General Preferences

The Configuration -> General dialog gives you access to a group of configuration options:

Property	Description
AuditDirectory	When audit is set on a session Hermes logs all activity to this directory
MessageDirectory	Directory to scan for message files and display under the files node
ThreadPoolSize	The number of threads to handle all the asynchronous tasks such as browsing queues
MaxCachedMessages	The maximum number of messages to cache when browsing
CopyJMSCorrelationID	When copying messages should the JMSCorrelationID be copied.
CopyJMSExpiration	When copying messages should the JMSExpiration be copied.
CopyJMSPriority	When copying messages should the JMSPriority be copied.
CopyJMSReplyTo	When copying messages should the JMSReplyTo be copied.
CopyJMSType	When copying messages should the JMSType be copied.
CopyProviderProperties	When copying messages should provider properties (i.e. those starting with JMSX) be copied.
DisplayAdminFactory	Turn on/off the choice of plugin in the sessions dialog.
AutoBrowseRefreshTimeout	The number of seconds between a browse then auto-refreshing the contents of a queue
UseCorrectDropSemantics	The normal drag gesture in Hermes is to copy messages, setting this to true will make Hermes move messages instead - i.e. copy and then delete.
MessageStoreSelector	This is not configurable
ConsumerTimeoutWhenQueueBrowsing	When using a consumer to browse (see the Sessions dialog) this is the maximum number of seconds to block receiving messages before giving up browsing
QuickFIXMessageCache	The maximum fully parsed FIX messages to keep cached. When dealing with hundreds of thousands of FIX messages memory can be an issue and this LRU cache helps.
QuickFIXFilterSessionMessages	Whether to filter out session level messages when parsing FIX logs
Enable Jython	Enables and disables Jython support
ScrollMessagesDuringBrowse	Whether to scroll to the newest message during browsing
Base64EncodeTextMessages	Base64 encodes text message payloads when written to XML. Useful for if your text messages contain control characters that make the XML parser barf