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Brushtail Administrator's Guide

Intranet preferences

Introduction



Click on the link "Administration".





Click on "Intranet Preferences".



Preferences



You will then get a Intranet Preferences page that allows you to change certain parameters.




Banner text
This value will display on the page header of the intranet.

Style sheet
You can choose from a list of style sheets change display colours of the intranet.

Navigation menu location
You can choose to display the main navigation menu on the left sidebar, right sidebar or across the top.

Enable main menu flyouts
If the main menu hast nested modules, this will allow menu to flyout in reponse to mouse hover. Will not work in browsers with poor css support.

Top banner
You can elect to use a customised page banner for the intranet. You will need to edit includes/custombanner.php.

Search banner
You can elect to hide the intranet search box.

Content management banner
You can elect to hide the content mangement links ( "intranet administration" and "content management").

Logout URL
You can specify a url that the user is sent to upon logout.






Maximum display width for photographs (jpeg). If php has gd support enabled, jpeg images can be resized on the fly to prevent users uploading oversized pictures.

Maximum size for document uploads
The administrator can set a maximum file size in megabytes for files uploaded by intranet users. This also may be limited by the PHP parameters. By default PHP has a 2MB limit. Mysql can also limit the maximum file size of file uploads. For more info refer to installation notes.

Maximum size for image uploads
Same as above but applies to images.

Document directory uploads path
Absolute (full) directory path which is used to upload images and documents. Webserver needs write permissions to this directory.

Maximum age for user passwords
If a user account has been set to "Password never expires" = no, then the the password will expire after it reaches maximum age. The user will be asked to chanage password at next login.

Minimum password length
This is enforced on password changes.

Enforce password complexity
This is enforced on new passwords and password changes.
Complex passwords must contain 3 of the following: lowercase letter a-z, upper case letter A-Z, numeral 0-9, special character #$%^.

Guest user account enabled
If this is enabled visitors can access pages can access pages of the intranet with the privileges of the guest user without logging in.

Organisation name
This will appear on booking receipts.







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