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| <h1>Customize Welcome Dialog</h1> |
| <p class="Para">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.</p> |
| <p><em>Note: The customize page button will only appear when the product is configured to use the Universal |
| Welcome</em>.</p> |
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| <p class="Para">Option</p> |
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| <p class="Para">Description</p> |
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| <p class="Para">Default</p> |
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| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Home Page Theme</span></th> |
| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">This option will change the overall appearance of |
| welcome.</span></th> |
| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Circles</span></th> |
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| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Root Pages</span></th> |
| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Select the welcome pages you would like to see in |
| welcome.</span></th> |
| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Overview, Tutorials, Samples, What's New</span></th> |
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| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Apply settings to all products sharing this workbench</span></th> |
| <th align="left"><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></th> |
| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Off</span></th> |
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| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Save As...</span></th> |
| <th align="left"><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></th> |
| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">N/A</span></th> |
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| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Available Extensions</span></th> |
| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Items in this container will not be shown in the selected welcome |
| page.</span></th> |
| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">N/A</span></th> |
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| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Left Column</span></th> |
| <th align="left"><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></th> |
| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">N/A</span></th> |
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| <th align="left"><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></th> |
| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">N/A</span></th> |
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| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">Importance</span></th> |
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| <span style="font-weight: 400">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:</span> |
| <ul> |
| <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> |
| </ul> |
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| <th align="left"><span style="font-weight: 400">low</span></th> |
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| <p>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.</p> |
| <h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3><a href="../concepts/welcome.htm">Welcome</a> |
| <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3><a href="../tasks/welcome.htm">Customizing Welcome</a> |
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