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.

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 non-ASCII characters in story names

•	Managing table styles