Advanced component properties 

In this topic, the different preferences that be can set on component views are described. All of these preferences can be set in the Composite Application Editor. Some of them in a nice/specialized UI, other ones only in the generic UI for advanced preferences.

Component view preferences

The following preferences can be set on any type of component/component view.

Preference name	Description	CAE support	Default
id.[anything]	Id of the feature. See here for more details. Example: 'com.ibm.cademo.feature'	some	none
url.[anything]	URL of the feature's update site Example: 'file:/C:/updatesite/com.ibm.cademo.update'	some	none
ver.[anything]	Version of the feature. See here for more details. Example: '1.0.5'	some	none
match.[anything]	Determines which rules the provisioning process uses when comparing the version number of the feature to determine whether or not the version is acceptable. See here for more details. Example: 'compatible'	some	none
shared.[anything]	Specifies if feature should be provisioned to "shared" directory	some	true
com.ibm.rcp.viewId	com.ibm.cademo.colman.view.comp.cloud.TagCloudView	yes	none
com.ibm.rcp.showTitle	Whether to show the title of the component view at the top of the rectangle. If multiple components are displayed in one rectangle they all show the title in the tabs regardeless.	yes	true
com.ibm.rcp.standalone	If true it shows the title of the component in one header that fills out the top of the rectangle. In this case however you cannot have minimize, maximize and close buttons. If false it shows the title in a tab of the rectangle even if there is only one component view in that rectangle. If this preference is true the title is always shown (overwrites com.ibm.rcp.showTitle).	some	false
com.ibm.rcp.moveable	Whether users can move the component view. Changes will apply for all users on one client. The changes are overwritten the next time the application is modified via CAE.	yes	true
com.ibm.rcp.visible	Whether the component view is visible or hidden when the page is displayed	yes	true
com.ibm.rcp.ratio	Ratio of the component view. This is automatically set by CAE depending on the size of the component.	yes	0.5
com.ibm.rcp.folder	A rectangle in the UI can have a folder name. If so multiple component views can be put in the same rectangle and tabs allow to navigate between them. CAE automatically sets the folder if you have more that one component in a specific location.	yes	none
com.ibm.rcp.closeable	Whether users can close component views. Only supported in Lotus Expeditor, not in Lotus Notes 8.0 since there is no way to open a closed component view again.	no	false

There are some more additional component view 'attributes' which are not set as generic preferences but there are specialized attributes:

• title (multiple languages): The CAE picks up whatever name you give your component view when adding to the palette (for current locale)
• description (multiple languages)

NSF component view preferences

The following preferences are supported by NSF component views in addition to the generic ones above.

Preference name	Description	CAE support	Default
com.ibm.notes.notesurl	This is the Notes URL pointing to a certain design note in a specific Notes database, e.g. Notes:/85257202006A5D97/FlatCategory?OpenView	some	none
com.ibm.rcp.viewId	This is always com.ibm.workplace.noteswc.views.NotesViewData.	yes	this value

Notes:

• All preference names are case sensitive.
• You can access them in the Java code via the TopologyManager. See here  for the API documentation in Expeditor 6.1.