Setting FileNet Deployment Manager preferences

You can use the preference pages to control general settings for FileNet® Deployment Manager.

To set preferences for FileNet Deployment Manager:

1. Select Preferences from the Window menu.
2. Set the preferences as follows:

   Preference	Description
   Prompt for deployment tree on startup	Select this check box to display the Select Deployment Tree Location window each time you start FileNet Deployment Manager (the default). If you clear this check box, the Select Deployment Tree Location window is not displayed the next time that you start FileNet Deployment Manager. You can display this window at any time by selecting Switch Deployment Tree from the File menu.
   Enable FIPS 140-ready mode	Select this check box to enable FileNet Deployment Manager to run in FIPS 140-ready mode (the default). When you use this mode, the application does not save passwords to disk; it retains obfuscated passwords in memory. To enable passwords to be encrypted and saved in the environment definition files, clear this check box. For more information about how FileNet Deployment Manager handles passwords, see About passwords.
   Enable warning dialog box for many-to-one principal mappings	Select this check box to display a warning message if any many-to-one mappings of security principals are found during asset conversion (the default). Otherwise, if this check box is cleared, any many-to-one security principal mappings that are found are processed without displaying a warning message. For more information about many-to-one security principal mapping, see Many-to-one security principal mappings.
   Clean up output folder if export or convert operation fails	Select this check box to delete incomplete output files and subfolders if the export or convert operation fails (the default).
   Export metadata assets that were created by an AddOn	Select an option to specify whether you want to include metadata assets that were created by an add-on when the assets are exported. Select Always, Never, or If Modified.
   Help file location	To access the FileNet P8 documentation from this interface, enter the base documentation URL for the location of the documentation. FileNet Deployment Manager uses the base help location to access the documentation. The base URL tells the browser where to start looking for the context-sensitive help topic. You can link to IBM® Knowledge Center online documentation on www.ibm.com (the default) or to a local information center that you install and deploy. Internet access is required for the online documentation. For more information, see Installing IBM FileNet P8 Platform documentation . Choose one of the following options: To link to the online documentation, use the following base URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSNW2F_5.2.1/ To link to a local information center, enter the base URL in the following format: http://server-name[:port]/application-name/topic/ where: Server name is the name of the server where the FileNet P8 Platform information center is installed. Port is the optional port number. Application-name is the name of the deployed FileNet P8 documentation application. If a local information center is available, the application name is typically p8docs.

3. Click OK.
4. Optional: To restore the preferences to their default settings, click Restore Defaults.