Windchill System Administrator's Guide

Creating Delegates
All preference delegates should be extended from the abstract class
wt.prefs.PreferenceDelegate. This class defines the following required methods
which each delegate must implement within the preferences framework:
Managing User Preferences
• public String getLocalizedName(String division, Locale aLocale)
• public boolean isAdministrator(String division, WTUser user)
• public ArrayList getDivisionsAsAdministrator(WTUser user)
• public ArrayList getDivisions(WTUser user)
The getDivisions methods differ in that the getDivisionsAsAdministrator(user)
method returns a list of all levels in this delegate that the given user is responsible
for or able to administer. The getDivisions(user) method returns all the divisions
of which the given user is a member.
There are no restrictions on how the delegate decides which users are members or
administrators of divisions; however, the getDivisions methods should return
well-formed results. If a user is not a member of any division managed by the
delegate, then the ArrayList should be empty, rather than null. For additional
information on the getDivisions methods, refer to the Windchill Javadoc.
User preferences can be set throughout Windchill. Out of the box, users can set
preferences for their own workstations, and administrators can set preferences for
each scope, where the preferences can be available to all lower level scopes.
The out-of-the-box hierarchy forms the beginning of a hierarchy that can include
multiple levels, each defining a scope below the enterprise level. Preferences can
be set for each scope defined in the system, including the user scope. Preferences
(other than user) are set to either allow or forbid preference values to be
overridden by scopes defined below the current scope.
The Preference Administrator preference table (located in
../wtcore/jsp/wt/prefs/admin/PrefHelp.jsp) displays the system default preferences
and their description and default value.
Windchill includes four types of preference scopes:
• Default scope -- The top level, which defines the initial settings for all
preferences at installation. This scope is not listed in the Selected scope
drop-down list.
• Container scopes -- Container scopes for which you are an administrator are
visible, starting with the specified container and going up to Site container.
The name of a container scope is the same as the name of the container.
• Division scopes -- These are one level below container scopes. Out of the box,
the Windchill Enterprise division scope is defined so that preferences can be
set by Windchill administrators to apply to all users.
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