Adding Custom Properties - Sun Microsystems Netscape Enterprise Server Administrator's Manual

Adding Custom Properties

As server administrator, you can add your own custom Web Publisher file
properties. These properties are added to the default set of file properties
stored in the web publishing collection. Server clients can view visible custom
properties in Web Publisher and use them in their document searches.
For further information about viewing and modifying properties in Web
Publisher, access the online Netshare & Web Publisher User's Guide through the
Help menu command in Web Publisher or the Help button on the search
interface or the Web Publisher Services page.
If you want to add another custom property after creating the maximum
Note
number of custom properties for a given type, you cannot remove an existing
custom property and "reuse" the property's slot in the collection by adding a
new custom property of the same type. For example, if you want to add a
numeric property after 5 have already been created, you cannot delete one of
the existing 5 numeric properties and add another numeric property in its
place. The only way to use the new property is to remove the entire collection
and recreate it with the new property.
This means that if you extend the maximum settings to add additional
attributes, you cannot automatically use the new attributes in the existing web
publishing collection. To allow this, you must use your file system to remove
both the web_htm and link_mgr collection files from the search collections
directory and then restart your server to automatically create a new web
publishing collection for you. (The link_mgr collection is an internal file
that's part of web publishing.)
To add a custom file property, perform the following steps:
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From the Enterprise Server, choose Web Publishing.
Click the Add Custom Properties link.
The Add Custom Properties page appears.
Type a name in the Property Name field. The name has these restrictions:
• It cannot duplicate an existing Web Publisher property name.
• It cannot exceed 128 characters.
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