Contenido

Backend customizing

Author Timo A. Hummel
Created 22th October 2003
Audience
 Site Administrators
Applies to
 Contenido 4.4 or later

Introduction

Backend customizing is a mechanism to customize various parameters of the backend. There are not many settings you can do, as this mechanism is relatively new. However, this mechanism will be used more and more in the future.

How it works

Customizing Contenido settings is very easy and can be done via the group or user customizing settings. Here's an example for the user customizing:



Important: User settings have precendence before group settings. User settings always override group settings. If the user is added to more than one group, the result is undefined. Make sure that your groups don't override each other.

Current parameters


Area/Type
 Property
 Value (Description)
 Applies to
backend
 currentlogintime
 Date and Time when this session has been started (automatically set by the backend)
 Users
backend
 lastlogintime
 Date and Time when the last session was started (automatically set by the backend) Users
wysiwyg
 spaw-styles
 The CSS style names which appear in the styles drop-down.
 System, Groups, Users
wysiwyg
 spaw-stylesheet-file
 The stylesheet file to use for the WYSIWYG.
 System, Groups, Users
wysiwyg
 spaw-toolbar-mode
 The toolbar mode to use. Allowed values: default, full, mini, nofont, sidetable
 System, Groups, Users
wysiwyg
 spaw-height
 The height of the SPAW editor widget (fallback mode, currently not used)
 System, Groups, Users
wysiwyg
 spaw-height-html
 The height of the SPAW editor when editing CMS_HTML elements
 System, Groups, Users
wysiwyg
 spaw-height-head
 The height of the SPAW editor when editing CMS_HEAD elements
 System, Groups, Users
wysiwyg
 spaw-width
 The width of the SPAW editor widget (fallback mode, currently not used)
(usage: XX% => percentage statement / XX => pixel statement)
 System, Groups, Users
wysiwyg
 spaw-theme
 SPAW editor theme, defaults to "contenido"
 System, Groups, Users
cms_img
 directory-height
 Height of the directory lister in rows, default 5
 System, Groups, Users
cms_img
 directory-width
 Width of the directory lister in pixels, default 300
 System, Groups, Users
cms_img
 file-height
 Height of the file lister in rows, default 5
 System, Groups, Users
cms_img
 file-width
 Width of the file lister in pixels, default 300
 System, Groups, Users
cms_img
 description-height
 Height of the description box in rows, default 5
 System, Groups, Users
cms_img
 description-width
 Width of the description box in characters, default 70
 System, Groups, Users
cms_img
 preview-height
 Height of the preview area in pixels, default 400
 System, Groups, Users
cms_img
 preview-width
 Width of the preview window in pixels, default 600
 System, Groups, Users
imagemagick
 available
 Set "1" if ImageMagick is available on your server to receive best results when resizing images
 System, Groups, Users
system
 modulecheck
 if set to "false" (as string), modules aren't tested for syntax errors (needed for older PHP versions)
 System
modules
 java-edit
 Enable the java module editor
 System, Groups, Users
backend
 small-navigation
 true or false (default). if true, a small navigation is shown
 System, Groups, Users
modules
 disable-history
 If true, don't use the module history.
 System
layout
 htmlvalidator
 If true or not defined, use the HTML validator.
 System, Groups, Users
system
 multiassign
 If false, don't allow multi assignments for articles.
 System, Clients