Overview

• Special environment variables that are stored in the Teamcenter database and read every time a configuration value is set or changed
  

  Preferences

-Settings stored in the Teamcenter database

–Provides a mechanism to control and define Teamcenter behavior

-Read at startup or during Teamcenter application usage.

Preferences let you configure:

-How assemblies are revised

-Whether extension rules are bypassed for specified operations

-Which Teamcenter objects are displayed in integrations

-Teamcenter mail interval checking check out directory

Preference definition

Preference definition consists of the following elements

• Name
• Location
• Protection Scope
• Category
• Environment
• Type
• Multiple
• Description
• Value/Values

Types of Preferences

• There are two types of preferences:

System preferences: 

-A protection scope of System, and apply to the entire Teamcenter site.

–Provides settings that apply to your entire Teamcenter deployment.

-Several system preferences ship with Teamcenter.

Hierarchical preferences:

–Scope of protection for users, roles, groups, or sites.

-Uses the hierarchy, beginning with User, then checking Role, Group, and Site, to retrieve a preference value.

Import Export

• You can manage preferences and set values ​​for preference instances through the client interface or by importing a manually edited preferences XML file.

Creating and editing preferences from preferences .XML files

• Administrators can manually edit preference XML files to create or modify a preference, and then use the preferences_manager utility to load the XML files, or use the rich client to import the files.
• Edit a preference XML file

1. Make a copy of the preference XML file
2. Apply your changes using an XML editor.
3. Import the changes using the preferences_manager utility or the rich client Options dialog box.

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