Getting Started

For detailed information about single sign-on functionality, please refer to the General Administration Online Help > Agile e6 Single Sign-On Functionality.

For detailed information about default log in information, please refer to the document Start Agile e6.

When activated, places text under each option in the toolbars.

A restart is required.

In MDI mode, when a window is bigger than the client desktop, scrollbars are added to the desktop

This function is working only in MDI mode. A restart is required.

In MDI mode, when activated, the contents of a window can be seen when dragging the window. When deactivated, only the frame of the window can be seen when dragging the window.

This function is working only in MDI mode.

Activated: Every mask is opened as a tab.

Deactivated: Every mask is opened in Multi Document Interface (MDI), i.e. in an extra window.

Restart required

Defines the style of the client.

The following styles are available:

• Eclipse
• Eclipse 3.x
• Office 2003
• Office 2007
• Visual Studio
• Visual Studio (Metal)
• Xerto

Defines if the picture is displayed:

• Centred
• Stretched
• Tiled

On the Color tab the different colors can be defined for:

• Field
• Status bar
  If no specific color is chosen for the status bar, the color of the used theme is used. Otherwise, the chosen color is used.
  
• List
• Thumbnail (more information can be found in the chapter Thumbnails (Getting Started > How To... > Program Window > Thumbnails)
• View mode

When clicking on a color the normal Choose color mask is opened. When clicking on the More Colors button, the Choose a Color mask is opened which allows to see a preview of the chosen color as text or field color. A HSB and RGB tab are also available to define a color more precisely.

On the Font tab the font family and font style can be defined for text in:

• Field
  Here the font family and font style can be chosen for the text in the field and the title of the field.
• Tab

When clicking on the font, a preview mask is opened where the font family, the size and the style can be chosen. The newly chosen settings can be seen in the Preview section.

On the Layout tab the layout can be defined for:

• Field: Here, the margins of the text to the field frame can be defined.
  • Content margin:
    
• Adjustment:
  • Calculated field size: If activated, the field size is calculated with the field's content. Otherwise the preferrred field size is used.
  • Resize mask components: Flag whether the mask components are scaleable when resizing the mask.
  • Fields oversized: If set, the position and size depends on component insets.
• Size: Here, different size settings for masks can be defined.
• Thumbnail:
  • Initial cell size: Size of the thumbnail can be defined by indicating the initial cell size in which the thumbnail is displayed.
  • Maximum image height ( Only available for Manager user):
    The maximum height in pixels used when an image is rendered in the list or preview panel. If this setting is too high, the client may run out of memory.
  • Load images on demand
    If activated, the client will load BLOBs from the server on-demand when the UI needs to render the image.
    As long as the image is not yet available, three dots "..." are rendered in the list table cell to indicate that the image is not yet loaded.
    If Calculated row height is active (see description below), the client still needs all BLOBs immediately to render the list, but at least the images will be loaded in the background.
  • Cache images
    The cache can be activated to store BLOBs per session. Note that cached data is lost when the session is closed.
    In addition the cache also stores empty BLOB entries to avoid round trips for records without a BLOB.
    If Cache Images is used, Load images on demand must also be activated otherwise the cached data is not used when a query is executed.
  • Cache size in MB ( Only available for Manager user):
    The maximum cache size if Cache images is active. The default is 100 MB, as the Java client is currently only supported for a 32Bit Java VM, the maximum size is hard coded to 1000 MB. Using an entry of 0 or less disables the cache.
• Tab
  • Show icon: Here can be defined if an icon should be shown in the tab title as well.
    With the styles Eclipse and Eclipse 3.x, which can be selected under Appearance > Look & Feel > JIDE Style , the option to show icons on the tabs is not supported!
  • Color scheme: If no value is set, the tabs in a mask will all have the same color. If "OneNote" is set, the tabs in a mask will all have a different color.
    
• List: Here can be defined how the layout of cells in lists should look like.
  • List cells bordered: List cells are highlighted with a 3D effect in Edit mode only.
  • Row height: Row height in pixels; -1 is the standard setting. The bigger the number, the bigger is the row height.
  • Show horizontal lines: If deactivated, no horizontal lines in a list will be displayed.
  • Show vertical lines: If deactivated, no vertical lines in a list will be displayed.
  • Fill empty space with rows: If deactivated, there will be no horizontal and vertical lines visible for empty space in a list.
  • Calculated row height: The height of rows in a list will be automatically adjusted according to the size of the content that is displayed.
  • Store list layout: The calculated row height will be saved for the next session.
  Please note that if the checkbox for the Calculated row height is activated, the Java Client needs its time to adapt the height of each row according to the contents. It is not recommended to activate this checkbox if the database contains a lot of data since this can result in a potential performance loss!

The following can be defined here:

• Draw gradient on masks
  When activated, the background color of the mask is drawn with a gradient
• Use context menu
• Use system number format
  The locale for number formatting is used from the local name in the Windows regional settings if the field is selected. Unchecking the field means that the number format of the Agile EDM user language is used.
  Note: Date formats are still based on the Agile EDM format DATEFORMAT_.
  

For hyperlinks the following can be defined:

• Change cursor on hyperlink
• Draw border around field

• Use the drag feature
  Activated: Allows to drag records within Agile e6.
• Use the drop feature
  Activated: Allows to drop records from other applications into Agile e6.

• Content:
  • Offer text format
  • Include field titles
  • Include field names
• Text Format
  • Export fields separated by tabs
  • Export fields separated by commas
  • Export as XML

• Offer HTML format
• Include field titles
• Include field names
• Color of table header

• Activated: Shuts down the session (via the exit button ) and displays a message to confirm shutdown.
  
  After confirming with Yes, the client is closed completely.
• - Deactivated: Shuts down the session (via the exit button ) and displays a message to confirm shutdown.
  
  After confirming with Yes, the client is not closed completely. With the button, the login window is opened again.

• Agile e6 Java Client is already started and checkbox Reuse client automatically is not selected:
  When clicking on an Agile e6 URL link, an additional Agile e6 Java Client will be started.
• Agile e6 Java Client is already started and checkbox Reuse client automatically is selected:
  When clicking on an Agile e6 URL link, no additional Agile e6 Java Client will be started.

Displays a log window in the client.

If a large amount of traces are written into this window, the client will become slow or even suffer an "OutOfMemory" exception. If all traces are turned on, we recommend using the log file mechanism.

Always loggs exceptions caught by the code. Error messages are displayed with more detailed information.

We recomment to only use this option for debugging purposes.

Configuration of the internal and external web browser integration.

• External
  For further information about this setting, please refer to topic Internal Web Browser.