Modifying Other Application Settings

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Modifying Other Application Settings

How to Modify Other App Settings | Configure other application settings that can be set in the SiteSettings element of Cartella.config.

This section describes other application settings that can be configured in the <SiteSettings> element of the Cartella.config file.

To modify other application settings:

Navigate to [Site_Root].
Open Cartella.config in a text editor.

Locate the <add> elements with the following @name values that you'd like to modify, then provide the appropriate values.

Folios on the Home View

Name Value	Description	Parent Node	Default
PagingSize	Determines how many folios display on the home view.	`<SiteSettings>`	`<add name="PagingSize" value="10"/>`

Note: PagingSize takes a numeric value.

Multi-thread Email Processing

To speed processing, you can add background task queue threads.

Name Value	Description	Parent Node	Default
TaskQueueWorkersCount	Determines how many background threads are created.	`<ServerSettings>`	`<add name="TaskQueueWorkersCount" value="5"/>`

Note: If your server CPU has multiple cores, you can increase the numeric value of TaskQueueWorkersCount to accommodate additional threads.

Cartella Connection Strings

Name Value	Description	Parent Node	Default
DefaultConnection	Mapping connects Cartella instance to database.	`<ServerSettings>`	`<add name="DefaultConnection" value="MSSQL2005"/>`
DefaultAssetConnection	Mapping connects Cartella assets to database.	`<AssetSettings>`	`<add name="DefaultAssetConnection" value="MSSQL2005_Asset"/>`

Note: In most cases. there is no need to change these values after installation.

Temporary Files

Name Value	Description	Parent Node	Default
FileUploadTemporaryLocation	Temporary location of saved assets.	`<FileUploadTemporaryLocation>`	`<add name="FileUploadTemporaryLocation" value="[Drive]\[Site_Root]\app_data\"/>`
FileUploadTemporaryFileExpirationDelay	Determines how long, in seconds, temporary files can remain in the temporary location.	`<FileUploadTemporaryLocation>`	`<add name="FileUploadTemporaryFileExpirationDelay" value="6000000"/>`

Note: The default value of FileUploadTemporaryFileExpirationDelay is the equivalent of nearly 10 weeks, where each week is 604,800 seconds. A day is 86,400 seconds. This value should be at least as long as a typical session so that temporary assets don’t expire before a user logs off.

Forum Rating System

Name Value	Description	Parent Node	Default	Possible Values
ForumRatingType	Determines the rating system for forum items.	`<ServerSettings>`	`<add name="ForumRatingType" value="average"/>`	average cumulative

Note:

A value of average specifies a one-to-five star rating system. A value of cumulative specifies thumbs-up-thumbs-down voting. This setting is applied to all forums in the instance.

Sharing Levels

Logged-in users can set the sharing level of items that they create. For example, a logged-in user can choose to make a blog post public, or to share it only with a certain group. By changing the value of DefaultEntityShareLevelID, you can change the default sharing setting.

If the Cartella license key allows non-seated or logged-out users to create content, an anonymous user can create an item. In this scenario, the anonymous user is by default not allowed to set the item’s sharing level to private or to specific users, because the anonymous user would not be able to see the item. This sharing level is determined by the numeric value of AnonymousEntityShareLevelID.

Name Value	Description	Parent Node	Default	Possible Values
DefaultEntityShareLevelID	Determines the sharing level of for groups of logged in users.	`<ServerSettings>`	`<add name="DefaultEntityShareLevelID" value="2"/>`	1= Inherited 2=Public Viewing 3=All logged in users 4=Only specified users/groups 5=Only creation admin, folio admin, and systems admin 6=Only creation user listed in connection credentials
AnonymousEntityShareLevelID	Determines the sharing level of for anonymous users.	`<ServerSettings>`	`<add name="AnonymousEntityShareLevelID" value="2"/>`	1= Inherited 2=Public Viewing 3=All logged in users 4=Only specified users/groups 5=Only creation admin, folio admin, and systems admin 6=Only creation user listed in connection credentials

Note: The numerical value of DefaultEntityShareLevelID corresponds to the ID of the sharing level in the database for logged-in groups. In order to determine the value for a given group, you need to run a SQL script. (A sample script has been provided below.) The default sharing value is 2 (public), and Ingeniux recommends leaving it at this setting.

SELECT [ID]
      ,[ID_EntityShareLevel]
      ,[ID_Group]
  FROM [DB Name].[dbo].[Table_EntityShareLevels_To_Groups]
  WHERE ID_Group = groupid

Note: The numerical value of AnonymousEntityShareLevelID corresponds to the ID of the sharing level in the database anonymous groups. You can set the sharing value here, and anonymous users will not be able to change it.

Important:

In certain scenarios, such as large sites where most content is public, administrators may want to hide sharing levels completely for certain entities. You can turn off sharing levels for individual Cartella entities in the <EntityTypeSettings> section of Cartella.config.

<EntityTypeSettings>
    <clear />
        <add name="BlogPost" 
        permissionable="true" 
        canOwnCategories="true" 
        canOwnGroups="true" 
        categorizable="true" 
        customShareLevel="false" 
        readOnlyByDefault="false" 
        isLockedByDefault="false" 
        autoApproveByDefault="false" 
        useHtmlComments="false" 
        commentingAvailable="true" />

For each type of entity (defined in the @name attribute) you can disable the sharing-level user interface by setting the @customShareLevel attribute to false. In the example above, the interface has been disabled for blog posts. Users can’t change the sharing level of blog posts, and it remains set to the value of @DefaultEntityShareLevelID.

Command Timeout

In certain situations, an unusually high volume of database queries could cause the Cartella database to exhibit slowed response times. In such situations, the Cartella API can throw an exception that alerts users of an issue.

Name Value	Description	Parent Node	Default
CommandTimeOut	Determines how many seconds the API waits for a database call to return before throwing an exception.	`<ServerSettings>`	`<add name="CommandTimeOut" value="90"/>`

Scripts to Compress

The Cartella instance installation contains a folder called ScriptsToCompress, typically in a directory path like this: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\[SITE]\ScriptsToCompress.

Name Value	Description	Parent Node	Default	Possible Values
MinifyScripts	Determines if the scripts in ScriptsToCompress folder are compressed.	`<ServerSettings>`	`<add name="MinifyScripts" value="true"/>`	true false

Important:

The value should be set to true for production sites. When set to true, the contents of the ScriptsToCompress folder is compressed to help pages load faster. If the value is set to false, uncompressed scripts are sent to the client, which can be useful for debugging. You can add your own scripts to the ScriptsToCompress folder.

Save Cartella.config.