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Chapter 3
About File Rooms and File Cabinets
About File Rooms
About File Cabinets
Domino.Doc uses file rooms and file cabinets to organize and manage
binders and documents.
This chapter provides general information about Domino.Doc file rooms
and file cabinets:
• About File Rooms
• About File Cabinets
For more information about file rooms, and creating and managing file
cabinets, refer to the Domino.Doc Administrator’s Guide.
The file room facilitates navigation by creating logical groupings, or categories,
of file cabinets. Each file cabinet is contained in a file room. When a
new file cabinet is created the creator may either add it to an existing file
room, or create a new file room for the file cabinet. (This is the only way file
rooms can be created.)
A file room cannot be deleted; rather, it ceases to exist when there are no
longer any file cabinets associated with it.
The file room is visible to the user in the library hierarchy.
File cabinets are Notes database files that reside on the Domino server.
They are created on the server by the Domino.Doc Administrator, or a user
designated as File Cabinet Creator, who also manage file cabinets. All file
cabinet management must be done from Notes, and by a person with the
appropriate access level.
Because file cabinets are Notes databases, the forms necessary for entering
information into a document, the views for accessing the information, and
the application logic that automates the processes related to the document
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