Setting the Preferred File Store for a Company

Each top-level company can have a preferred file store set for it and all its business units using the File Store Symbolic Name attribute on the company's business object. This attribute should only be set by host company administrators.

The File Store Symbolic Name attribute is specified for an entire Company. When users log into the system, the system finds the Organization connected via the Employee relationship. If this Organization is not a Company (for example, it is a Business Unit), the system navigates up the Organization relationship structure until it finds the top-level Company business object. If the File Store Symbolic Name attribute has a value, it overrides the value determined by the business object's governing policy.

  1. Start an MQL session. For more information, see Running MQL.
  2. To set the context for the MQL session, run this command:

    set context user creator;

  3. Use MQL to create a store for a company. For details on file stores, see the MQL Concepts: store Command.
  4. Register the store and assign it a symbolic name as described in Registering Your Own Administrative Objects.
  5. Change the default store defined for your company. See Company, Subsidiary, Business Unit, and Department Properties.

    When a file is checked into the ENOVIA platform using MQL, the store set in the policy (as defined in MQL) is used; when using an ENOVIA product to check in a file, the person or company default store is used regardless of the store set by the policy.