Day: 7 September 2016

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Cradle Exception for Popup Blocker

Many people access Cradle through a web browser, either using one of 3SL’s web UIs or a custom web UI that has been created in-house by their organisation. In all cases, when you login to a I, that web UI will be shown in a new windows, a popup.

Since popups are often used to display irritating advertising or offensive content, all web browsers have controls to optionally block popups.

Please ensure that you allow the Cradle Web Server (CWS) to display popups, or you will not be able to view Cradle web UIs!

The normal way to do this is to add the CWS as an exception in the popup blocker rules in your web browser’s settings. Each browser has its own method for doing this. In Firefox, select Options and Content. The exception will be the URL of your CWS, such as:

http://cradle.intranet.mycompany.com:8015

Cradle exception for pop-up blocker

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Re-Tracing Your Steps – the History Sidebar

The History sidebar is a useful productivity aid that is available in WorkBench in all Cradle products. It remembers what you did:

– Today
– Yesterday
– In the past 7 days
– In the past 30 days
– Older than 30 days

so you can quickly and easily repeat these actions by clicking nodes in the history. It remembers:

– Items that you opened in forms, including saved Hierarchy Diagrams (HIDs)
– Queries, reports, graphs, matrices and metrics that you used
– Phase hierarchy nodes that you used, including those that run commands or publish documents

The History sidebar is so useful that you may want it to be the default sidebar when you start WorkBench. If so, select Edit -> Preferences and choose UI Control and select the Sidebar tab. Here you can also:

– Enable or disable histories, or only record a history for the current WorkBench session
– Specify the maximum number of entries in the history list
– Control whether old entries in the history will be automatically purged

Please experiment with the History sidebar and tell us what you think about it as comments in this discussion!

History Sidebar