Overview
nVIRO serves as an electronic file cabinet, storing files that have been generated within nVIRO or added to nVIRO through various mechanisms.
Documents are a type of shared attribute available across several functional areas within nVIRO. Documents are managed within the context of the related functional area record. For instance, submission documents are managed within the related submission record, evaluation documents are managed within the related evaluation record, and so on. This provides for ready access to relevant documents when working within a particular functional area record.
In-Browser Editing for nVIRO Documents
nVIRO Provides an in-browser editing capability using Microsoft Word through the use of a third-party plug-in. When a document is opened by a user with edit permission to the document, it opens in a browser-independent window for editing. With a few exceptions (such as development macros) the in-browser editor has all of the editing capabilities of Microsoft Word. Internal users must have Microsoft Word installed on their desktop machine in order to use this feature. For this reason, this feature is not available on tablet or mobile devices.
Draft vs. Final Document Status
Each document has a status of Draft or Final. The Draft designation is used by internal processors to indicate that the document is still in development. The internal processor can then set the document to Final when it is complete. Internal processors can update the document status on the document's Details page.
Document status, in conjunction with other factors, has implications for visibility to external users. See this page for more information.
Document Security Classification
nVIRO Release 2020,01 introduced a new document attribute called Security Classification. The security classification is designed to align with government document security classifications. All documents are assigned a document security class. Security classes define system behavior related to visibility and access of a given document. Document class names are configurable, however there are three required document classes, which provide the behaviors described below.
- Public - Public documents have unrestricted visibility. Public documents are accessible to internal users based upon the user security and state of the 'owning entity' (e.g., application, permit, evaluation). Documents are made visible to external account holders when the owning entity is in a completed state, and depending on configuration, to the public in Site Explorer. See Document Visibility to External and Public Users for additional information related to visibility of Public documents.
- Internal - Internal documents have visibility restricted to internal users only, and are accessible based upon the user security and state of the owning entity.
- Confidential - Confidential documents have visibility restricted to designated internal users. See Designating a Document as Confidential for information on how to manage confidentiality settings when designating a document as confidential.
Automatic PDF and Thumbnail Creation
nVIRO will automatically create a PDF version of a document at the time of upload if the following are true:
- The document is "PDF-able", meaning the document file is the type of document that can be converted to a standard Adobe PDF format.
- The document has a status of Final. To prevent new PDF documents from being generated each time a document is edited and saved (for example, if the user is editing a large document and saving frequently), documents are not converted to PDF format until they are in Final status. If the document is not Final, a generic thumbnail image is displayed.
The document is queued for generation of its PDF and thumbnail at the time of file upload, import, or generation. If the document is a draft Word document, it is queued when the status changes from Draft to Final. It may take up to 5 minutes for the PDF version to appear.
When available, the thumbnail is displayed in the document list screen and the document will be viewable in the preview gallery (see Document List and Preview Gallery.
