Disable or Enable Watchlist Categories and Items
To disable or enable predefined Watchlist categories and items for all users, use the following in the Setup and Maintenance work area.
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Functional Area: Application Extensions
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Task: Set Watchlist Options
Ultimately, what users see in their own Watchlist would be the categories and predefined items that you enable in the Set Watchlist Options page:
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Plus any saved searches that the user is using as Watchlist items
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Minus any categories or items that the user decides to hide using Watchlist preferences
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Minus any items with no results found, if the user decides to hide such items using Watchlist preferences
Any Category or Item
When you disable any category or item, you also disable the processes that calculate the Watchlist item counts. These processes include creating data caches, performing security checks, calling services across domains, running queries, and so on.
Predefined Watchlist Items
An item with the Predefined type represents the actual predefined Watchlist item that appears in the Watchlist. If you disable this type of Watchlist item, then:
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The item isn't available for users to display in their Watchlist.
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The item is removed from any Watchlist where it's currently displayed.
If you disable a Watchlist category, then the category isn't available for users to include in their Watchlist. All Watchlist items within the category are also disabled.
User-Created Saved Search Watchlist Items
A Watchlist item with the User-Created Saved Search type doesn't appear in the Watchlist. It controls the display of the Manage Watchlist button on pages with saved searches. If you disable this type of Watchlist item, then:
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The Manage Watchlist option isn't available on the corresponding page, so users can't use their own saved searches as Watchlist items.
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Any user-defined saved searches (from that page) already used as Watchlist items are removed from the users' Watchlist. The saved searches are still available for searching, but not for the Watchlist.
Watchlist Category
If you disable a Watchlist category, then:
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The category isn't available for users to include in their Watchlist.
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All Watchlist items within the category are also disabled.