RE: Question about Exodus Ability to Enable-Disable Settings

Exodus allows several levels of preference control.=20

A default set of preferences are included as a resource in the Exodus
executable. The default.xml file in the exodus_home/exodus is built into
the xml.res resource file and linked in to Exodus.exe.=20

A second level of control is the branding.xml file. This file exists to
allow client admins to override default preference values and change
their "visibility" within the client.

For instance here is the preference for enabling auto-away:

<auto_away value=3D"1" control=3D"chkAutoAway"/>

Value is Boolean, 1 -> true, 0 -> false. The control=3D"chkAutoAway" =
maps
this preference to a widget named chkAutoAway in the preference dialog.
If I wanted to disable auto-away for all users and not let them change
the value (lock down the preference) I would add the following to my
branding.xml file:

<auto_away value=3D"0" control=3D"chkAutoAway" state=3D"inv"/>

The state attribute may be "inv" (pref will not show up in pref dialog)
or readonly (pref's value will be displayed but users will not be able
to change it).

That's a brief overview. More information on "branding" Exodus can be
found at http://exodus.jabberstudio.org/branding.html

Hope that helps a little,

Joe Fuhrman

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of networker
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 9:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Exodus] Question about Exodus Ability to Enable-Disable
Settings

I have a question about settings for this product.  It is mandatory that
everyone in our environment have their chat's saved.  I know this
product
does this as I have it running on my home computer.  I also need to lock
down the settings so that the users can not fiddle with them and change
things.  We are in a very controlled environment in that sense.  We also
can
not have them going outside our internal network.  If they can, then
that
would stop us from using this.  (Not a good thing).

Is there anyway that I can put in the settings for the folks and then
lock
down the settings so they can not be changed?

Thanks for any help anyone can give me on answers to this.

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