For each desktop in your environment, you can specify which
features and components are available to desktop users. Additionally,
you can customize the behavior of each feature that is included in
a desktop.
About this task
By default,
IBM® Content
Navigator supports
the following features:
Table 1. Features provided by IBM Content
Navigator| Feature |
IBM Content
Manager |
IBM Content
Manager OnDemand |
IBM FileNet® Content Manager |
OASIS Content Management Interoperability
Services |
Notes |
|---|
| Browse |
✓ |
|
✓ |
✓ |
 If you use IBM Content
Manager, you can browse for documents
and folders, if either of the following statements is true: - Your repository is configured to use hierarchical folders.
- You used the IBM Content
Navigator administration
tool to define a root folder for the repository if your repository
is not configured to use or does not support hierarchical folders.
|
| Entry template manager |
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
 The
entry template manager feature is available only if you enable entry
template management for one or more repositories that are associated
with the desktop.
|
| Home |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
You must configure at least one other feature to use the home feature. You can
add favorites only from another view, such as search or browse. |
| Search |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
| Teamspaces |
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
The
teamspaces feature is available only if you enable teamspace management
for one or more repositories that are associated with the desktop.
|
| Work |
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
The
work feature is available only if one or more repositories that are
associated with the desktop have workflows configured.
|
You can configure a desktop to display all of the features
or only a subset of these features. You can also create IBM Content
Navigator plug-ins that provide
additional features.
The features that are available on each
desktop depend on the following factors:
- The repositories that are associated with the desktop
To use
a feature on a desktop, you must associate a repository that supports
the feature with the desktop.
- The features that are enabled on the repositories
Some features,
such as teamspaces, are not enabled on the repository by default.
To use the feature on a desktop, you must associate a repository that
is enabled for the feature with the desktop.
- The feature plug-ins that are registered and configured for the
web client
Tip: If a plug-in includes the feature configuration
pane, you can use the administration tool to specify how that feature
behaves for each desktop in which it is displayed. If the plug-in
does not include the feature configuration pane, the feature behaves
in the same manner for any desktop in which it is included.
- The layout that is selected for the desktop
You can create a
plug-in to define a custom layout. If the layout includes custom features
and the feature configuration pane, you can specify how the features
behave for each desktop in which the layout is used.
Procedure
To configure the features that are available on a desktop:
- Open the desktop that you want to configure in the IBM Content
Navigator administration tool.
- Click the Repositories tab and ensure
that the repositories that you want users to access are associated
with the desktop.
Remember: The repositories
must support the features that you want to make available on the desktop.
In addition, any optional features that you want to support, such
as teamspaces, must be enabled on the repositories.
Restriction: 
The total number of repositories that you can connect to is
limited to 400 repositories for each
IBM Content
Navigator server,
regardless of the type. If you connect to more than 400 repositories, you might experience
performance problems when you view and select multiple repositories to do administration
tasks.
- Click the Layout tab.
- In the Desktop Features section,
select the features that you want to display on the desktop.
Tip: The features are displayed in the order in which they are
listed. You can reorder the features if you want to group features
together or make a specific feature the first feature in the navigation
pane.
- If you want to override the default behaviors of a feature,
select the feature and configure the behavior of the feature. The behaviors that you can configure depend on the feature that
you are configuring.
Table 2. Behaviors
that can be configured for each feature| Feature |
Default repository selected when the feature
is opened |
Repositories available in the feature |
Tree view availability |
Available document views |
My Checkouts pane
availability |
Document information pane availability |
|---|
| Browse |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
✓ |
| Entry template manager |
✓ |
|
|
✓ |
|
|
| Home |
|
|
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Search |
✓ |
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
| Teamspaces |
✓ |
✓ |
|
✓ |
|
|
| Work |
✓ |
✓ |
|
|
|
✓ |
The following table describes the document views that you
can configure. The views are displayed in the order that they are
listed. The first selected view is the default view for the feature.
Table 3. Document views that can
be configured for some of the features of a desktop| Document view |
Description |
Restrictions |
|---|
| Details view |
This view maximizes the number of entries that
can be displayed in the content list. |
This is the only view that is available for
the work feature. |
| Filmstrip view |
This view generates a preview of each document
that a user selects. However, using this view can slow the performance
of the web client. Important: You must configure the HTML
conversion viewer to see document previews.
|
This view is not available for the entry template
manager feature. |
| Magazine view |
This view increases the height of each entry
in the content list, which reduces the number of items that can be
displayed in the content list at the same time. However, this view
does not require users to scroll horizontally to see the details of
an item. |
|
- In the Additional Desktop Components section,
specify which components to show or hide in the desktop
- Document thumbnails
- Global toolbar
- Status bar