Application preferences

Other administrative forms > Application preferences

This form allows the administrator to apply important settings to the current application, which will control some of the features used by users.

The settings are:

  • Name. This is the name of your application, which appears at the login screen and at the top of the menu.

  • Description. You may enter a brief description of what your application is about, especially useful for when you own more than one application.

  • Default language. Read-only. This is the primary language of the application, usually the native language of most of the users.

    The English and Swedish languages are available by default in the IS Tools platform for general system items (labels, form buttons, pop-up messages, etc.); however, translation to other languages must be done through the Multilingual translation system by the server administrator.

    In a new application, the initial default language is English (which is the server’s default), until a different one is selected in this setting.

  • Permitted languages. Read-only.

  • First day of week. It may vary depending on the country. Affects the Week function used in rules.

  • First week of year. It may vary depending on the country.

  • Date format and Time format. Can be customized in User settings.

  • Theme: Choose one of these options to change the look of your interface.

  • Don’t allow distributed administrators to change user’s passwords. Tick this setting to deny administrators using the Distributed type of administration the possibility of changing user’s passwords.

  • Default password policy. This is the way the system regulates the authentication of users in order to access the application. The preset password policy for new applications is the Server Default, however the application administrator can select another policy (if available) or can request to the IS Tools support team to define a different policy that suits in a better way the needs of the application. The policy selected in this form, will not override the chosen one for existing users in the User administration form; however it will preset the policy for new users.

  • Number of days to keep reports. Time in which a generated report will remain in the Report queue form, before it is automatically removed by the system. See limitations about this matter.

  • Number of days to keep imports. Time in which a generated import will remain in the Import queue form, before it is automatically removed by the system. See limitations about this matter.

  • Number of rows per page in table sections. To set how many records you want to load at once in Table section. The remaining records will be displayed upon scrolling.

Start forms:

  • Desktop start form*. Select a form that will be automatically displayed for all users once logged in on desktop mode. If no start form is defined, an empty browser pane will be displayed next to the IS Tools navigation menu.

  • Mobile start form*. Same as above, but for mobile mode. In this case, note that only application forms can be selected, i.e., no system forms are available in this drop-down field.

  • Allow user to override in User settings form. If checked, users will have the possibility to select their own Desktop and Mobile start forms, via the User settings form.

*Note that these settings are also available in User administration and User settings forms.

Logging:

  • Enable read log. It’s necessary to check this setting to be able to use the Read log form.