You may want to enable the auto-selection of items on drag over on a page on the Pages main tab.

This will auto-select a frame or image box when you hover over while dragging the content from navigator to a page. However, have in mind that if you have already a selection on page, e.g. you selected five frames of an article layout and you want to drop the content on them, this setting will deselect all frames but the on over which you are hovering.

The default value is: disabled

The recommended value is: disabled

To auto-selection of items on drag over (NOT RECOMMENDED)

1.On the Edit menu of the Pages main tab while not editing text, click Preferences.

2.On the Main tab, tick Select items on drag over.

3.Click OK to save the preference.

About saving preferences in database

When you click OK, the preferences are updated in the memory and applied right-on. GN4 will store the preference in the database when you exit application. Anyway, should your GN4 crash or exit in any other abnormal way, the preference will not be stored in database, and you will have to repeat the previously described steps.

This preference is stored in the Editorial_SystemUserConfig for the securityRef corresponding to the user name. To display that configuration, open EdAdmin4, click Client Applications, expand the search pane in the left sidebar, in the Name enter editorial, and in the securityRef select the name of the user. Double-click the Editorial_SystemUserConfig to open the content. Locate the preference by name.