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Customizing Project Preferences
It is possible to customize the default preferences by defining a so called project preference file. The values defined here will supersede the company preferences.
To create a preference file that will be used by a specific project, perform the following steps:
- UNIX only: Login on a privileged account (for instance as project manager or a user who has write access to a project directory).
- On UNIX: Copy the company preference file to a suitable directory (where the project preference file will be stored). Change the default directory to that directory, and start the SDL Suite.
In Windows: Copy the company preference file to a suitable directory on a network drive, where the project preference file will be stored (using a directory on a local HDD for this purpose makes no sense). Start the SDL Suite using a shortcut icon that designates this directory as the start directory.- Start the Preference Manager from the Organizer.
- Modify the preference parameters of your choice (described above in Adjusting a Preference Parameter. For a description of the meaning of the preference parameters, see Preference Parameters.
- Save the parameter setup.
- On UNIX: In a suitable file that all project members should source, insert the following statement:
setenv SDTPREF <directory>
- In Windows 2000 and Windows XP, using the System properties in the Control Panel, set a SDTPREF environment variable to <directory>
- In all cases, <directory> denotes the project directory. Failing to do this will cause the tools to ignore the project preferences and to use company preferences instead.
- This concludes the procedure. From now on, all project members will have the project setup as default (unless they have a different setup in their $HOME/.sdtpref (on UNIX), or %HOME%\sdt.ini (in Windows)).
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