Working with Overrides

Overrides allow you to customize/personalize connections without actually modifying the connection in a document. This can be very useful if you want to use alternative credentials, gateway/proxy settings or just your personal flavor of color configuration on shared connections. Overrides are stored in the application document along with the default settings (%appdata%\code4ward), which means that you can have different overrides in different environments (e.g. work PC and personal laptop). Overrides are not affecting the document where the actual connection resides, they are applied "on the fly" without changing the document. Use cases and scenarios for overrides:

  • Personalization of connection properties
  • Working with a different set of credentials, depending on the environment
  • Applying secure gateway or proxy configuration, depending on the environment

Example: Overriding font, font size and colors in a Terminal connection (based on Rebex)

The following example walks you through the steps necessary to override several settings on Terminal connections which are based on the Rebex plugin. Overrides can be applied to any connection, overriding any setting.

Configure the Override settings

  1. In the Navigation panel, select Terminal in the Default Settings folder in the Application document.
  2. Click the Edit Overrides drop down button.
Tip

In case only one plugin is available for the selected connection type, the Overrides dialog will appear immediately. If multiple plugins are available for the selected connection type, a drop down menu appears with a list of available plugins.

  1. Click on Terminal (based on Rebex) in the drop down menu.
  2. Click on Display Options.
  3. Click the Override drop down menu in the upper right corner.
  4. Click on Font and Font Size, so that a check mark appears.
Tip

Checking/unchecking items in the Override drop down menu will enable/disable the corresponding controls in the Overrides dialog. Enabled (checked) items will be overridden with the configured values when overrides are applied.

  1. Change the Font and Font Size.
  2. Click on Colors.
  3. Click the Override drop down menu in the upper right corner.
  4. Click/check the Black and White items.
  5. Change the Black and White color configuration.
  6. To save the Override settings, click OK.

Choose how and when Overrides are applied

By default, overrides are only applied when holding the Alt key while you are connecting. This behavior can be changed in View -> Options -> Behaviors -> Modifiers.

Connect using the Override

  1. In the Navigation panel, select a Terminal connection which is configured to use the Rebex based plugin.
  2. Hold down the Alt key (default behavior).
  3. Click on Connect.
  4. The connection is established with the configured overrides in place.