Creating custom desktops

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You can use extra desktops in IBM® Content Navigator to group target environments and solutions. This approach makes it possible to separate groups of solution users that are based on roles, organizations, or location.

About this task

If you plan to use separate desktops to group target environments, you can create the desktops before you define and register the environment. Then, you can specify the custom desktops as part of the define and registration tasks.

Use IBM Content Navigator to define as many desktops as your planned environment requires.

When you register a target environment, the target object store repository is added both to the specified desktop and to the master IBM Content Navigator desktop for IBM Business Automation Workflow, baw.

Procedure

To create a custom desktop to use with IBM Business Automation Workflow:

  1. Define a new desktop in the IBM Content Navigator web client administration feature.
    For the authentication repository, specify a repository for the Content Platform Engine domain that you are using for your IBM Business Automation Workflow environment.
  2. Use the tasks for defining and registering your target environments to add the desktop to your target environment.

What to do next

Define and register your target environments. If you want to use the Case administration client on your custom desktop, use IBM Content Navigator to add that feature to your desktop. You can also create a desktop that includes the administration client feature without associating target environments with that desktop, if the authentication repository is a FileNet® P8 object store from the correct domain. You can also further customize your desktop by using IBM Content Navigator functions, such as restricting access to the desktop to a specific list of users or applying a theme to control the colors and images that display in the interface.

If you have a solution page that uses the Case Information widget or Content List widget and the widget includes the Documents view, you can choose to display a check box beside each document in the list of documents. The check box feature is disabled by default, but you can enable it in the IBM Content Navigator administration desktop by changing the Content list checkboxes control to the Show state. For more information about enabling the check box feature, see the topic Tips for working in IBM Content Navigator.