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Introduction

You will be given the option to choose Detail Mode or Power Mode for changing the Configuration. This page deals only with Detail Mode which looks like the following (some fields have been obscured for security reasons):

Note: This Image was taken from an earlier version of Visual Log than the one publicly released and so some options are missing in the picture though they are described in the text below!

General Options

Next you can select the Default Language and Default Colour Scheme that your website should be displayed in if the user has not specified any Preferences. Note that any user preferences and your own User Settings (see How To: User Options) will override these settings! If you want to force users to always use a specific colour scheme turn off the User can change Colour Scheme option. You can also force the site to always show in a fixed Language by turning off the User can change Language setting.

You can also select a Time Adjustment from Server Time if your web server is not in the same time zone as you wish your website to appear to be in, again you will have been prompted to set this during the initial Setup process and should rarely need to change it. Warning: Changing this Setting will likely cause you to be Logged out since the value of this setting is used as part of the User Authentication process. When this happens you simply need return to the Admin Console and log in again to continue working with your Website.

Following that you have the option of setting the Maintenance Mode Information Message, this is displayed to Users when you have engaged Maintenance Mode from the Setup Console. There is no real need to change this here as it can be set whenever you enter Maintenance Mode.

Next come the Mail settings, if you turn these on you must provide an Email SMTP Server, Email Sending Address as well as selecting an Email Component. If Visual Log doesn't support Email on your server the only Email Component selectable will be Disabled and you will not be able to use any Email features.

Then you can select whether to use Floating Page Titles on some pages where this is supported, see News for an example of this.

Blog Options

After this come the settings for the accompanying features for Blogs, first choose whether Reader Comments are permitted and whether Poll Features are enabled. You can decide to limit Polls to 1 Poll per Entry and may change the Poll Bar Graphic used to display Graphs of Poll Results.
Then you can decide to Permit HTML in Comments which is not recommended but you may wish to do and if you have turned on Email Features you can opt to Send Email Alerts on Comments which will cause emails to be sent to the Blogger in question whenever they receive a comment on their Entries.
The final Blog related options are for Subscriptions, Subscriptions allow visitors to request email alerts whenever Blog entries are posted by a specific Blogger, in a specific Category or the Blog changes. First decide if you want Subscriptions Allowed, note that if Email features are disabled Subscriptions will be disabled regardless of this setting. Then choose the Max Subscription Level permitted for your Blog and whether Subscriptions require Email Confirmation, we recommend this last option is always on to stop people registering bogus email addresses and to prevent them registering other people for the email alerts who don't wish to receive them.

Content Management Options

After these options you have some additional special Content Management Options relating to the Version History system. This is the system which maintains multiple versions of Pages and allows you to rollback to earlier versions if changes are made which you don't like and even restore Deleted Pages. The Update Frequency for Version History option controls the minimum time that must elapse between versions being saved for the History to be updated i.e. if this is set to Hourly and you created a new Page a version would be saved in the History. If you then noticed a spelling error and edited the page to correct this 5 minutes later then a further version wouldn't be saved, but if you didn't notice the error for 2 hours before correcting it a further version would be saved. Note that if you edit a page within this limit but the last editor wasn't you then a further version is always saved regardless. This setting does allow you to disable this feature entirely by selecting Never as the value for this setting.
The Record System Edits in Version History option controls whether automated edits made to Pages by Visual Log e.g. by the Link Integrity Checker should be recorded in the History.

Feature Options

Updating the Configuration

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• How To Guides for VLog 2x
• Configure Advanced Options
• Change User Settings & Preferences
• Managing your Weblog
• Managing your Websites Content
• Managing Colour Schemes
• Creating Multilingual Content
• Running a Poll
• Introduction to the Admin Console