Software Options
Software options apply to the general operation of DataVeil and can be thought of as software preferences.
These options persist across all projects.
These options are found under the GUI menu Tools->Options.
The Options panel has many general UI preferences that can be defined under the headings General, Keymap Appearance and Miscellaneous.
The remainder of this section shall describe DataVeil-specific options.
Directories
Please refer to the Installation section for a detailed description of the Directories option.
Appearance
Font
The Fonts panel lets you change the default font used by DataVeil user interface.
This is particularly useful for users who have non-English data that may not display correctly in some views such as the DataBrowser. This could be because the current font does not support glyphs for the particular language. Therefore, changing the font to one that supports the relevant glyphs woud resolve the issue.
License
License
The License panel will show the location and details of your DataVeil license.
Usage Data
This panel lets you enable or disable sending usage statistics of the DataVeil software to DataVeil Technologies.
The information sent is anonymous. Not even IP details are logged.
The information sent includes:
* Operating system version
* Java version
* DBMS version
* Mask performance details (mask type, row count, duration)
* Error numbers (numbers only, no error text is included).
Please consider keeping this option enabled. It helps us prioritize and determine:
* Which platform versions we need to continue to support and which we can sunset and therefore better deploy development and support resources.
* Which masks are performing satisfactorily and which need further review or optimization.
* Whether errors are occurring so that technical support can be alerted to investigate.
Messages
You can select whether you want more or less detailed messages logged or displayed.
Servers
You can define the email server settings that shall be used to optionally send masking run completion email notifications.
For further information please refer to Installation and Masking Report.
Help Source
You can define the source of Help pages that will be displayed by the DataVeil GUI.
By default, the DataVeil GUI will attempt to load Help pages from the online source at https://www.dataveil.com/. This has the benefit of loading the most recent updates to Help.
If an internet connection is not available then DataVeil shall automatically load Help pages from the local copy of Help that is included with the software deliverable. This can be found in the DataVeil software folder dataveil/help/ This folder contains several different formats of Help, including: HTML, PDF and CHM. Using the local copy of Help has the benefit of ensuring that the Help version will always specifically correspond to the installed version of DataVeil, whereas online Help will always correspond to the latest released version of DataVeil which may be different to your currently installed software (i.e. if your software hasn't been updated recently).
