Customizing Ad Hoc Correspondence

You customize Ad Hoc Correspondence by editing the adhoc.properties file.

The property file contains the settings for a specific Ad Hoc application. You can use this file to customize the Ad Hoc application. Some examples include:

•	Specify forward URLs to direct end-users when closing or submitting documents.

•	Change the zoom level at start-up.

•	Hide the Close and Submit buttons. For example, if close and submit are handled within the business workflow of the customer.

•	Enable or disable highlighting of editable texts at start-up.

•	Enable or disable displaying of thumbnails at start-up.

•	Change the size of the toolbar buttons.

•	Enable or disable insert icons, to be displayed in empty sections together with the placeholder Drag text fragment here.

•	Enable or disable pagination and specify the finite number of results on each page for easier viewing across pages.

•	Add fonts to the Ad Hoc text editor.

•	Configure the position of the Save and Close buttons in the Ad Hoc text editor (above or below the text editor area).

•	Enable or disable automatic opening of the Ad Hoc text editor when a new text fragment is added to the Ad Hoc document.

Prerequisites

Before updating the adhoc.properties file, you should back up the file.

To customize Ad Hoc Correspondence in the property file

1	Open the adhoc.properties file in a text editor. The file is located in:

<Portal root>\<Name>_adhoc\WEB-INF\spring\properties

For example, for Apache Tomcat:

<TOMCAT_HOME>\webapps\<Name>_adhoc\WEB-INF\spring\properties

Note:

If you use an external directory (outside the portal root) for the configuration files, you must update the property file in this directory.

2	Follow the instructions in the property file to update the properties.

3	Refresh the web browser by pressing the F5 key.

In this section

•	Adding fonts to the Ad Hoc text editor

•	Enabling or disabling spell checking in the Ad Hoc text editor

•	Enabling non-ASCII characters in story names

•	Managing table styles