Specify InfoCenter Settings (Concept)

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Specify InfoCenter Settings

Concept

Procedure

You can specify InfoCenter Search and Communication Center settings in the InfoCenter Settings dialog box.

In the InfoCenter Settings dialog box, you can specify the following settings:

General. Your current locations, how often to check for new online content, animated transition effects for panels.
Search Results. Locations (documents and files) to search for information, as well as the name that displays for each location and the number of results to display for each. Also, allows you to add or remove locations through the Add Search Location and Remove Search Location dialog boxes. When you add document locations, you can specify files on your local drive or files on a network.

NoteUser-specified CHM files must be located on your local drive. InfoCenter cannot search CHM files located on network drives.
Communication Center. Maximum age of the articles displayed on the Communication Center panel and the location and name of the CAD Manager Channel.
Autodesk Channels. Channels to display in the Communication Center panel as well as the number of articles to display for each channel.
Balloon Notification. Balloon notification settings.
RSS Feeds. RSS feed subscriptions. Allows you to add or remove RSS feeds through the Add RSS Feed and Remove RSS Feed dialog boxes. (An RSS feed is information published by a website to which you subscribe. RSS feeds generally notify you when new content is posted.) Several default RSS feeds are automatically subscribed to when you install the program.

The CAD Manager Control utility can be used to specify InfoCenter Search and Communication Center settings. You use the CAD Manager Control utility to specify CAD Manager Channel settings. For more information about how to install and run the utility, see How to Install and Start the CAD Manager Control Utility. Click Help in the CAD Manager Control utility window for details about the settings you can control.