Set your virtual document preferences

To set your virtual document preferences:

  1. Select Tools > Preferences.

  2. Select the Virtual Documents tab, and complete the fields in Table 12.2.

    Table 12.2. Virtual document preferences

    PropertyDescription
    Opening options

    Select what happens when you open a virtual document by clicking its name. This does not apply if the virtual document is already opened in Virtual Document Manager (VDM):

    • View structure: When you click the virtual document’s name, the first level of nested files appears.

    • View content: When you click the virtual document’s name, a read-only copy of the content appears.

    • Prompt each time: When you click the virtual document’s name, you are prompted to select to display the structure or the read-only content.

    If there is no content in a virtual document, then VDM automatically displays the virtual document’s structure, regardless of how you set this preference.

    BindingsSelect whether VDM shows broken bindings. A binding is broken if VDM cannot find the version of a component specified by the component’s binding rule
    Copy

    Select what happens when you copy a virtual document to your clipboard. You can select one of these:

    • Root only: Copies the content, and properties of the parent file only.

    • Root and descendants: Copies the parent file, and all the descendants nested in the parent file, including descendants of descendants, and so on.

    • Root and link to existing descendants: Copies the parent file, and references the descendants.

    • Prompt me each time: Prompts you to select what to copy.

    Checkout

    Select what happens when you attempt to check out an item that is locked by another user:

    • Download as read-only: Downloads a copy of the item as read-only.

    • Prompt me each time: Prompts you to select whether to download as read-only.

  3. To save your changes, click OK.