Managing your own user favorites

User favorites gives all WUI users the ability to save tabular and detail views on an ad-hoc basis to an easily-accessible and editable menu of favorites. This allows you to reach frequently used views with just one click. Administrators have the additional authority to update the favorites of other users.

Hyperlinks to user favorites are displayed under the heading Favorites in the navigation frame of WUI views and menus.

To create a new user favorite item just click on the Add view to favorites icon, , located at the top right of the work frame on WUI views. This opens the Add to favorites screen. If you wish, type in a title for the new favorite, then click OK to add it to your favorites list.

Note: If you open another WUI window for the same user ID, you may experience locking problems preventing you from updating your favorites in either session.

You can perform more operations on your favorites using the favorites editor. This allows you to specify opening context and scope settings and to update other information such as link titles. To access the favorites editor, click on the hyperlink in the navigation frame. Creating and managing favorites for other WUI users is handled differently.

The information for user favorites is held in an object called user. The user object holds a menu group that contains hyperlinks for the favorites of a user. There are two ways of creating a user object:

• It can be created the first time a user creates a favorite. When a user creates a favorite, the WUI searches for a user object that has an ID matching the user's ID. If a matching user object cannot be found, the WUI server automatically creates a matching user object for that user.
• It can be created by an administrator in the user editor.

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