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Sun Desktop Manager 1.0 Administration Guide

Profile Editor

The Profile Editor is used to create new profiles and edit existing profiles. You can also view the current settings and options for the currently selected profile.

You can open the Profile Editor by either clicking the name of a profile in one of the tables in the Profiles — Tree View content area or in the Profiles — All page.

Tip –

To create a new profile, see Creating a new Profile.

The Profile Editor contains the following tab pages:

General Properties

The General Properties page allows you to specify general information about a profile. This page is the default view of the Profile Editor window.

Note –

The Profile Editor appears when the user creates a new profile by clicking the New button.

ProcedureSpecifying General Properties for a Profile

Steps

  1. In the Name field, type the desired name of the profile.

  2. Add any comments into the Comments field.

    You can leave the Comments field blank.

    Note –

    The Author and Last Modified fields are read-only, and cannot be modified. The Author field displays the profiles author, and the Last Modified field shows the date and time of the last modification.

  3. Click the Save button.

    If you close the window before saving any new information, and warning dialog appears that prompts you to save the settings.

Configuration Settings

The Configuration Settings page allows you to view and edit the configuration settings that are stored in the selected profile.

ProcedureViewing and Editing a Profile's Configuration Settings

Steps

  1. To view a profile's configuration setting, navigate to the setting from the list of categories on the right side of the page.

    The configuration settings are organized hierarchically into categories that directly correspond to the configuration options of desktop applications, such as StarOfficeTM, MozillaTM, Evolution or Gnome.

  2. Click the desired configuration setting.

    The selected profile's settings appear, which displays the available settings for that profile. If necessary, additional context information is provided, such as the effects of individual settings or the allowed value range.

    Note –

    If you select a category rather than a configuration setting, a table appears that lists that categories settings or sub-categories.

  3. For each configuration setting, you can either specify a concrete value, or you can leave the setting undefined.

    If you leave the setting undefined, the application will not be affected by this profile setting, and instead takes advantage of its own factory built-in default value. In general, the Profile Editor lists and applications default value through additional help text or, if possible, through a marker directly in the setting's options list.

    Note –

    It is important to understand that several profiles might affect the same user. For example, you can create a profile with settings for a specific organization. These settings are automatically available for all users that are part of this organization. Similarly, you can define additional profiles with configuration settings for sub-organizations. These may overwrite settings of the parent organization, for example, different proxy settings for sub-organizations would be defined, but leave other settings unchanged. The effective settings for a specific user would then be the result of a merge process including all profiles assigned to the organization, sub-organizations and probably the user.

    Tip –

    In some cases you might want to control this merge process and want to enforce a configuration setting, meaning that it should not be possible for other profiles to overwrite your setting and to define a different value. The Profile Editor allows to specify for each setting the desired merging behavior. The default is that other "profiles may overwrite" a setting. Deselecting this option will enforce the setting and other profiles can no longer overwrite your value.

Assigned Elements

The Assigned Elements page lists the elements that are assigned to the current profile, and allows you to assign or unassign elements.

The current profiles elements are displayed in the Assigned Elements table, which contains the following information:

ProcedureAssigning an Element to a Profile

Steps

  1. Click the Assign Element button.

    A window containing a navigation tree appears.

  2. Navigate the tree, and select the desired element.

    Tip –

    If you can't find the desired element in the tree, you can click the Search button to open the Search window and find the element.

    The element then appears in the Assigned Elements table, now assigned to the current profile.

ProcedureUnassigning an Element from a Profile

Steps

  1. Select the check box corresponding to the element that you want to unassign.

  2. Click the Unassign Element button.

    The element is now not assigned to the current profile, and disappears from the Assigned Elements table.

Settings Summary

The Settings Summary is a read-only view of all configuration settings that contain data for the selected profile.

The Settings Summary page contains the Settings Summary table. This table shows the configuration settings that contain data for the current profile, grouped into categories. The table has the following fields:

Advanced Options

The Advanced Options page allows you to specify advanced options for the current profile. There are two main options available on this page:

ProcedureChanging the Application from Location

Steps

  1. Click the Change button.

    A window containing a navigation tree appears.

  2. Navigate the tree, and select the desired element.

    Tip –

    If you can't find the desired element in the tree, you can click the Search button to open the Search window and find the element.

  3. Click the OK button.

ProcedureAssigning a Merge Order to a Profile

Steps

  1. Select the desired profile in the Selected list.

  2. Use the buttons on the right of the list to move the profile up or down within the list.