Enterprise Toolkit | Macintosh Plist Reference

10_11_2022 (October 2022 updates )

New and changed preferences for this release.


This preference category contains the following subfeature(s):

Onboarding Dialogs

The July 2022 release initiated a phased rollout of a new, modern user interace for Acrobat and Reader. Users can switch between the old and new UI by choosing View > Enable|Disable New Acrobat (Mac) or Hamburger menu > Enable|Disable New Acrobat (Windows). Preferences for onboarding coachmark control reside in both FTEDialog and AVGeneral.

The first time a user sees the new UI, an onboarding coachmark appears with an offer to start a tour. Admins may disable the onboarding UI.

New menu item on the old viewer

Modern viewer UI menu item

Mac configuration: Mac plist structure should appear as follows:

Summary table
CreateFormDiscoveryShown Specifies whether to show the onboarding coachmark when the user invokes the Create Form panel.
EditDiscoveryShown Specifies whether to show the onboarding coachmark when the user invokes the Edit panel.
FillSignDiscoveryShown Specifies whether to show the onboarding coachmark when the user invokes the Fill & Sign panel.
OrganizeDiscoveryShown Specifies whether to show the onboarding coachmark when the user invokes the Organize panel.
RedactDiscoveryShown Specifies whether to show the onboarding coachmark when the user invokes the Redaction panel.
ShownHomeOnboarding Specifies whether to invoke the home onboarding tour when the modern viewer is invoked the first time.
ShownViewerOnboarding Specifies whether to invoke the new viewer onboarding tour when a PDF opens in the modern viewer the first time.
Supported on WindowsSupported on MacSupported by AcrobatSupported by Adobe Reader
Data type 0 (bool)
Default 0
Version # July 2022, Continuous track
User Path FTEDialog
Lock Path Not lockable
Summary Specifies whether to invoke the new viewer onboarding tour when a PDF opens in the modern viewer the first time.
Details Once the viewer onboarding tour displays, the app automatically resets this value to 0. This preference has no effect if AVGeneral/bEnableAv2 is 0. Note: These values are transposed with the July 2022 release (0 = don't show the modern viewer), and the default is now "enabled".
  • 0: Show the onboarding tour.
  • 1: Don't show the onboarding tour.
GUI mapping N/A
Supported on WindowsSupported on MacSupported by AcrobatSupported by Adobe Reader
Data type 0 (bool)
Default 0
Version # July 2022, Continuous track
User Path FTEDialog
Lock Path Not lockable
Summary Specifies whether to invoke the home onboarding tour when the modern viewer is invoked the first time.
Details Once the home onboarding tour displays, the app automatically resets this value to 0. This preference has no effect if AVGeneral/bEnableAv2 is 0. Note: These values are transposed with the July 2022 release (0 = don't show the modern viewer), and the default is now "enabled".
  • 0: Show the onboarding tour.
  • 1: Don't show the onboarding tour.
GUI mapping N/A
Supported on WindowsSupported on MacSupported by AcrobatSupported by Adobe Reader
Data type 0 (bool)
Default 0
Version # Oct 11 2022 Continuous track
User Path \AVGeneral\cAV2ToolDiscoveryWalkthrough\Item 1
Lock Path Not lockable
Summary Specifies whether to show the onboarding coachmark when the user invokes the Edit panel.
Details Possible values include:
  • 0: Show the onboarding coachmark.
  • 1: Don't show the onboarding coachmark.
GUI mapping N/A
Supported on WindowsSupported on MacSupported by AcrobatSupported by Adobe Reader
Data type 0 (bool)
Default 0
Version # Oct 11 2022 Continuous track
User Path \AVGeneral\cAV2ToolDiscoveryWalkthrough\Item 1
Lock Path Not lockable
Summary Specifies whether to show the onboarding coachmark when the user invokes the Fill & Sign panel.
Details Possible values include:
  • 0: Show the onboarding coachmark.
  • 1: Don't show the onboarding coachmark.
GUI mapping N/A
Supported on WindowsSupported on MacSupported by AcrobatSupported by Adobe Reader
Data type 0 (bool)
Default 0
Version # Oct 11 2022 Continuous track
User Path \AVGeneral\cAV2ToolDiscoveryWalkthrough\Item 1
Lock Path Not lockable
Summary Specifies whether to show the onboarding coachmark when the user invokes the Organize panel.
Details Possible values include:
  • 0: Show the onboarding coachmark.
  • 1: Don't show the onboarding coachmark.
GUI mapping N/A
Supported on WindowsSupported on MacSupported by AcrobatSupported by Adobe Reader
Data type 0 (bool)
Default 0
Version # Oct 11 2022 Continuous track
User Path \AVGeneral\cAV2ToolDiscoveryWalkthrough\Item 1
Lock Path Not lockable
Summary Specifies whether to show the onboarding coachmark when the user invokes the Redaction panel.
Details Possible values include:
  • 0: Show the onboarding coachmark.
  • 1: Don't show the onboarding coachmark.
GUI mapping N/A
Supported on WindowsSupported on MacSupported by AcrobatSupported by Adobe Reader
Data type 0 (bool)
Default 0
Version # Oct 11 2022 Continuous track
User Path \AVGeneral\cAV2ToolDiscoveryWalkthrough\Item 1
Lock Path Not lockable
Summary Specifies whether to show the onboarding coachmark when the user invokes the Create Form panel.
Details Possible values include:
  • 0: Show the onboarding coachmark.
  • 1: Don't show the onboarding coachmark.
GUI mapping N/A

UI Switcher

These preferences control whether the app shows a coachmark that allows the user to easily switch from the new, modern UI to the legacy, classic UI. Both preferences must be set together to toggle the UI switcher coachmark.

Mac configuration: Mac plist structure should appear as follows:

Summary table
NumSessionAV2 Specifies whether to show the the UI switcher coachmark based on the number of user sessions.
NumSwitcherContextualToolTipAV2Shown Specifies whether to show the the UI switcher coachmark.
Supported on WindowsSupported on MacSupported by AcrobatSupported by Adobe Reader
Data type 0 (bool)
Default 0
Version # Oct 11 2022 Continuous track
User Path AVGeneral\NumSwitcherContextualToolTipAV2Shown\Item 1
Lock Path Not lockable
Summary Specifies whether to show the the UI switcher coachmark.
Details Interacts with iNumSessionAV2. Possible values include:
  • 0: Show the UI switcher if iNumSessionAV2 is greater than or equal to 2.
  • 1: Don't show the UI switcher.
GUI mapping N/A
Supported on WindowsSupported on MacSupported by AcrobatSupported by Adobe Reader
Data type 1 (int)
Default 0
Version # Oct 11 2022 Continuous track
User Path AVGeneral\NumSessionAV2\Item 1
Lock Path Not lockable
Summary Specifies whether to show the the UI switcher coachmark based on the number of user sessions.
Details Interacts with iNumSwitcherContextualToolTipAV2Shown. Possible values include:
  • 0 or 1: Don't the UI switcher.
  • 2 or greater: Show the UI switcher if iNumSwitcherContextualToolTipAV2Shown is 0.
GUI mapping N/A