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title: "The Application Options"
slug: "the-application-options"
abstract: "Overview of the settings available in the Application Options dialog box where you can specify which elements you want to display in the Content Editor and in the Drag & Drop dialog."
---

# The Application Options

In the **Application Options** dialog, you can specify which elements you want to display in the Content Editor, such as any of the ones shown in the following example.

![The Content Editor with elements labeled](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/users/105/sitecore-experience-platform/images/content_editor.png)

You can also specify which elements to display in the **Drag & Drop** dialog when you upload media files to [the Media Library](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/users/105/sitecore-experience-platform/the-media-library.html "The Media Library").

To open the application options for the Content Editor:

1. In the top left corner of the Content Editor, click the System menu ![](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/users/105/sitecore-experience-platform/images/menu.png).

2. Click **Application Options**.

![The Content Editor tab in the Application Options dialog](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/users/105/sitecore-experience-platform/images/XMC_CE_Application_Options.png)

The **Application Options** dialog displays two tabs.

## The Content Editor tab

On the **Content Editor** tab, you can specify which elements you want to display in the Content Editor.

| Section      | Field                             | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| ------------ | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Show/hide    | Item title bar                    | Show or hide the Item Title bar.                                                                                                                                                                             |
|              | Field section titles              | Show or hide the Field Section titles.                                                                                                                                                                       |
|              | Fields from the Standard template | Display a large number of fields that are used internally by Sitecore. These are hidden to improve performance.                                                                                              |
|              | Bucket items                      | Display the otherwise hidden items in an item bucket in a folder structure. You should clear this check box because it will prevent the system from unnecessarily loading all the items in the content tree. |
|              | Hidden items                      | Show or hide the hidden items in the content tree.                                                                                                                                                           |
|              | Quick info section                | Show or hide the **Quick Info** section.                                                                                                                                                                     |
|              | Quick action bar                  | Show or hide the **Quick Action Bar**.                                                                                                                                                                       |
|              | Search panel                      | Show or hide the **Search** panel.                                                                                                                                                                           |
|              | Validator bar                     | Show or hide the **Validator** bar.                                                                                                                                                                          |
|              | Prefetch collapsed sections       | The system fetches and keeps the fields from the Field Sections in memory before the section is opened.                                                                                                      |
|              | Content profiling                 | Show or hide the Content Profiling buttons.                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Field values | Show input controls               | Shows the field values as input controls. This is only relevant for administrators.                                                                                                                          |
|              | Show raw values                   | Shows the field values as raw values. This is only relevant for administrators.                                                                                                                              |
| Pages        | Show pages bar                    | Determines whether the shortcuts to the Sitecore applications are displayed at the bottom of the Content Editor.                                                                                             |

## The View tab

On the **View** tab, more options determine what is displayed in the content tree, the Content Editor, and the Marketing Center.

| Section                   | Field                                       | Description                                                                                                                |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Content tree – item names | Display name (language-specific name)       | Select to show the language-specific display name that you can give an item.                                               |
|                           | Item key                                    | Select to show the item key in the content tree.                                                                           |
| Content tree root         | Show the content tree in the Content Editor | Show the content tree in the Content Editor                                                                                |
|                           | Show entire content tree                    | Show the entire content tree in the Content Editor. Clear the check box to show only the Content node in the content tree. |