Product: VDRPro
Applies to: All Manager roles, Publisher Plus
Indexing assigns numbers to folders and their contents, providing additional structure and making it easy to trace documents and identify related documents when they appear in search lists and on reports.
If indexing is allowed on your VDR, you can index folders and their content. Your VDR can have a mix of indexed and unindexed folders. If a top-level folder is indexed, all the subfolders and documents within it are indexed. Likewise, if a top-level folder is unindexed, all the subfolders and documents within it are unindexed.
All the index numbers on your VDR use the same format. The first number indicates the top-level folder, and each subsequent decimal number indicates a subfolder. The final decimal number indicates the subfolder’s or document’s position within the folder. For, example, if a document has the index number 2.1.2.16, you would open top-level folder 2, then the first subfolder within it, and then the second subfolder within that folder, and finally document 16.
Index numbers in Intralinks VDRPro are consecutive. If you move, delete or insert an indexed item, other items will be reindexed automatically to ensure that there are no duplicate numbers or gaps in the numbering sequence.
Note: The use of indexing could reveal to individual VDR members that they do not have access to some documents and/or folders in the VDR. This is because index numbers are not updated based upon the permissions of individual VDR members. If members do not have permission to see a particular document or folder, they may notice a gap in the document or folder numbering. In addition, if a member is not permissioned to view any of the documents in a folder, then the entire folder is hidden.
If subfolders or documents are moved from an indexed folder to an unindexed folder, their index numbers are removed. If items are moved from an unindexed folder to an indexed folder, index numbers are added to the items.
To export/download a list of documents, including index numbers, see Exporting a list of folders and documents on the VDR.
Enabling indexing on your VDR
If you turn on indexing, any existing folders and documents will not be automatically indexed. Only folders and documents added after you turn the setting on will be automatically indexed. You will need to manually turn on indexing for existing folders and documents. For more information, see Turning indexing on or off for existing folders.
- From the Settings menu, click Exchange Settings.
- In the Document section, click Management.
- Turn the Index Files and Folders setting on.