Rearranging the layout of the Management Center status area

The Management Center status bar includes the message console and a progress indicator. You can customize the status bar to change the location where these components display.

Procedure

  1. Open WebSphere Commerce Developer and switch to the Enterprise Explorer view.
  2. Expand LOBTools > WebContent > WEB-INF > src > xml > commerce > shell.
  3. Open the ToolStatusArea.xml file for editing. This file defines the layout of the status bar. The sequence of elements in this file determine where the message console and progress indicator display.
  4. Rearrange the elements within this file to match your preferred status bar layout.
    For example, the progress indicator displays to the left of the message console by default. If you prefer to display the progress indicator to the right of the message console, move the progress indicator by changing the placement of the following line of code.
    <ProgressIndicator height="${this.parent.height}" id="progressIndicator" package="cmc/shell" width="45" y="8"/>
    The placement of this code in the following code snippet changes the status bar layout to display the progress indicator on the far right of the status bar.
    
<Definitions>
<FocusableComponent classDefinition="true" definitionName="cmc/shell/StatusArea" focusable="false">
  <Component ignoreLayout="true" bgcolor="#373737" name="backgroundView" height="${this.parent.height}" width="${this.parent.width}"/>
  <Component width="8"/>
  <MessageLink height="${this.parent.height}" id="messageLink" package="cmc/shell" width="412" y="10"/>
  <ProgressIndicator height="${this.parent.height}" id="progressIndicator" package="cmc/shell" width="45" y="8"/>
  <AxisLayout axis="x" spacing="0"/>
  </FocusableComponent>
</Definitions>
  5. Save and publish your changes.