Editing AppData keys and values

Application Data (AppData) in Contenta and Contenta S1000D is a hierarchical collection of configuration settings used by Contenta tools and third-party tools.

Contenta Web and Contenta Explorer provide a graphical user interface for managing AppData, which follows the paradigm used by Windows' Regedit. This consists of a key and associated name-value pairs.

The name of the key and its location in the configuration hierarchy adhere to a prescribed pattern and fulfill a prescribed function. AppData keys and values defined in the Global folder apply to all configuration settings for all users, apply to all users when they run tools that read AppData settings.

In addition to configuration settings in the Global folder, which affect all users, each user has his or her own desktop, which mimics the configuration settings in the Global folder. The Crawler uses only Global AppData settings. All other user AppData settings are ignored by the Crawler.

AppData settings are associated with a specific database. Typically, a Contenta Administrator specifies Global AppData.