Application Integration BCS preferences (Workplace XT)

The Application Integration BCS site preferences determine the behavior of specific Application Integration BCS features.

Authoring options

The authoring options determine various behaviors when you add, check in, or check out a document.

Delete local file options

The delete local file options determine whether the local copy of a document is deleted from the local file system after adding or checking in a document from an Office application. Deleting the file is a good idea when the file has multiple authors; each author is then forced to check out and download the latest version of the file before modifying it again. The following options are available:

Outlook options

The Outlook options determine how Microsoft® Outlook behaves when you add e-mail messages to FileNet P8 and when you send FileNet P8 objects in an e-mail message.

File tracking

The file tracking options determine the default location for users' files. To get the most benefit from File Tracker, the options you select here should match the options you choose for the general settings for file tracking.

The Document directory setting specifies the path on a user's system in which documents should be placed when a user opens or checks out a document. The following options are available:

The Qualified path field is used to specify an exact path or a folder to append to the path specified by the Application Defaults, Home Path, or My Documents setting. The resulting path must exist on the user's system. This field is ignored if you have selected Use Workplace XT Settings.

For example, assume the application's default location is C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents and you specify MyFolder as the qualified path. When users check out or open a document from Word, their document is saved to C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\MyFolder.

File type categories

You can specify file type categories to be used as filters when users browse or search for documents. A file type category contains a list of MIME types; a file type with no defined MIME types applies to objects with no content. File types are defined in the File type categories site preference.