Discontinuing managed preferences

To stop setting preferences through the Expeditor managed settings framework, remove the reference to the settings XML file and unlock any previously read-only settings.

About this task

Discontinue use of the settings.xml file based on the method you used to distribute managed preferences.

The managed-settings.xml file and an administration update site URL

Remove the managed-settings.xml file from the update site location.

The settings.xml file and a plugin_customization.ini file

Remove the com.ibm.rcp.managedsettings.provider.file/URL setting from the plugin_customization.ini file and provision the updated file to clients.

Note: Managed settings that were previously pushed to the clients as read-only will continue to be used until they are specifically removed from the client.

Procedure

Unlock all managed settings by editing the XML file:
  1. Change all "isLocked=true" instances to "isLocked=false".
  2. If the lastModDate atribute was used previously, change the lastModDate attribute to a newer timestamp for all group settings. Otherwise, skip this step.
  3. Provision the updated XML file to the client.