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System administrators can use the table below to help them configure the system configuration settings in the User category.
To configure User settings, go to Manage Center > System > System Configuration and select User from the Select a category drop-down list.
Table: System Configuration Settings: User Category
| Setting | Type | Description |
| Available Options for the Current Status Dropdown. | Check boxes | Select the check boxes of the statuses to include in the drop-down list of statuses in the Change Status dialog on the Users page. User administrators can change the status of users from the action menu in the Users page to any one of the statuses selected here. |
| Allow e-mail-based user log-in | Check box |
Select this check box to allow users to log in using their email address instead of their LMS user name. PeopleFluent recommends clearing this check box where email addresses for different users may not be unique. |
| Show User Attribute 1 | Check box | Select this check box to show User Attribute 1 in the user's profile in the User Editor. Administrators with at least read-only access to the user attribute can assign values to it in the User Editor. |
| Show User Attribute 2 | Check box | See Show User Attribute 1, above. |
| Show User Attribute 3 | Check box | See Show User Attribute 1, above. |
| Show User Attribute 4 | Check box | See Show User Attribute 1, above. |
| Show User Attribute 5 | Check box | See Show User Attribute 1, above. |
| Show User Attribute 6 | Check box | See Show User Attribute 1, above. |
| Show User Attribute 7 | Check box | See Show User Attribute 1, above. |
| Show User Attribute 8 | Check box | See Show User Attribute 1, above. |
| Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 1 | Check box |
Select this check box to provide either a drop-down list or a selector window to choose a predefined value for this attribute (depending on the Use Attribute Selector Instead of Drop-down System Configuration setting). Clear the check box to enable administrators to enter any text or number value in the User Editor. |
| Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 2 | Check box |
See Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 1, above. |
| Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 3 | Check box | See Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 1, above. |
| Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 4 | Check box | See Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 1, above. |
| Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 5 | Check box | See Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 1, above. |
| Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 6 | Check box | See Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 1, above. |
| Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 7 | Check box | See Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 1, above. |
| Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 8 | Check box | See Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute 1, above. |
| Show cost center attribute | Check box | Select this check box to show and enable administrators to enter a value in the Cost Center field in the User Editor. |
| Use the extended user Biography | Check box | Not used. |
| Number of Seconds Delay per E-mail When Forwarding to the SMTP Server | Number (Min=1, Max=100) | Enter the number of seconds delay between bulk emails being sent to the SMTP server. Entering a longer delay can help to avoid mail servers being swamped with too many requests at one time. |
| E-mail sent when user status changes to Active | Selector | Click the browse icon to select the email template used to send emails to users when their status is changed to Active due to:
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| Closed Account Enrollment Cleanup Interval (# days) | Number (Min=0, Max=3650) | Enter the number of days after a user account is closed to remove the user's active enrollments from the LMS (those with a status of Not Started, In Process, Waitlisted and Pending Approval). Enter 0 to keep users' active enrollments in the LMS. |
| Provide Log-Off URL Parameters | Check box |
Select this check box to add the following additional user-specific parameters to the default log-off URL:
This information can be used when the log-off URL is a script that can redirect users to different log-off pages, based on the identifying URL parameter information. |
| Use Attribute Selector Instead of Drop-down | Check box |
For user attributes that have Use drop-down boxes to edit User Attribute selected, select this check box to display a drop-down list of attribute values in the User Editor. Clear this check box to display an Edit link to open the attribute selector window. |
| Switching User Observes User Privileges | Check box |
Select this check box to observe user privilege levels when switching user with the Switch User feature. When this option is selected, the switch user feature does not allow the current user to switch to a different user whose role has a higher privilege level. |
| User Group Membership Refresh Frequency | Drop-down list |
Select the frequency to refresh user group membership:
The LMS will automatically refresh the members of a user group membership based on its criteria. However, saving a user group (manually) also refreshes the list. |
| Trusted relying parties for delegated authentication (one per line) | Text box | To use a custom login page template for a specific relying party, append :template to the hostname or IP address, where template is the name of the template file in the WEB-INF/conf/ directory on the server. For example, to use the template myTemplate.wm for the relying party at www.example.com, use www.example.com:myTemplate.wm. |
| Allow User IDs to be changed | Check box | Select this check box to allow administrators to change User IDs in the User Editor or via the User Data Loader. |
| Allow additional roles | Check box | Select this check box to allow administrators to assign additional roles to users in the User Editor. |
| Automatic De-Assign of Job Profiles | Check box | Select this check box to automatically deassign the job profile for any user who no longer meets the auto-assign target criteria (defined in the Auto-Assign Targets), regardless of the user’s status towards the learning and competencies assigned to the profile. The de-assign functionality will follow the settings in the Auto-Assign Console for criteria scan during login and offline-bulk scanning. This will not auto-withdraw courses or auto-remove competencies. |
| Allow Editing of External Authentication User Account | Check box | Select this check box to allow administrators to update the Use External Authentication field in the User Editor. |
| Automatically close user accounts without valid assignments | Check box |
Select this check box to automatically close all user accounts that have expired job assignments (that is, where the Assignment End Date in their profile has passed). This option has no effect on users with no Assignment End Date. |
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