Creating and managing favorites for other WUI users

This topic describes how administrators can use the new Web User Interface user editor to manage the favorites of other users.

In order to create and manage the favorites of other users you need to be a WUI administrator with at least update access to the new ESM facility profile EYUWUI.wui_server_applid.USER.

Figure 1 illustrates screens in the user editor used to edit user favorites.

Figure 1. User screens in the user editorThe User screen has three hyperlinks linking to the  Create, Edit and Delete screens. Select Finish to return to the User Editor screen
If you have the necessary access, the hyperlink that launches the user editor appears in the navigation frame along with the view editor hyperlinks . 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. 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.
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:

  1. Create the new user object
    1. Starting at the User Editor screen, click Create to open the Create New User screen.
    2. Type in the new user ID. User IDs are restricted to a maximum of eight characters. Valid characters are A-Z , 0-9, # , $ and @.
    3. Click OK. This confirms the operation and opens the Favorites Editor screen used to create and manage a user's list of favorites.
  2. Create a new favorite item.
    1. In the Favorites Editor screen, click Create. This opens the edit screen that is used by the view editor for editing detail items. From this screen you can perform most of the actions on a favorite that you can on a menu item in the view editor.
    2. 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.
    3. Click Save. This saves the updates in the repository and returns you to the User Editor screen. If you click Abandon, all of your changes, including the new user object, are discarded.
  3. Create more favorites and add them to the new user object.
    1. From the User Editor screen, click Edit This opens the Edit User screen
    2. Select the newly created user ID and click OK. This takes you back to the Favorite Editor screen.
    3. 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.