To change the display options, select 'Display
Options' from the View menu.
Display options
This dialog will allow you to change settings which
control how the GUI will display objects as well as other
miscellaneous options. Simply review the options and
click the 'OK' button for the changes to take effect.
The options:
- Display non-administrable bindings
Some repositories may already contain other objects
that this program is not capable of modifying. This
option will control whether these items are shown or
whether they are hidden from you.
- Hide contexts in the object pane
Contexts are by default displayed in the tree structure
on the left of the screen and also in the object pane
on the right. This option will allow you to hide any
contexts in the right hand pane. Contexts will still
obviously be displayed in the context tree on the left
though.
- Startup
Use these options to determine what the program does
when it first starts. You can set it to display the
welcome screen, load the last profile that was used or
do nothing.
- Look and feel:
Use this option to determine what look and feel the
GUI has. It can be set to either the operating system
default, or the standard, cross-platform Java look and
feel.
- Default object sorting
This option will determine how the objects in the right
hand object pane are sorted by default. It can be set
to sort by the objects name or class name, in both
ascending and descending formats. This can also be changed
dynamically at run-time by clicking on the column headers
in the object pane.
- Context tree loaded
The context tree on the left hand side of the screen can
be generated in two ways. It can either be fully populated
when we first connect to the repository, or it can be
populated 'On demand'. This means that nodes are dynamically
added to the tree when you expand a particular branch.
It is recommended that you use the on demand option as some
repositories may be recursive which will cause the GUI to
appear to hang when it attempts to load the entire tree. However, the on
demand feature does have a slight overhead when navigating around
the tree making it slower - but it is the safest (and default) option.
- Hide the name prefix
If you have specified a name prefix in the profile configuration
for this repository (or if it is an LDAP server which defaults to
'cn='), then this option will totally hide the prefix from all views.
Obviously the prefix is still there, and any subsequent modifications
to objects will take this into account.
- Use an external browser for viewing the help files
You can use this option to display the help files in your favourite
browser instead of the internal system. Simply put the path to the
browser in the text-box underneath and all help files will be displayed
using that browser.