Behavior user preferences for a web client

Option Notes/Description
Show configuration name on caption If you select this option, the name of the system configuration to which you are currently logged on is displayed in the title bar of the application.
Prompt to Save Form Splitter Changes When selected, this option allows you to save any changes you might have made to the position of the splitter bar in multiview forms.

For example, suppose you have a multiview form open, and at some point, you moved the splitter bar to enlarge your view of the grid side of the form. You like that change and want to make it permanent, so that every time you open the form, the splitter bar is right where you positioned it.

If this option is selected, when you try to close the form, the system displays a confirmation box that asks if you want to save the current splitter bar position. To save the form configuration, click Yes.

If this check box is cleared, you cannot save splitter bar position changes at all.
Prompt to Save Grid Changes

When this option is selected, you can save any changes that you make to the grid view in multiview forms.

For example, suppose you have a multiview form open, and you widen some columns and narrow other columns on the grid side of the form. You like the changes and want to make them permanent, so that every time you open the form, the grid side is just as you have it now.

If this option is selected, when you close the form, a confirmation message asks if you want to save the current grid side configuration. To save the configuration, click Yes.

If this check box is cleared, you cannot save grid side changes.

Prompt to Save Flex Layout Changes When this option is selected, you are prompted to save any FlexLayout-attribute changes you might have made, when you close the form.
Unload IDO Metadata With Forms To force the system to unload IDO metadata when forms are closed, select this option.
Display Captions in Most Recently Used forms list Select this option if you want the captions displayed in the Most Recently Used list.
Load/replace form with extended form

Select this option to enable users to extend and replace an original (base) form. This feature opens a new (extended) form of a base form when a request to open the base form is received.

This option is available to Site or Vendor users only.
ENTER key behaves like TAB key

Select this option to enable the ENTER key to behave like the TAB key. The ENTER key tabs forward on editable controls, while still behaving as a click event on buttons and menu items. The SHIFT+ENTER behaves as SHIFT+TAB for moving in reverse through controls.
Data Record Cap and List Record Cap The term caps refers to the maximum number of records or items that the system can return at one time. There are two types of caps that you can reset for your work:
  • Data records
  • Drop-down lists

Both of these types of caps have the same three options:

  • Use default - This option forces the system to use the system default cap setting. This is the default option.
  • Retrieve all - This option forces the system to retrieve all records or display all items in a list, overriding the system default settings.
    Note:  This option is not recommended for most operations, because the time it takes to retrieve all records or display all items on a list can be excessive and slow the system down.
  • Use specified max - This option enables you to set your own maximum. If you select this option, you must also specify a value in the field next to it.

    For example, if you want the system to return 350 records, select this option and set the value to 350.

    A -1 value indicates that the system default setting is being used.

    This setting is not saved when you sign out of the system.

Note:  Instead of resetting the cap for collections, you can use the Get more rows in the current collection tool bar button.

See About Caps.
Language From the Languages list, you can select a language for the text in field labels, button labels, menus, online help, and other parts of the user interface. Then click Apply. This closes the User Preferences window.

See the help about the Multi-Lingual User Interface.

Note:  Only those languages that are installed and available on your system are listed.
Wildcard character Specify the character to be used as a wildcard character when you search for information with Filter-in-Place or query forms.

The default character is the asterisk (*).
SQL Characters to Pass Through in Filtering Specify any special characters that you want to be escaped in SQL wildcard queries.

The underscore _ and square brackets [ ] are special characters that can be used in a query with a SQL "LIKE" clause and a wildcard. For example, the underscore character_ in a wildcard context is treated as "any character" by SQL unless it is escaped. Some users want to use these special characters with their built-in query capabilities; other users want to simply use the characters like any other character in the query.

For example, you might specify the underscore _ here as a character to pass through. Then if you perform a query for the value my_data*, the SQL Server ESCAPE clause is applied to the underscore character in the query, and only instances that start with my_data are returned. If you do not specify the underscore here, the query assumes that the _ represents "any character" and it returns instances such as my3data.