About Content Server Connections

7 Working With Content Server Connections 7-1 7 Working With Content Server Connections This section covers these topics: ■ Section 7.1, About Content Server Connections ■ Section 7.2, Content Server Types ■ Section 7.3, Content Server Capabilities ■ Section 7.4, Content Server URLs ■ Section 7.5, Online vs. Offline Servers ■ Section 7.6, Server Context Menus ■ Section 7.7, Adding a Content Server Connection ■ Section 7.8, Viewing or Editing Content Server Connection Properties ■ Section 7.9, Removing a Content Server Connection ■ Section 7.10, Connecting to a Content Server ■ Section 7.11, Logging Off a Content Server ■ Section 7.12, Working With a Content Server Offline ■ Section 7.13, Searching a Content Server ■ Section 7.14, Setting Metadata To Be Remembered for Form-Based Check-ins ■ Section 7.15, Setting the Authentication Method ■ Section 7.16, Identifying the URLs for Oracle Content Server

7.1 About Content Server Connections

Before you can integrate content management features into your desktop experience, you must establish a connection with a server, so you can access the files on it. You can define server connections in any of the integrated applications Windows Explorer, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, or Lotus Notes. You only need to define a server connection once. When you create a new server connection, that connection will be available to all supported applications on your computer that you use to interact with the content server. Once you have defined a server connection, you can begin working with that server based on your server permissions. If you add or remove a server connection, or change its display name, this only affects your own computer. The server settings are stored on your own computer; no other users are affected. Also, when you uninstall the Desktop Integration Suite client software from your computer and reinstall it for example, to upgrade to a newer 7-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Desktop Integration Suite version, all previously configured server connections will continue to be available after you reinstall the software.

7.2 Content Server Types