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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:

  1. UNIX only: Login on a privileged account (for instance as project manager or a user who has write access to a project directory).
  2. 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.
  3. Start the Preference Manager from the Organizer.
  4. 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.
  5. Save the parameter setup.
  6. 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.
  7. 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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