AssetWise Web Help

Setting User Preferences in AssetWise Web

Each AssetWise Web user has their own default set of preferences for using AssetWise Web, which they can change as needed.

To view or change your preferences, click the eB logo in the upper left corner of the window. The My Preferences pane, to the right, contains your current preferences.

To change a particular preference, expand a category, change a setting, and click Save.

There are also three buttons across the top of the My Preferences pane:

Change My Password

Require Password at log in

About this Web Application - opens a window listing the plug-ins being used by this instance of AssetWise Web:

Preference Categories

Expand a topic to see its settings.

Document Distribution

Lets you set up a default distribution pattern for your documents — addressees, comments, etc.

eB Director Specific

eB Web

Lets you set or reset default AssetWise Web options such as Navigator, Search Type, etc.

File Options

Lets you set your default document checkout path.

Filters

Contains several options for configuration of the Explorer tree, and provision is made for excluding irrelevant documents if your database becomes cluttered with historic data versions that you never need to see.

Publish Options

Lets you set the default destination for files to be published. Your administrator may have set up other options.

Paging

Default and maximum search result lists, and possibly other options, may be set here.

System Default - User Account

E-mail triggering is one typical option in this topic. Your administrator may have set up other options.