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Overview

Configurations are declarations that determine the interactive behavior and certain other properties of items. Using configurations you can:

Customize how items respond to mouse clicks and to drag-and-drop mouse operations.
Assign custom keystrokes to G2 commands and operations.
Customize which choices appear on the menus of items.
Customize which attributes appear in the tables of items, as well as which choices appear on the menus of those tables.
Prohibit and allow access to items, and to the entire KB, by other G2 processes, by G2 Gateway bridge processes, and by Telewindows processes.
Enable or disable compilation properties, and other miscellaneous properties, of items.
Add comments to items.

For instance, you can use configurations to restrict how any item of a particular class responds to being selected, or to restrict access to the proprietary knowledge within your KB.

Most importantly, you use configurations to associate specialized behaviors with different categories of users, namely, end users, developers, and administrators.

Note: The current KB's configurations are in effect at all times, regardless of whether it is running, paused, or reset.

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