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9<td width="15%" align="center"><img width="45" src="../gatherer_medium.gif" height="45"></td><td width="*" align="center"><a name="preferences"><font size="5" face="Verdana"><strong>8.1: Preferences</strong></font></a></td><td width="15%" align="center"><img width="45" src="../gatherer_medium.gif" height="45"></td>
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13This section explains the preferences dialog, accessed by opening "File" -&gt; "Preferences".
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26<td colspan="3"><a href="#simple">Simple Instructions:</a></td>
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31 General
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37 Mode
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43 Workflow
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49 Connection
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55 Warnings
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67<img width="20" src="../gatherer_small.gif" height="20"><a name="simple"> Simple Instructions:</a>
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69The first "General" option is a text field for entering your e-mail address. This will be used for the "creator" and "maintainer" collection metadata items. The next option is a pull-down list of the languages in which the Librarian Interface can be presented. If you change the dictionary by choosing one from the list, you must
70restart the Librarian Interface in order to load the new language strings from
71the dictionary.
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73If "View Extracted Metadata" is checked, the
74various controls dealing with metadata always show all metadata that has been
75extracted automatically from documents. Deselecting it hides this metadata
76(although it is still available during collection design, and within the
77final Greenstone collection). If "Show file sizes" is checked, the file size is shown next to each file in the Workspace and Collection file trees in the Gather and Enrich views.
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79The "Mode" panel is used to control the level of detail within the interface. At its lowest setting, "Library Assistant", the design view is disabled, arguments requiring regular expressions are hidden and the collection building produces a minimal log of events. In contrast the highest setting, "Expert", provides access to all of the features of design, including plugin positioning and regular expression arguments, and also allows the full output from the collection building to be recorded in the logs. To change or review modes, click the radio button next to the mode you are interested in. You can quickly review what mode you are in by looking at the Librarian Interface's title bar.
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81The Librarian Interface can support different workflows by determining which of
82the various view tabs are visible. Use the "Workflow" tab to customise what
83views are available by checking the boxes next to the views that you want to be
84available. Alternatively, use the pull-down list at the bottom to select
85predetermined configurations. Closing the preferences dialog establishes these
86workflow settings. These settings are stored with the collection, not in the
87Librarian Interface configuration file.
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89The "Connection" tab lets you alter the path to the locally-running Greenstone library server, which is used when Previewing collections. It also lets you set proxy information for connecting to the Internet (e.g. when downloading files; see the <a href="downloadingfiles.htm#downloadingfiles">Downloading Files From the Internet</a> section for details). Check the box to enable proxy connection and supply details of the proxy host address and port number. The proxy connection is established when you close the Preferences dialog.
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91During the course of a session the Librarian Interface may give warning
92messages which inform you of possibly unforeseen consequences of an action. You
93can disable the messages by checking the "Do not show this warning again" box.
94You can re-enable warning messages using the "Warnings" tab. Check the box
95next to warning messages you want to see again.
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