system

  • Basic document control methodologies such as revision control

  • Programming with VBScript

ClosedTypographic Conventions

The table below describes the typographic conventions used throughout this manual.

Typographic conventions
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italic AccruentMeridian Enterprise Administrator's Guide Names of other documents. 
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Call WinMsgBox(“Hello, world!”)
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bold Document.Log(Line) Named code elements: events, procedures, functions, objects, classes, methods, object properties, constants, and so on appearing in the narrative text except user-defined code elements. Variables and parameters appear in italic type.
italic local workspace Introduction of a new term and its definition. Many terms can also be found in the Glossary if one is included in the guide.
bold monospace 
regsvr32 /u
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default font F5, Ctrl+O Key names, combinations, and sequences.
italic <DocumentName> Placeholders
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