END USER TIPS & TRICKS - Item list on My Desktop (Default list, No Generation..)

werner - Friday, November 7, 2008 7:08 AM:

hello everybody,

i want to change the appearence of the "My Desktop" area.

1. i want to set the default view to the list (like if pressing the "Switch view" button).

2. only the last generation of an dcument item should be shown.

3. i want to show more attributes in the list (not only item and type)

thanks for your help!

regards werner 

tstickel - Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:27 AM:

Werner;

The "My Desktop" area is controlled by .html located in the ..ArasInnovator901InnovatorClientscriptsDesktop
folder.  If you look at Desktop.html there is a statement:

frames.WSarea.location  = "Desktop-Area.html";

If the statement was changed to:

frames.WSarea.location  = "Desktop-Grid.html";

then I believe the grid view would be the default.  You would also need to modify a statement in Desktop-Title.html:

var view = 0;

This needs to be changed to

var view = 1;

In fact, if you look at Desktop-Title.html the following code does the view toggling:

function toggle_view() {
  if (view == 0) {
    parent.WSarea.location  = "Desktop-Grid.html";
    view = 1;
  }
  else {
    parent.loadDesktopItems()
    parent.WSarea.location  = "Desktop-Area.html";
    view = 0;
  }
}

I also believe that Desktop-Grid.html controls which fields are displayed in the grid.  But I have not looked in detail at this code.

I suspect that Aras would caution anyone about doing these modifications, as you may have to redo them on subsequent Innovator upgrades.

Terry

abhi1234 - Monday, November 17, 2008 10:37 AM: