BPC RiskManager - Updating Your Personal Preferences
Contents
Introduction
A user can change a number of general settings individually of the general defaults. Most user changes are remembered automatically on your computer when you make them (such as the last search or filter options).
Some settings must be explicitly saved. These are controlled in the "Set-Up Profiles/My Settings" screen.
The things you can set here are:
- Your password for accessing the application when locally managed security is operating
- Edit and read only grid colouring
- Spell checking
- Use of Tree Navigation for risks
- The form scaling method for when you are using non 96dpi /small fonts computer settings.
Accessing the User Preferences Screen
All user preference settings require the following initial steps:
- Open your BPC Risk Manager client and select the Administer tab
- Select the "Set-Up Profiles" button
- The "Set-Up Profiles" window will open.
- On the side bar select "My Settings", and the panel will change to display the "My Settings" button list.
- Proceed with your desired changes.
Change your password
User passwords are only relevant where the locally (application) managed security option in untrusted login is turned on at the application server.
Blank passwords are not permitted.
To change your own password:
- Select the "Change Password" button from the left hand button panel and a "Change Password" panel will apear in the right hand panel.
- Enter your current password and the new password in both the "New Password" and "Confirm" fields.
- Select "Save" to save the change
- Close the Setup User's screen by left clicking on the close box when you are done.
Change General User Preferences
- Select the "User Preferences" button from the left hand button panel and a list of available user preference will appear in the right hand panel.
General Settings
- To Change Grid Colours:
- Select your preferred edit and read only grid colouring using the drop lists.
- Select the "Save" button to save the new colour choices
- To clear the search grids column properties (the column choices that you have made earlier that have been automatically saved for you)
- Press the "Reset Columns" button. The changes are saved instantly.
- To enable or disable MS Office based spell checking:
- Untick (or tick) the "Enable MS Office Spell Check"
- Chose your default language from the drop list.
- Changes are recorded instantly
The application will report an error if MS Office is not available on the system. The application will always attempt to use you default language as defined in MS Office first, regardless of the language setting you specify here.
- If you wish to hide the Tree Navigation buttons in the application
- Uncheck the "Use Tree Navigation" check box.
- Changes are recorde instantly.
Form Sizing Settings
The application is written in 96dpi and small fonts, so the best performance and appearance will be at those desktop settings. However you can accommodate different screen resolutions by choosing an appropriate option from the "Form Control" drop box.
- The default setting is "Resolution Independent" which will attempt to rescale the windows and reposition labels and controls appropriately to accomodate your screen configuration. This should suite most scenarios.
- If your desktop settings are 96dpi with small fonts, you can safely choose "None" and the screen refreshes will be slightly faster.
- Fixed scaling is slightly faster than resolution independent scaling, but will not do as good a job of resizing the windows and controls as the resolution independent setting in most situations.
- Elastic Scaling will cause a form to grow or shrink as you resize the window, making the contents smoothly larger or smaller, while displaying the entire content (ie. scrolling of windows is turned off).
