The properties on this tab are used to define how URLs and links provided within the Active Display should be displayed and linked, and whether or not Central Configuration is enabled.
When you are finished making the necessary changes on this tab, click any other administration tab to save your changes and keep the administration interface open, or click OK to save your changes and return to the Active Display presentation. If you enable Central Configuration, make sure you click Apply before moving to another administration interface tab.
This property was renamed to “My Site Path” in the Fall 2007 Update.
This property allows you to change the default My Site characteristics of the web part. By default, the web part will modify the URL "/mysite" to point to "/personal/User". This allows the web part to search through the MySite section of the SharePoint server. However, SharePoint allows the administrator to alter the URL definition for each server. To accommodate this, the My Site Path field allows you to alter the web part to support your organization’s MySite setup.
This entry allows you to define the target window for the links provided in the web part. For example, if you wanted any links that are clicked on to open in a new window, you would type “_blank” in this field. Valid options include:
NOTE: Prior to SharePoint 2007, users could drill down to any item in an Active Display for viewing or editing purposes, and then return back to the Active Display. As of SharePoint 2007, if a user views or edits an Active Display item that is located in a different site collection, the user will be returned to that item’s list when finished viewing or editing, rather than the Active Display. As a result, CorasWorks recommends that you configure the Active Display to open items in a new window. (Set the Target Window property to “_blank”.) This is not necessary if all items are in the same site collection.
When this checkbox is selected and the user clicks on a list item in the Active Display, the user will be brought directly to the list item. When the checkbox is left blank, the item link will take the user directly to the edit page for the list item.
Standard roll-ups offer a similar property called Go Directly to Document, but it applies only to document libraries. In Active Displays, this property functions for all list and library types.
Select this checkbox to enable Central Configuration (discussed in detail in Chapter 5 of the Capabilities Guide). If you enable Central Configuration, click Apply before moving to another administration interface tab. Some of the properties on the Sites & Lists tab will be disabled because they are managed by the entries in the Central Configuration List.
Select this checkbox to have the Active Display generate the links to each record in the display based on the domain name in the current user’s browser. This option is disabled by default.
This option does not affect the items returned by the Active Display, only what happens when the user clicks on a link within the display. When this option is enabled and a user clicks on a link, it looks at the URL that the Active Display is configured to reference. Then it generates the links to each record based on the domain name in the current user’s browser. It does not map the full URL, only the domain name.
As an example, say you have a site at sample.company.net, and you have multiple users who can access that site, but only by way of their unique URLs. When John Smith accesses a browser and types jsmith.company.net, he is brought to sample.company.net. When Diane Brown types dbrown.company.net, she is also brought to sample.company.net. However, when John configures an Active Display to point to jsmith.company.net, Diane can see the resulting display, but cannot successfully click on any of the links in the dislay; she does not have access to the site via jsmith.company.net and an error page is displayed when she attempts to click on a link. If John were to enable the “Modify Item Links for URL Masking” option, Diane would be able to access the links. The domain name is pulled from Diane’s browser address bar and the URL for the link is modified to http://dbrown.company.net/operations/team1. It does not do anything with the “http://” or “/operations/team1” portion of the URL.
NOTE: Before you enable this option, you should be aware that it affects all of the link URLs in an Active Display. So if the Active Display aggregates items from multiple domains, some of which do not map to the user’s domain, the links will not work correctly. It is up to the individual configuring the Active Display to determine when this option should or should not be enabled.