Here at the Town of Okotoks, we're trying to figure out a way to not have the same document in four different locations, as it's not necessary to have scanned (and existing) in all four locations.  What someone here was considering doing was to have the actual document in one location, and have shortcuts in the other locations back to the original, so the scanned document doesn't physically need to be in all four locations.

Now, when she set up a shortcut, the meta data was blank.  However, when she went to modify the meta data on the shortcut (as the document's meta data properties vary slightly between locations), these values overwrote the original.  Is this an intentional behavior?  I thought this was odd, because the shortcut's meta data started out as blank.  

We want to reference the original, without having four copies of the same thing in four locations, but having each shortcut being searchable in its own right - if shortcuts with their own set of meta data may not accomplish this, might there be another (possibly/hopefully simpler) way of accomplishing this?

Thanks to anyone who can help!

Marty Gaffney - Network Technician

Town of Okotoks