Encryption Settings

Encryption – is a means of information protection. ELMA allows encrypting documents with a password.

Document encryption provides:

To enable encryption:

check the Encrypting box on the Additional tab of the document type page in ELMA Designer (fig. 1);

Fig. 1. Document type page. Additional tab. Encrypting parameter
after that, the Encrypt column will be added to the Attributes tab. Check the boxes of the attributes, which need to be encrypted (fig. 2). These attributes will be hidden in all the data tables in ELMA Web Application. You can select only those attributes, which can be encrypted by the system, e.g. user attributes of simple types, and attributes of the object type.

Fig. 2. Document type page. Attributes tab. Encrypt column
publish the document type and restart the server.

The Encrypt Confidential Document button will be displayed on the Access tab of the document page in Web Application (fig. 3).

Fig. 3. Document page. Access button. Encrypt Confidential Document button

To learn more about encrypting documents in Web Application, see the respective Help page.