4.5. Creating a New, Empty Workspace

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## 4.5. Creating a New, Empty Workspace

Workspaces are primarily used as independent data partitions that can be configured independently of each other and that contain their own set of users and groups. Each server will have at least one production workspace that contains the primary data and user accounts, but you may want to create additional workspaces. For an overview of workspaces, see How Workspaces are Used.

To create a new workspace:

1. Sign in to EKM Server Administration. See Signing In and Out of EKM Server Administration for details.

2. Click Add Workspace. The New Workspace dialog box appears.

   Figure 4.4: New Workspace Dialog Box

3. In the Name field, enter a name for the workspace.

4. If you want EKM to create user accounts automatically when users successfully sign in to the EKM workspace for the first time, enable the Create new users automatically check box. See Automatic Creation of User Accounts for details. Otherwise, if this option is disabled, you must create user accounts for the workspace before users can connect to it (when they are signing in to EKM, or when switching from another workspace). See Adding and Modifying Users for details.

   You can change this setting later by editing the `createUsersAutomatically` setting in the WorkspaceConfig.xml file. See Creating User Accounts Automatically for details.

5. Do not check the Import an exported workspace? box.

6. Click OK. A Progress dialog box opens to report the status.

   Once the workspace has been created, the Add Workspace Completed dialog box appears:

7. Click Close. The new workspace will appear in the Workspaces list in the EKM Server Administration window, and in all other workspace drop-down lists in EKM.

Important: If the WorkspaceConfig.xml file has not been configured in accordance with the schema definition, the new workspace will fail to initialize, and the error will be reported in the following dialog:

It is important to note that even though the workspace has failed to initialize, it has still been created on the server. The presence of a faulty workspace will prevent the EKM server from starting properly. You will need to manually remove the faulty workspace from the server. See Deleting Workspaces for details.

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