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AIS Properties

Generally, the Admin user has full TM, TD, and AIS access control list (ACL) access to all properties of the Asset Interface System (AIS).

An AIS property is a property associated with an AIS path. The value of an AIS property can be explicitly assigned or it can be inherited from the parent AIS path.

Use the Change Properties dialog box to set and modify properties for folders and assets (Management > Asset Interface System > View and Change Properties or Explorer > Assets > Properties). The available properties are listed below.

Locale
Specify a locale for the top-level source and target folders.
Context URL
Specify the URL of the parent page to which this asset belongs. This is used for the viewer in context mode. See Context URL for more details.
Comments
Add comments, if needed.
Translation Memory
For the target folder only, specify a translation memory.
Term Database
For the target folder only, specify a terminology database.
Filter Configuration
Specify which filter to use (only available if there are multiple filter configuration instances for the appropriate filters). Alternatively, if you have selected a directory, you may specify a filter group.
  • For a file - If a file has a filter associated with it through the MIME type, and the filter has at least one custom configuration defined, the Filter Configuration property will be shown. The user can select the desired configuration, and this configuration will be used to parse the file.
  • For a directory - If there is at least one custom configuration for any of the filters defined in WorldServer, then the Filter Configuration property will be available for directories. It will list all the configurations in the form of Filter Name: Config Name. If you have defined any filter groups associated with the MIME type and filter for this directory, you can select a filter group. If the value is a filter group, when WorldServer segments the asset, the filter group is searched for an entry that contains the MIME type of the source asset being filtered. If one is found, the filter and filter configuration in that entry are used. If not, the base filter and filter configuration for the MIME type are used.
Select the appropriate configuration, which will be inherited by all files under this directory. If a file filter is compatible with the selected configuration, then the configuration will be used. Otherwise, the default configuration will be used.
For example, directory A contains files one.html and two.doc files. The user sets HTML Filter: My Config to the directory A. This configuration will be used to parse one.html, but will be ignored while parsing two.doc (which will be parsed using the default DOC filter configuration).
The filter configuration feature controls parsing rules for different files rather than for the same file across multiple locales. Because WorldServer caches parsing results and reuses them for all the locales, multiple configuration will not take effect in this case. If separate parsing rules for multiple locales are required, contact WorldServer support.
Entry Form
Specify which Entry Form to use for any assets under this path. Set up the Entry Form at Management > Administration > Customization.
Triggers
Specify which triggers to activate.
Editing
Specify which Click and Edit editor to use for the asset, either the Click and Edit 1.0 editor (more restrictive), or the WYSIWYG editor.
AIS Mask
Select an AIS Mask, if you have defined one, to control what objects can be used for this asset. The objects you can mask must be one of the following object type: AIS Properties, Publishing Objects, or Workflows.
Encoding
Choose whether to use the default encoding declared in the locale or whether to override the encoding locally.
Machine Translation Configuration (for target assets)
Select which Machine Translation configuration to use by default during lookups in the Browser Workbench, and for scoping. If no MT adapters have been configured, this AIS property does not display.
Access Control
Specify which users and groups have View, Read, Write, and Change permission to the folder. Note that Write permission assumes Read permission, and that Change permission assumes Read and Write permissions.
  • View allows you to see the object. For example, if you had a View permission on a TM object and you do not have View permission on the TM itself, the TM does not even appear in the list of TMs.
  • Read permission allows you to read object data. If you have View permission on a TM but do not have Read permission on it, you cannot click on the TM to get into the TM and read data. But the TM will show up in the list.
  • Write permission allows you to change the content of the object (for example, to modify TM entries).
  • Change permission allows you to modify object properties (for example, to rename a TM or change its description).
Custom AIS Properties
Any custom properties that you have defined in Management > Administration > Customization with AIS properties selected as the custom component type will be displayed on this page. For example, if you have created a Product property as a selector with values of Car, Truck, and Motorcycle, this page will display these selector values. Having the asset associated with a product (in this example) could be used programmatically when making scoring decisions during TM lookups. For example, a match of “hand brake” might be assigned a different weight if the product were Motorcycle than if it were Car or Truck.
For each property, a folder or asset has one of the following values:
  • No value
  • An inherited value (the default), which means that the folder or asset derives the value for that property from its hierarchical parent
  • An explicit value, which means the folder or asset has a different value than its hierarchical parent