Chapter 8: Managing Repository Data

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## Chapter 8: Managing Repository Data

This chapter presents information on how you can manage data that has been transferred to an EKM repository using the EKM web client, the EKM File Transfer Client, or ANSYS Workbench. It focuses mainly on the Data section in EKM.

You can use the actions described in this chapter to create, edit, delete, display, synchronize, extract, and perform other miscellaneous data and file management operations on objects in an EKM repository. You can perform the intended action on an object only if you have the required permission. Additionally, if the object is under exclusive control by another user, or it is under version control and not checked out to you, you cannot perform some of the actions.

Important:

- If a workspace has been configured to display a job-only view, you will not be able to access repository data.

- If the object that you want to operate on is a custom folder and it is defined as “required” in the custom types XML configuration file, then no user (not even the Root User) can delete, rename, move, or change the automatic deletion policy on the folder, regardless of whether they have been granted permission in EKM. The displayed permissions are superseded by the configuration definition.

For actions on multiple objects and those involving recursion (for example, propagating permissions to children, and so on) a special Message dialog box is displayed when the action is initiated. The Message reports on the progress of the transaction and continues to refresh until the operation is completed. It indicates the total number of objects processed in the transaction (for example, copied, moved, and so on) as well as any errors or warnings that were encountered. Errors cause the operation to be cancelled for the particular object; warnings are message-only indicators.

Topics covered in this chapter:

- Navigating the Repository
- Accessing Sample Files
- Displaying Objects
- Creating New Objects
- Opening Objects
- Editing Objects
- Deleting Objects
- Filtering the View
- Displaying Project Files
- Extracting Archives
- Synchronizing Remote Objects
- Creating Shortcuts to Objects
- Sharing Objects

Note: If you update your Java software and attempt to work with a file in a repository, you may get a Windows error message saying that Windows cannot open the file. To correct this, configure Windows to open the file with the Java Web Start Launcher and choose to always open files of this type.

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