The User Preferences page allows users to specify individual settings for their user experience within the application.
Upon completing your necessary changes to the page’s form, click the Set Preferences button. If you do not want to save your preferences, click the Undo Changes button.
This section of the page allows the user to select their date and time display format. The user can pick from eight date formats and two time formats.
Date formats:
· 1/9/12 – non-zero-padded month and day with two-digit year
· 1/9/2012 – non-zero-padded month and day with four-digit year
· 1/09/2012 – non-zero-padded month, zero-padded day with four-digit year
· 1/09/12 – non-zero-padded month, zero-padded day with two-digit year
· 01/09/12 – zero-padded month and day with two-digit year
· 01/09/2012 – zero-padded month and day with four-digit year
· 09-Jan-2012 – zero padded day, three-letter short form of month spelled out with four-digit year
· Mon, Jan 9, 2012 – three-letter short form of day of week and month spelled out, non-zero-padded day with four-digit year.
WithinTime formats:
· 1:00 PM – standard U.S. time designation with AM or PM (before or after noon)
· 13:00 – 24-hour time designation
This section of the page allows the user to specify which page they would be directed to after a successful login. The initial value is the Home page, alternatively, the user may elect to be directed to the [Simple] Search page instead.
This section allows the user to specify the number of results which may appear on each page of search results. This value is restricted to values no less than 10 and no more than 100.
This section relates to settings dealing with FDB -related material.
FDB Status Code Format
Available Status Code Formats: Active, Retired, Replaced, Inactive, Unassociated.
Other Settings
The checkboxes within this portion deal with various other FDB settings that do not fit into a single broad category. Filters available: Devices, Single Ingredient, Obsolete Drugs, Private Labelers, Repackagers.
FDB RX OTC Format
Display both (BOTH), Over the Counter (OTC) or Prescription (RX)
FDB Name Type Format
Display both, Brand-only or Generic-only
FDB Packaged Drug Format
Display both, Equivalent Package Drug-only or Package Drug-only.
FDB Phonetic Search Format
Display Literal, Literal and Phonetic or Phonetic
FDB Search Methods Format
Display Begins with Each String, Begins with Literal, Contains Each String, or Contains Literal