REACH Delivery
- Add or Edit a Document
Add a file may be accessed
through the menus on the
home screen, from the
File Management
Screen or when sending a
message. Editing Files is available from the
File Management
Screen.
The File Details function, accessed
when you add or edit a file, allows you to
modify the files that you have already added (or are in
the process of adding) into the REACH Delivery system.
The REACH Delivery file details screen, as
shown below will then be opened. This screen
should be completed with details that you can modify to
identify and represent the file.
Please note that this is the same
screen used to add files into the REACH Delivery system, however
the
Replace Document,
Edit File and
Undo Checkout icons are not available when
adding files.
Restrictions: restrictions
are currently only available for PDF documents and one
or two
additional icons
are
displayed. Please refer to the section on
restrictions below.

What do the symbols mean?
(click on the icon or the link to jump to information on
that subject)
Save
Changes - Clicking the Save Changes icon
will
commit your changes and update the file in the system.
Replace
Document - When you click on this icon then you
will be asked to locate the new copy of the document
(from your local computer or network) that you wish to
use to overwrite the version already in the REACH Delivery system.
This will follow the function of
adding a document.
Edit
File Contents - the process for editing a file is
described below.
Undo
Checkout - used when editing files and is
described as part of the edit files process
below.
Metadata
(extended search) - Local company metadata
associated with a document is described on its own help
page that can be accessed from this
link.
File
Edit History - opens the
File Edit
History screen.
Allow
Document Extract - If this option is selected, recipients of the
document will be able to extract the document in an
unencrypted format so that it may be used outside of the
REACH Delivery System.
Edit File Contents
When you click on the edit file
contents icon
you will be presented with the information screen.
The REACH Delivery system will attempt to 'check out' the
file for editing and allow you to modify it. The file
will remain 'checked out' to you until you click either: Save
Changes to Server or
Undo File Checkout. While the file is 'checked out'
other users will not be able to make changes to it.
In order to proceed with the file edit you will need to
click the "ok" button.

When you click "ok" the file will
open in a standard editor for that document (if you have
an editor on your computer) or REACH Delivery cannot find an
editor for the document type then you will either by
be presented with a further information screen.
This will indicate that the file has been made available
to you the following location: 'C:\Documents and
Settings\<username>\My Documents\REACH Delivery Edit\Safety data
sheet Clean Chain.pdf'
Once you have made your changes you
can upload your changes using the
Save
Changes to Server icon.
You can also open the folder location
immediately to edit/modify the file

If you do open the file location then
you will be into standard "Windows" file management
screens (as shown below)

Once you have completed the edit
functions that you need to perform the close the file as
normal and you will find that the REACH Delivery screen has
returned to the main edit screen, as below.
Undo File Checkout
The
Undo Checkout icon is now active, meaning that
the document is "checked out". Clicking the undo
document checkout icon will "release" the document and
any changes since the file was last uploaded to the
server with Save
Changes will NOT be updated in the document
that is managed within REACH Delivery.
Check the document back into REACH Delivery/upload your changes
using the
Save
Changes icon

Restrictions
Restrictions are only currently available for PDF
documents, however, it is planned that they will be made
available for other types of document in the future.
Editing a PDF document is exactly the same as for other
documents as described above, except that two additional
icons are available to the user


Manage
Default Constraint - Clicking the manage default
constraint icon will bring up the following screen:

restrictions are applied to
a document to allow
(or block) a user, internal or external from executing
certain actions on specific documents.
The 2 types of restrictions
available are the ability to Print a document and the ability
to Export (copy) a document.
An audit count of the number of times
a file is printed by a user and group that has such
rights is maintained.
The default set of
restrictions that is applied to documents managed by
REACH Delivery are shown opposite. These can be changed only for a document
previously loaded into REACH Delivery (i.e. managed) and only by the administrator or owner
of the document.
Additional information on restrictions may be found on
the
restrictions help page.
Manage
Company restrictions - Clicking the manage default
constraint icon will bring up the following screen:
Selecting the ‘Manage company
restrictions’ you can view all the companies that have
restrictions that differ from the default and see what
those restrictions are.
If
the default is changed after the files have been sent,
companies that have already received files with the
original restrictions will automatically have the new
default implemented, same as an updated document.
The
list of companies with their own restrictions (one’s that
have been given a different set of restrictions at send
time) will remain listed even if their constraint now
matches the default, they are still operating on an
independent setting.
Selecting the ‘Who can view this
file’ from the file menu will allow you to view all
users who have restrictions set that differ from the
default that you set. You will also be able to see here
people in other companies that have had the file
distributed to them where different restrictions have
been set.
Document restrictions can be altered
when sending a file to another company or when
distributing the files within your own group. When the
change restrictions is selected the system default
settings are displayed for you to change as required.
The recipient receives the file
with restrictions as defined by the owner, they can
distribute the files with the same or lower level of
constraint i.e. more restricted, again the user is
displayed a box with the system wide defaults, any
attempt to set high levels access (i.e. less restricted)
will be ignored.
Additional information on restrictions may be found on
the
restrictions help page.
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