CS Replication Services is an optional server feature that automatically copies documents and their properties to specific library systems. Replicating documents eliminates the need to create duplicate accounts for accessing a document in a different library system. Your system administrator sets up replicated folders in a CS library and determines the original libraries and target libraries. A represents a replicated folder.
You treat replicated documents like any other CS document. The difference is that when an original document is replicated, both the content and all identical properties of the document are copied into the library systems participating in Replication Services. If you check a document into or out of a replicated folder, the document is also checked into or out of all other CS library systems where the replicated folder resides.
You can modify properties assigned to original documents and replicated documents. If you modify an original document, you must check out and check in the original document from the original CS library to replicate your changes in other target libraries. If you do not check in your changes, they are never replicated.
For replicated documents, you can make changes to the version properties during the checkin process. You must check out and check in the replicated document to ensure your version property changes get replicated back to the source document and other replicas. If you do not check in your changes to the version properties, they are never replicated, and they will be overwritten when the original document is checked out and checked back in.
You must have at least Author or higher access rights to a replicated folder in order to add a document or subfolder to that folder. See your system administrator for details on using replicated folders and replicated documents.
The original library location of the replicated folder appears in the General tab of a folder Properties dialog box. The original library is the first library listed in the Comments section on a folder Properties dialog box.