Configuring the IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer

You can use the IBM® Content Navigator administration tool to set all configuration options for the IBM Daeja® ViewONE Virtual viewer.

About this task

The IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer can be used with any type of repository. The IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer does not use an applet because it is based on DHTML5 technology that uses the browser. For more information about the file types that are supported by the IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer, see Supported viewers.

You can redact content when you view a document in the IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer by using redaction mode. Optionally, you can save the document with redactions as a new version of the document, if the document is in an IBM FileNet® P8 repository or in an IBM Content Manager repository and the document type supports versions. By using the ViewONE Permanent Redaction Server Module, you can redact content in IBM FileNet P8 repository documents when you use the IBM Daeja ViewONE Professional viewer. A separate license is required for redaction services.

Important: To view Microsoft Office documents with the IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer, the ViewONE Office Module is required. A separate license is required for the ViewONE Office Module.

If you are entitled to use the ViewONE Office Module and the ViewONE Permanent Redaction Server Module, you can now redact the content of Microsoft Office documents in the IBM Daeja ViewONE Professional viewer.

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files redact to TIFF if they have no substituted font on either the client or the server.

For more information about the configuration parameters and valid parameter values for IBM Daeja ViewONE, see Configuring the IBM Daeja ViewONE viewer by using HTML parameters.
Important: Do not follow the Procedure section in the Configuring the IBM Daeja ViewONE viewer by using HTML parameters topic. Refer only to the parameters listed in the What to do next section of the topic.

The IBM Content Navigator administration tool provides options for parameters that are commonly used, but additional settings can be configured by entering the parameter name and value.

The following options are provided in the IBM Content Navigator administration tool:
Virtual
  • Enter the text to display when no tooltip is specified for a custom annotation. The text can include replaceable tokens. For example, you can enter: <creator> created this annotation on <createdateonly>.
  • Specify the parameters that enable the user to add image stamp annotations when viewing a document in aFileNet P8repository, an IBM Content Manager repository, or a CMIS repository. For a basic example of these parameter settings, see Image stamps.

If you want to specify more configuration options, use the Additional settings section to specify the parameter name and value. For example, you can specify pageButtons and true if you want page buttons to be displayed on the toolbar.

Procedure

To configure the IBM Daeja ViewONE viewers and server modules:

  1. Open the administration tool in the web client.
  2. Click Settings > Daeja ViewONE.
  3. Click the appropriate tab for the viewer or module that you want to configure.
    Tab name Configuration information
    Virtual Configure the settings for the IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual
  4. Save your changes.
  5. Restart the IBM Content Navigator server for the configuration changes to take effect.

What to do next

To use the IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer, you must create a viewer map that includes the IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer and the associated file types. For more information about creating a viewer map, see Configuring viewers used to display documents in the web client. Then, select and edit your desktop, click the General tab, and for the Viewer map option, select the viewer map that you created.

Highly Available ClustersTo use the ViewONE Permanent Redaction Server Module in a high-availability cluster environment, you must copy the viewpro.redacttofile.properties file from the install_dir/config directory for IBM Content Navigator to the install_dir/config directory on each node in the cluster.

If you experience problems when many users are opening files in the viewer at the same time, and the application server log reports a "too many open files" error, you can resolve the problem by updating the nofiles parameter to an unlimited value on your operating system. Check the value of the nofiles parameter by running the command: ulimit –n. To change the value, edit the appropriate file for your operating system.
  • For AIX, edit the file/etc/security/limits, and assign the nofiles parameter value -1.
  • For Solaris, edit the file /etc/security/limits.conf, and assign the nofiles parameter value -1.
  • For Linux and Linux for System z, edit the file /etc/security/limits.conf, and assign the nofiles parameter value 65536.