The Lucity Web application includes a Documents tool that enables users to attach documents, images, URLs, etc., to Lucity records and view these attachments at a later time. The tool stores a link to the document within the Lucity database; NOT the actual document or a copy of it.
Considerations
Standardized document locations or paths - It is important to know that the path that is used to attach a document to Lucity is the path the system will always use to retrieve that document. Therefore, if a user attaches a document from his C: drive, other computers will be unable to access that document. There are many ways to remedy such a limitation. Each agency should decide where and how they want documents shared through Lucity to be stored.
Note: The Document tool will NOT work until the following steps have been taken to configure it.
Setup Steps
Two things must take place on a user's workstation before that user can take advantage of the document control feature:
Set a registry setting that allows Silverlight apps from trusted publishers to run with elevated privileges.
Deploy a public code signing security certificate from the trusted publisher (Lucity in this case).
Lucity provides the necessary files to deploy these registry settings in two different ways:
Manual Registration
Two .reg files are included with the installation media (at ..\MSI\Web\DocumentControl\). A user can run one of these files to create this entry on either platform:
LucitySilverlightSettings_x86.reg
LucitySilverlightSettings_x64.reg
Group Policy
Lucity also provides an administrative template that an agency can import into their group policy environment to more easily deploy this setting across the environment. Both the x86 (32-bit) and x64 registry values can be set using this administrative template. The template consists of two files that are included with the install media at ..\MSI\Web\DocumentControl\:
LucitySilverlight.adml
LucitySilverlight.admx
Once loaded, the template exposes the following two settings within a GPO:
These settings coincide with the two registry settings described above. By enabling these settings and deploying the resulting GPO to the workstations that will use Lucity Web, an agency sets the proper registry settings.
Note: Loading administrative templates and configuring group policy are actions that should only be performed by someone who is familiar with these topics. Such activities are beyond the scope of our help documentation. Additional information can be found online at:
Registry Setting
