Monitoring Preferences

The Preference Store Manager view allows administrators to monitor preferences changed by any user for Stardust Portal and Stardust engine. You can open this view from the Administration Perspective launch panel. By default, no preferences are displayed. Whenever the user changes and saves any preference in Stardust Portal, e. g. via Portal Configuration, the Preference Store Manager displays all the preferences for that view. For example, the user clears the check box Close Related Views for the Activity Panel setting from the Portal Configuration view. The Preference Store Manager displays all the preferences for the Portal Configuration view. Thus, the Administrator can use the Preference Store Manager view as a tool to investigate and debug issues related to the preference store and to provide more visibility on current preferences.

Figure: Preference Store Manager

By default, following columns are displayed in the Preference Store Manager view.

• Scope - Preferences are defined either for User or Tenant. User specific preference scope is defined for Portal Configuration and selectable columns. The tenant specific scope is defined for Activity Criticality and some Portal configurations.
• Module ID - Module ID of the corresponding preference
• Preference ID - Specified ID of the preference
• Preference Name - Preference name specified in the preference store
• Value - Displays default value and updated preference value, if changed.

Searching Preferences

You can search for preferences based on user and tenant.

• Searching Tenant Preferences
• Searching User Preferences
• Filtering Preferences

Searching Tenant Preferences

To search for tenant preferences, make sure that Search Tenant Preferences option is selected. These are partition scoped preferences.

Figure: Search Tenant Preferences

Searching User Preferences

To search for user preferences, select Search User Preferences option and add the user name in the text box adjacent to it. As soon as you enter the text, user names matching the pattern are provided in the drop-down list. You can select the user from the list. Note that the search is per default case-sensitive with the exception of the first letter. You can change to case-insensitive search by setting the property Carnot.Client.Search.CaseSensitive in your carnot.properties file to false.

Figure: Search for User

Click Search. The search result displays all the preferences changed by the specified user.

Figure: Search User Preferences

Filtering Preferences

If you want to search for specific preference from the preference search result table, specify the text (Scope, Module ID, Preference ID, Preference Name and Value) in the Filter text box and click Search. The search result displays the filtered preference.

Figure: Filter Preferences

Toolbar Actions

You can perform following operations on the preference store table.

• Exporting Table Content

Note that Add, Edit and Delete icons are disabled.