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It enables you to set various system wide display preferences as described below:
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Preferences
Landing Page
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Allows you to select the default application landing page. CAST Imaging provides the following landing page options:
- Welcome Page: This is the default setting out of the box providing you with a dedicated "Welcome Page" for your application. The Welcome Page shows details about the application (total number of objects, LOC value, number of transactions etc.) and provides buttons to load tailored views of the items in the application (e.g. : all Database Tables, all Modules etc.).
- Imaging Menu: This option will direct you to the application detail whenever the application name is selected, therefore bypassing the Welcome Page.
Preferred Language
Allows you to select a system wide language. Out of the box, CAST Imaging will use English (en_US) as the default language display option for all menu options and texts. CAST Imaging also provides the following language options:
- English (en_US)b
- Chinese (zh_CN)
Saved views drill mode
This option governs how Saved views are accessed:
| List mode | In List mode, Saved views are listed in the drop down to the left of the main view:
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| Graph mode | In Graph mode, Saved views are displayed in vignettes in the main view:
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Drill Mode
This option governs how the double-click drill down action behaves for Level 5 views:
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Allows you to select the preferred default graph layout mode for the following scopes:
- Application scope
- Custom scope
- Custom scope in the Application to Application dependencies scope
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When set, the corresponding option in the Application the chosen scope will reflect the change:
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This option sets the maximum number of views (vignettes) that can be created using the 
icon (see User Guide - GUI ). By default, 7 views/vignettes can be created.- Menus and Icons):
Node Limit / Edge Limit
A progressive rendering mechanism exists so that very large and complex displays can load in a satisfactory period of time. When accessing a node (double click) which contains more than 1000 child nodes, or more than 2000 edges, the progressive rendering system is invoked in order to avoid situations where the rendering process locks the browser. Portions of the full graph are displayed progressively in steps and when this occurs, a message will be displayed in the bottom right corner:
Closing the message will reveal the Stop icon enabled and flashing in a blue colour - 
. You as shown below - you can click this button to to stop the progressive loading . The options available (you can find out more in User Guide - GUI - Menus and Icons):
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The options allow you to modify the thresholds at which this progressive rendering system is invoked, if required. They are set by default to:
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| You may need to empty your browser's cache and reload the page to view the changeschanges to the thresholds. |
Notify objects count
This option sets the threshold (default = 10000) at which a popup is displayed when:
- drilling down on a node in any view
- or switching to the Objects view via the Investigate panel
The popup warns that the resulting view contains a large number of objects - i.e. above the threshold - and that the view may take some time to fully load. Various options are then offered:
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| In these releases, the popup gives you the opportunity to cancel the action or to either download a .CSV file containing details about the list of objects in the resulting view or to proceed with displaying the view.
Alternatively you can click the Search Objects button to search for and display specific objects from the resulting view. The Search Objects window functions in a similar way to the Global (all application) Search - see User Guide - Search for items: Click to enlarge
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Path finder
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This option enables/disables the Path Finder feature.
Application walkthrough (animation)
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This option enables or disables the Tutorial for ADMIN users. By default it is disabled. When enabled as shown below, the Tutorial will be displayed on login to CAST Imaging:
In addition the Tutorial menu item will be displayed in the bottom left corner of the screen:
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The Welcome Guide option works in conjunction with the User Guide - GUI - Welcome Page. When the Welcome Guide option is enabled (default position), navigating from a tile in the Welcome Guide will automatically display an explanation of the selected tailored view in a pop-up in the bottom left corner. When the Welcome Guide option is disabled, the explanation pop-up is never displayed.
For example, when the option is enabled, clicking Frameworks in the Welcome Page displays the explanation of this tailored view in a pop-up in the bottom left corner:
Objects export
Enables the Download button in the global search box allow you to download to .CSV file all the matching items in the list which have a tick in the checkbox. See also User Guide - Search for items:
Advanced Search Configurations
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In ≥ 2.13.3, changes have been made to the behaviour of the Advanced Configurations options available in all search dialogs:
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This section allows you to set default search options for the following features
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The filter search list in the Transaction and Data Call Graph scopes |
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| Application to Application Dependencies scope |
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| Add Linked Objects feature |
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Changing an option in the Preferences panel will automatically reflect in the All Application search or in the Transaction/Data Call Graph filter search, except where an option has been manually changed in a search dialog (this change will override the option set in the Preferences dialog for the duration of the user session), for example:
| Regex pattern option enabled in Preferences |
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| Regex pattern option now enabled when using the All Application search | Access All Application search:
Regex pattern now enabled:
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Download sample tutorial
This option links directly to the CAST Extend entry for the sample tutorial application, allowing you to download this if necessary: https://extend.castsoftware.com/#/extension?id=com.castsoftware.imaging.tutorial&version=latest. See User Guide - Tutorial for more information.