Setting User Parameters

The User Settings dialog is accessible from the title-bar (∨) and contains the following user parameters that can be changed:

• Full Name - Full name according to the authentication system.
• E-Mail - The email address according to authentication system.
• Out of Office - The user that can handle user messages for the currently logged-in user, optionally on the days specified.
• Confirmation - request user confirmation for the following actions:
  • Delete any object - Confirm delete operations.
  • Cancel process - Confirm cancel process operations.
  • Ask confirmation after pressing cancel - Confirm cancel operations in dialogs.
  • Kill process - Confirm kill process operations.
  • Restart process - Confirm restart process operations.
  • Reply operator message direct - Confirm direct operator message replies.
• Submit - Controls the submit wizard.
  • Only allow submit from summary page - When this option is enabled, the Submit button in the submit wizard will only be enabled on the Summary page of the submit wizard.
• Timezone - The local time zone.
• Interface - A number of settings that allow you to control the look and feel of the Redwood Server user interface.
  • Active Theme; available themes include Novum and Classic.
  • Language - The language of the client.
  • Top bar color - The color of the upper part of the tool-bar in hex, default is #34495E; a number of colors are available to choose from.
  • Allow edit as XML - A new tab is displayed for every object in its editor window with the XML source of the object definition.
  • Use basic HTML Chain editor - Allows you to toggle basic editors on and off. The chain definition editor, for example, is available as a basic editor and a more advanced canvas editor.
  • Position for clipping long names - Allows you to specify how long values are cut off to fit a field, default is Left; available values are Left, Middle, and Right. When you choose Middle, then the beginning and end of the names are retained and the middle of the name is hidden; for Left and Right, the left-hand or right-hand side of the names are preserved, respectively.
  • Navigation Bar - The navigation bar layout.
  • Show No Display parameters - Allows you to control how parameters that have the Display property disabled are displayed in the user interface, in the Processes Monitor, for example. Default is Disabled, so parameters that have the Display property disabled are not displayed in the details pane of a process, for example.
  • Export related objects by default - Allows you to set the default regarding relative objects for when you export or promote objects using the Promotion Module. By default, this is disabled, meaning that you export lone objects; enable this to have the export/promote with related objects property set by default when you export or promote objects.
• Format type - The format you want to use for displaying dates and other data that has region-dependent formats.
  • Enable smart date format - Dates immediately adjacent to the current day are referred to as Yesterday and Tomorrow instead of the actual dates; Today is omitted, only the time information is displayed for the current day. When this is unchecked, the date is always displayed in full according to your locale and/or format settings, such as Dec 22, 11:59:59 PM.
  • Locale - The locale you want to use, locales are listed by <language> (<country>), displayed in the language as set in the Interface - Language field above.
  • Custom format - Allows you to specify your own formats.
  • Editable Date Field format - This is the format used in editable date fields such as the Start field on the Time and Dates tab of the submit wizard. See Custom Format below for available variables.
  • Long Date format - This format is the longer variant of the date formats. See Custom Format below for available variables.
  • Medium Date format - This is the slightly shorter format which is used in the Processes Monitor, for example, to display date-related fields. See Custom Format below for available variables.
  • Thousand Separator - This is used to display numbers.
  • Decimal Separator - This is used to display decimal numbers.

note

When you switch language, you have to log out and log in again, for the changes to take effect.

Custom Format

In the Custom format field you can set format preferences for date formats.

The following variables are popular:

• y - format for the year, two letters displays the year of the century, like 11 for 2011, four letters display the full year 2011.
• M - format for the month, one letter displays the month in a number format (1 for January), three letters display the short three letter form (JAN for January), four letters display the full name of the month.
• d - format for the day
• h - format for the hour (12 hour-based)
• H - format for the hour (24 hour-based)
• mm - format for the minute
• ss - format for the seconds
• E - format for the day of the week

See the Simple Date Format for more variables and information on how to use them.

Lock User Settings

The user settings can be locked for user using the Configuration > Lock User Settings.

Maintenance Mode

An additional Maintenance mode allows you to prevent non-administrative users from accessing the user interface. An optional message, limited to 1000 characters, can be used to inform the users why the user interface is locked.

See Also

• Editing Objects in XML