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The   Tools   Options   menu option displays a set of dialog boxes that enable you to customize the layout and general behavior of Visual Composer Storyboard. You should review the options before beginning to create models in Visual Composer.

To access the dialog box, choose   Tools   Options  . The dialog box that appears has the following tabs:

  • Model, for defining the top-level functionality of model creation

  • Drawing, for defining what occurs as you drag-and-drop elements onto the Design board, and how the items are drawn and displayed

  • Composing, for indicating if and how you want to be prompted for information required when adding elements to the model

  • Workspace, for positioning the task panel and the workspace toolboxes, and adjusting the layout of multiple workspace windows

  • Compiler, for defining processes for finding data services and deploying the model

  • Administration, for defining monitoring capabilities

Features

For a table explaining each operation available in the Options dialog boxes, see Options Dialog Box in the SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Reference Guide.

Note Note

Points to Note:

The following parameters are important for defining the environment when you begin working with Visual Composer.

Tab Name

Option

Description

Model

Reload last model at startup

Used to automatically display the last model worked on when you next access Visual Composer. If this is not selected, you need to open a model each time you access the application.

Drawing

Avoid overlapping shapes

This is important when dragging layers onto the Design board. However, it is recommended to leave this checked so that you need to manually drag the elements into the layer, thereby joining them into one unit.

Select all shapes partially within selection box

Allows you to select a group of shapes by dragging the bounding rectangle over them, but not necessarily including them fully within the rectangle.

Composing

Ask for user intervention when creating:

These options activate the display of dialog boxes that ask you to select elements and fields within a UI component so that your model does not get overloaded with data that is not needed.

Compiler

Runtime

Lets you define your deployment environment.

PAR name prefix

Lets you define the prefix of all PAR files created by Visual Composer.

Portal deployment folder

The path to the Portal Catalog folder that will include the compiled file. Make sure that the folder already exists in the portal, with administrator Full Control permissions.
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