tia Viewer Core settings may be specified either by environment variables in the container context or by providing a YAML configuration file:
configuration by environment variables is only viable for minimal configurations
configuration by YAML configuration file is required when requiring configuring of instances and more. Here only one environment variable to point to the YAML file is required (
SPRING_CONFIG_ADDITIONALLOCATION
).
Configuration using environment variables
As environment variables do not have any hierarchical order, the tia Viewer parameters must be qualified completely:
TIA_DESTINATIONS_SAPHTTP_HOST
While tia Viewer Core parameter names are case-sensitive and use the .
(dot) character. Depending of the environment like cloud provider or package manager, environment variables must be all uppercase, use _
(underscore) character instead of .
, and remove all -
. Case-conversion required in this cases may cause undesired result.
Example for a docker-compose file with configuration using environment variables:
version: '3' services: tiaviewer: container_name: tiaviewer image: images.docker.kgs-cloud.de/tia-viewer/archivelink-oidc:latest ports: - "8080:8080" environment: TIA_DESTINATIONS_SAPHTTP_HOST: contentservevr.kgs.local TIA_DESTINATIONS_SAPHTTP_PORT: 8090 TIA_INSTANCES_DEFAULT_SAP_URL: https://sapServer:8400/tia/tia_viewer?sap-client=250 TIA_INSTANCES_DEFAULT_SAP_USERNAME: secuser TIA_INSTANCES_DEFAULT_SAP_PASSWORD: s3cret volumes: - ./viewerlicense.json:/application/config/license/viewerlicense.json
Configuration using YAML file
YAML defines a text-file-format (typical file extensions used are .yaml
and .yml
) for configuration parameters with a hierarchical order by line intend. There is always one parameter setting per row only.
By the parent section and the intend before the parameter name hierarchical order is specified and replace the prefixes as used with environment variables.
Prepare the YAML file in the directory of choice at the host
Using the file name viewer.yml
is good practice to ease maintenance.
Example tia Viewer configuration file:
tia: destinations: saphttp: host: contentservevr.kgs.local port: 8090 repositoryinstancemapping: FI: finance HR: finance TR: default ZI: production instances: default: watermark: text: "copy" sap: url: "https://sapServer:8400/tia/tia_viewer?sap-client=250" username: secuser password: s3cret mimetypes: - application/pdf finance: downloadDocument: false text: "confidential" production: printDocumentNote: false mimetypes.0: application/pdf
Map the configuration file into the container context, and included into tia Viewer Core start procedure by specifying its location to the
SPRING_CONFIG_ADDITIONALLOCATION
environment variable.
Example docker compose file to load YAML file configuration:
version: '3' services: tiaviewer: container_name: tiaviewer image: http://images.docker.kgs-cloud.de/tia-viewer/archivelink-oidc:latest ports: - "8080:8080" volumes: - ./viewer.yml: /app/config/viewer.yml - ./viewerlicense.json:/application/config/license/viewerlicense.json environment: SPRING_CONFIG_ADDITIONALLOCATION: /app/config/viewer.yml