Enabling and saving user preferences

After launching a new session:

  1. Use the User Interface Profiler option on the Administration menu to set up which menus, dialog boxes, and toolbars should be available to users.

  2. In the terminal window, click Set User Preference Rules on the Administration menu

  3. In the Set User Preference Rules dialog box, select the components that will allow user changes to be saved when the user exits Reflection

  4. Click OK to close the dialog box.

  5. Set any other options in the terminal session that you want to include.

  6. When you're done configuring the session, choose Save and Exit from the File menu. Click Save/Exit. The new session appears in the session list.

When a user runs a session, he or she can save the settings for the components that you permitted when you created the configuration file. The user has the following options when user preferences are enabled:

  • To save preferences in the Reflection terminal session, click the Exit command on the File menu. All preferences allowed by the administrator in the configuration file are saved on the local computer.

  • To clear the preferences saved in the terminal session, click the Reset Preferences command on the File menu. The session settings return to the defaults in the configuration file.

  • To create additional copies of the session with different sets of preferences, click Duplicate from the Links List. The same preferences can be modified in each duplicated session.

If an administrator has not enabled user preferences for the terminal session, the Reset Preferences command on the Reflection session File menu is dimmed and preferences are not saved upon exiting.