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| <h1>Customize Welcome Dialog</h1> |
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| The Customize Welcome dialog which is opened using the "customize page" button above the Welcome screen allows you to modify the welcome appearance and |
| content. You can select an overall theme, decide which pages will be available, |
| and configure the order, layout, and visibility of the items within pages. |
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| <em>Note: The customize page button will only appear when the product is configured to use the |
| Universal Welcome</em>. |
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| Option</P> |
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| Description</P> |
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| Default</P> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Home Page Theme</span></TH> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">This option will change the overall appearance of welcome.</span> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Circles</span></TH> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Root Pages</span></TH> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Select the welcome pages you would like to see in welcome.</span> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Overview, Tutorials, Samples, What's New</span></TH> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Apply settings to all products sharing this workbench</span></TH> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">If you have multiple products sharing the same eclipse |
| workbench, using this option will cause the changes for all of them, as opposed to |
| only the currently running product.</span> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Off</span></TH> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Save As...</span></TH> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Converts the current preferences in this page to XML |
| content compatible with the <code>introData.xml</code> format used to define the |
| defaults for a product's welcome configuration. This is meant for product |
| developers and assemblers, and is not needed by end users.</span> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">N/A</span></TH> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Available Extensions</span></TH> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Items in this container will not be shown in the |
| selected welcome page.</span> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">N/A</span></TH> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Left Column</span></TH> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Items that should appear in the left half of the selected |
| welcome page, arranged vertically from top to bottom. The bottom containers are explained |
| below the table.</span> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">N/A</span></TH> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Right Column</span></TH> |
| <TH align="left"> |
| <span style="font-weight: 400">Items that should appear in the right half of the selected |
| welcome page, arranged vertically from top to bottom. The bottom containers are explained |
| below the table.</span> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">N/A</span></TH> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">Importance</span></TH> |
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| The importance is shown as an icon next to the item, and determines the item's |
| importance relative to others. Themes may use this information to present the items |
| differently, depending on their importance. To change the importance, click on the |
| icon and a drop down menu will appear. The possible settings are: |
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| <li><span style="font-weight: 400"><b>low</b> - The item will not be emphasized.</span></li> |
| <li><span style="font-weight: 400"><b>medium</b> - The item will be given some emphasis.</span></li> |
| <li><span style="font-weight: 400"><b>high</b> - The item will be strongly emphasized.</span></li> |
| <li><span style="font-weight: 400"><b>new</b> - The item is new and will be presented as such.</span></li> |
| <li><span style="font-weight: 400"><b>callout</b> - The item is of a different nature, or is special in some way (e.g. a video/animation)</span></li> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">low</span></TH> |
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| For each page, there are four quadrants in which to place items; two for each column. |
| The quadrants will be separated in the presentation, and are used to classify |
| distinct groups of items that should be kept separate from each other. If you do not |
| want to separate items into four quadrants and only have columns, place all items |
| in the top two quadrants. |
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| Here is what the Customize Welcome dialog looks like: |
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| <img src="../images/welcome_preference.png" alt="Welcome Preference Page" border="0"> |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.png" alt="Related concepts"><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/welcome.htm">Welcome</a><br> |
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| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks"><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/welcome.htm">Customizing Welcome</a><br> |
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