Setting User Preferences

This procedure describes how to set user preferences, which enable you to customize items such as your preferred views.

Begin

Click the top right username icon, and from the drop-down list click Preferences.

The Preferences window appears.
Set the following user preferences that are relevant:
Click Save.

Your user preferences are saved.

General Preferences

The following table lists the general user preferences.

Preference	Description
Language	Determines one of the following user interface languages: English German Spanish French The following appears only in English: Login and logout pages. Control-M Application Integrator. Control-M Reports. Job logs. All messages sent by the Control-M/Server.
User Views	Determines which user view to apply, as described in User Views.
Confirmation Messages	Determines whether all confirmation messages reappear if you have previously selected the Don't show this message again. checkbox.
Tab Ellipsis Position	Determines where to place the ellipsis, which truncates a workspace name, that appears on a workspace tab. Valid Values: End Middle Start Default: End
Automatically Reconnect to Server	Automatically reconnects to Control-M/Server when it is disconnected.
Max Connection Retries	Determines the number of times to attempt to automatically reconnect to before you are logged out. Valid Values: 1–20 Default: 20
Time Between Retries	Determines how many seconds to wait between each reconnection attempt. Valid Values: 1–20 Default: 20

Planning Preferences

The following table lists the user preferences for the Planning domain.

Preference	Description
Auto Save	Determines whether to automatically save workspaces.
Default View	Determines whether workspaces appear in Tile View or List View by default. You can view up to 10,000 folders and jobs in List View and 2,000 jobs in Tile View.
E-mail Notification Address	Defines the email address where email notifications are sent. You can define more than one email address with , (comma) separators. [email protected],[email protected]
Event Format	Defines the default event format that creates job dependencies. {Job/Folder Name}-TO-{TargetJob:Job/Folder Name} {File/Member Name}-TO-{TargetJob:File/Member Name} {Job/Folder Name}-ENDED-OK {File/Member Name}-ENDED-OK To customize and save additional event formats, replace the attributes in the { } (curly brackets) with other folder, job, or calendar attributes.
Automatically Delete Event	Determines whether to automatically delete an event after the successor job completes its execution.
Make Event Name Unique	Determines whether each event name is unique. If you select this checkbox, an extension is added to all existing event names.
Fix Event Name on Value Changes	Determines whether to automatically update the event name when the source or target property changes. This only works for new events.
Inherit Wait for Events	Determines whether successor jobs inherit wait for events from their deleted predecessor job, as described in Wait-for-Event Inheritance.
Security	Determines whether to require user confirmation to overwrite the Created By job attribute with the current username if this username is not the original job creator and the AuthorSecurity Control-M/EM system parameter is set to 2 or 3. Valid Values: Ask for user confirmation Overwrite and do not ask for user confirmation Default: Ask for user confirmation

Monitoring Preferences

The following table lists the user preferences for the Monitoring domain.

Preference	Description
Viewpoints Default View	Determines whether the Viewpoints tab appears in Tile View or List View by default. You can view up to 20,000 folders and jobs in List View and Tile View.
Services Default View	Determines whether the Services tab appears in Tile View or List View by default.
Archive Search Maximum Results	Determines the maximum number of search results.
Default Direction	Determines one of the following default relationships of neighboring jobs to selected jobs. Successor: Jobs that are dependent on (below) the selected job. Predecessor and Successor: Jobs that are prerequisite to (above) and dependent on (below) the selected job. Predecessor: Jobs that are prerequisite to (above) the selected job. All Connections: All jobs, prerequisite to (above), on the same level as (to the sides), and successors to (below) the selected job.
Default Radius	Determines the maximum number of jobs that branch out from the selected job, based on the Default Direction preference, above.

Forecast Preferences

The following table lists the user preferences for the Forecast domain.

Preference	Description
Start Day of Week	Determines the first day of the work week.
Business Service Critical Path	Valid Values: Show complete path Show until first gap

Preference

Description

Start Day of Week

Determines the first day of the work week.

Business Service Critical Path

Valid Values:

Show complete path
Show until first gap

Tile View Preferences

The following table lists the user preferences for Tile View.

Preference	Description
Display jobs with no links in columns of	Determines the number of jobs to show per column in a folder. If the number of jobs that appear exceed this amount, the rest of the jobs appear in an additional column in that folder.
Width	Determines the width of the job tiles in each domain.
Default state	Determines whether to expand or collapse the parent groups.
Title	Determines which of the following job attributes appears in the job title in Map view and in the Navigation pane: Job/Member Name Host Run ID Server Name Application Sub-application Description Default: Job/Member name
First Attribute	Determines the property to display below the title. The attribute is displayed when the tile zoom scaling is set above 45%.
Second Attribute	Determines the property to display below the first attribute. The attribute is displayed when the tile zoom scaling is set above 100%.
Time	Determines whether to show or hide the estimated run time of the job. This option is available for viewpoint only.
Ellipsis Position	Determines where place the ellipsis to truncate the title.
Tile Alignment	Determines the alignment of the tiles.
Show events	Determines whether to show all events.
Show events to delete	Determines whether to show the job delete events.
Show events created by If-Actions	Determines whether to show events that are created by If-Actions.
Event order	Determines where to place the lines that connect between the jobs in an event.
Optional events	Determines how to show the connectors between jobs in an event. If you have two or more events configured in Wait for Events and at least one OR condition between them, you can configure either a solid or dotted line to represent the connection.