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 box.

In the Application Options dialog box, you can specify which elements you want to display in the Content Editor and in the Drag & Drop dialog box when you upload media files to the Media Library.

To open the application options for the Content Editor:

In the Content Editor, click the Content Editor menu, and then click Application Options.

This topic describes each of the tabs in the Application Options dialog box:

The Content Editor tab

On the Content Editor tab, you can specify what 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.
Field values	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 Content Editor with elements labeled

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.
Content tree – item names	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
Content tree root	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.
Control properties	Show the Personalization section	To be used only in the Marketing Center.
Control properties	Show the Test Lab section	To be used only in the Marketing Center.

The Media tab

On the Media tab, you can specify what you want to see in the Drag & Drop dialog box or whether to open the editing application available on the user’s computer.

Note

The drag-and-drop functionality is currently only supported in Internet Explorer 7 or later. If you use a different browser such as Mozilla Firefox, you must use the Upload files and Upload files (advanced) options to upload your files to the Media Library.

Section	Field	Description
Drag & Drop	Show only latest version of files	Select to show only the latest version of the media files in the Drag & Drop dialog box.
Drag & Drop	Show versioned files in folders	Select to show all versions of a media file in the Drag & Drop dialog box.
Media edit button default	Open editing application installed on user’s computer.	Open the media items with the editing application that is installed on the user’s computer.