What is meant by copying documents and temporary file names?

When you create a Publisher export, all linked documents of a database are copied. You can select this option in the Profile Wizard (ARIS > Options > Publisher export profiles).

If users open documents from a Publisher export, these copies are displayed. Of course, file changes in the original documents are no longer reflected if you use this process, since a link to the original file no longer exists.

If you also enable the Temporary file names check box, documents will not be overwritten. The risk of overwriting documents exists if files with the same name but originating from different sources are linked. For differentiation purposes, figures are appended to identical file names. If you disable the check box you will overwrite files with identical names when copying.

If you have enabled the Copy documents check box and started ARIS Server as a service on the Include links page of the Profile Wizard (ARIS > Options > Publisher export profiles), make sure that your authorization concept permits access to linked documents.

By default, a service is started with the Local system account option. The operating system uses an internal system user. However, this user generally has no privileges (for example, for accessing file servers), which results in incorrect links. Therefore, you should ensure that the service is started by a user who has access privileges for all linked documents.