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Whether to provide a spell-check feature (this is not related to the WYSIWYG editor).

Whether to provide a keyword density check feature, for SEO purposes.

Whether the WYSIWYG editor should try and convert HTML to Comcode, and also clean-up markup. If you use the WYSIWYG editor with huge documents and experience time-outs you should disable this option. By keeping this option you will get somewhat-readable Comcode markup out of the WYSIWYG editor.

<strong>For power-users only</strong>. Whether to use <tt>.htm</tt> style short URLs instead of the <tt>pg/</tt> style short URLs earlier versions of the software featured. You should not enable this option if you have already been using the older style of short-URL, as it will affect SEO. This option only works if your website is on the root of your domain name or you have configured a <tt>RewriteBase</tt>. In addition, whenever you add a new zone you must make changes to your <tt>.htaccess</tt> file to include it in the patterns, and you may not use any pages that share the same name as a zone.

Zone: {1}

Current time

Option groups

Option categories

The time the site should currently be reporting.

The configuration module is used to set most website options. The options are spread across multiple option categories, each containing option groups. Each of the options has a description underneath it to help you.\n\nMost configuration options do not need changing unless you want to divert from the default behaviour; the options that do need changing can be configured early-on using the Setup Wizard.

A very common mistake is to neglect to specify the URL to the forums during installation. The result of this is that any links to the forum, including in your menu, and for usernames, will be broken.\n\nTo change an option set during configuration, you generally use the external "Installation Options editor". The Installation Options editor is completely separated from the main software, so that if your site ever breaks due to a misconfiguration in the info.php configuration file, you can fix it without having to hand edit the file.\n\nAs a result of the separation, the Configuration editor does not support multiple languages, and will not empty the caches automatically for you when you change an option. Therefore, if you are correcting the forum URL, you will need to empty the Comcode page cache yourself after doing it. To do this, go to the website as a logged in administrator, hold down the Ctrl, Shift and Alt keys, and click the browser refresh/reload button.

The first thing you will want to do after installing the software is to configure the name of your website, and other key details. The site wizard will do this for you in a few easy guided steps and thus it is strongly recommended that you use it at any early stage.

The help wizard is an alternative interface for website administration - it helps you learn how to perform common tasks. The aim of the help wizard is to ease your transition into the software.\n\nWhen you are logged in as site staff, you can find the help wizard icon at the bottom of every site page.

Installation Options

Setup Wizard

Setup Wizard: Step {1} of {2}

Welcome to the ocPortal Setup Wizard, and congratulations on a successful ocPortal install!<br />This Setup Wizard will allow you to quickly personalise/corporatise ocPortal. Be advised that if you have already started to configure your website, some of your changes may be overwritten by this wizard.

The Setup Wizard has already been run once on this website. You may run it again if you wish, but it will overwrite many settings that have since been customised. Like all ocPortal wizards, the Setup Wizard is a supplementary tool designed to avoid dropping you in at the deep end of ocPortal configuration &ndash; anything the wizard can do can be done, with a higher degree of control, elsewhere in the system.

<p>ocPortal is an extremely flexible system: it is possible to make sites that are completely unique in look and feel without progamming. After this wizard your site will still look generic in the same way that a word processed document made with a built-in template would. However, you will be able to further customise your site, with far greater control than is available here.</p>

What to expect from ocPortal

In this step you will enter some configuration details for your site. Some default values have been chosen for reference, but you will want to replace them with values of your own. In further steps defaults will also be chosen, but you are more likely to leave those later defaults alone.

In this step you will specify the status of various features. ocPortal is designed to be flexible enough to suit a wide audience, but powerful enough and of high enough quality to be able to meet everyone's advanced needs &ndash; it's best to only choose stuff here that you know you want.

By default, ocPortal has two public zones (site sections): a &lsquo;Welcome&rsquo; zone and a &lsquo;Site&rsquo; zone. This subdivision is useful:<ol><li>for presenting an isolated welcome page before users enter the main site</li><li>to force users to join your site (possibly by paying) before they have access to all content</li></ol>If you do not want to force users to join and do not want a separate welcome page, choose the &lsquo;Single public zone&lsquo; and enable &lsquo;Full guest access&rsquo;.

In this step you will specify which of a selection of available blocks (positioned features which fit inside a box) you would like on your front pages and panels. A default arrangement has been chosen, but it is likely you will want a different one &ndash; corporate websites tend to use far fewer blocks favouring marketing copy and minimalism, whilst community websites tend to use lots.<br /><br />Once the wizard is finished it's likely you'll want to tweak your block arrangement, changing block parameters for example. This is done by editing the page the block is on, clearing the code for a block, then clicking the 'Add block' button to add a new block &mdash; you'll be given full guidance through the choice of block parameters.

It is important for any website with a membership to have some rules, just like it is important for any real world community to have some rules. We have created some out-of-the-box rule sets for you to choose from, ranging from stricter rules that apply to a corporate setting, to very liberal rules (in that they are a lot less prohibitive) that apply to more freely expressive communities. For most websites the balanced rules are most appropriate. ocPortal also contains a privacy page which you may wish to edit at a later time.

In this step you will choose whether to leave the website closed for now, or whether to open it to the public.

Congratulations, the Setup Wizard has now completed! You may now continue to work on your website &ndash; you may wish to run through the Add-New-Page wizard a few times now, and then add some dynamic content such as downloads.

Balanced rules

Liberal rules

Corporate rules

The predefined rules. You may fully edit these later by editing the :rules page.

Do not use this

Use this

Use this, but at 50% screen-width

Do not use this

Use on the left panel

Use on the right panel

Single public zone

Whether the Welcome and Site zones should be identical. Identity eases navigation and reduces maintenance, but removes the potential separation advantages.

Full guest access

Whether to give access to your main site for guests (users who are not logged in).

Options for interfaces that only staff can normally access, such as the Comcode page editor.

These are options relating to specific modules, as well as member interaction with modules (commenting and rating).

Options related to points (but not the point-store).

Options related to the point-store.

Options for the inbuilt forums, and member system. These are only relevant if the inbuilt forum system is actually being used.

Options relating to security.

Options relating to the general configuration of the site. These include descriptive options, caching options, &lsquo;closed site&rsquo; options, and general setup.

Options relating to privacy and child-protection.

Options relating to the default theme, and most derived themes.