Setting User Preferences

Use the Options menu Preferences command from any browser window to maintain your global browser options for the schema and any subschemas. These global options apply only to you, and not to other users of the JADE development environment. (For details about specifying preferences that apply to all JADE browser and Painter windows in the JADE development environment work sessions for all new users, see "Specifying Your JADE Installation Preferences" under "Specifying Your Administration Options", in Chapter 2 of the JADE Installation and Configuration Guide.)

The types of options that you can maintain in the JADE development environment are as follows.

• Accelerator keys

• Browser

• Editor

• Editor Options

• Exit

• Lock

• Message Box Suppression

• Miscellaneous

• Relationship

• Schema

• Shortcut keys

• Source Management

• Status list

• Text templates

• Window

To maintain your global options

1. Select the Preferences command from the Options menu. The Preferences dialog is then displayed. Option types are contained in sheets, with the Editor sheet displayed by default.

2. Select the type of options that you want to change, by clicking on the required sheet; for example, click the Status List sheet if you want to view or change your status list preferences.

3. Make the required changes.

4. Click the OK button to save your options. Alternatively, click the Cancel button to abandon your changes.

The AutoComplete feature is turned on by default when you click the Defaults button.

For more details about changing your user preferences or administrative installation preferences that are common to those of individual users, see the following subsections.