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IMPORTANT NOTICE

The "System Configuration" provides a method to be able to adjust MANY settings for your installation of the Project Management system.

However, settings should not be changed unless you FULLY understand the changes you are making!

Changes of these settings can render your entire system inoperable. Support for incorrect adjustments of these settings is billed at our present hourly rate.

General Settings

• Host Locale
  This option indicates the localisation or language setting for your site.
  Default: "en"
  
  
• Overallocation Checking
  The over allocation component of dotProject is an incomplete function which has been developed. It is the basis of a system that will allow Project Managers to establish the maximum % of time that a resource can be allocated to a particular task for a particular period of time.
  Default: off
  
  
• Currency Symbol
  While we currently have locale support built in there is still an extra facility for setting Currency Symbol. Localisation of the currency-symbol. For the EURO sign symbol set to '€' Check http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html for information about html special characters.
  Default: "$"
  
  
• Default User Interface Style
  Default User Interface Style - as set in the User Preferences area, however, you will need to type the name of the default in here. If you need a prompt - check the dropdown in the User preferences and repeat that name here.
  Default: "default"
        
• Company Name
  The company name setting is used to stipulate what will appear in the top name of the login box on your site.
  Default: "My Company"
     
• Page Title
  Stipulate what will appear on the top line of the browser - before the browser name.
  Default: "Smooth Projects"
          
• Site Domain
  The domain set here is used to generate an email address if an incomplete address has been entered in the user's record.
  Default: "smoothprojects.com"
  
  
• Email Prefix
  This setting is used to stipulate the subject line prefix for all email that dotProject sends out.
  Default: "[Smooth Projects]"
  
  
• Admin Username
  Nominate the login name of the Administrative User.
  Default: "admin"
  
  
• Minimum Username Length
  Establish the minimum length of any user names for dotProject. This can NOT be longer than the length of the column in DB
  Default: "4"
  
  
• Minimum Password Length
  Establish the minimum length of any password entry in dotProject. This can NOT be longer than the length of the column in DB
  Default: "4"
  
  
• Enable Gantt Charts
  The option to enable or disable Gantt charts allows you to turn on the function or turn off the function, depending upon whether you wish to use Gantt charts on your site.
  Default: on
  
  
• Log Changes
  This option allows you to nominate whether you wish to Log Changes in the history module automatically.
  Default: on
  
  
• Check Task Dates
  If this option is turned on the start and end dates will be required in all tasks before they can be added.
  Default: on
  
  
• Translation Warning
  Display a warning in the User Interface when a translated item is not found.
  Default: off
  
  
• Translation Alert String
  The string appended to untranslated strings or unfound keys if Translation Warning is turned on.
  Default: "^"
  
  
• Daily Working Hours
  This setting establishes the standard number of hours in a working day for your installation, for example 8.0
  Default: "8.0"
  
  
• Show Debug Messages
  Set to true to display debug messages as well as log them. WARNING: Setting to true can cause dotproject to fail on warnings if the debug level is set greater than 1. Normally errors will be displayed so this should only be set to track warnings and debug messages if you do not have access to the PHP log files.
  Default: off
  
  
• Allow Ticket Relinking
  Having this option turned on will allow you to relink tickets to an arbitrary parent in Ticketsmith. Could be useful for email-generated tickets.
  Default: off
  
  
• Show All Task Assignees
  Set this option on if you wish to show all assignee names in the project task task list or off if you would prefer to see just the main assignee name and a count in brackets of the number of other assignees.
  Default: off
  
  
• Edit Multiple Task Assignments
  Turning this option on will allow you to edit task assignments and other options (per task block) in the main Task Module view.
  Default: off
  
  
• Restrict Project Colour Selection
  Used in conjuction with the System Value Look up option "ProjectColors" you can use this setting to control the project colour selection options accessible by all users on this system. If you turn this option on then project creators will only be able to select from the colour options defined in the System Value Lookup outlined above. If you turn this option off then project creators will be able to access the default system presets and the full colour pallette.
  Default: off
  
  
• Calendar Start Hour
  Use this option to indicate the starting hour for your calendar day - integer value from 0 to 23
  Default: "8"
  
  
• Calendar End Hour
  The last hour of the working day - integer value from 0 to 23
  Default: "17"
  
  
• Calendar Minute Increment
  Minute increment setting for the Calendar Time Display
  Default: "15"
  
  
• Calendar Working Days
  Establish the required working days for your company in a comma separated list where 0 is Sunday. For example if you work Monday through to Friday your list would be 1,2,3,4,5. If you work Friday through to Sunday your list would be 5,6,0
  Default: "1,2,3,4,5"
  
  
• Restrict Task Time Editing
  Turned on, this option will restrict the editing of task time settings to the task owner, the project owner or the system administration only.
  Default: off
  
  
• Default Module
  If you want to define your own start/default page set this. If the value is empty then the first listed module becomes the default view.
  Default: "projects"
  
  
• Default Submodule
  If you want to define your own start/default page set this. Specifies a subview like shown in the url of dP.
  Default: ""
  
  
• Default Tabbed Subview
  If you want to define your own start/default page set this. Specifies a tabbed subview. 0=first tab, ...
  Default: "1"
  
  
• Maximum File Size for Indexing
  File Indexing for Searching: Large Files may cause timeout problems during exhausting indexing process. Specify an upper filesize limit for indexing in KiloBytes. Have in mind that files greater than the specified value are not indexed! A negative value defines the absence of a limit (index all files).
  Default: "-1"
  
  
• Debug Level
  Turn this option on to display debug messages as well as log them. WARNING: Setting to true, if the debug level is greater than 1, can cause dotProject to fail on messages that are technically only Warnings and therefore can be ignored. Normally errors will be displayed so this should only be set to track warnings and debug messages if you do not have access to the PHP log files. Anything other than 0 will provide debugging information. Level 1 is probably the most reasonable compromise between normal operation and error tracking information. Set to 10 to get complete debugging information but be aware that this will generate large log files and/or debug listings very very quickly.
  Default: "1"
  
  
• Default File Indexing Parser
  Location for the Default File Indexing Parser, e.g. /usr/bin/strings
  Default: "/usr/bin/strings"
  
  
• MS Word Indexing Parser
  Location for the MS Word File Indexing Parser.
  Default: "/usr/bin/strings"
  
  
• Html File Indexing Parser
  Location for the Html File Indexing Parser, e.g. /usr/bin/strings
  Default: "/usr/bin/strings"
  
  
• PDF Indexing Parser
  Location for the PDF File Indexing Parser, e.g. /usr/bin/pdftotext
  Default: "/usr/bin/pdftotext"
  
  
• Preserve File Settings on CI
  Keep file attributes during Check In. If this is on, you will not be able to change file type, project or task of a file during the check in.
  Default: on
  
  
• Allow Editing of Previous Versions
  Allow or disallow editing of previous versions of files in File Module
  Default: off
  
  
• Show MiniCals in Day View
  Include MiniCalendar Displays in the Day View.
  Default: on
  
  
• Memory Limit for Gantt
  Experiencing Errors with invisible Gantt Charts use this variable to temporarily expand your PHP Memory Limit for Gantt Chart drawing. Values of 64M, 128M etc. are common.
  Default: "128M"
  
  

User Authentication Settings

• User Authentication Method
  Select the User authentication method that you wish to use.
  Default: "Standard dP"
  
  
• Postnuke login also allows Standard Login
  If PostNuke authentication is in effect, setting this also allows standard dotProject logins. If not set all logins must be performed via PostNuke.
  Default: on
  
  

LDAP Settings

• LDAP Host
  The Name or IP address of the LDAP host to authenticate against, when using LDAP Authentication.
  Default: "localhost"
  
  
• LDAP Port
  Port Number to use to connect to LDAP authentication host.
  Default: "387"
  
  
• LDAP Version
  LDAP Version that the LDAP host understands. If unsure, leave at the default of 3.
  Default: "3"
  
  
• LDAP Base DN
  The Base Distinguished Name (DN) to use for LDAP queries.
  Default: "dc=saki,dc=com,dc=au"
  
  
• LDAP User Filter
  User Filter to use for determining matching users on LDAP queries. Check with your site administrator for details.
  Default: "(uid=%USERNAME%)"
  
  
• LDAP Search User
  The full DN of a user who has access to search your users directory
  Default: "Manager"
  
  
• LDAP Search User Password
  Default: "secret"
  
  
• LDAP also allows standard login
  dotProject database based users will also be allowed to login
  Default: on
  
  

Email Settings

• Email Transport
  Select either PHP for standard PHP mail support or SMTP for direct SMTP support
  Default: "PHP Default"
  
  
• SMTP Host
  The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or the IP address of the SMTP host to use for sending email
  Default: "localhost"
  
  
• SMTP Port
  The TCP port to connect to the SMTP host. If in doubt, leave it at the default of 25.
  Default: "25"
  
  
• Host requires login
  Some SMTP hosts require authentication, if yours does you will need to set this and provide a username and password
  Default: off
  
  
• SMTP Username
  The username to use when authenticating to your SMTP server
  Default: ""
  
  
• SMTP Password
  The password to use when authenticating to the SMTP server
  Default: ""
  
  
• Queue Email for later sending
  Check this to queue email for later sending. An entry will be made in the Event Queue. You will need to either set the Scan Event Queue option in Session Handling or create a cron job to call: wget -O- http://your.domain/dotproject/queuescanner.php
  Default: off
  
  
• SMTP Server Timeout
  The number of seconds to wait for a successful connection to the SMTP server
  Default: "30"
  

Session Handling Settings

• Session Handler
  Which session handling to use, should be either 'php' for traditional PHP session management, or 'app' for the dotProject application to manage its own sessions via the database. Session Management: This extends the session handling of PHP to beyond browser-based sessions and stores the session information in the database. This allows for prolonged sessions with lower overheads.
  Default: "dP Extended Sessions"
  
  
• Session Idle Time
  The maximum time a session can have no activity before it is declared dead. Values are in seconds unless followed by a letter: h = hours, d = days, m = months, y = years. You can only have 1 character within a string, so 2d4h is NOT valid, but 28h is.
  Default: "2d"
  
  
• Session Maximum Lifetime
  The maximum time a session can exist before it is trashed, regardless of how active it is.
  Default: "1m"
  
  
• Scan Event Queue on Session Garbage Collection
  If using deferred email or any other event queue, setting this causes the session handler to check the queue when it garbage collects the session. This is an option to using an external program to call the queue scanner.
  Default: off
  

Task Reminders

• Send Task Reminders
  If set, an email will be sent to all assignees when a task is due and every day it is overdue until completed.
  For task reminders to work a server cron must be installed by Smooth Projects support as well as this setting adjusted to an "on" status.
  Task reminders are triggered based on the task end date.
  Default: off
  
  
• Number of days warning for due tasks
  Setting this will determine how many days before a task is due the first reminder is set.
  Default: "1"
  
  
• Maximum number of reminders to send
  If a task is overdue for a large number of days, it may not be worth sending any more reminders. This value determines the total number of reminders that will be sent, including pre-due date warnings and overdue alerts.
  Default: "100"
  
  

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