8 Global Preferences
Clicking Global Preferences invokes the Global Preferences screen. Global Preferences items are used to configure your user interface. Here, you set your default application language and date format, and your desired Pagination Records. Pagination Records determine how many rows are displayed on summary screens. If you select Pagination Records to be 25 records, then any screen displaying results in a tabular format displays a maximum of 25 records. To see the next set of 25 records, you can use the Next VCR button.
Figure 8-1 Global Preferences
Functional Currency and Signage are installation-time parameters that may not be reset in Global Preferences. Cash Flow Engine does not use these two parameters.
Functional Currency is the currency of the primary economic environment in which an entity conducts its business. For details on signage, see the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Profitability Management User Guide.
Normally, you can set preferences for yourself, but if you are logged in as an Administrator, you can set Global Preferences for All Users. When setting preferences for All Users, you can restrict the non-Administrators to change a Global Preference item by deselecting the Is Editable check box. If a preference item is defined as not editable, a user who is not an Administrator inherits the value of the preference item that his Administrator has set for him and he does not have the permission to change it for himself.