Preferences
The Preferences utility allows PTC Arbortext Content Delivery administrators to view and set preferences for the system, such as search results limits, date format, and other system behaviors. Launch the Preferences utility by clicking Preferences on the administration home page.
Preferences are grouped by categories, according to the type of functionality that they affect. Use the expand icon 
and collapse icon 
next to the category names to display and hide the preferences in each category. From the table toolbar, use the expand-all icon 
to show all preferences in every category, and the collapse-all icon 
to hide all preferences in the table, leaving only the categories visible.
and collapse icon next to the category names to display and hide the preferences in each category. From the table toolbar, use the expand-all icon to show all preferences in every category, and the collapse-all icon to hide all preferences in the table, leaving only the categories visible.Within a category, each preference is named and described, and the current value of the preference is displayed. To change the preference value, click the edit icon 
next to the preference. From the edit view, you can:
next to the preference. From the edit view, you can:• Set the preference value, and click the checkmark icon 
to save the change.
to save the change.• Click Revert to default to set the preference back to the system default value.
• Click the close icon 
to close the edit view without saving any changes.
to close the edit view without saving any changes.Preferences can be locked to prevent the preference setting from being overridden elsewhere within the application, including for service groups. The locked icon 
indicates locked preferences. By default, all preferences are unlocked, indicated by an unlocked icon 
. Clicking the icon changes the lock status for the preference.
indicates locked preferences. By default, all preferences are unlocked, indicated by an unlocked icon . Clicking the icon changes the lock status for the preference. | • Under System Settings, you can find the Maintenance mode preference, using which you can enable Maintenance mode for non-OEM-administrator users. • All the email related configurations are now controlled from a single configuration point in the Configurator, replacing the former email configurations in the administration preferences. • Under Navigation, you can find the Grid Layout For Information Element Browser preference.  • Under Information Filtering, you can find the Options and Choice Auto Set preference using which you can enable the options and choices auto set based on the PH+PI logical expressions. The default value of the Options and Choice Auto Set preference is true and this is applied unless it is set to false by the administrator.  For more information, see the Using a Filter topic in the PTC Arbortext Content Delivery Help Center. • Under Search, you can find the Enable Global Search preference using which you can enable or disable the Global Search box. The default value for this preference is false. Unless you enable this preference or navigate to a context, the Global Search box is disabled.  After enabling the global search from the administrator UI, tap  to access the global search on your mobile device.• Under Search, you can find the Non-Searchable Information Types preference. To exclude any of the information types from search results, the value for this preference should be the respective key of the information type from facets.xml separated by commas. For example. to exclude partsList, Media and service information you need to set preference value as partsList, Media, Information as shown in the image below.  To exclude Part Information Types from search results, see Excluding Standalone Parts If parts are intended in the search results, the default value of PART should be removed from the Non-Searchable Information. Type preference and the property in the referred section above, should be set to false. • Under Service Information , you can find the PDF default browser plugin rendering preference. When preference is set to true, PDF renders in browser plugin (only supported in Google Chrome browser). When the preference is set to false, the PDF renders in PDF JS. The default value is false.  • Under Offline Synchronization, you can find the following preferences: ◦ Automatic Cleanup Loaded Packages —Automatically cleans up loaded packages that are available on the offline system. ◦ Automatic Updates Downloading —Automatically downloads updates from download center to the offline system when connection is available. ◦ Automatic Updates Loading —Automatically loads the downloaded updates to offline system when connection is available. The default value of all the above preferences is set to False.  • Under Visualization you can find the Enable Content Download preference which allows you to hide or unhide the download link for the end users. By default, the preference does not show any download link. This preference specifies the comma-seperated file type extensions like, xml, svg, mp3, png, and djv.  |