Xerox DigiPath Professional Production Software Support & Software User Guide
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THE POWER OF
DIGIPATH
About Cabinets
A cabinet is a storage space on any kind of medium. A cabinet has a set of properties that are used to describe the
documents that you import into the cabinet. When you import a document into a cabinet, the properties of the cabinet
become available to describe the document.
documents that you import into the cabinet. When you import a document into a cabinet, the properties of the cabinet
become available to describe the document.
The following analogy may help you understand cabinets. Let’s assume you have a group of dogs in your neighborhood
and you want to keep track of some key information about these dogs.
and you want to keep track of some key information about these dogs.
Cabinet Example 1
The categories (Name, Owner, Color, Size, and Age) you use to describe the dogs are like properties in DigiPath cabinets.
The descriptions you use for each dog (black, large, Dave, and Anna) are like values you can apply to documents in
DigiPath cabinets.
The descriptions you use for each dog (black, large, Dave, and Anna) are like values you can apply to documents in
DigiPath cabinets.
So let's say you have a DigiPath cabinet that has the following set of properties: Name, Title, Keywords, and Authors. You
want to keep track of some key information about the documents in the cabinet.
want to keep track of some key information about the documents in the cabinet.
Cabinet Example 2
note…
Properties are categories that are available to describe all the documents in a cabinet. Values are the descriptions you can
enter to describe your individual documents.
enter to describe your individual documents.
Name
Owner(s)
Color
Size
Age
Duke
Jason
Black
Extra Large
3
Apolo
Claire
Brown and black
Large
3
Amy
Tony and Christine
Brown and white
Small
3
Daisy
Dave and Anna
Red, brown and white
Small
2
Rex
Mark and Edna
Brown and black
Large
10
Name
Title
Keywords
Authors
Status.rdo
June Status Report
Objectives, accomplishments, budget
Robert
Poster.pdf
Concert Poster
Gibson, Guild, axe, Virginia Beach
Anthony
Menu.doc
Meal Plan for Week
Grocery list, recipes, diabetes
Liz
Quinn.jpg
Birthday 2002
Blue, 2, playgroup
Craig
Collateral.tif
Marketing Brochure
Fund-raiser, tournament, golf, 2002
Joe