Organizing Documents; Customizing Document Properties - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - LIBRARIES AND DOCUMENTS Manual

Move
Delete
Change sharing
Copy
3 Select the method for identifying the group of documents to perform the operation on:
Use Find/Advanced Find to select documents
Use Find by Example to select documents
Use currently selected documents
Use documents listed in a file.
For additional instructions about creating documents in the GroupWise client, see
Groups of
Guide. You can also look up "mass document operations" in the GroupWise client help.

23.2 Organizing Documents

Because documents are stored in a database structure, information can be associated with each
document that is not part of the document itself. This additional information is stored as document
properties.
Section 23.2.1, "Customizing Document Properties," on page 354
Section 23.2.2, "Defining Related Document Properties," on page 363
NOTE: Document properties cannot be set in ConsoleOne
ConsoleOne on Windows to set document properties for libraries that are located on Linux.

23.2.1 Customizing Document Properties

For a summary of document properties, see
review, the following document properties are provided by default:
Author
Creator
Current Version Number
Date Created
Document Number
Document Type
Official Version Number
Subject
The default document property types cannot be deleted. Except for the Document Type property,
they cannot be modified. However, you can add custom document types as needed.
"Customizing the Default Document Type Property" on page 355
"Planning Custom Document Properties" on page 356
"Adding Custom Document Properties" on page 359
354 GroupWise 8 Administration Guide
Documents" in "Document Management" in the GroupWise 8 Windows Client User
®
on Linux. However, you can use
Section 21.3.1, "Document Properties," on page
"Managing
309. To