With multiple WiredContact sites running on the server, the need may arise to share a common Library across multiple WiredContact sites. This can be done rather easily with some minor modifications as described below.
To create a central Library for two WiredContact sites, follow these steps. Modify the Library.html file in each site's folder.
- Designate the primary physical location for the Library. For this example, let's use c:/inetpub/wiredx3/library as the primary physical location.
- Edit the "Library.html" template from WiredContact site#2. This template will contain a tag that looks like: <#LIBRARY WIDTH=100% BORDER=1>
- The tag needs to me modified to include the location of the main library as follows: <#LIBRARY WIDTH=100% BORDER=1 lpath="c:\inetpub\wiredx3\library" lvpath=library>. Lpath= is the physical location of the common Library folder. Lvpath= is the name of the IIS virtual folder.
- After you save the template with the new tag above, users in WiredContact site#2 will be able to attach documents from the main library in WiredContact site#1.
WiredContact can also centralize personal library information for the users. Building on the steps above, centralizing personal library information is completed as follows:
- Edit the Library.html template from WiredContact site#2. Building on the steps above, the tag in this template will look like this: <#LIBRARY WIDTH=100% BORDER=1 lpath="c:\inetpub\wiredx3\library" lvpath=library>.
- The tag needs to me modified to include the location of the central personal library folders. The information that needs to be added is: prootpath="c:\inetpub\wiredx3\private" pvpath=private. Prootpath= is the physical path to the shared physical folder. Pvpath= is the name of the IIS virtual folder.
- It is important to include a semi-colon (;) in between the main library and personal library commands, so that the resulting tag will look like this: <#LIBRARY WIDTH=100% BORDER=1 lpath="c:\inetpub\wiredx3\library" lvpath=library; prootpath="c:\inetpub\wiredx3\private" pvpath=private>
After you save the template with the new tag above, centralized WiredContact library information can be accessed by users across multiple WiredContact sites.