Set the miscellaneous options when you want to determine the behavior of the desktop client when you perform various actions.
PRIVILEGES No special privileges required.
To access miscellaneous options:
Select Tools | Preferences and select the Miscellaneous tab.
To set the General options:
Command Line: This option is from a prior version of the desktop client, and is no longer functional.
Set Auto Refresh if you want the client to refresh all the desktop client displays when a command line operation has been completed.
Set Save Current Filter Set automatically if you want the client to retain the filter set you have selected when you click OK or the Find Now tab.
Run Batch Operations in the background: This option is from a prior version of the desktop client, and is no longer functional.
Set Append Multi-Valued attributes if you want values that you enter in multi-valued attributes to be added to the existing values. If you do not select this option, any values entered for a multi-valued attribute will completely replace the existing values each time you perform an edit.
To set the default in the Delegate Request dialog box to also delegate related items:
Set Delegate Related Items Automatically. This means that when you delegate a request, its related items will also be delegated by default. You will still be able to override this, however.
To determine when to display the Relationships dialog box during drag & drop operations:
Set Perform operations silently if no user input is required if you only want the client to display the Relationships dialog box when there is further information required if you relate objects by using drag & drop.
Set Always enable user input (the default) if you want the client to always display the Relationships dialog box when you relate objects using drag & drop.
To automatically set new item project filenames to the filename in your work area:
Set Automatically map User File to Project File. This enables the Create Item dialog box to populate the project filename based on the user filename.
To automatically overwrite files during get or check out operations:
Set Automatically Overwrite Files. This means that files that do not have the read-only permissions will be overwritten by the get and check out operations. If this option is not set, existing writable files cannot be overwritten. You can however, still override this in the Check Out and Get Item dialog boxes.
NOTE If a file has read-only permissions, it will always be overwritten regardless of this setting.
To have any new requests that you create automatically related to the current project:
Set New requests to be addressed in current project. If this option is not set, new requests will not be related to any project/stream by default.