Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Basic Development

Administration and Development File menu

The Administration and Development windows have the same File menu options described in Table 3–8.

Table 3–8: Administration and Development File menu options 

Menu	Description
Re-Logon	Displays the Application Login window so you can change your login information: User name, Language, or Company.
Suspend	Hides all development windows until you enter your password in the Suspended User dialog box shown in Figure 3–10.
Preferences	Displays the Progress Dynamics Preferences dialog box, shown in Figure 3–11, where you can set your individual user preferences.
Print Setup	(Administration only) Invokes the operating systems printer setup window.
Translate	Displays the tool that lets you translate all of the text items in the current application window. This Translate menu item is a standard part of every File menu until you specifically disable it. For more information on this translation tool, see OpenEdge Development: Progress Dynamics Administration .
Map Help Context	Displays a dialog box that lets you manage help. You can associate help files and contexts within the file with particular application objects.
Desktop	Displays a submenu duplicating the buttons in the Administration toolbar, which provides access to a number of useful desktop tools, such as text editors, e-mail, Internet browsers, and so on.
Exit	Exits Progress Dynamics.

Figure 3–10 shows the Suspended User dialog box.

Figure 3–10: Suspended User dialog box

Progress Dynamics Preferences dialog box

Figure 3–11 shows the Dynamics Preferences dialog box.

Figure 3–11: Dynamics Preferences dialog box

Table 3–9 describes the options available in the Preferences dialog box.

Table 3–9: Dynamics Preferences dialog box options

Element	Description
Report directory	Not used.
Source language	Specifies the preferred language.
Custom templates	Specifies any custom templates you wanted loaded during your session. The default is to load all custom templates in the directory.
Custom palettes	Specifies any custom palettes you want added to the AppBuilder Palette window during your session. The default is to load all custom templates in the directory.
Session Filter Set	Specifies any filter sets you want loaded during your session. The default is to load all custom templates in the directory.
Filters active for session / permanently	When you filter a query for a browser using the Filter button on any Progress Dynamics or application window, the framework stores that filter setting and brings that window up with the same filter the next time you access it. You can set here whether you want filter settings to be saved for the duration of the session, permanently (in the Repository database), or not at all. You can also clear current filter settings here.
SDO attributes active for session / permanently	Use these settings to specify whether you want SDO attributes, such as the RowsToBatch for a query, to be saved for the duration of the session, permanently (in the Repository database), or not at all.
Save window positions & sizes	Select to instruct Progress Dynamics to save the position and size of every window you open, so that it comes up the same size and in the same place the next time you open it.
Top only	Forces Progress Dynamics to display the Administration window on top of all other windows.
Debug alert enabled	Sets the Progress session DEBUG-ALERT flag, which adds a Help button to every alert box that comes up in your application. Choosing the Help button displays a Progress 4GL stack trace and lets you invoke the Progress Debugger.
Show tooltips	Specifies to display ToolTips. Clear this option if you do not want ToolTips to display for buttons and fields.
Initialize all pages when translating	Forces Progress Dynamics to initialize all pages it displays when the Translation Manager is active.
Customize from default layout	When you have a custom layout opened in the AppBuilder for a dynamic viewer and you open a second custom layout, you are presented with a choice (radio set) on how to save the second layout. Should the second layout be stored as differences against the first custom layout, or as differences against the master layout? This preference specifies the default value for that radioset.
Clear SDF Cache	Clears any data currently cached for SmartDataFields.
Multi-window tab	Lets you set whether you want a separate window to be brought up for each record you select in a browser that invokes a record maintenance window. Also allows you to force this setting to be permanent or for this session only.