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Setting Display Preferences

Note: Display Preferences are also Performance Optimization Preferences.

All of these settings affect the amount of data presented to CA OM Web Viewer users. Although they are basically display settings, they can also be viewed as server tuning settings because they can affect the amount of bandwidth and memory each CA OM Web Viewer user will use. For more information, see the Best Practices Guide, Display Settings.

Reports Per Report List Navigation

Controls the maximum number of reports listed on each report list and cross report report-section list.

A user performing a report search will see a maximum of this many reports. Similar to a "results per page" option, up to this many results can be shown on each page of a results list. The user can scroll to see the next group of reports.

For more information, see Report List, Cross Report List, and Cross Report Indexes.

Number of Pages per Request

The default number of pages of a report shown at one time.

For example, with a setting of 5, when a user is viewing a report, they will see pages 1-5, providing there are five pages to display. Clicking Next displays the next five pages unless the end of the report is reached.

We recommend a default value of 5.

Notes:

• A lower number of pages per request reduces the impact on your network.
• Seeing a higher number of pages at once may increase usability if the user has to scroll through a large number of pages.

Maximum Number of Reports

The maximum number of reports that can be displayed on any single report list.

If a user searches for a very common report name, 100,000 reports might show up on the report list. This amount might be a waste of resources and is probably not very useful.

As a System Administrator, you can cap the maximum number of report results returned in a search. If the maximum results are capped at 2000, no matter how common the search term, only 2000 report names will be returned.

We recommend setting a default value of 2000.

Notes:

• A lower maximum number of reports requested reduces the impact on system performance.
• If the user is trying to find a particular report, a narrower search criteria must be used.
• Avoid the misuse of resources by permitting large numbers of reports to be retrieved

For more information, see Best Practices – Display Settings.

Maximum number of value entries

The maximum number of index values that can be produced by a single search mask.

• Unlimited

  No limit on the number of index values entries that can be returned by a single search.

  Note:

  If a user searches a very common index such as SSN (social security number), several million index values could result. The user is not likely to need or use all those matches and time and system resources are wasted.

• Limited

  This places a cap on the number of index values that can be returned with a single search,

  With an upper limit of 200, only the first 200 matches are returned. If the user needs to find a result not listed in the first 200, the search criteria must be refined. For example, Ab* instead of A* or all phone numbers that are in a certain area code such as (987)* instead of all phone numbers.

We recommend Limited.

Follow these steps to change the Display Preferences settings:

1. From the Administration Tab, click the Preferences subtab:
2. Click the Display Preferences link.
3. Update the following text boxes.
   • Reports per report list navigation

     Enter the number of results you want to be listed per page.

   • Number of pages per request

     Enter the maximum number of report pages you want displayed at one time.

   • Maximum Number of Reports

     Enter the maximum number of reports to be listed in any single report list.

   • Maximum number of value entries

     Click Unlimited, or enter a value in Limited to set the maximum number of index value results returned.

4. Click Update at the top right of the pane.

   The Display Preferences are set.