Configuring site settings

You use the Site Settings page to configure a number of settings that affect the way in which Asta Vision works.

To access the Site Settings page from the Asta Vision Home page, click Admin then click Site Settings.

Use the fields on the Site Settings page to configure Asta Vision as follows:

Field	Description
Site logo	Click Choose File to select a graphics file to use as a logo that will appear at the top of certain pages in Asta Vision. You may want to select your corporate logo.
Site title	Enter a text string to display underneath the logo on the Home page. You may want to enter a corporate strapline.
Site message header	Enter a text string to display above the Home page message.
Site message	Enter a text string to display as a message on the Home page, if required. Displaying a message on the Home page can be a useful way of getting information to Asta Vision users. Leave this field blank to display no message.
Site message start	If you want the site message to appear from, but not before, a specific date, select a date (and time) in this field. If you leave both this field and the Site message end field blank, the site message will always be displayed; if you leave only one of these fields blank, the message will be shown only from, or up to, the specified date.
Site message end	If you want the site message to appear until, but not after, a specific date, select a date (and time) in this field. If you leave both this field and the Site message start field blank, the site message will always be displayed; if you leave only one of these fields blank, the message will be shown only from, or up to, the specified date.
Project name regular expression	If you want to force users to use project names of a particular format, enter a regular expression that defines the format in this field. If you enter a regular expression in this field, project names are validated against the regular expression when projects are created and edited.
Project name format description	If you force users to use project names of a particular format - by entering a regular expression in the Project name regular expression field - enter a helpful description of the format in this field, so that users know the format they are expected to use. The text that you enter here appears as a tooltip to the right of the Name field when you create or edit projects.
Assign project creator	Select this check box if you want the user that creates a project to be added to the project's list of assigned users automatically. If you select this check box, users are assigned to any projects they create, provided Asta Vision's security rules allow them to be assigned to the project.
Latest programmes first in the grid	Programmes are displayed immediately beneath the corresponding project on the Projects page. Select this check box to order each project's programmes from latest to earliest; clear the check box to order the programmes from earliest to latest.
Generate Project BI for new projects	Use this check box to specify whether the Business Intelligence database is updated with basic details of new projects as they are created: If you select this check box, basic details of new projects are added to the database as they are created. If you clear this check box, no information on new projects is added to the database until the first time a project's programme is checked in, or the first time a particular workflow rule is performed on the project's initial programme - depending on the selection you have made in the B. I. behaviour field for that programme type.
User Selection Dialogs UDF	If you have created a user-defined field with which to filter the users that appear in the Assign User popups that you use to assign users to projects when you create or edit them, specify the user-defined field you are using in this field. If you do not want to use a user-defined field to filter the users that appear in the Assign User popups, select 'None' in this field.

When you have finished configuring Asta Vision, click Save to save your settings and return to the Admin page.