General Preferences

Use the General preferences page to configure your personal view of WebCenter Portal. Set your preferred language, date and time formats, time zone, and other application-wide preferences.

Choosing Your Preferred Display Language

The display language controls the language for user interface (UI) elements in your browser. UI elements include button and field labels, application links, screen text, and so on. The display language also provides options for identifying the current locale, which determines symbols, such as monetary symbols, and reading direction for UI text.

To set a display language:

• On the General page, from the Language drop-down list, select your preferred display language locale.

  Alternatively, select No Preference to accept the application-level default set by your system administrator.

  Your change is applied immediately, and the page refreshes in the selected language.

Note:

You can also set a display language on the Welcome page before you log in. Select a language in the language switcher.

Setting Date and Time Preferences

Use date and time preferences to specify your preferred date and time formats and your current locale's time zone.

Note:

Some content may be developed with an intrinsic time display format. In such cases, this content is not influenced by your date and time format selections.

To set your preferred time format, date format, and time zone:

• On the General page, set your date and time preferences as shown in the following table.

  Table 9-1 Date and Time Preference Settings

  Preference	Description
  Time Format	Select a display default for time information in WebCenter Portal. This setting controls the format for showing time for the services that receive time data from WebCenter Portal preferences. (Some services provide their own time format defaults.) Note: The available time formats depend on the locale selected in the Language list or by your browser locale. For example, if you select English-United Kingdom [en-GB], the AM/PM is not included in the time format. No Preference—To display the default Time Format established by your system administrator H:M AM/PM—To display hour, minutes, and AM or PM, such as 4:47 PM H:M:S AM/PM—To display hour, minutes, seconds, and AM or PM, such as 4:47:52 PM H:M:S AM/PM Time Zone—To display hour, minutes, seconds, AM or PM, and the abbreviation of the specified time zone, such as 4:47:52 PM PDT H:M:S o'clock Time Zone—(Not available for all locales.) To display hour, minutes, seconds, "o'clock", and the abbreviation of the specified time zone, such as 4:47:52 o'clock PDT
  Date Format	Select a default format for date information in WebCenter Portal. This setting controls format for showing dates for the services that receive date data from WebCenter Portal preferences. (Some services provide their own date format defaults.) Note: The available date formats depend on the locale selected in the Language list or by your browser locale. For example, if you select English-United Kingdom [en-GB], the dates are listed in day, month, year order. No Preference—To use the default date format set by your system administrator M/D/YY—To use a number format, such as 4/21/09 MON D, YYYY—To use an abbreviation format and the full year, such as Aug 21, 2017 MONTH D, YYYY—To display the full month name and the full year, such as Aug 21, 2017 DAY, MONTH D, YYYY—To display the full month name, the full year, and include the day of the week, such as Tuesday, August 21, 2017
  Time Zone	Select a time zone default. This setting helps to determine the time to show for time-stamped objects, such as uploaded and modified documents. Alternatively select No Preference to accept the application-level default set by your system administrator.

Applying Accessibility Options

To apply accessibility options to the application UI:

• On the General page, select your preferred Accessibility Settings:

  • I use a screen reader—Specifically for visually impaired users, enables the use of JAWS, the screen reader software.

  • I use high contrast colors—Makes the WebCenter Portal user interface compatible with operating systems or browsers that have high-contrast features enabled. For example, WebCenter Portal changes its use of background images and CSS styles in high-contrast mode to prevent the loss of visual information.

    Note:

    High-contrast mode is more beneficial if used in conjunction with your browser's or operating system's high-contrast mode. Also, some users might find it beneficial to use large-font mode along with high-contrast mode.

    The color contrast of disabled actions—which are gray—against a white screen may be difficult to discern for some users. Because disabled actions are not selectable, this issue does not affect the use of WebCenter Portal.

  • I use large fonts—Provides browser-zoom-friendly content. In default mode, most text and many containers have a fixed font size to provide a consistent and defined look. In large-font mode, text and containers are more scalable. This allows WebCenter Portal to be compatible with browsers that are set to larger font sizes and to work with browser-zoom capabilities.

    Note:

    If you are not using large-font mode or browser-zoom capabilities, you should disable large-font mode. Also, some users might find it beneficial to use high-contrast mode along with the large-font mode.

Changing the Look and Feel of Your View

Use application skins to change the look and feel of your view of the Home portal. Application skins specify the application background color, screen fonts, and, with some skins, the shapes and images used for application buttons and icons. The skin you select through Preferences affects only the look and feel of your view of the Home portal. No other users' views and no other areas of the application are affected.

To change the Home portal skin in your view:

• On the General page, select your preferred Application Skin:

  • No Preference—To defer to the application's configured skin setting

  • Skin_Name—To select a predefined application skin from the list of skins available to you

    Note:

    The available skins are determined by your system administrator.

  Your change is applied immediately. Go to the Home portal to see the selected skin.