Your chosen Cradle ‘Form’ or ‘View’ is not showing the item category you want to see. It may be that you select a different form, if one has been defined showing the item information you want. You could also select one of the automatically generated forms that contains the category or redefine the one you already have. However, this is not always possible as the user may not have the correct privileges. The CREATE_DEFS privilege is required to allow them to change it. All this may just be over the top for a quick peek at a value.
Solution
Select ‘Information’ from the ‘Item’ ribbon for a quick view of all the details for the selected item.
The Item Information dialog can be used to view categories, item attributes, dates, calculations and even the logic matches in a rule set.
Cradle Preferences: Controlling the tool to suit your needs.
“I want to see the Dashboard when I log in” Says the Manager
“I want to see the Modelling sidebar” Says the Engineer
Set everything just how you want it in Cradle. Tailor and save your individual preferences for whenever you log into any project.
User Preferences
Cradle is delivered with a set of default preference settings. These can be altered by the system administrator by editing the system configuration files. However, these preferences may not suit everyone. Two people working on the same project may legitimately have different formats for time and date as they are based in different countries. Edited user preferences are applied on top of the system settings giving two layers of control, defaults set by the installation, tweaks set by users. To read more see the Cradle help on preferences
The Quick Access Bar
The QAB (Quick Access Bar) bar at the bottom of the screen shows your most used queries. It can be configured to show the item types most relevant to you.
Diagrams
The way your diagrams look and the information shown on the screen can be tailored with Diagrams setting.
What Opens What?
By changing the details of the Applications listed in the preferences, you can control the software used to open a particular file type. If you have a favourite RTF viewer, say, that you want to use to show published queries, you can set the value here.
Application Preferences
What’s the Time Mr Wolf?
How your display show the time and date are also set by the user preferences. Internally information is held in UTC, but as a result of altering preference settings, you can show this to suit your locale.
All in an .ini
A users local preferences and the global preferences set for your company are held in configuration files. These are detailed in this article.
Everything within this post can be found within our Cradle online help, with in depth instructions and guides. You can also find other options that are available within preferences.
Article Updated 22/05/2018
Article Updated 17/09/2018 – Added links to Cradle online help
