Site Information¶

The Site Information page lets you configure many site-level settings for Colectica Portal.

General¶

Site Name: The name of the site, as displayed in the upper left corner of the site
Site Title: The title of the site, as included in the HTML <title> element
Template: The name of the template that defines the page layout.
Theme Name: The name of the visual theme that determines fonts, colors, and other design elements.

Note

More information on templates and theming Colectica Portal will be available in the future.
Allow Commenting: Determines whether to allow users to add comments to items.
Allow Rating: Determines whether to allow users to rate items.
Display EU Cookie Warning: Determines whether the EU cookie warning should be displayed when users first visit the site.
Cookie Warning Text: The text to display in the cookie warning bar. If left blank, the default is “We use cookies to track usage and preferences.”
Allow Data Download: Determines whether custom data extracts can be downloaded.

Welcome Message: Text to be displayed at the top of the home page.
Secondary Welcome Message: Text to be displayed at the top of the home page, in the right column. If present, the Welcome Message (above) is displayed in the left column.
Custom HTML Content: Raw HTML to be displayed on the home page. This content will appear under the welcome message, if a welcome message is set.
Show Search: Determines whether the search box is displayed on the home page.
Types to Search: Determines which types of items to search when searching from the home page. If no item types are set, then all item types are searched.
Item Counts: Determines which types of items will show their item counts with links on the home page.
Item Lists: Determines which types of items will be listed directly on the home page.
Show grouped QuestionItem + QuestionGrid + QuestionBlock count: Determines whether a composite item count consisting of all QuestionItem, QuestionGrid, and QuestionBlock types is displayed on the home page. If enabled, it is recommended that none of the three question types are selected in the Item Counts setting, to avoid redundancy.

Allow searching all types: If turned on, the /search/ page allows users to search for all item types. If turned off, only item-specific search pages are allowed (for example, /search/variables/).
Show Life Stage search facet: Whether the “Life Stages” box should be shown on the search page.
Visible Item Types: Determines which item types are visible in the Item Types facet box. Other item types are available through the More button.
Results Page Size: The number of search results to be displayed per page.

Allow anonymous access: Determines whether users who are not logged in can access the portal
Is registration allowed: Determines whether users who are not administrators can create their own accounts. If turned off, only administrators can create new accounts.
Login page welcome message: Text to be displayed at the top of the registration page.
Login page welcome message: Text to be displayed at the top of the login page.

Footer Text

Text to appear at the bottom of every page.

Help Links

Links to be added to the help menu. Each line describes one link in the following format:

Link One,http://example.org/link1
Link Two,http://example.org/link2

HTML before </body>

Content to appear immediately before the closing body tag. This may include <script> elements.

Message for /explore

A message to be displayed on the /explore/ page when no concept is selected.

Use Line Charts not Bar Charts: For variable statistics, determines which type of chart is displayed.
Sort concordance views in descending order: Determines the order in which concordance tables and charts are displayed. By default, they are displayed in ascending order.

SMTP Host: The host name of the SMTP server to be used to send outgoing email
SMTP Port: The port of the SMTP server to be used to send outgoing email
SMTP User Name: The user name used to access the SMTP server to be used to send outgoing email
SMTP Password: The password used to access the SMTP server to be used to send outgoing email
Reply-to Address: The reply-to address used for outgoing emails
Email Address for Feedback: The email address to which messages from the Feedback form will be directed

Types Allowed in Basket: Determines which types of items are allowed to be added to the basket.

Terms of Use: Text to be displayed on the user registration page. The user must check a box to assent to the terms.
Position Choices: Determines the options available in the Position dropdown on the user registration page.

Header Text: Header text to be included in generated PDFs
Footer Text: Footer text to be included in generated PDFs
Include Cover Page: Determines whether a cover page is included in generated PDFs
Cover Page Image: The location on disk of an image to be included on the cover page of generated PDFs.
Include Table of Contents: Determines whether a table of contents is included in generated PDFs
Page Size: The page size of generated PDFs: either Letter or A4

Types Allowed for Set Creation: Determines which types items for which users can request full set retrieval. This effects the …/ddi-set request and the OAI PMH GetRecords functionality.