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Managing user favorites

User favorites gives all WUI users the ability to save tabular and detail views on an ad-hoc basis to an easily-accessible and editable menu of favorites. This allows you to reach frequently used views with just one click. Administrators have the additional authority to update the favorites of other users.

Hyperlinks to user favorites are displayed under the heading Favorites in the navigation frame of WUI views and menus.

To create a new user favorite item just click on the

Add to favorites

icon located at the top right of the work frame on WUI views. This opens the Add to favorites screen. If you wish, type in a title for the new favorite, then click OK to add it to your favorites list.

Note:
If you open another WUI window for the same user ID, you may experience locking problems preventing you from updating your favorites in either session.

You can perform more operations on your favorites using the favorites editor. This allows you to specify opening context and scope settings and to update other information such as link titles. To access the favorites editor, click on the hyperlink in the navigation frame. See Managing favorites with the favorites editor for guidance on using the favorites editor to manage your own user favorites. See Creating and managing favorites for other WUI users for guidance on managing the favorites of other WUI users.

The information for user favorites is held in an object called user. The user object holds a menu group that contains hyperlinks for the favorites of a user. There are two ways of creating a user object:

Managing favorites with the favorites editor

As well as being able to add views to your own favorites list using the add to favorites ( Add to favorites) icon, you can also work with your favorites using the favorites editor. To open this editor, click on Favorites editor under Special in the WUI navigation frame.

Figure 21. The favorites editor
The User ID is at the top of the screen.  The  favorites menu consists of  radio buttons. The 4 buttons at the bottom of the view are Move Copy Edit and Delete.

The Favorites Editor screen gives you a number of options:

Move
Alter the listed position of an existing favorite:

Click Move, select a favorite from the list and click OK. Now select a new position favorite and click OK. To move the selected favorite to the end of the list, click OK without first selecting a new position.

Copy
Copy an existing favorite and give it a new title:

Click Copy, select a favorite from the list, and click OK. This opens a Copy Favorite screen.

Now you can give the copy a new title and select its position on your favorites list by selecting the existing favorite from the list above which the new copy will be positioned. If you want to position the new copy at the bottom of the list, do not select an existing favorite. Click OK to confirm the operation.

Edit
Change the components of a favorite including title, destination, context and scope, and filter settings.

From the Favorites Editor screen, click Edit. Select the favorite you want to edit from the list, then click OK to open the Components of Favorite screen. This gives you two options:

Delete
Remove an item from your list of favorites.

Click Delete, select one of your favorites from the list and click OK to confirm.

The favorites editor allows you to edit your own list of favorites. It does not allow you to manage the favorites of other users. Only WUI administrators with access to the user editor have the authority to do this.

Creating and managing favorites for other WUI users

In order to create and manage the favorites of other WUI users you need to be a administrator with at least update access to the ESM facility profile EYUWUI.wui_server_applid.USER.

If you have the necessary access, the hyperlink that launches the user editor appears in the Special section of the navigation frame. Clicking on this hyperlink launches a new browser window displaying the CICSPlex® SM Web User Interface User Editor screen. To work with favorites, select Users. This opens the User Editor screen.

Figure 23 illustrates screens in the user editor used to edit user favorites.

Figure 23. User screens in the user editor
The User screen has three hyperlinks linking to the  Create, Edit and Delete screens. Select Finish to return to the User Editor screen

This screen gives you the following options:

Create
Use this option to create a new user object in the repository. Each user needs a user object to hold a list of favorites. The WUI automatically creates a user object the first time a user creates a favorite (if one does not already exist), so most existing users will already have one. Once the user object is created, the Favorites editor screen is displayed to enable you to create and edit favorites for the new user.
Edit
Use this option to work with the favorites of an existing user. It allows you to create, move, copy, edit and delete a user's favorites.
Delete
Use this option to delete a user object from the repository. This also deletes any existing favorites for that user.

This is how you would use the user editor to create a new user object and add some favorites:

  1. Create the new user object:
    1. Click User editor in the navigation frame to open a new CICSPlex SM Web User Interface User editor window.
    2. Click User to open the User Editor screen.
    3. Click Create, and in the Create user screen, type in the new user name . User names are restricted to a maximum of eight characters. Valid characters are A-Z , 0-9, # (X'23'), $ (X'24') and @ (X'40'.
    4. Click OK. This confirms the operation and opens the Favorites Editor screen used to create and manage a user's list of favorites.
  2. Create a new favorite item:
    1. In the Favorites Editor screen, click Create. This opens the edit screen that is used by the user editor for editing detail items. From this screen you can perform all of the actions on a favorite that you can on a menu item in the view editor.
    2. Complete this screen by giving the new favorite a title and type in the target view or menu, the context and scope settings, and the filter settings.
    3. Click Save. This saves the updates in the repository and returns you to the User screen. If you click Abandon, all of your changes, including the new user object, are discarded.
  3. Create more favorites and add them to the new user object:
    1. From the User screen, click Edit This opens the Edit user screen.
    2. Select the newly created user ID and click OK. This takes you back to the Favorites Editor screen.
    3. Create a new favorite item as before, and save your updates.

      Repeat this step for each favorite you want to add to the new user object.

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