Client applications

The settings made here affect the “View” menu in SiteArchitect. To ensure the changes take effect, the affected project must be restarted.

Maximum width of client applications: here you can specify whether the width should be limited to a certain number of pixels or whether it should be customizable by the user.

Integrated preview: Content

Activate integrated preview for content:
If this option is enabled (default setting), the menu function “View / Integrated preview – use for content” (see Integrated preview (→Documentation FirstSpirit SiteArchitect)) can be selected in SiteArchitect for the active project, which means that editors can select individually whether or not they want to work with the integrated preview.
If the option is disabled, the menu function “View / Integrated preview – use for content” is not available in SiteArchitect for this project.

Zoom function:
individually adjustable: if this option is selected, the users themselves can select the scaling level in the particular project. The “Default” combo box allows the user to specify which scaling level should be preselected. The default setting is 80%.

fixed definition: if this option is selected, the selected scaling level is used project wide. The scaling cannot be changed by editors.

Content Highlighting
Control can be individually adjusted: if this option is selected, editors can individually adjust the Content Highlighting behavior using the menu item “View / Content Highlighting Control” (see Content highlighting control (→Documentation FirstSpirit SiteArchitect)). The “Default” combo box allows the user to specify what the predefined behavior should be. The default setting is “Workspace ↔ Preview”

fixed definition: if this option is selected, the selected behavior is used project wide. The editors cannot change the behavior.

Integrated preview: Media

The user can specify here whether the integrated preview for media can basically be used in the particular project and which particular file formats are to be used with the various applications.

Activate integrated preview for media:
If this option is enabled (default setting), the menu function “View” / “Integrated preview – use for media” can be selected in SiteArchitect for the active project, which means that editors can select individually whether they want to work with the integrated preview or not (see Integrated preview (→Documentation FirstSpirit SiteArchitect)).
If this option is disabled, the menu function “View” / “Integrated preview – use for media” is not available in SiteArchitect for this project.

Activate advanced media editing:
If the option “Integrated Preview for Media” is enabled (default setting), the option “Activate advanced media editing” can be enabled additionally (default setting). Activating this option allows editors to edit media displayed in Integrated Preview using the “Enhanced image editing” function.

If this option is disabled, “Enhanced image editing” is not available in Integrated Preview.

The option is selected by default in new projects, making it possible to assign file formats to applications in the integrated preview for display using the following fields.

Use browser engine for the following file extensions (comma separated): file extensions for files that are to be displayed using the browser engine can be entered in this field with commas to separate them. The file formats included here by default are for files that can be displayed by web browsers or browser plug-ins.

Use internal text editor for the following file extensions (comma separated): file extensions for files that are to be displayed using the FirstSpirit internal text editor can be entered in this field with commas to separate them. The file formats included here by default are for files that can be created and edited using text editors.

Use internal picture viewer for the following file extensions (comma separated): file extensions for files that are to be displayed using the graphic engine (Advanced Image Editor) can be entered in this field with commas to separate them. The file formats included here by default are image file formats.

Use Microsoft Windows Media Player (only Windows) for the following file extensions (comma separated): file extensions for files that are to be played using Windows Media Player can be entered in this field with commas to separate them. The file formats specified here by default are audio and video file formats. Windows Media Player can only be used in conjunction with Microsoft Windows. This field is grayed out if a different operating system is in use.

Restore default values: clicking on this button will restore the default settings.