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How to Configure a Location

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How to Configure a Location

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-TODO Discuss how spaces and locations fit into each other, pipelines fit to locations, spaces=config, locations=purpose, packages in locations
+The Archivematica Storage Service is designed to work with one or more Archivematica pipelines.  An Archivematica pipeline is made up of the dashboard web application, along with an MCP Server and one or more MCP Client processes.
 == Archivematica Configuration ==

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 == How to Configure a Location ==
-For Spaces of the type "LocalFilesystem," Locations are basically directories (or more accurately, paths to directories). You can create Locations for Transfer Source, Currently Processing, or AIP Storage directories.
+For Spaces of the type "Local Filesystem," Locations are basically directories (or more accurately, paths to directories). You can create Locations for Transfer Source, Currently Processing, or AIP Storage directories.
 To create and configure a new Location:

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 # In the Storage Service, click on the "Spaces" tab.
 # Under the Space that you want to add the Location to, click on the "Create Location here" link.
-# Choose a purpose (e.g. AIP Storage) and pipeline, and enter a "Relative Path" (e.g. var/mylocation) and human-readable description. The Relative Path is relative to the Path defined in the Space you are adding the Location to, e.g. for the default Space, the Path is '/' so your Location path would be relative to that (in the example here, 'var/mylocation'). Note: if the path you are defining in your Location doesn't exist, you must create it manually and make sure it is writable by the archivematica user.</p>
+# Choose a purpose (e.g. AIP Storage) and pipeline, and enter a "Relative Path" (e.g. var/mylocation) and human-readable description. The Relative Path is relative to the Path defined in the Space you are adding the Location to, e.g. for the default Space, the Path is '/' so your Location path would be relative to that (in the example here, the complete path would end up being '/var/mylocation'). Note: if the path you are defining in your Location doesn't exist, you must create it manually and make sure it is writable by the archivematica user.
 # The new location will now be available as an option under the approprate options in the Dashboard, for example as a Transfer location (which must be enabled under the Dashboard "Administration" tab) or as a destination for AIP storage.

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 # In the Storage Service, click on the "Spaces" tab.
 # Under the Space that you want to add the Location to, click on the "Create Location here" link.
-# Choose a purpose (e.g. AIP Storage) and pipeline, and enter a Relative Path (e.g. var/mylocation) and human-readable description. The Relative Path is relative to the Path defined in the Space you are adding the Location to, e.g. for the default Space, the Path is '/' so your Location path would be relative to that (in the example here, 'var/mylocation'). Note: if the path you are defining in your Location doesn't exist, you must create it manually and make sure it is writable by the archivematica user.</p>
+# Choose a purpose (e.g. AIP Storage) and pipeline, and enter a "Relative Path" (e.g. var/mylocation) and human-readable description. The Relative Path is relative to the Path defined in the Space you are adding the Location to, e.g. for the default Space, the Path is '/' so your Location path would be relative to that (in the example here, 'var/mylocation'). Note: if the path you are defining in your Location doesn't exist, you must create it manually and make sure it is writable by the archivematica user.</p>
 # The new location will now be available as an option under the approprate options in the Dashboard, for example as a Transfer location (which must be enabled under the Dashboard "Administration" tab) or as a destination for AIP storage.

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 == How to Configure a Location ==
-For Spaces of the type "LocalFilesystem," Locations are basically directories (or more accurately, paths to directories). You can create Locations for Transfer directories, Current Processing directories, or AIP Storage directories.
+For Spaces of the type "LocalFilesystem," Locations are basically directories (or more accurately, paths to directories). You can create Locations for Transfer Source, Currently Processing, or AIP Storage directories.
 To create and configure a new Location:

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 To create and configure a new Location:
-# In the Storage Service, click on the "Spaces" tab.
+:# In the Storage Service, click on the "Spaces" tab.
-# Under the Space that you want to add the Location to, click on the "Create Location here" link.
+:# Under the Space that you want to add the Location to, click on the "Create Location here" link.
-# Choose a purpose (e.g. AIP Storage) and pipeline, and enter a Relative Path (e.g. var/mylocation) and human-readable description. The Relative Path is relative to the Path defined in the Space you are adding the Location to, e.g. for the default Space, the Path is '/' so your Location path would be relative to that (in the example here, 'var/mylocation'). Note: if the path you are defining in your Location doesn't exist, you must create it manually and make sure it is writable by the archivematica user.</p>
+:# Choose a purpose (e.g. AIP Storage) and pipeline, and enter a Relative Path (e.g. var/mylocation) and human-readable description. The Relative Path is relative to the Path defined in the Space you are adding the Location to, e.g. for the default Space, the Path is '/' so your Location path would be relative to that (in the example here, 'var/mylocation'). Note: if the path you are defining in your Location doesn't exist, you must create it manually and make sure it is writable by the archivematica user.</p>
-# The new location will now be available as an option under the approprate options in the Dashboard, for example as a Transfer location (which must be enabled under the Dashboard "Administration" tab) or as a destination for AIP storage.
+:# The new location will now be available as an option under the approprate options in the Dashboard, for example as a Transfer location (which must be enabled under the Dashboard "Administration" tab) or as a destination for AIP storage.
 = Dashboard administration tab =