User favorites gives all WUI users the ability to save tabular
and detail views on an ad-hoc basis to an easily-accessible and editable
menu of favorites. This allows you to reach frequently used views
with just one click. Administrators have the additional authority
to update the favorites of other users.
Hyperlinks to user favorites are displayed under the heading Favorites in the navigation frame of WUI views and
menus.
To create a new user favorite item just click on the
icon located
at the top right of the work frame on WUI views. This opens the Add to favorites screen. If you wish, type in a
title for the new favorite, then click OK to
add it to your favorites list.
Note:
If you open another WUI window for the same user ID, you
may experience locking problems preventing you from updating your
favorites in either session.
You can perform more
operations on your favorites using the favorites editor. This allows
you to specify opening context and scope settings and to update other
information such as link titles. To access the favorites editor, click
on the hyperlink in the navigation frame. See Managing favorites with the favorites editor for
guidance on using the favorites editor to manage your own user favorites.
See Creating and managing favorites for other WUI users for guidance on managing the favorites
of other WUI users.
The information for user
favorites is held in an object called user. The user object holds
a menu group that contains hyperlinks for the favorites of a user.
There are two ways of creating a user object:
- It can be created the first time a user creates a favorite. When
a user creates a favorite, the WUI searches for a user object that
has an ID matching the user's ID. If a matching user object cannot
be found, the WUI server automatically creates a matching user object
for that user.
- It can be created by an administrator in the user editor.
As well as being able to add views to your own favorites list using
the add to favorites (
) icon, you can also work
with your favorites using the favorites editor. To open this editor,
click on Favorites editor under Special in
the WUI navigation frame.
The Favorites Editor screen gives you a number
of options:
- Move
- Alter the listed position of an existing favorite:
Click Move, select a favorite from the list and click OK. Now select a new position favorite and click OK. To move the selected favorite to the end of
the list, click OK without first selecting a
new position.
- Copy
- Copy an existing favorite and give it a new title:
Click Copy, select a favorite from the list, and click OK. This opens a Copy Favorite screen.
Now you can give the copy a new title and select its position
on your favorites list by selecting the existing favorite from the
list above which the new copy will be positioned. If you want to position
the new copy at the bottom of the list, do not select an existing
favorite. Click OK to confirm the operation.
- Edit
- Change the components of a favorite including title, destination,
context and scope, and filter settings.
From the Favorites
Editor screen, click Edit. Select the favorite
you want to edit from the list, then click OK to
open the Components of Favorite screen. This
gives you two options:
- Click Title and annotation to alter the
text of the link to a selected favorite. Enter new text in the Title field, and click OK.
- Click Destination to alter context and scope
settings or filter attributes and parameters.
- Clicking on Context and Scope settings opens
the View Link Context and Scope Settings screen.
You can enter new values for context and scope or chose to inherit
values from the current menu or view.
- Clicking Filter attributes and parameters opens the View Link Filters screen. This allows you to work
with attribute and parameter filter settings of the selected favorite.
You can append, insert, edit or delete filter expressions. However,
ensure you do not include more than one filter expression for any
particular attribute. Specifying multiple filter expressions for the
same attribute will lead to unexpected results. See Filtering data for
more information about filters.
- Delete
- Remove an item from your list of favorites.
Click Delete, select one of your favorites from the list
and click OK to confirm.
The favorites editor allows you to edit your own list of favorites.
It does not allow you to manage the favorites of other users. Only
WUI administrators with access to the user editor have the authority
to do this.
In order to create and manage the favorites of other WUI users
you need to be a administrator with at least update access to the
ESM facility profile EYUWUI.wui_server_applid.USER.
If you have the necessary access, the hyperlink that launches the
user editor appears in the Special section of
the navigation frame. Clicking on this hyperlink launches a new browser
window displaying the CICSPlex® SM
Web User Interface User Editor screen. To work with favorites,
select Users. This opens the User
Editor screen.
Figure 23 illustrates screens in the user editor used
to edit user favorites.
This screen gives you the following options:
- Create
- Use this option to create a new user object in the repository.
Each user needs a user object to hold a list of favorites. The WUI
automatically creates a user object the first time a user creates
a favorite (if one does not already exist), so most existing users
will already have one. Once the user object is created, the Favorites
editor screen is displayed to enable you to create and edit favorites
for the new user.
- Edit
- Use this option to work with the favorites of an existing user.
It allows you to create, move, copy, edit and delete a user's favorites.
- Delete
- Use this option to delete a user object from the repository.
This also deletes any existing favorites for that user.
This is how you would use the user editor to create a new user
object and add some favorites:
- Create the new user object:
- Click User editor in the navigation frame
to open a new CICSPlex SM
Web User Interface User editor window.
- Click User to open the User
Editor screen.
- Click Create, and in the Create
user screen, type in the new user name . User names are restricted
to a maximum of eight characters. Valid characters are A-Z , 0-9, # (X'23'), $ (X'24')
and @ (X'40'.
- Click OK. This confirms the operation and
opens the Favorites Editor screen used to create
and manage a user's list of favorites.
- Create a new favorite item:
- In the Favorites Editor screen, click Create. This opens the edit screen that is used
by the user editor for editing detail items. From this screen you
can perform all of the actions on a favorite that you can on a menu
item in the view editor.
- Complete this screen by giving the new favorite a title and type
in the target view or menu, the context and scope settings, and the
filter settings.
- Click Save. This saves the updates in the
repository and returns you to the User screen.
If you click Abandon, all of your changes, including
the new user object, are discarded.
- Create more favorites and add them to the new user object:
- From the User screen, click Edit This
opens the Edit user screen.
- Select the newly created user ID and click OK.
This takes you back to the Favorites Editor screen.
- Create a new favorite item as before, and save your updates.
Repeat
this step for each favorite you want to add to the new user object.
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