Parameters (All Tabs)

Description

Displays name of the application: CranSoft.

Displays the logical application instance (e.g., Dev, QA, Production) that this physical instance of the application represents.

Displays URL of the home directory. If the field is not populated, any workflow emails sent that contain links will fail.

Displays outgoing email server name that the Platform uses to send email (e.g., workflow notifications).

Displays email address used when sending a test email (i.e., clicking Test Email button). This email address is also used when the From field on a workflow is not specified AND the current user does not have an email address defined.

Displays the default style that is applied to the site for users that do not have a style specified.

Displays the default language that is applied to the site for users that do not have a language specified.

Click to send a test email to the current user.

Displays the number of days prior to license expiration that the user receives a notification of the expiration date.

Click to clear various data caches maintained by the Platform from the time of its last startup. These caches exist to aid performance, but can become “stale” due to errors or database operations that can cause issues, such as newly created views not showing up in page design lists or new WebApps not showing up on the Site menu. These issues are often stale cache problems that can be fixed by using the Clear Cache button, which avoids the need to restart the Platform or obtain additional assistance.  

Description

Displays number of days before user account passwords expire. Enter 0 for the password to never expire. Default value is 30 days.

If enabled, anonymous users can access the Platform. When an anonymous user first enters the Platform, instead of a login page, the user is automatically logged in as an anonymous user. A user is anonymous when the Anonymous checkbox is enabled for the user (Security > Users).

If enabled, only Platform user IDs are used to log into the Platform. No reference to corporate system user IDs is used.

If enabled, corporate system user IDs are permitted by the Platform. For example, after a user has successfully been authenticated by the corporate system and logged into a computer, the Platform can be started without an additional login. This requires: 1) IIS Enable Anonymous Access is disabled, 2) IIS Integrated Windows Authentication is enabled, and 3) Platform User ID includes the user’s corporate ID (as entered in the Windows User Name field on the Userspage's Vertical View). The Platform uses the corporate ID and cross-references it with the local Platform ID.

Displays variable used to authenticate the user by User ID. Support Integrated Authentication must be enabled.

If enabled, the CustomAuthentication.dll is used to authenticate the user. This library is not shipped by BackOffice and allows the client to define any authentication routine they choose.

Displays SSL URL to which the Platform directs the user when Force Secure Connection is enabled.

If enabled, the site automatically redirects to the HTTPS protocol, securing the transmission of data between the client and the web server. This selection requires that an SSL certificate is installed on the web server.

Displays masked password used to secure the connection between two Platform instances when exporting a CTS package.

Displays number of login attempts before the user ID is locked and is therefore unable to log in to the DSP®.

Displays number of minutes to wait before user can re-try to login after password lockout is activated. Default value is 300 minutes.

Displays the number of days a user account will remain active if the user has not authenticated, i.e., logged in. Once the period has passed, the user account is set to inactive. The user cannot log in until the account is unlocked by an Administrator. For example, the Disable Inactive User Period is set to 10. The user TJones is added in the platform, but does not log in for 10 days. The user account for TJones is set as inactive.

Displays minimum password length accepted for new or changed passwords. Zero allows any password length. Default value is 0.

If enabled, users' passwords to log in to the DSP® require an alpha character.

If enabled, users' passwords to log in to the DSP® require a numeric value.

If enabled, users' passwords to log in to the DSP® require a special character.

Displays the number of user passwords retained. During the password rename process, the Platform compares history names – no duplicates are allowed.  Zero retains no passwords except current one. Default value is 0.

If enabled, the current user’s ID does not display in various places where it would normally display (for example on the Electronic Signature page or when the use hovers over the Gear icon on the Toolbar).

Description

If enabled, the Platform does not fail events due to SMTP errors that occur when sending workflows. Errors can be viewed in the logs.

Displays number of days that records in the User Workflow Log are retained. Default value is 2 days.

Displays number of days a workflow link is active for the receiver of the email. Default value is 14 days.

Displays the maximum file size (in bytes) allowed for email attachments. Default value is 5000000 bytes.

Description

Displays the number of minutes with no activity from the logged in user before the session times out. Once the minutes have passed, the session ends and the user is logged out. For example, the Session Timeout is set to 5 minutes. A user navigates in the DSP for 2 hours then stops using the keyboard and mouse. After 5 minutes, the user is logged out. Recommended default is 20 minutes.

NOTE: When a user re-authenticates, i.e., logs back in, the page the user was on when the session timed out displays, if that page is available.

Displays number of seconds before request times out. This field represents the time for a web page to render the results after a request. Recommended default is 30 seconds.

Displays time (in seconds) that a page is locked when full page edit mode is invoked. When a user edits a record, a lock icon displays to all other users, preventing them from modifying records on the page. The recommended default is 1200 seconds.

Displays time (in seconds) that a record is locked when being edited. When a user edits a record, a lock icon displays to all other users, preventing them from modifying the record. Default value is 90 seconds.

Description

Displays number of records per page before additional pages are added. Default value is 16 pages.

Feature is deprecated.

Displays number of characters to include in the range portion of the page selection menu. Enter 0 to use the entire field. Recommended value is 3.

Displays the number of days in which trace logs are retained. After the retention days are reached, the trace logs are deleted from the Platform. Default value is 5 days.

Displays the number of milliseconds of processing time allocated, per-second, for each Quick Panel Resource. This can be used in conjunction with the Quick Panel Performance Monitor to balance server performance versus Quick Panel count refresh frequency.

NOTE: This field is not relevant to Bulk Execution or Excel Integration.

Displays the number of records which a user can Bulk Execute against on any page. If this value is exceeded, a message will be displayed to indicate the result set needs to be filtered to reduce the number of records visible before a Bulk Execution can be performed. This is to reduce load on the server when under load while remaining highly responsive while not under heavy usage. Note: Serialized events will always run in 1 thread.

NOTE: This is the number of concurrent threads that can process Bulk Execution logic. Each invocation of Bulk Execution will use half of the remaining threads with a minimum of 1.

Displays the number of multi-threads available for the use of Bulk Execution. When performing a Bulk Execution, if asynchronicity is supported, half of the available threads will be allocated for the job. Meaning, if the limit is 32, the first Bulk Execution will be given 16 threads. If another Bulk Execution is invoked during this, it will be allocated 8, and so on. There will always be at least 1 thread granted to ensure the job is processed.

This logarithmic trend is to ensure the Server processes as quickly as possible during low usage and can distribute load when under heavy usage.

Displays the maximum number of records that can be inserted per worksheet upload. This may be useful when page designers know that either the OnValidate event is very resource intensive or the data set can be very dense.

Auto Refresh

Displays minimum or starting refresh rate in seconds. Default value is 999 seconds.

Displays maximum or ending refresh rate in seconds. Default value is 30 seconds.

Displays number of seconds to increment the refresh rate until the Auto Refresh Max is reached. Default value is 5 seconds.

Description

Displays number of records available in a web view before the filter option is activated.  Recommended value is 1000.

Displays number of records allowed in a download before the filter option is activated.  Recommended value is 10000.

Displays number of records displayed in a report before the filter option is activated.  Recommended value is 1000.

Displays upper limit on the number of records that can be displayed in a list box. If this limit is reached, the list box reports an error and fails to populate. The Designer should change the column to use a combo box instead of a list box. 

This feature is obsolete. Refer to List Record Limit. 

Displays wildcard character used when performing text-based searches. Default value is *.

Displays number of words to index out of each column during search indexing. Default value is 64.

Description

Displays custom catalog name used throughout the DSP® for all translations. In typical page translation, this is the lowest priority catalog. In Platform translations, this is the highest priority catalog.

If enabled, the Language field is available on the Settings page, providing users with the option of selecting the language that is used for their session.

If enabled, the Locale field is available on the Settings page, providing users with the option of selecting the local that is used for their session.

Description

Displays Platform user ID that the service uses to log into the Platform.

Displays number of records on which the service page operates. If this record count is exceeded, the service page is not executed and an error is logged.

Displays the default queue to be used in background events.

Displays the default queue to be used by service pages.

Description

Displays filter applied in the table combo box when selecting a table. Default value is * indicating there is no filter for a table name.

Displays filter used to reduce the number of elements shown in Horizontal View combo boxes.  Default value is web*Hor, where the view name begins with “Web” and ends with “Hor.”  

Horizontal Views must be named in the database following this naming convention or they do not display as options in combo boxes in the DSP®.

Displays filter used to reduce the number of elements shown in Vertical View combo boxes. Default value is web*Ver, where the view name begins with “Web” and ends with “Ver.”

Vertical Views must be named in the database following this naming convention or they do not display as options in combo boxes in the DSP®.

Displays filter used to select views shown in report page views. The default registered value is usr*, where the view name begins with “user” and the remaining text may be any character.

Report views must be named following this naming convention or they do not display in the DSP®.

Displays filter used to select views shown in chart page views. The default registered value is web*Chart.

Chart views must be named following this naming convention or they cannot be selected when adding a chart in the DSP®.

Refer to Add a Chart for more information.

Displays filter used to reduce the number of elements shown in Value fields or the Descriptive fields when building a list box with Column Properties.  Default value is web*List, where the view name begins with “Web” and ends with “List.”

Refer to Add List Boxes and Combo Boxes for more information.

Displays the filter used to reduce the number of elements shown in search combo box. The default registered value is web*Search, where the view name begins with "Web" and ends with "Search".

Displays filter used to help identify procedures.  Default value is web*, where the filter name begins with “web" and the remaining text may be any character. Due to the complexity in naming a procedure, only the prefix is defined.

Displays filter used to reduce the number of elements shown in Validation combo boxes. Default value is web*Val, where the view name begins with “Web” and ends with “Val.”

Refer to Register a Validation Rule for more information.

Displays filter used to reduce the number of elements shown in workflow combo boxes. Default value is web*Flow, where the view name begins with “Web” and ends with “Flow.”

Refer to Register Workflow Views for more information.

Displays filter used to select views applicable to event parameters. Default value is web*Evt, where the filter begins with "web" and ends with "Evt."

Displays filter used to define the naming convention for Default Views, and is used to populate the Default View list box on the Pages page. Default value is web*Def, where the filter begins with "web" and ends with "Def."

Displays filter used to reduce the number of elements shown in search combo boxes. Default value is web*Search, where the view name begins with “Web” and ends with “Search.”

Displays filter to search registered table names. Default value is *#Search, where * is a wildcard prefix. For each search initiated, the table selected becomes the prefix, e.g., Employee table search = Employee#search. During user selection, table is populated with records and indexed.

Displays filter used to select views for service pages. Default value is web*Ser, where the filter begins with "web" and ends with "Ser."

Displays filter used to define the naming convention for Hover Views, and is used to populate the HoverView list box on the Pages page. Default value is web*Hov, where the filter begins with "web" and ends with "Hor."

Displays filter used to define the naming convention for User Control Views, and is used to populate the User Control View list box on the Pages page in System Administration (on the Vertical View > Control Views tab, where the Page Type is "Dynamic"). Default value is web*Ucv, where the filter begins with "web" and ends with "Ucv." 

Refer to User Control Views for more information.

Displays filter used to define the naming convention for Page Control Views, and is used to populate the Page Control View list box on the Pages page  in System Administration (on the Vertical View > Control Views tab, where the Page Type is "Dynamic"). Default value is web*Pcv, where the filter begins with "web" and ends with "Pcv."

Refer to Page Control Views for more information.

Displays filter used to define the naming convention for Data Control Views, and is used to populate the Data Control View list box on the Pages page  in System Administration (on the Vertical View > Control Views tab, where the Page Type is "Dynamic"). Default value is web*Dcv, where the filter begins with "web" and ends with "Dcv."

Refer to Data Control Views for more information.

Displays filter used when selecting page parameter views. Default value is web*PV, where the filter begins with "web" and ends with "PV."

Displays filter used when using the tooltip feature.

Refer to Add a Tooltip for more information.

NOTE: This field is hard coded to limit the number of characters displayed to 32.

Displays filter used when using the watermark feature.

Refer to Add a Watermark for more information.

Field is deprecated.

Description

Displays the number of hours to display on the hourly reports in System Administration.

Displays the number of daysto display on the daily reports in System Administration.

Description

Click to turn on logging of all events. The logs are created daily as .CSV files.

Click to stop logging all events in the DSP.

Displays the data source where logs are written.

NOTE: Though this data source's path can be local on the web server or on a network, it is highly recommended that the logs be stored on a remote server.

Click to open the Enable Logging By Page page to enable or disable logging for specific pages.