Refresh preferences
The Refresh site preferences allow you to refresh a cache to allow the system to immediately pick up changes that have been made to entries that might have the old information in cache. For example, if you change a user display name on the LDAP server or change the label of a property in Enterprise Manager, you can refresh the appropriate cache to make the changes effective immediately.
User display name cache
This cache stores the display names for users. The application keeps a mapping between the short name it receives (such as tjones) and the display name (such as Tom Jones). The number of names stored in cache is displayed.
Property name cache
The application looks up and caches the localized names for each property. The number of items stored in cache is displayed.
Class description cache
The application caches the class property description or choice list at the application level. Click Refresh class description cache to clear the application cache and pick up changes from the server. To also clear the session cache, you must log out from the application and log back in.
The following areas are affected:
- Object info pages
- Add wizards
- Check In wizard
- Entry template designer wizards
- Entry template Add wizards
- Entry template Check In wizard
- eForm entry template designer wizards
- eForm entry template runtime Add wizards
- eForm entry template runtime Check In wizards
- Hierarchical choice list selection page
Configuration files
If you have modified a configuration file, you can click Reload configuration files to reload all configuration files, which imports the new information.
CAUTION Do not reload configuration files unless you are sure that you want to use the modifications. For example, a missing base web address for an expansion product could cause problems that are difficult to troubleshoot.
Application base URL
The Workplace base web addresses are used by application extensions to link to the respective application. Some examples are:
- My Workplace pages
- Application Integration
- Filenet P8 Portlets Integration
- IBM Enterprise Records
- 2-box SSL or login redirection SSL on the application server
The base web address is initially set from the first web address request that the application receives after login (when the administrator sets the initial bootstrap preferences after installing the Application Engine).
You should update the base web address under these conditions:
- If you configure the application to share an existing preferences file with another like application.
- If you configure the Application Engine to use full time SSL (not just for log in) or if you disable SSL.
- If the application hostname has changed.
- If the application port number has changed.
- If the application name has been changed on the application server.
To configure your application base URL
Do one of the following:
- Enter a new base web address (URL) value in the provided text box. The web address must contain a valid host name, not "localhost" or an IP number. An example of a valid base web address is http://myserver:7001/Workplace.
- Click Reset to revert back to the last saved base web address value.
- Click Use current to assign the base web address based on your current browser web address.
- Click Refresh with new value to validate and save the new base web address of where you are logged in and update this value.
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