For background information, see Common Configuration Manager plug-in.
Use this procedure to configure settings that are used by multiple applications:
Using the XBOUND Management Center, open a console containing the Common Configuration Manager.
Note: In order to save changes in the Common Configuration Manager, you must run the Management Center as an Administrator.
In the navigation pane, select .
On the right side, specify the appropriate configuration settings. (More information about the settings.)
Binding tab | |
Here you configure the technical settings for how an XBOUND application connects to the XBOUND server. | |
Select the connection type. | |
Type the URL that is used to access the XBOUND server. | |
Further application servers that can be used for failover or for automatic load balancing (see below). | |
Enable round robin to use additional application servers are used for automatic load balancing. Or, disable round robin to use the additional application server(s)
only for failover. | |
File System Logging tab | |
Here you can activate logging to the file system and adjust the settings. | |
Select if applications are to log to the Windows file system. | |
Type the name of the file into which the log messages are to be written. | |
Select the directory to which the log file is to be written. | |
Select the format of the logging (either XML or text). | |
Select the desired level of logging (described in Setting up logging). | |
Service Logging tab | |
Here you can activate logging to the central service log and adjust the settings. You can query the central service log using the Log Explorer or Process Monitor. | |
Select if applications are to log on to the service logging database. | |
Select the connection type. | |
Specify the URL of the logging server, including the protocol and port number. Example: tcp://testserver:4445 (the protocol is TCP and the port number is 4445). Tip: You can specify multiple servers using a pipe symbol ( | ) as separator. If the first server fails, the next one is used. Example: tcp://testserver:4445|tcp://logserver:4445 | |
Log level | Select the desired level of logging (described in Setting up logging). |
Event Log tab | |
Here you can activate logging to the Windows Event Log and adjust the settings. | |
Select whether applications log messages to the local Windows Event Log. | |
Select the desired level of logging (described in Setting up logging). | |
Other Settings tab | |
When XBOUND processes save data temporarily, by default the Temp directory is used. If you want the data to be temporarily saved in another directory, specify which one. | |
How often the XBOUND Activities service checks for new documents (in milliseconds). Note: Collectors do not use this setting. Collectors check their sources every 30 seconds. This is not adjustable. | |
Type a time interval (in milliseconds) for how often XBOUND Activities services perform a new login to XBOUND. | |
Specify when XBOUND is to warn you about the number of remaining licenses. If the number of licenses falls below this amount, a warning is displayed in the Log Explorer. | |
These settings are also available on the tab:
Select the display language (the language of the DOCUMENTS user interface). | |
– Activates a pre-fetching function in which GetNextDocument() starts a background thread that checks out and loads batches. – When pre-fetching is activated (see above), this option loads media in the file system, too. | |
Check-in is transferred to a background thread. Disadvantage: You lose some control if errors occur. |
Select >:

These settings are saved in C:\ProgramData\ReadSoft\xbound\xboundConfiguration.foxconfig.
Configuring application-specific settings