General settings of officeGATE allow to set general officeGATE functions such as displaying tooltips, switching between tree view and list view on middle mouse click, drag&drop settings, etc. These default settings can be changed in officeGATE settings ⇒ General settings.
Click on the mark in the officeGATE pane and choose Settings…. The officeGATE settings dialog will open. Here switch to the General settings tab. The following functions can be configured here:
Show officeGATE panel on startup: If this option is selected, the officeGATE pane will be displayed automatically when opening your Outlook. Otherwise, the officeGATE panel will be hidden and you need to click on the officeGATE button () to show it. (For more information see the section Launching officeGATE.)
Show officeGATE in mail compose and read window: If this option is selected, the officeGATE pane will be displayed automatically in any newly opened email message and in the read window. The Show panel / Hide panel () button will be present.
Show treeview tooltips: This feature enables to see the full path, where a certain document is stored. The path becomes visible if you go with your cursor on the selected folder in the pane.
By default Drag&Drop copies to an email message only the link to the selected document. Holding the CTRL key copies the documents themselves, if this (4th) option on the General settings page is turned on. Unchecking makes the function work the opposite way.
In General settings you can also enable the middle mouse click, which allows you to switch between tree view and list view by clicking the middle mouse button. For more information about these views check section View selection: The tree view, List view, Collapse all.
If the “Close previously opened folders when opening a new folder in tree view” option is checked, the already opened folders will be immediately closed, when the next folder is opened in the tree view. By default, this option is turned off.
Show the item count in the list view: If this option is checked, officeGATE will display the number of items at the bottom of the pane. It is possible to specify the Number of items to load at a time.
Theme – the light and dark mode is supported in officeGATE, which provides a white or black background for the application. The light/dark mode is enabled by default when you select the “Light” or “Dark” options from the dropdown menu and click on the OK button.
Language settings are also available in section General settings. The user has the choice to select the language of the application here. It is possible to select – for example – English, German, Norwegian, or Chinese (simplified) language from the dropdown list.
There is also an option to take Outlook language by selecting Auto detect from the dropdown menu. In this case, if the user changes the language of Outlook, officeGATE will automatically switch to that language. If such language is not present in officeGATE, then it falls back to English.
Note: Language selection is also available by installing officeGATE.
mark in the officeGATE pane and choose Settings…. The officeGATE settings dialog will open. Here switch to the General settings tab. The following functions can be configured here:
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