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Administering the client at a basic level is all done through the configuration xml file. The configuration allow multiple clients with different components depending on the userbase user base of the client.
Layouts
The client is made up of three main parts, the toolbar, statusbar and the main content area. The toolbar is located at the top and the statusbar at the bottom. The administrator is free to move actions and components around the interface in order to customise the environment. The main content area is known as a perspective area, views can be added to a border layout within this area.
A border layout defines 5 regions that act as containers on the screen for views. The five areas are North (top), South (bottom), West (left), East (right) and Center (middle). Center is the only container that will dynamically resize all borders to fit within the area, all other regions only resize in one direction. For example, East and West Regions will resize their height depending on the size of the Appplication Window. North and South regions have fixed heights and will only resize their width depending on the size of the Appplication Window. This does not mean that the user does not have the ability to resize the views if allowed by the administrator, just that the initial size of the non-center panels is pre-determined.
Main Views can be added to a particular region. For example you might want the TOC and Search Views to be added to the West region. When multiple views are added to a region then they are added as tabs given users the ability to move between the Views. An alternative options allows the administrator to configure the region to use an accordion type layout rather than a tab based one.
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