This page describes AdaptiveWork Profiles and includes the following sections:
AdaptiveWork Profiles allow you to manage and control the way the system is displayed for each user based on their association with a profile.
By creating multiple profiles, the administrator is further able to manage and control the way the system is displayed for each user based on their profile association to best tailor the system to your organizational needs.
The different display options allow you to control user access to various options, modules, field sets, and actions for better safety. It further permits you to create a better and more simplified work environment by allowing you to remove seldom-used actions and options as well as filter the available views to only those needed by a user for their work.
Each user can be associated with several profiles allowing the user to choose the view shown based on their current work assignment.
Profile Settings are only available to your AdaptiveWork Admin user.
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The following are the profile key features:
The bubble popup is the action menu that appears when you hover over an item that has associated actions.
The number of profiles available depends on the type of license your organization has:
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For more information regarding licensing, please see the licensing information in the User Manual and on our web site.
To best utilize AdaptiveWork Profiles in your organization, we highly recommend that you first take the time to map out the way by which you wish to divide the various profiles and display options. This can be done based on the following examples or in any other way that fits your needs as you see fit.
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The Navigation Panel opens.
The Settings module opens, the Global Settings tab is selected (DEFAULT) .
Figure 2: Profiles Tab
The profile panel on the left holds the organizations’ Master Profile settings as well as the organizational default and additional profiles, you also have the option to perform additional profile related actions.
The administrator can associate a user to several profiles, either directly or by group association.
Users not associated to any profile, are automatically associated to the organizational default profile, they will not be able to switch the profile used as they are not associated with any profile.
An admin user has profiles access to all of the organizations available profiles and can always switch between any one of them.
Users assigned to multiple profiles will see a list of available profiles under the “my profile” section in the user menu located on the masthead.
The profiles available under the “my profile” section are either profiles you were associated with directly or profiles assigned to a group that you are a member of.
Users assigned to only one profile will see the associated profile as well as the organizational default profile.
You can also switch between profiles in the “my details” screen.
Administrators can set the active profile for other users from the user detail screen or a user’s property card
To remove fields or views from all of the profiles in the organization at once, use the Master profile setting definition
The master profile serves as a basis for the organization, all other profiles created inherit the basic settings from here
Making changes to the master profile after creating or editing additional profiles may affect the existing profiles
Since the master profile serves only as a platform to build from, it cannot be set as an active profile for a specific person or user group
This section describes the various options and action you can perform with Profiles and includes the following sections:
Note: The number of profiles you can create is dependent on the license type you have
To create a new profile based on an existing one instead of the Master:
Whether you are working on a newly created profile or editing an existing one follow the steps you need to best suit your needs
At any time you can rename the profile to better present what the profile is designed for (e.g. Management vs. Admin, Marketing vs. Internal, etc.)
When you have multiple profiles, any of the available profiles can be assigned as the organizational default profile.
When deleting a profile, Users and User Groups associated to the deleted profile will revert to the organizational default profile
The assigned default profile cannot be deleted until a different profile is set to be the default
As part of the profile definition you need to determine what users are associated with each profile.
Depending on the organization mapping you can select individual users and/or user groups from within the system and associate them with the selected profile
Each User can be assigned to multiple profiles
Profile definition is based on customizing the various item types for the organization (Master Profile setting) and for each of the available profiles.
The settings can be divided into two, permission & visibility settings described herein and simplicity based settings.
The settings included in the permission & visibility section are settings that define the layout of the system and have a bearing on the system behavior and includes:
AdaptiveWork Admin users can add or remove modules to the system in general and to the Navigation Panel display.
The setting can be applied globally across the entire organization or specifically applied to specific profiles.
You also have the ability to configure the order of appearance on the panel.
'Click and drag' is supported.
Double-clicking to add or remove list items is supported.
Certain item type layouts can be enabled or disabled across the organization, when defined in the Master Profile, or for specific profiles.
The following item types have this feature:
The Field Set allows you to determine exactly what fields are available for each item type to users associated to a given profile or across the organization if done on the Master Profile.
The field set availability can be defined in the following item types:
To Define field set availability:
'Click and drag' is supported.
Double-clicking to add or remove list items is supported.
The Related Items allows you to determine exactly what relations are visible to users associated to a given profile or across the organization if done on the Master Profile as well as the i tem 's default order for relevant i tem types.
Related items that are not selected cannot be added or seen within the AdaptiveWork user interface.
The relation availability can be defined in the following item types:
'Click and drag' is supported.
Double-clicking to add or remove list items is supported.
The Actions section allows you to determine what actions will be available in the ribbon, contextual menu, and bubble popup for users associated to a given profile.
Tip:
The bubble popup is the action menu that appears when you hover over an item that has associated actions.
Removing an action from all locations will effectively render the action unavailable. Due to this fact actions can only be defined for specific profiles and not across the entire organization from the Master Profile.
Notes:
To define Action Availability:
Note:
Timesheet as an example for multiple actions settings
Organization actions settings as an example for a single option definition
Removing actions from all locations will turn the action off entirely
Profile definition is based on customizing the various item types for the organization (Master Profile setting) and for each of the available profiles.
The settings can be divided into two, permission & visibility settings and simplicity based settings described herein.
The settings included in the Simplicity section are settings that define the layout of the system allowing you to create a clutter free environment and tailor the views to the user's needs and includes:
The Field Layout allows you to define how Property Cards Page Layout and Add/Edit modes of items are displayed to users associated to a specific profile, or across the organization if done on the Master Profile.
Define, organize, and group an item type 's visible fields. Configure optional and required fields for the Add mode and/or Edit mode.
Field Layout definitions is available for the following item types:
Set the default and associate views for both the module and item detail pages for the entire organization under Master and for each individual profile.
The default views are used as defaults for first-time users, as well as the default views used when creating a new view.
Module view default relations, representation and columns are also used for the Quick Peek .
Default views are available for the following modules and item types:
To customize an item type's default view:
A special case is the discussion group where you can also create new Item detail views.
Discussion item detail view creation can only be done by an admin from the profiles
'Click and drag' is supported.
Tip:
Double-clicking to add or remove list items is supported.
Set the default columns for Global Search results, as well as the default columns and filters for the item type find windows.
Search default settings are available for all of the item types with the exclusion of Posts, Replies, Organization, and Timesheets
The item type's search defaults are customized.
Define the Work Item’s Resource Calendar columns either the entire organization using Master or for specific profiles.
To customize a work item's Calendar columns:
The work item Resource Calendar columns are customized
AdaptiveWork offers organizations the ability to customize the applications CSS (style sheet) to suit their organizations need.
Custom CSS allows you to have custom colors, fonts, icons and even backgrounds and can be applied across the entire organization using Base or for specific Profiles .
Below are detailed instructions on how to access the Custom CSS field and some examples of how you can update your organizations fonts, colors, and background.
To begin to customize the CSS of your AdaptiveWork account, you must first add the "Custom CSS" field into the Organizations profile card.
To configure and brand the user interface for a profile:
You can change the background image that will be used in the application by adding the following:
Within the parenthesis after url you can enter an image hyperlink
To apply this setting on a specific profile (for example marketing) the code should be:
You can change the header font colors by adding the following:
Where:
#orgName strong {color:#800000;} - will change the org name color - in this case to maroon
.header-view-fl h2 {color:#FF00FF;} - will change the title of the subsystem (e.g. settings) - in this case to magenta
.hd-btn {color:#FFA500 !important;} - will change the masthead button colors - in this case to orange
You can also change the font and font size for each item, simply by adding "font-family" and "font-size" after the color, as indicated below:
The above changes will make the header look like this:
You can change the colors and font across by doing the following:
In the above, each element has to be specified and can have a different font/color as needed.
In this example, fonts were changed to "cursive" across the app, and the colors of certain elements, for example, the field names in property cards (.field-name) was changed to a maroon like color:
Button colors for Ok, Save, etc., are also changed in the above example by entering:
Adding the above, will change the application's fonts and colors to look like the image below:
You can change the navigation panel so that it will be a button on the masthead rather than a side bar by adding the following:
This code is a bit more complex and should be taken as is. Please note that you can change the colors of the button background and the like as needed. Once updated, the navigation panel access will look like this:
Changing the Navigation Panel to a button will also require you to make changes to the header in order to move the logo on the top left to the right. Specifically you can add this piece of css, or update the existing header css (if already changed) as follows: