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 Thursday, July 19, 2007
Panorama Hidden Settings
 
For some reason (and don't ask me why), the Panorama NovaView's documentation doesn't contain any information about some of the most important settings. Here some of them, hoping that this will help many users:

  • In the Panorama Web Access web site, by default a user can  save his views (after he made his modifications) only in his private book. To enable him save his views in the Briefing Book (which means - the public book), do the following: Inside the Panorama server, open the Registry Editor (Start -> Run -> regedit) and go to the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Panorama\Nova View 5\Admin. Add a new string value named "PublicBookAdmin". As its value, enter all the users you want to give them the option to save their views in the Briefing Book by this template: <User1Domain>\<User1Name>,<User2Domain>\<User2Name>, etc. For example: panoramaDevServer\PowerUser, MSHOME\Miky.
  • The subscriptions web part will show you only the views that you registered to, but by default no one can register himself to the views. What you need to do is to open the Registry Editor in the panorama server, go to the same path as mentioned above and add a string value named "ShowSubsAndAlerts" with the value 1. After that, every user will be able to right click on any view in the Panorama Web Access web site, click on Register and it will be added to the subscriptions web part for him.
  • For some users, the loading animations which are shown before every applet appears in the Dashboard website will stay forever, meaning that the user will never see the dashboard itself. I think this has something to do with the Java or Microsoft VM of the user. Anyway, a nice workaround is to cancel this animation. To do this, enter the path C:\Program Files\Panorama\E-BI\Dashboard\include (replace the beginning if you installed to panorama software in a different location) and inside the Config.asp file, change the constant "ShowAnimationWhileLoadingApplets" value to false. This is a good workaroung because anyway, the applets should appear in a second or two. Otherwise - buy a faster server.
As I go on working with Panorama I'll write some more tips & tricks. Stay Tuned.

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Friday, July 20, 2007 2:20:52 AM (Jerusalem Daylight Time, UTC+03:00)
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Sunday, July 22, 2007 9:14:05 PM (Jerusalem Daylight Time, UTC+03:00)
Documentation indeed is not updated so frequently as the product. However, there are two places you can find these important settings:

- Planned Fixes release notes. Every two months we release a product update. The settings you describe were implemneted in such updates for version 5.0 and appear in the relevat release notes.
- http://support.panorama.com is a web site with a lot of useful information in the Knowledge Base section. KB is growing every day and settings like the ones you mentioned are often explained there.

The animation stays forever only if using Sun JVM. This is also explained on KB site :).
Shimon Shlevich
Monday, July 23, 2007 5:23:56 AM (Jerusalem Daylight Time, UTC+03:00)
Hi Shimon,

Thank you for your comment.
I'm sure that every single configuration and setting is well documented in Panorama's support & KB sites.
However, there are many little fixes and items in these documents and finding some of the most important and widely used settings can be difficult sometimes.

Therefore, I'm writing some tips that can (sometimes) help users and panorama developers to improve their work without running through the sites and documentation.

By the way, thank you for managing so well the KB site. I love seeing it updated with new answers. Keep on the good work.
Miky Schreiber | miky@zahav.net.il
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