Configuring General Options: Tasks

Configuring General Options

The options shown in parentheses have a corresponding entry in the config.cfg file. The options that you can globally turn on or off are explained below.

To configure options, perform these tasks:

Enable Allow override format on check in (isOverrideFormat) if you want to choose the application format of a document. This is necessary when the application default extension is not used for the file name. (For example, a Microsoft Word document named, customer.ltr does not have the default application extension doc, so you would turn on this option.)

Select Enable download applet if you want the default system setting to be that users can select multiple files for check out or download at the same time.

Select Enable upload applet if you want the default system setting to be that users can select multiple files for check in at the same time.

Note: If the upload or download applet is enabled in System Properties, users can enable and disable the applet individually on their User Profile page. If an applet is disabled in System Properties, the applet field is not displayed on User Profile pages.

Note: There are issues if you are running Netscape 6.1 or 6.2 on a client computer and applets are started (such as the multiple-file upload and download applets). This is because by default Netscape 6.1 and 6.2 use Sun's JDK 1.3 Java plug-in, which is known to have compatibility issues with Stellent Content Server 6.1. These issues are related to authentication when launching an applet for the first time and applets closing when the parent window is changed. There are no problems if you use JDK 1.1 with Netscape (which is the default for Netscape's 4.7x releases).

Select Enable search keyword highlighting if you want to highlight all words returned from a full-text search in PDF, HTML, and text documents. This is enabled by default. Disable it if you want to shorten the time required to view a document from the Search Results page.

Select Enable Enterprise Search on Standard query pages if you would like to expand your search capabilities over multiple server instances through the use of system administrator-defined providers.

Select Enable Dynamic Converter to enable Dynamic Converter ro convert content managed by Stellent Content Server into HTML files.

Select Automatically assign a document name on check in to generate a Content ID automatically, which is a six–digit, sequential number.

You can enter a prefix in the Auto Name Prefix field. This prefix will come before the six–digit, sequential number.

Altering Config.cfg

If you need to alter the config.cfg file, you can edit the file in a text editor, or you can edit it using the admin server General Configuration page.

For example, to change the default revision sequence, enter the following name/value pairs in the config.cfg file: