Personal Preferences

Although most aspects of PowerWeb behavior are controlled by a System Administrator, you can modify some options to suit your own preferences.

Use these steps for PowerWeb.

ClosedSet Personal Preferences

To set your personal preferences:

  1. Choose between two options:

    • In the context bar, click your name, and then click the Preferences.

    • Select Preferences from the Miscellaneous section of the document, folder, or selection shortcut menus.

      The Change Preferences page appears.

  2. Select options using the descriptions in the following table and click OK.

ClosedReset Preferences to Default

To reset your personal preferences to their default settings:

  1. Choose between two options:

    • In the context bar, click your name, and then click the Preferences.

    • Select Preferences from the Miscellaneous section of the document, folder, or selection shortcut menus.

      The Change Preferences page appears.

  2. Click Reset Profile at the bottom of the page.

ClosedPersonal Preference Options

Personal preference options
Option Description

Site cache mode

Select this option if a System Administrator has configured a site cache server for the users at your location and has given you the URL to enter as described in Configure Local Workspace.

Meridian Application Integration must be installed on your PC. If any file conflicts occur with the local workspace copies, the errors will appear in the progress dialog box that is shown when the command runs.

If you will work under a different account in the site cache server's domain or if the site cache server is behind a proxy server, configure the settings described in Configure a Site Cache Connection.

Important!

Do not work on the same document from more than one PC in Remote mode with this option enabled or document content inconsistencies can occur.

If a user attempts to open a document where the version in the vault is newer than the version in their local workspace, PowerWeb and Application Integrations warn the user that the document may contain updates from other users, and that any local changes may be lost after synchronization. The user can then abort the operation.

Workstation

The name of the PC on which you are working. This is used to lock files that you modify to the PC and to prevent them from being overwritten by changes made at another PC. This is set automatically by default under most circumstances and cannot be changed.

If this option is empty in your environment, enter the name of the PC on which you are working. If you typically work from multiple PCs, enter the name of the PC where you typically make changes and the documents will be locked to that PC.

You cannot transfer documents that are currently locked from one PC to another. To make changes to documents that are currently locked to a different PC, first unlock them on that PC and then lock them on the other PC as described in Lock And Unlock Documents.

Create thumbnails on import of document

Generates thumbnail images of new documents you upload to the vault.

Remember location in vault between sessions

When you start a new PowerWeb session, opens the vault to the last document you viewed.

Update thumbnails when releasing Quick Change

Refreshes thumbnail images of documents you upload after making changes.

Current time zone

Select your local time zone so that time data is displayed correctly.

Use custom color scheme

Displays PowerWeb using an alternate color scheme. Select a scheme from the list.

For information about customizing the available color schemes or creating new ones, see Create a Custom Color Scheme.

Language

Select your preferred language for the user interface text.

Note:
  • The selected language should match the specified Windows locale.
  • This setting does not currently affect the viewing window.

Locale

Select your preferred locale for the format of dates and decimals in numbers. For more information about how this setting affects date formatting, see HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cyco\AutoManager Meridian\CurrentVersion.