User Preferences folder settings

The User Preferences folder settings represent a selected list of individual settings in the User Preferences folder.

All of the following actions are accessed from the Platform folder.

From the navigation bar, select Administration > Settings > User Preferences.

Set alert notification behavior

Set which alert notifications are displayed to application users in the Alerts folder. You can select various alert notification settings in the Alerts page.

Application users can change these default settings through their My Settings pane.

Administration > Settings > User Preferences > Alerts
Tip: In the user interface, the OpenPages folder is hidden in the Administration Settings folder hierarchy. To author an XML settings path, include the OpenPages folder after the Settings folder in the path.
Default: false.
Values: Select the name of a setting on the Alerts pane to open its detail page. In the Value box, type one of the following values:
  • true - An alert is displayed to application users.
  • false - No alert is displayed to application users.

For example, you configured dependent fields or dependent picklists for an object type and you want to alert users that different values for particular fields are available depending on their selection. Under the Alerts folder, you can set the values in the Picklist Options Changed and Picklist Values Removed settings to true so each time a user changes a value in one of these fields, an alert notifying the user that values have changed is displayed.