7 Defining desktop characteristics
From the desktop Properties, you can modify default values and configure:
• the desktop characteristics
• the desktop connection configurations.
7.1 Defining the desktop characteristics
To define the desktop characteristics:
1. Access the Properties of the desktop concerned (example: "Universal Explorer Desktop").
2. In the Characteristics tab, modify or specify the required fields:
• HOPEX Style Sheet: enables to define a specific style sheet for the desktop.
Default value: empty (it is the value defined in HOPEX Options > Installation > Theme used in Web Application).
• _GUIName: defines the desktop name display in the user interface (useful when using Desktop Switcher MEGA Tool).
• Desktop Access: defines whether the desktop is accessible via Web Front-End or Windows Front-End.
Default value: "Web Front-End".
• Desktop Type: defines whether the desktop is user or administrator type. A desktop of administrator type should have more rights and visibility.
Default value: "User".
• Click Manager: by default, a (left) click manages standard current. You can configure alternative behavior of the (left) click on your desktop.
• Show Notification Window: select this parameter to activate display of notifications at the bottom of the page when you execute an action.
• MetaPicture: defines desktop icon display in the user interface (useful when using Desktop Switcher MEGA Tool).
7.2 Modifying the desktop connection configurations
A desktop is linked to a MEGA Application. To define connection modes of the desktop of an application, you must open the Properties of the desktop from the MEGA Application.
You cannot define desktop connection characteristics if you open its Properties from the query tool.To modify desktop default connection characteristics:
1. In HOPEX, display the MetaStudio navigation window.
2. Expand the MEGA Application folder, then the application concerned (example: "HOPEX Explorer").
3. Right-click the desktop concerned (example: "Desktop MA A") and select Properties.
4. Select the Characteristics tab.
5. In the MEGA Application frame, modify the required fields:
- Session Connection Mode: enables definition of whether users connected to HOPEX share the same process or not. In "Multi-Session" mode, users share the same process and therefore have the same view of the repository. "Multi-Session" mode is more optimized but blocks SystemDb repository updates.
Default value: "Single Session".
- Session Access Mode: enables definition of mode in which application opens.
"Public Workspace": the application opens in the current state and data can be modified. All updates are visible to all users using the application at the same time.
"Private Workspace": the application opens in the current state and data can be modified. All updates made by the user are kept in the private Workspace of the user until he/she decides to dispatch them.
Default value: "Private Workspace".
Note: Workspace is the new wording for transaction.
- Impersonation Role: enables definition of whether a user connects as a person with his/her rights, or as a person group to which he/she belongs with rights associated with the group.
Default value: "As a Person".