Disable multi-select for an action in CCMS Desktop

You can prevent users from selecting multiple objects at once for specific actions in CCMS Desktop.

About this task

If an action is set to disallow multi-select, then the corresponding menu option or icon is not available if the user has selected multiple objects at once.

Important: Make configuration changes in a test environment and confirm they work before copying them to a production environment.

Procedure

  1. In the TEXTML Administration perspective, connect to your server.
  2. Locate the accessrights.xml file in the repository's /system/conf collection.
  3. Check out the file and open it for editing.
  4. Locate the <method> element for the menu option and set its @multiselect-disabled attribute to true.
    For example, to prevent users from cloning multiple files at once, set the @multiselect-disabled attribute as follows:
    <method name="Clone" type="front-end"  multiselect-disabled="true">

    If a method does not have the @multiselect-disabled attribute, it is possible either that multi-select is not available at all for that method or that multi-select is always enabled for the method. In this case, adding @multiselect-disabled will have no effect on the action. It won't hurt anything to add it, so try it and see if the results are what you want.

  5. Save, close, and check in the file.
  6. Inform users of the changes.
    The changes are automatically applied once users close and then reopen their IXIA CCMS Desktop. Users can also apply the changes without restarting their CCMS Desktop by clicking IXIA CCMS > Synchronize Configuration.