Configuring your Analyser environment

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Analyser provides vast flexibility when configuring your system. It behaves like a “plug and play” environment. You configure the settings depending on the parts or features of the system each user should use. You can always add or change information at a later time.

Note: The only mandatory requirement is defining the iSeries settings for one system to which you want to connect. This is normally done during the installation process, via the Set up wizard, but can always be changed afterwards (see the Analyser Installation Guide for detailed instructions of the installation process). You can also configure more iSeries systems that will allow you to change systems at any time during your work.

Note: Most of these customisation features have been gathered into one notebook (called the Configuration view), allowing speedy customisation. Some, however, are accessed through separate icons/menu bar selections. All, but Shared Installation and Languages, are described in this chapter. To configure a shared installation and languages see the Analyser Installation Guide.

The areas that you can customize include:

Areas to customize	More information
iSeries settings
Shared installation	Rather than installing on every client, you can install the software on one central server that serves and is shared by many clients. You can then choose the users that are to share this installation. See the Analyser Installation Guide for detailed instructions.
System settings	There are various system settings that you can configure from the menu bar of the main window.
Media locations	Mapping the media location (alias name) to the physical location from your perspective. This is mandatory if you want to use the multimedia features.
File types	Defining an override of your PC’s standard viewer when launching different file types.
HTML settings	How often you want the header to appear in an html page and the template that is to be connected.
Miscellaneous area	These include: Fonts Paths to the following system applications: DocOnline, User-Defined Business Objects and JWalk client Spreadsheet program you should launch if you want to use the function of transferring data in Analyser to an external spreadsheet program. Show table toolbar Automatic save of table settings Allow sorting on table columns Automatic save of windows size and position
Email settings	Your mail server, time interval transfer, logged information, etc. This is mandatory if you want to use the E-mail function.
User functions	Creating your own subset of favourite system functions.
Languages	Configuring the languages you want to support in Analyser. (See the Analyser Installation Guide for instructions).
Sign on as a different user	You can sign on as another System user without shutting down. This command can only be accessed on the Main window of Analyser.