Meridian allows vaults to be accessed through its PowerWeb client using supported web browsers and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). PowerWeb provides the web application hosted by IIS and the web browser acts as the client. A System Administrator publishes a vault as a website in IIS using the Meridian Enterprise Administrator tool.
Meridian PowerWeb is an Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) application that runs as part of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). PowerWeb processes requests from web browsers, retrieves data from the AutoManager EDM Server, and passes information back to the web browsers in the form of HTML pages.
Inside PowerWeb, HTML pages are created as illustrated in the following figure:
PowerWeb first creates XML files that contain pure data (no presentation) to be exposed by PowerWeb. The XML pages are then converted into HTML. During this step, information about the way the data should be presented on the screen is added. How the information is presented is determined by a set of templates (*.xsl), which are encoded in XSLT, and a style sheet named amm.css.
By default, the .xsl templates are located on the IIS server in the \Inetpub\AMM\Templates folder, and amm.css is located in the \Inetpub\AMM\Src folder. Due to the complexity of XSLT, we do not recommend customizing these templates.
See our Document Synchronization Methods Overview to learn about the three methods you can use to synchronize document contents, title blocks, and references with PowerWeb.
The Meridian PowerWeb application includes PDFTron viewing technology that provides zero-install PDF viewing in PowerWeb and Meridian Explorer. To improve the viewing performance of PDF files that contain thousands of hyperlinks, see the RemoveLinkAnnotations registry value.
