Creating document type resources

When you create the global resource set for document type resources and metadata group resources you can start with the document type resources. At this stage, you can only create empty document type resources since there is no metadata defined. Later, when you have created metadata groups and connected the metadata groups to the appropriate document type resources, you can:

•	Assign values to the metadata (see Assigning values to metadata).

•	Specify in which contexts to enable metadata (see Enabling metadata in different contexts).

 

You must never copy document type resource files (*.dcres). If you do so, the GUIDs are copied and the identifiers are no longer unique.

Names for document type resources

•	Document type names must be unique.

•	Document type names should be descriptive.

•	Do not include white space in document type names.

•	For information about the maximum number of characters and invalid characters in document type names, see Naming Project components in the Design Center documentation.

To create a document type resource

1	In the resource set, right-click the appropriate node and select New > Document Type. A new document type is added to the resource set.

2	Rename the document type.