Difference between revisions of "Settings"

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Android
WinX

Android

Settings list provides a list of all the settings that control the client environment, giving the user the possibility to display and configure these settings. The settings are ordered according to theme, the part of environment it's responsible for controlling. Within each theme the settings are sorted alphabetically. Mandatory settings are indicated with a * next to the name.

Available settings

All users have at least access to all settings statet in List of settings. Additional settings, namely the AR settings or Demo settings are only available if the regarding plugin is part of the application built.

List of settings

The basic stock of settings includes:

Name	Purpose
AuthServerName	The name of the server to connect to for user authentication
AuthPortNumber	The port number to use when connecting to the authentication server (optional)
AuthProtocol	The protocol to use for authentication over the Internet (e.g.: HTTPS).
UBIKAuthContentService	The name of the UBIK authentication service
MemoryUsage	Whether UBIK^® should lazy load or eager load all the content.
Protocol	The protocol to use for data communication over the Internet (e.g.: HTTPS)
PortNumber	The port number to use when connecting to the content server (optional)
PriorityThreshold	Any property with a priority number greater than this integer setting value is regarded as a high priority property and is highlighted when being displayed
UpdateExpirySeconds	The number of seconds one has to wait before the same update will be considered necessary. If an update of certain content has just ended successfully and is requested again within the amount of time configured in this setting, the client simply dismisses the new request. However, this setting does not affect Forced Updates in Manual Synchronization Mode.
SyncMode	The possible values are Automatic, Manual Commit and Offline. For more details, please refer to Sync Mode.
ShowSystemProperties	If set to true, all properties will be displayed; otherwise, only the ones that are marked as visible.
UBIKContextName	The UBIK^® CONTEXT name
UBIKApplicationName	The UBIK^® APPLICATION name
UBIKContentService	The name of the UBIK^® content service
ServerName	The name of the server to connect to for fetching content
ExpectSingleSearchResult	If checked, single search results will be displayed in the ContentBrowser immediately instead of being shown in the result list. Available since Version 2.5.0 - Android

AR settings

The AR plugin has additional settings:

Name	Purpose
CompassOffsetDegrees	The offset in degrees to change the magnetic north and therefore the orientation of the device (global setting).
Pose Estimation Systems	The different pose estimation systems considered in the Location Manager can be activated or deactivated with this setting.
SpatialiteDbPath	The path to the sqlite database containing the routing graph. It will be looked for on the public internal storage (Google calls that the "Primary External Storage"), which is NOT the SD-card.
StandardMapZoomLevel	Specifies the zoom level, which should be applied when using the zoom features of the Map View.
DefaultMapZoomLocation	Specifies the position, which should be zoomed to when opening the Map View after login.
ContentDistanceFilterThreshold	The threshold in meters up to which billboards are displayed in Augmented Reality activities; also influences the scaling of billboards depending on their distance.

Demo settings

Additionally, the demo application and its unique user specific settings are listed as follows

Name	Purpose
NumberPropertyEditor	Whether to use the normal keyboard or the UBIK Number Pickers for editing numeric properties
CurrentAltitude	The (mock) altitude in meters to use in Augmented Reality activities, for non-manual locations (e.g. GPS, since the altutide for this is too inaccurate)
AltitudeOffset	The offset in meters to add to the current altitude in Augmented Reality activities (used for configuration of the device height)
ContentDistanceFilterThreshold	The threshold in meters up to which billboards are displayed in Augmented Reality activities
SupportIntentTarget	The actual Uri / Activity class / app package to be opened as an Android intent when the support action is triggered.
SupportIntentType	The type of the target (URI/APP_PACKAGE/ACTIVITY_CLASS) to be opened as an Android intent when the support action is triggered.

Characteristics of settings

Settings have the following characteristics and behavior within the application:

Available and editable before and after the login.
Changes done before login are applied to the next user who attempts to login.
- This goes for applying presets as well.
- After applying a preset, changes of settings are also applied.
- The settings defined are not just used by the user as new settings configuration, but are merged with the settings the user already has, and are overriding them.
Changes after login are saved for the user currently logged in. After logout and new login, they are restored, merged with the settings changed before login if there are some and finally they get applied to the user.
If a completely new user attempts to login without defining settings before or loading a preset, the default values of the settings as defined for the respective app are used.

PreSet actions

Load PreSets

The Load PreSet button can be used to Load Presets onto the settings.

Save PreSets

The Save PreSet button that is only available after login, can be used to Save Settings as Presets.

WinX

There are several categories of settings, each providing a group of configurable options for (a) specific feature(s).

General

Connection

Name	Purpose
ContentServiceConfig	WSHttpBinding (the default value) or BasicHttpBinding. It should be set according to the webservice configuration.

Content

These settings control the behaviors and activities of the content data.

Name	Purpose
PriorityThreshold	Any property with a priority number greater than this integer setting value is regarded as a high priority property and is highlighted when being displayed
Update Expiry	Determines how long (in seconds) freshly updated content becomes outdated and will be updated again when the user browses to it.
Content Logging	Determines whether certain content related activities should be recorded as log files.

Augmented Reality

Maps

These settings control the behaviors of the map throughout the app.

Name	Purpose
Map Type	Determines which base map image will be used in the map.
Default Zoom Level	Controls how closely zoomed in the map should be whenever it is shown.

Video

Name	Purpose
Camera Device	Specifies which camera to use in the app.
Camera Resolution	Specifies which camera resolution to use in the app.

The camera preview window in the settings is hidden when the camera is currently in use in e.g. the POI view or the scan view. However, a user can still change the relevant settings and see the immediate results.

Location

Name	Purpose
Calibration Heading	Specifies the heading that is used when manually calibrating the orientation sensor.

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 | ''CompassOffsetDegrees'' || The offset in degrees to change the magnetic north and therefore the orientation of the device (global setting).
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-| ''PositioningMode''|| The different  positioning modes of the [[Location Manager]] can be selected with this setting.
+| ''Pose Estimation Systems''|| The different  pose estimation systems considered in the [[Location Manager]] can be activated or deactivated with this setting.
 |-
 | ''SpatialiteDbPath''|| The path to the sqlite database containing the routing graph. It will be looked for on the public internal storage (Google calls that the "Primary External Storage"), which is NOT the SD-card.