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Aconex Associate: Working with Documents: Module 2 Downloading documents


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We're going to dig a little deeper now and show you how the properties and event log can be useful. Let's remind ourselves about the information associated with documents.


Each project on Aconex requires certain document fields are always used and never changed. Each project can also add additional fields to help tag documents specifically relating to that project's requirements. It's up to the project team to decide what information is captured and how it's configured.


Here are some documents. We can see certain fields displayed at the top of each column. Remember, we use the Add/Remove columns option to control what information is displayed in the results.


There's also other information relating to each document that isn't displayed by default in the search results. To see this information, we click the document's title.


This is the Document Properties screen and it shows us all the document's information. And this can be really useful when you need more specific information that's not displayed in the results. Let's take a look around.


We cover some of the elements here in other videos, so we'll keep it simple. First, we have all the fields for the document here. And remember that not all projects look the same. Then, we have the file type and original file name here. Often, this is not the same as the document number and title. And this is good to know. When we use the search box in the register, it searches across all information you see on this property screen.


And then finally, we have the document history. We see the current version or revision of the document at the top, but we can click the other versions to see their properties like this. Now we're looking at the very first version of the document.


The properties and information in the fields is different. And this is really useful when you need to double check what happened in the past. Everything is tracked.


What if we want to see what's been happening to a document in more detail? Well, that's when we use the Event Log. And you can see the button here. And what we see are all the actions against the document performed by people in our own organization. It won't show you what other organizations have been doing.


And this can come in handy sometimes for seeing who has downloaded or updated a document, for example. And you can filter the results along the top row if this event log is too big.


That's it. You probably won't use the properties and event log every day, but they do come in handy sometimes when you need to find out what's happened to a specific document.