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4.8 Customize Sessions

You can use these features to customize sessions for your end users:

  • Plus - Enable custom controls to provide a more efficient work flow and a more modern and friendly interface. See Use Plus to customize screens.

    Using this option, you can add tool tips to fields, replace old-style numbered lists with more modern drop-down lists, add buttons to the host interface and program them to start macros or perform other actions, and replace manual date entry with a graphical calendar date-picker.

  • Server-side Events - Supply procedural Java code that extends and improves the presentation of host data.

    Using server side events, you can define specific events and suspend the host application, replacing or interrupting it with code that you have supplied to the session, as well as extend error handling options. For example, you can add an event that recognizes when an error occurs and then implements the code to intercept the error, take control, and correct the error. See Use server side events.

  • Advanced - Only use as directed by Micro Focus Technical Support.

These options are configured on the Customization panel.

  1. Click Settings on the toolbar to open the left navigation panel.

  2. Click Customization.

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4.8.1 Use Plus to customize screens

NOTE:The Plus feature requires archive files (.rdar) produced by Micro Focus Screen Designer version 9.5 or higher. The Screen Designer is available in Micro Focus Rumba Desktop 9.5. Reflection Desktop 16.1 includes a limited version of the Screen Designer. To get access to more controls and full use of Plus and the Screen Designer, you can purchase and install the Micro Focus Reflection Desktop Plus add-on.

  1. On the Customization panel, click Enable Plus.

  2. Select the Plus archive file you want to use from the drop down list or upload a file from a different location. Plus archive files are identified by a rdar file extension.

    Archive files are the output of a Screen Designer project and are used to provide the custom control criteria.

    If you are updating the Plus archive (.rdar) file associated with your Plus enabled session, you must first delete the folder containing the old .rdar file from the session server. After you delete the folder, you can open your Plus enabled session and the new rdar file will be downloaded to the session server.

  3. Verify the number of milliseconds for the host settle delay time is accurate. This is the time that the server waits for a synchronous connection before deciding that the host has finished sending data.

  4. When you return to your session, Plus is available. Click on the toolbar to turn off the custom controls.

When you enable Plus for a session, all end users of that session see the Plus icon on the toolbar and any controls made available through the Screen Designer customization file.

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4.8.2 Use server side events

Using server side events, you can supply procedural Java code that can extend and improve the presentation of host data.

The Customization panel tells the web client where to find the event after you’ve configured it. See Using the ZFE Java SDK for instructions on using the SDK and the samples available to you.

  1. Open the Customization panel.

  2. Under Server Side Events type the fully qualified class name to the event.

  3. Launch the session and test the event.

Access API documentation and event samples

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