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This section covers Meridian Enterprise 2026. View other versions.

View Documents

You can open documents with the viewer from the document name. You can then examine the document with the viewer tools.

Meridian Explorer can use one of the following viewers to show documents:

  • Accruent viewer (ActiveX) that is installed on your PC by the Meridian Web Client setup program

  • Adobe Reader installed on your PC

  • PDFTron server-based viewer can be used to view PDF renditions

The viewer that opens depends on the viewers available to the client computer, the options configured for your system, and the user options you've chosen. You can configure several options to enhance the viewer window.

ClosedNotes about Functionality

  • Content might not be shown for some documents depending on the configuration your administrator has chosen. Content might also not be available depending on whether a rendition exists in the source vault and whether the rendition is out of date because the source document has been modified.

    To confirm that you are viewing the correct document, view the document and its status in PowerUser or PowerWeb.

  • To view the available redline markups for a document, open the Feedback page of the document (markups synchronized with the source vault) as described in Feedback Page or view the comments (not synchronized) for the document as described in View Comments.

  • In Meridian Enterprise 2021, when the view is set to View both - default to source and you select a document then view it with View in tab, the document is shown with a viewer, but the bottom pane with opened tabs is invisible.

ClosedView a Document from the Results List

To view a document from the results list:

  1. Right-click the document name.

    The shortcut menu appears.

  2. Click View.

    The selected document opens.

ClosedView a Document from the General Page

To view a document from the General page:

  • Click the thumbnail image.

ClosedView a Document from a Detail Page

To view a document from a detail page:

  • In the Review ribbon, click View.

ClosedView hotspots and redlines on PDFTron rendition

You can opt to view hotspots by default when you view a rendition or you can toggle hotspots and redlines on or off when viewing a rendition. If you view a rendition of an outdated version, hotspots are not shown.

To view hotspots by default when you view a rendition:

  1. Click your user.

  2. On the page that opens, click Options.

  3. Select the Show hotspots check box.

ClosedView hotspots and redlines

To toggle hotspots and redlines on a PDFTron rendition:

  1. View the document as described earlier on this page.

  2. Select the Hotspot and Redline toolbar button gray eye with ellipsis underneath it.

  3. In the context menu that opens, select Redlines and/or Hotspots depending on whether you want to show or hide redlines or hotspots.

  4. Move the cursor over a hotspot to view properties of the target for that hotspot such as:

    • target identification number

    • tag type

    • tag number

    • name and values of properties configured in Meridian Explorer. Properties with no value for the target document are hidden.

    If there are multiple targets for the hotspot, the box that appears shows Multiple Targets. If this occurs, you can View a target in the Details pane that appears when you click the hotspot.

ClosedHighlight a hotspot

To highlight a hotspot in the diagram:

  1. In the viewer, click the Panel toolbar button Gray unfilled rectangle with solid gray rectangle on left with four small with rectangles within it.

  2. Click the Hotspots gray map pin button.

    The Panel pane opens with a list of hotspots.

  3. Use the Zoom In gray circle containing gray plus, Zoom Out gray circle containing gray minus or Marquee Zoom Dotted gray box with gray magnifier buttons to set the zoom level you want.

  4. To filter the hotspot list, in the Search hotspots field enter the Asset Number or Asset Type or part of it.

  5. Select the hotspot you want to view from the list.

    The selected hotspot is highlighted on the drawing in the current zoom.

ClosedView a target

When you view the target of a hotspot, it opens in a new tab in the Documents view. A rendition is shown if one exists for that target. If no rendition exists, the document properties are shown.

To view the target tag of a hotspot:

  1. In the viewer, click the hotspot you want to view.

    The hotspot is highlighted in the current Documents view tab. If only one target exists, the target tag of the selected hotspot opens in a new tab. If more than one target exists, the Details pane opens with the available targets for that hotspot.

  2. If you want to view a target listed on the Details pane, click the View gray eye button next to that target.

    The selected target tag opens in a new tab in the Documents view.

ClosedView Layers

When you view a rendition that has layers, the rendition is shown in accordance with the translation rules that have been configured in the Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console layer translation tables. Layers that were translated as mandatory are always shown and cannot be hidden. Layers translated with the Default option are shown by default.

To change the layers shown on a rendition:

  1. In the viewer, click the Panel toolbar button Gray unfilled rectangle with solid gray rectangle on left with four small with rectangles within it.

  2. Click the Layers two gray diamonds one on top of the other button.

    The pane lists the layers that you can show or hide. Mandatory layers are locked and cannot be hidden.

  3. Select the check boxes of the layers you want to show.

  4. Clear the check boxes of the layers you want to hide.