--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_LangTZAuth.tex 2008/07/23 13:14:10 1.2 +++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_LangTZAuth.tex 2014/06/26 15:07:10 1.9 @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +\label{Domain_Configuration_LangTZAuth} Prior to LON-CAPA 2.7, default language and authentication type/argument were defined in the domain's entry in the domain.tab file. Those settings will continue to be used by servers in your domain until you have @@ -5,7 +6,7 @@ displayed and saved the Default authenti table. Once that has been done, whenever values need to be determined for these settings in the domain they will be retrieved from the configuration.db file on the primary library server in your domain, which is where -information saved from the {}``Domain Cofiguration'' data tables +information saved from the {}``Domain Configuration'' data tables is stored. Any information in the domain.tab file will no longer be consulted, except by servers running pre-2.7 versions of LON-CAPA. @@ -27,7 +28,27 @@ timezone. The timezones available are mo although for the USA there are some in the form America/State/City as well as EST5EDT, CST6CDT, MST7MDT, PST8PDT and HST (for Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific and Hawaii Timezones, which adjust for -daylight savingas as appropriate). If no default timezone is set times -will be displayed according to the timezine of the server hosting +daylight savings as appropriate). If no default timezone is set times +will be displayed according to the timezone of the server hosting the user's LON-CAPA session. +\item portal/default URL - starting with LON-CAPA 2.10, a default URL can +be specified. This URL will be included in e-mail sent to confirm self-enrollment etc. +and might be for a load-balancer LON-CAPA server, or in the case of a multi-domain server, +for a specific alias used for the domain. \end{itemize} + +Domain configurations can also be set for institutional user types via the same screen. + +Prior to LON-CAPA 2.11, institutional user types were defined in the \&inst\_usertypes +subroutine in localenroll.pm, which would be customized for consistency with types +defined in institutional data feeds. Setting of user types via the Domain Configuration +web GUI supersedes use of localenroll::inst\_usertypes(). Items that can be set are: + +\begin{itemize} +\item Internal ID (e.g., faculty) +\item Name Displayed (e.g., Faculty/Academic Staff) +\item Order (Listing order, 1 through N, when the type is to be selected from a list). +\item Whether status type can also be assigned to a non-institutional user with an e-mail + address as username +\end{itemize} +