Manage a Meridian Enterprise Vault

Managing a Meridian Enterprise vault in Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console makes it easier for you to view and manage the vault settings that are used by Meridian Enterprise Server.

To manage a Meridian Enterprise vault:

In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the Repositories group, click Repositories.

The All Repositories page appears and lists the existing Meridian Explorer repositories and Meridian Enterprise vaults.
Double-click the icon of the vault that you want to manage.

The Overview page for the vault appears.
Click Check for locked documents if you want to show the documents that are locked for a user that you select.
Click Unlock documents if you want to unlock the documents that are locked for a user that you select.
Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.
In the menu, click Publish.

The Publish page appears and lists the settings for each publishing job that are configured to synchronize the selected vault with a Meridian Explorer repository. You can manage some of the settings on this page. For the other settings, configure the publishing job directly as described in Configure a Publishing Job.
Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.
Click Save.

Meridian Enterprise vault overview options
Group	Option	Description
General	Name	The name of the vault and server in the form <VaultName>@<ServerName>.
General	Server	The name of the server that hosts the vault.
General	PowerWeb location ID	The GUID of the PowerWeb location ID that is used by Meridian Explorer.
General	PowerWeb root	The URL of the PowerWeb location that is used by Meridian Explorer.
Options	Stream root	Verify that the default location is correct or type the path on the Meridian Enterprise server that is the location of the stream files contained in the vault. If the Meridian Enterprise server is separate from the Meridian Enterprise Server computer, the path must be a shared UNC location. If the path is incorrect, errors can occur when user's access document content.
Options	Document number property	The display name of the vault property that uniquely identifies documents for synchronization. If the same property name is used in more than one property set, qualify the property name with the property set name (for example, Custom.Number).
Options	Tag number property	The display name of the vault property that uniquely identifies tags for synchronization. If the same property name is used in more than one property set, qualify the property name with the property set name (for example, Custom.Number).
Options	Project number property	The display name of the vault property that uniquely identifies incoming packages for import into the vault. If the same property name is used in more than one property set, qualify the property name with the property set name (for example, Custom.Number).
Options	Site name	Site that the repository is assigned to. This enables you to manage Layer Translation tables at the site level.
Options	Transmittal document type	Identifies the document in Meridian that is to be used as the transmittal sheet. The content of the first document that has this Document Type is sent to Portal as the transmittal sheet.

Meridian Enterprise vault publishing options
Option	Description
Job name	The names of the publishing job in the form <DisplayName>(<JobName>).
Destination repository	The name of the Meridian Explorer repository that is synchronized with this vault.
Only publish documents from the specified collection	The name of a collection that is configured for the Only publish documents from the specified collection option as described in Configure Synchronization Options.
Number of documents	The number of documents contained in the vault, excluding revisions.
Last run	The date and time that the publishing job last ran. To reset the date and force a full synchronization: Click Reset. The Reset Options dialog box appears. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following list: Synchronize everything next time – Synchronizes all documents when the publishing job runs the next time, whether it is started manually or on a schedule. Synchronize after a specific date – Synchronizes all documents when the publishing job runs the next time after the selected date. To select the date, click the calendar icon . Click OK.
Documents pending	The number of documents pending publishing by this job. To remove some or all of the documents from the publishing queue: Click Manage. The Manage Pending Documents dialog box appears and lists all of the documents pending publishing. Choose between two options: Click Remove All to remove all of the documents. Select the documents that you want to remove from the queue. Press and hold the CTRL key while clicking to select individual names. Press and hold the Shift key while selecting the first and last of a range of names. Click Remove.