tia tia® Viewer Core provides many configuration parameters An instance is a set of these configurations and has a instance name. Repositories are mapped to a specific instance.
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Repositories are mapped to instances. The tia tia® Viewer Core allows each instance to be configured separately.
In SAP-side customized tia tia® Viewer Core configuration, the mapping to an instance resides on SAP-side. For more information read about column Viewer Conf in https://kgs-software.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WIKI/pages/3257106464/SAP+Customizing+Vc#%2FKGS1%2FVIEWER_CUST-Transactionx/BICOxg .
In Content Server Viewer (CSV) configuration, the mapping is specified in the tia tia® Viewer configuration using parameter
tia.repositoryinstancemapping, see also https://kgs-software.atlassian.net/wiki/x/B4C1wg.
tia tia® Viewer Core maps repositories to instance default, if no explicit mapping exists.
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If also for instance default no setting was applied, tia tia® Viewer Core uses built-in default values (global default).
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