The Application Options
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:
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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 |
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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 |
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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. | |
Control properties |
Show the Personalization section |
To be used only in the Marketing Center. |
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.
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 |
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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. |
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. |