User Preferences

As a user you have a number of options that you can enable or disable depending upon your personal preferences.

1.From the Tools menu choose Users and then Preferences.

Display and Editing

Diagram access and display settings defines how maps are displayed when they are initially accessed.

Always reset zoom will display diagrams at 100% zoom.

Zoom to fit, only when larger than viewable area will shrink diagrams that are larger than the viewing area to fit on the screen.

Always zoom to fit will shrink large diagrams and expand small diagrams to fit on the screen.

Highlight parent when moving up a level will automatically highlight the parent activity when you navigate up a level.

Enter text immediately when new activity created will prompt you to enter text whenever a new activity is created.

Enter text immediately when new line created will prompt you to enter text whenever a new flow line is created.

Automatically switch back to select mode after drawing will automatically switch the mode back to Select and Edit following the creation of a new object.

Show process repository drive letter on caption bar will display the drive letter of the current process repository on the Windows caption bar.

Show release number on caption bar will display the current major release number of TIBCO Nimbus® .

Automatically generate input and output activities on new drill downs will automatically create the input and output activities, including flow lines, when a drill down is created. If deselected then the new diagram will contain only the input and output flow lines, i.e. no activities.

Default to additional language panel if regional settings match will place the cursor in the additional text entry field when defining the text for particular objects; however, there must be an additional language variant specified in TIBCO Nimbus®  that matches the user's own regional language setting. If disabled, or if the regional language setting does not match an available language variant, the cursor will focus in the main default language text entry field.

Show all activities in the Activity Details Panel will display all activities in a diagram within the Activity Details Panel, otherwise only a selected activity will be displayed.

General

Default Map Folder allows you to select to access a different process map folder upon start up. Note: Only sub-folders within the current process repository can be selected.

Links

Launching URLs determines how URLs are launched in TIBCO Nimbus® . The Standard URL launching method option will launch the URL normally. The Non-standard URL launching method will launch a web browser and pass URLs as parameters. This method is used if the Windows configuration is setup so that it prevents URLs from being launched properly.

Show diagram link redirection prompt will prompt you to choose whether you want to redirect diagram links when exporting or copying drill downs.

Show title prompt for new internal WP attachments will prompt you to enter the title of any WP documents that are created.

Remember selected choice of SAP environment will remember the choice of SAP environment to launch when a SAP transaction is launched in the Web Server. Deselect this option to prompt a choice every time (where applicable).