The Documents Tab Overview

Audience: Faculty, Researchers and Staff

This KB Article References: OnBase
This Information is Intended for: Faculty, Researchers, Staff
Last Updated: December 28, 2021
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Document Tools

To get to the Document tab, find and open a document by either the Custom Queries or Retrieval tool.  If you cannot find a document because the index is incorrect try to use the wildcard character *.

Once you open a document, you can

  1. View and update Keywords
    • This will allow you to change the Keywords of a document like fixing names or numbers that were made erroneously during importing and indexing.
  2. View the documents Cross References
  3. View Revisions, History and the Properties
  4. Send to
    • Email Recipient
      • This will open Outlook email.  If you are not an Outlook email user, choose File, instead.  This will create a copy of the file on your desktop.  Then manually create the email and send the file as an attachment from your own email system.
    • My Personal Page
    • Envelope (use the Envelope feature to group documents together for other OnBase users)
    • File
      • This feature will create a separate file and, by default, place it on your desktop after you hit Save.
      • You can the directory from desktop to another folder by clicking on Browse.
  5. Print
  6. Re-Index
    • This will allow you to change the document type and keywords.  If Keywords that you want to change appear grayed out, click the arrow-X next to Keywords.  This will remove all keywords for you to retype:
  7. Delete
    • This will delete a document. 
    • Only administrators can bring it back if it was accidentally deleted.
  8. Check Out 
    • This will prevent others from working on the document while you have it checked out.
  9. View Notes List on the document
  10. Create Sticky Notes
    • ​​​​​​​When you create a note, click off of it to save it: 
    • To view all of a document's notes, click View Notes List.
    • You can request from the administrators the creation of other types of notes with different colors and names.
  11. Delete Note
  12. Set Privacy Options
    • The Privacy Options are for the notes you create and not the document itself.  For questions on the security of a document type, please direct them to the Point of Contact in your department who can then speak with the OnBase administrators.
    • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​You can prevent Viewing, Updating, and Deleting of Notes in the Privacy Settings.​​​​​​​

 

 

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