Discoverer 4i Titles

We have the early adopter 4i installed. So far, most of the things that were wrong with 3i seem to be fixed. However, I can not figure out how to Edit Title within 4i. Is this possbile?

Nancy,
I do not have an answer for you on editing
the title, but I have a question for you.
What version of the application are you running. I heard that discover 4i needs 9i
application server, we are going to upgrade to 8i database and 11i apps and with that we will only get 8iAS.Did you run into this situation.
TIA.
Sue

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[2009-12-03T14:41:15.143-06:00] [Discoverer] [NOTIFICATION] [] [upgrade.Discoverer] [tid: 13] [ecid: 0000ILMHVhH1nZLiEPsHsS1B6263000004,0] Unknown preference: Administrator#ShowUserTypeChoice
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