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Adding a preference to the preference registry
To add a Preference to the Preference Registry, you need to edit the file <Windchill>src/wt/prefs/registry/prefRegistry.rbInfo and for the Preference you want to add, add at least:
DISPLAY_NAME
DESCRIPTION
DEFAULT
The format is as follows:
/node-name/key-name% [ ]tag.value=
Where /node-name is the name of the node (for example /wt/workflow), /key-name is the name of the key under the node (SortOrder) and % [ ]tag is one of the tags mentioned above (% [ ]DISPLAY_NAME).