Set Default User Preferences

The User Preferences page shows the default selections for this user. This page shows items in three lists:

o Available items - Those items (for example, applications, locales, or notification encodings) that are currently not available for selection in the User Preferences page. You can select the items from this list and add them to the Selected or Default items lists.

o Default items - That item that will be selected by default in the User Preferences page. Only one item can be selected as the default.

o Selected items - Those items available for selection in the User Preferences page. You can select an item in this list to use as the default item in the User Preferences page. Any items you remove from this list are not available for selection in the User Preferences page.

You can modify the default selections to add additional selections or to remove selections from the list of default selections. You can adjust the order of items in a list.

This page is accessible from the User Preferences page. Your ability to see this page depends on your user group settings.

Note: Only Administrators or non-admin users with the appropriate privileges can set their default preferences. Contact your server administrator if you think there is a problem.

Procedures from this page

From this page, you can select items to show in the User Preferences configuration page, select a default for items, reorder items, and reset lists of items. Click the title of a procedure to display it; click the title again to hide the procedure.

To select items to show in User Preferences

1. From the Available list, select the items to show for selection in the User Preferences page. Press CTRL or SHIFT and select multiple items, if desired.

2. Click the arrow -> to move them to the Selected list.

3. When finished configuring the items in this page, select Submit.

All items shown in the Selected list appear for selection in the related drop down list of the User Preferences page.

To select the default item for User Preferences

1. From the Available list or Selected list, select the single item to designate as the default item for the associated drop down list in the User Preferences page.

2. Click the $image\userprefs_rightpointer.gif$ to move it from the Available list or $image\userprefs_uppointer.gif$ to move it from the Selected list.

3. When finished configuring the items in this page, select Submit.

The selected default item shows in the related drop down list of the User Preferences page.

To reorder items for display in User Preferences drop down list

1. Select an item in the Selected list. If you do not see the item you want, you may need to add it from the Available list.

2. Click the $image\userprefs_uppointer.gif$ to move the item up one position in the Selected list, or the $image\userprefs_downpointer.gif$ arrow to move the item down one position. Clicking repeatedly moves the item additional positions.

3. When finished configuring the items in this page, select Submit.

The selected items will appear in the defined order in the related drop down list of the User Preferences page.

To reset lists of items

You can remove all modifications made to this page and restore the out-of-the-box default.

1. To restore factory default settings for the user preferences, click Restore.

2. When finished configuring the items in this page, select Submit.

The items shown in the User Preferences page are those that are available in a new system, before any user modifications.