Your repository allows information to be organized and accessible from a central location. When you log in to Laserfiche, you are logging in to your repository, and when you save a document in Laserfiche, or modify a document, or rearrange folders, or make any other changes, those changes are saved to your repository. Information stored in your repository includes your documents and their contents, as well as folders and shortcuts. It also includes annotations, metadata, the folder structure itself, and additional information such as security settings, users and groups, and so on.
Since a repository is centralized, the information will be the same regardless of what computer you access it on, or whether you use the Laserfiche Client or Web Access to access it.
The contents of your repository are organized into a folder tree, much like the folder tree you can see in Windows Explorer. Documents are stored in folders, and folders are stored in other folders, to allow you to quickly store and retrieve relevant information. In addition, the folder tree allows administrators to easily secure even large numbers of documents.
You may work in one repository, or in more than one. If you work in more than one repository, note that information is generally not shared between repositories. A field that exists in one repository might not exist in another, for instance.
The repository is hosted by your Laserfiche Server. Laserfiche client applications (the Laserfiche Client and Web Access) can connect to it to store, retrieve and modify information. Although the client applications most relevant to the User Guide are the Laserfiche Client and Web Access, other client applications, such as Workflow, Quick Fields, and WebLink, may also access your repository, depending on the way Laserfiche was implemented at your organization. You can learn more about the Laserfiche Server in the Laserfiche Administration Guide.