How to customize preferences in Lotus Symphony 3 

Preference Customization is a new capability added in Lotus Symphony 3.0 beta 4. Preference Customization can help a System Administrator customize Lotus Symphony before deploying it to the enterprise. This article shows how to do preference customization by updating the Symphony installation package.

The system administrators need to update the installation package to define customized preference for the user of the whole enterprise. A uniform customization provides a better way of updating many kinds of configuration files , when working with Lotus Symphony one can use the symphony_plugin_customization.ini, located in com.ibm.symphony.standard.branding plugin.

Users can define the default value of preference item in a key/value. The key is the preference path and the value must follow the corresponding value format of the preference item which can be inserted or appended settings into the symphony_plugin_customization.ini file like this

preference path = preference value

The preference path consists of plugin ID, a separator and preference item ID. The type of value might be boolean, integer, specified string, etc, among which true/false value stands for enablement/disablement. For example,we set com.ibm.symphony.ui/Enable_preload=0 as figure 3,the value of "com.ibm.symphony.ui/Enable_preload" should be set as 0,1 or 2,, among which 0 stands for disable performance optimization, 1 stands for moderate optimization, and 2 stands for high optimization. .

Refer to the value table of Parameters for preference customization and and help doc for supported preference items currently.

Preference Page Title	Preference Page Item	Preference Path	Value Format	Value Description
Symphony	Enable performance optimization,including · Moderate(for Computer memory of 512MB or higher) · High（for computer memory of 1GB or higher）	com.ibm.symphony.ui/Enable_preload	0,1,2	among which 0 stands for disable performance optimization,1 stands for moderate optimization, and 2 stands for high optimization(preload mode).
Load and Save	Enable file recovery to save open files	com.ibm.symphony.ui/seditor.autosave	true/false	True stands for enablement,false stands for disablement
	Enable display the recent opened files	com.ibm.symphony.ui/seditor.recentfiles	true/false	True stands for enablement,false stands for disablement
	Interval to save open files for file recovery	com.ibm.symphony.ui/seditor.interval	Integer[1,...,60]	Interval to save open files for file recovery is a integer between 1 and 60.
	Select the file types to automatically create with Lotus Symphony,including · Open Document Format · Microsoft Office 97-2003	com.ibm.symphony.ui/curAutoCreateTypeKey	str.auto.create.odftype,str.auto.create.mstype	str.auto.create.odftype is corresponding to Open Document Format,str.auto.create.mstype is corresponding to Microsoft Office 97-2003
	The number of recently opened files to display	com.ibm.symphony.ui/seditor.nums	Integer[1,...,15]	The number of recently opened files to display is a integer between 1 and 15
Lotus Symphony Documents	Setting for updating link,including: · Always update links, · Update links only on request, · Never update links	com.ibm.symphony.ui/Writer_Update_Link	0,1,2	among which 0 is corresponding to always update links,1 is corresponding to update links only on request,and 2 is corresponding to never update links
	Automatically update charts	com.ibm.symphony.ui/Writer_Update_Chart	true/false	True stands for enablement,false stands for disablement
	Automatically update fields	com.ibm.symphony.ui/Writer_Update_Field	true/false	True stands for enablement,false stands for disablement
	Save documents with soft page breaks	com.ibm.symphony.ui/Writer_SoftPageBreaks	true/false	True stands for enablement,false stands for disablement
Lotus Symphony Presentation	Allow quick editing	com.ibm.symphony.ui/Impress_TextObject_QuickEditing	true/false	True stands for enablement,false stands for disablement
	Only text area selectable	com.ibm.symphony.ui/Impress_TextObject_Selectable	true/false	True stands for enablement,false stands for disablement
	Use background cache	com.ibm.symphony.ui/Impress_BackgroundCache	true/false	True stands for enablement,false stands for disablement
	Copy when moving	com.ibm.symphony.ui/Impress_CopyWhileMoving	true/false	True stands for enablement,false stands for disablement
	Objects always moveable	com.ibm.symphony.ui/Impress_ObjectMoveable	true/false	True stands for enablement,false stands for disablement