The config settings located in the Admin area of GreenOrbit. This is where the administrator of your site has the ability to modify the configuration and behavior of certain elements of your intranet.
Below we have collated some of the most commonly used settings, that can be used to personalize and configure the way elements are displayed within GreenOrbit.
Accessing Config Settings
- To make changes to the Config Settings, first location the "Config Settings" option, under 'Utilities' in the GreenOrbit Admin area, under the left hand "Application Explorer" menu. The Config Settings screen will be displayed:
- Then, to locate a specific Config Setting, use the "Filter" box to start typing the name of the setting. For example to find "System Name" you can start typing this into the Filter box until the "System Name" setting is displayed:
- Click "Edit" next to the Config Setting that you wish to change. Enter the new value and then click "Update".
Config Settings
The list below outlines available Config Settings that can be changed to alter the behavior of elements with the GreenOrbit software. Any Config Settings other than those listed below should not be changed without first confirming with the GreenOrbit Support Team by emailing support@greenorbit.com
Admin User Accounts
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| Strong Passwords Enable | To increase the security protection of Admin user accounts, you can set this to "True" in order to force all Admin User Accounts to require a strong password. | "True" or "False" |
Company Details
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| System Name | The name given to your Intranet that is displayed in the browser tab as well as some internal messaging. At the time of installation the System Name is taken from the Installation form you completed. | Free text entry |
Admin System Name | This is the name given to the Admin area of your Intranet. By default this is the System Name, see above, with "Administration" appended. | Free text entry |
| Webmaster Email | This the email address that is used as the Sender for all internally generated notification emails sent by GreenOrbit. | Valid email address |
Data Grid
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| Data Grid Items Shown Per Page | The default number of items shown in a data grid before it's separated into pages that a user can navigate through. Users will also be able to change the number of items shown on a page each time they view a data grid. | Minimum of 10 Maximum of 100 |
| Data Grid Filtering | "True" or "False" |
Email (On premise only)
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| Mail Server | The fully qualified name of the mail server for the GreenOrbit software to send mail through. | Free text entry |
| Mail Server port | Port used to connect to the mail server. Default will be "25". | 25, 465, 587 |
| Mail Server Type | Mail Server type. Default will be "SMTP" | SMTP or TLS (SSL) |
| SMTP Password | Password for the account that is used to send mail | Free text entry |
| SMTP Username | Username for the account that is used to send mail | Free text entry |
Front End Customization
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| Display Footer | By default the GreenOrbit footer will be shown at the bottom of every page in the intranet. If set to "False", this footer will be hidden. | "True" or "False" |
| Display User Summary Popup | When a website user's name is shown within the front end interface, clicking on the name will display a popup with a summary of their details. The summary will include a link to the user’s profile, their key contact details and the ability to follow or unfollow. Setting this to "False" will disable this setting meaning that no summary popup is shown and clicking on the name will initiate an email to that user. | "True" or "False" |
| Link security Login Required | Setting this to "True" will enable this setting, resulting in hyperlinks to content that the current user does not have access to will be hidden from them. Note: this setting only affects the Navigation and Quicklinks applications and only hyperliks to content that is internal to GreenOrbit. | "True" or "False" |
| Max width and height of thumbnail | Free text entry |
Front End Security
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| Content Security Policy | Content Security Policy (CSP) allows you to reduce the risk of XSS attacks by allowing you here to define where resources can be loaded from, preventing browsers from loading data from any other locations. This makes it harder for an attacker to inject malicious code to your site. | Free text entry |
| Display Frontend Forgot Password Link | If set to "True" the "Forgot Your Password" link is shown to frontend users on the Login page. | "True" or "False" |
| Forms Login Default Domain | This domain is used if the user login initially fails on the forms based security. Note: This setting requires the "Front End security type" to be "Active Directory". | Free text entry |
| Frontend Security Single Sign-in | If set to "True" a user account can only be logged in once at any given time. If set to "False" users will be allowed to login using the same account multiple times simultaneously. | "True" or "False" |
| Front End security Type | Determines the type of authentication being used. The "Login" option is the default option which will use the built in authentication of GreenOrbit. At the time of installation the correct method would have been set based on your authentication requirements at the time. Note: "Active Directory" is only available to installation that are on-premise. | "Login", "Active Directory", "Login Using SAML". |
| iFrame Sandbox Value | Sets value for iFrame sandbox parameter in html and webpage frame component to set which type of script is allowed to execute | Free text entry Multiple values can be separated with a space |
Front End User Accounts
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| Enable FE TC | When set to "True" users will be presented with an option to accept Terms and Conditions prior to gaining access to the Intranet. | "True" or False"" |
| FE Strong Password Enable | If set to "True" it forces the Frontend User password to be a complex password. | "True" or "False" |
| FE Strong Password PW Never Expires | When set to "True" the Frontend password for website user accounts will not expire. | "True" or "False" |
| FE Strong Password Expiry Days | Number of days after which the Frontend Password expires, as long as the above setting is "False". | Free text entry |
| FE Strong Password Expiry Prompt Days | Number of days after which the user will be promoted to change their password prior to it expiring. | Free text entry |
| Username Generation Method | Determines how a username for a new website user account will be auto-generated. Using the name or email address of the user. | "Name" or "Email Address" |
Generic Components
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| Notification Email (Include My Hub Section) | Setting this to "True" will include a section at the top of any notification emails sent, that highlights new activity within My Hub (i.e unread posts from Channels, Private Groups and Activity Feed). Setting this to "False", will hide this section in notification emails. | "True" or "False" |
| Notification Email Format | Type of email notification format. | "HTML" or "Plain" |
| Notification Email Summary History | The number of minutes the RSS feed will reference any notifications. | Free text entry |
Licensing
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| License User Limit Warning Threshold | Determines at what fill capacity will a session pool warning be triggered. | Numerical percentage between 0 and 100 |
| License User Limit Warning Email Enabled | If Enabled it determines if an email warning will be sent is the License User limit warning threshold is reached. | "True" or "False" |
Location
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| Default Country Code | Free text entry | |
| Default Language Code | Free text entry | |
| Time Zone Default | The value selected is the default time zone for the intranet. Any subsites set to use the 'Time Zone Default' option will inherit this default. | Select from the dropdown "Time Zones". |
Owners
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| Maximum Owner Limit | Maximum number of owners that can be set on content. If this value is not specified, or less than 1, then no limit is applied. | Numerical value |
Subsite
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| Default Theme Path | The default theme for all subsites. If no theme is selected, sites will default to this theme. The Theme name must match exactly. | Free text entry |
| Logo Links Home | If set to "True" then clicking on the logo within the "Site Header" component will link back to the homepage of the Home subsite (/home). If set to "False" then clicking on the logo will take the user to the homepage of the subsite they are current within (ie. /subsitename). | "True" or "False" |
| Use Different Style for Each Site | If this is set to "False", same style is used across all the subsites. | "True" or "False" |
Version Control
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| Enable Versions of Files to be Deleted | If set to "True" this enables versions of files to be deleted based on the additional parameters below. | "True" or "False" |
| Age of a Version Before it is Deleted | The age of a version in days before it is deleted. | Numerical value |
| Days Deleted Before Permanent Delete Occurs | The number of days that a deleted file remains in the system before permanent delete occurs. | Numerical value |
| Minimum Number of Version to Keep | The minimum number of versions of a file that are to be kept in the system. | Numerical value |
| Number of Original Versions to be Kept in the System | Number of original versions to be kept in the system. | Free text entry |
Workflow
| Setting Name | Description | Possible Values |
| Approvers Includes Website User group Members | When set to "True", the {Approvers} option in Workflow emails includes users that belong to user groups that have been given "Editor" or "Full Control" security. If "False", only individual users that have been granted one of these security groups will be included as {Approvers} for the purposes of Workflow. | "True" or "False" |
| Auto Save Time Seconds | Number of seconds between autosaves of Workflows | Numerical value |
| Autosave Max Days | Number of days autosaved workflows are stored for. | Numerical value |