[Paraview] PV 4.2.0 custom site settings

[Scott, W Alan]

I found notes to myself, that I wrote when I was testing this new feature, from  last July.  However, we do need this documented, since there are many, many settings that a user can create defaults for.

Here are my notes:

- Install ParaView in some directory $INSTALL
- Delete $HOME/.config/ParaView directory
- Launch paraview (local server)
- Edit -> Settings...
- Click on gear icon to enable advanced settings
- Click on Render View tab
- Enter search text "Off". See that offscreen rendering is not enabled
- Quit ParaView
- Create a file $INSTALL/share/paraview4.1/ParaView-SiteSettings.json with the content

{
   "settings" : {
      "RenderViewSettings" : {
         "UseOffscreenRenderingForScreenshots" : 1
      }
   }
}

- Launch paraview
- Edit -> Settings...
- Click on Render View tab
- Enter search text "Off". See that offscreen rendering is now enabled
- Remove search text
- Click on General tab
- Enable "Automatically convert data arrays as needed..."
- Click OK in settings dialog box
- Quit ParaView
- View file $HOME/.config/ParaView/ParaView-UserSettings.json
- It should have the contents

{
   "settings" : {
      "GeneralSettings" : {
         "AutoConvertProperties" : 1
      },
      "RenderViewSettings" : {
         "UseOffscreenRenderingForScreenshots" : 1
      }
   }
}

Note that you can also define the environment variable PV_SETTINGS_DEBUG to view the directories where the settings are being searched.

Alan


From: Moreland, Kenneth
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 1:13 PM
To: Scott, W Alan; paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] PV 4.2.0 custom site settings

I see some hints about it in this bug report: http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=13575

It looks like there is a Wiki page that is supposed to talk about user- and site-specific settings (http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_Settings_Files), but it looks to be quite a bit out of date. Someone should probably update this information. (One, two, three, not it!)

-Ken

From: <Scott>, Walter Scott <wascott at sandia.gov<mailto:wascott at sandia.gov>>
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 1:02 PM
To: "paraview at paraview.org<mailto:paraview at paraview.org>" <paraview at paraview.org<mailto:paraview at paraview.org>>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] PV 4.2.0 custom site settings

I am trying to set default offscreen rendering in ParaView for my site.  Where is this new functionality located?  Where is it documented?

Thanks,

Alan



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