Define User Interfaces

Use this dialog box to define user interfaces and associate them with the Web browsers you want them used with. Each of the following tabs is described below:

User Interfaces
The User Interfaces tab lets you add, modify, and remove user interfaces. Each interface consists of template files that support a specific content type.

For example, the predefined Standard HTML interface uses frame-based HTML templates, located in the frames directory, that support the text/html content type.

User Interface List
The User Interface list displays all available user interfaces. The list includes the following information:

Add
Click Add to add a user interface to the list.

Edit
Select a user interface in the list, then click Edit to edit the interface's name, template directory, content type, or proxy caching setting.

Default
Select a user interface in the list, then click Default to make that interface the default interface. The application (GroupWise® WebAccess, WebPublisher, or Monitor) uses the default interface only if it can't determine the appropriate interface based on the browser's User Agent (Browser User Agent tab) or the browser's accepted content types (Browser Accept Types tab).

Delete
Select a user interface in the list, then click Delete to remove the interface. This only removes the entry from the list. It does not delete the template files from the template directory.

Browser User Agents
The Browser User Agents tab lets you associate a user interface with a Web browser. The association is based on the browser's User Agent information (signature, platform, version, and so forth). For example, if a browser's User Agent information includes "Windows CE" (one of the predefined entries), the application uses the Basic HTML interface (no-frames interface).

If a browser's User Agent information matches more than one entry in the list, the application uses the first entry. If the browser's User Agent information does not match any entries in the list, the application tries to select an interface based on the content types the browser accepts (Browser Accept Types tab). If no match is made based on the Accept Types information, the application uses the default user interface listed on the User Interfaces tab.

Add
Click Add to add an entry to the list.

Edit
Select an entry from the list, then click Edit to edit the entry's information.

Up
Select an entry from the list, then click Up to move it up the list. If two entries match the information in a browser's User Agent header, the application uses the interface associated with the first entry listed.

Down
Select an entry from the list, then click Down to move it down the list.

Delete
Select an entry from the list, then click Delete to remove the entry.

Browser Accept Types
The Browser Accept Types tab lets you associate a user interface with a Web browser. The association is based on the content type the browser accepts. For example, if a browser accepts text/html (one of the predefined entries), the application uses the Standard HTML interface (frames-based interface).

Many browsers accept more than one content type (for example, both text/html and text/plain). If the list contains more than one acceptable content type, the application uses the browser's preferred content type, which is the type that is listed first in the browser's Accept Type header.

If no interface can be determined based on the entries in the list, the application uses the default user interface listed on the User Interfaces tab.

Add
Click Add to add an entry to the list.

Edit
Select an entry from the list, then click Edit to edit the entry's information.

Delete
Select an entry from the list, then click Delete to remove the entry.



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