Toolbars and menus

The toolbars and menus to operate ibaPDA client can be adapted for different users in the Layout Manager.

Width of layout selection in toolbar

This setting determines basically how wide (in pixels) the field for the display of the current layout in the toolbar is.

Note

If needed, you can change the size of the expanded drop-down window with the layouts easily by grabbing the lower right corner with the mouse.

This change will be stored only temporarily for the current session. With restart of ibaPDA client the size will be reset to default setting.

Profiles

The visibility of toolbars and menus is independent from the different layouts. Thus, the visibility of toolbars and layouts cannot be configured differently per layout. However, it is possible to customize their visibility with regard to the user.

So called profiles, which can be assigned to the users, provide for distinction. Thereby, you can control which user can see which toolbar or menu and thus his or her scope of action.

As soon as a user logs in the ibaPDA server with his or her name, he or she can only see the toolbars and menus according to the assigned profile. Of course, the user management must be enabled in ibaPDA.

Which toollbars and menus are visible or not is stored in a profile. The basic structure of the toolbar, i.e. the arrangement of the single tools and tool groups is fixed. Only single elements can be hidden. The same applies to the menus.

There is a basic setting (default), which show all toolbars and menus.

Configure profiles

This window lists all available profiles. On the right side of the list you will find buttons for the configuration.

Button	Function
	Create and add a new profile You can create as many profiles as you like. Give a profile a comprehensible name. You can rename the profiles at any time.
	Delete the selected profile
	Configure the profile Select Toolbars or Menus and follow the sub-menus. In the first sub-menu you can hide or show entire toolbars or menus. In the further sub-menus you can hide or show single functions. With the command Reset in the first menu level you can reset the toolbars and menus for the related profile back to default settings.

Button

Function

Create and add a new profile

You can create as many profiles as you like. Give a profile a comprehensible name. You can rename the profiles at any time.

Delete the selected profile

Configure the profile

Select Toolbars or Menus and follow the sub-menus. In the first sub-menu you can hide or show entire toolbars or menus. In the further sub-menus you can hide or show single functions.

With the command Reset in the first menu level you can reset the toolbars and menus for the related profile back to default settings.

While configuring, you can check the results of your selection in the toolbar and menus. Each time you select a profile in the list and click on the configuration button, the toolbar and menus will be displayed accordingly.

Standard profile

Here, select a profile which should be applied when ibaPDA gets started. If you have not configured your own profiles yet, only the profile "Default" is available. If there are already different profiles available they will be shown in the drop-down list. With the user management enabled, all users see the toolbars and menus according to this profile, unless they personally have a different profile assigned.

User specific profile

In this area, all configured local users and domain users are listed.

You can assign each user the desired profile in the Profile column:

Use standard profile: The user will be assigned the profile which has been set under Standard profile.
Default: The user will be assigned the default profile (everything visible).

The following figure depicts for example a reduced toolbar, where the buttons for configuration of server, I/O Manager and data storage have been hidden. This setting has been saved as profile "NoConfig" and assigned to User_1 and User_2.

In the configuration toolbar section in the upper left corner, the buttons for server selection, I/O Manger and data storage configuration are missing.