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1.5       raeburn     1: \label{Domain_Configuration_LangTZAuth}
1.2       raeburn     2: Prior to LON-CAPA 2.7, default language and authentication type/argument
                      3: were defined in the domain's entry in the domain.tab file. Those settings
                      4: will continue to be used by servers in your domain until you have
                      5: displayed and saved the Default authentication/language/timezone data
                      6: table. Once that has been done, whenever values need to be determined
                      7: for these settings in the domain they will be retrieved from the configuration.db
                      8: file on the primary library server in your domain, which is where
1.3       raeburn     9: information saved from the {}``Domain Configuration'' data tables
1.2       raeburn    10: is stored. Any information in the domain.tab file will no longer be
                     11: consulted, except by servers running pre-2.7 versions of LON-CAPA.
1.1       raeburn    12: 
1.2       raeburn    13: Default domain configurations can be assigned for: 
1.1       raeburn    14: 
                     15: \begin{itemize}
1.2       raeburn    16: \item default language used by users in your domain, unless overridden by
                     17: a user preference
                     18: \item default authentication type for new users in the domain. You will
                     19: need to set the default authentication if you intend to allow a user
                     20: to create a LON-CAPA account if the user successfully authenticated
                     21: via a central service at your institution (e.g., Kerberos), but is
                     22: without a LON-CAPA account. The default authentication is also the
                     23: default offered when Course Coordinators or Authors create new accounts,
                     24: assuming user creation is permitted in these contexts.
                     25: \item default timezone - this will be the timezone used when showing any
                     26: times in your domain, unless overridden at a course level, by a course-wide
                     27: timezone. The timezones available are mostly in the form Continent/City,
                     28: although for the USA there are some in the form America/State/City
                     29: as well as EST5EDT, CST6CDT, MST7MDT, PST8PDT and HST (for Eastern,
                     30: Central, Mountain, Pacific and Hawaii Timezones, which adjust for
1.4       raeburn    31: daylight savings as appropriate). If no default timezone is set times
1.6       raeburn    32: will be displayed according to the timezone of the server hosting
1.2       raeburn    33: the user's LON-CAPA session.
1.7       raeburn    34: \item portal/default URL - starting with LON-CAPA 2.10, a default URL can
                     35: be specified.  This URL will be included in e-mail sent to confirm self-enrollment etc.
1.8       raeburn    36: and might be for a load-balancer LON-CAPA server, or in the case of a multi-domain server,
1.9     ! raeburn    37: for a specific alias used for the domain.
1.1       raeburn    38: \end{itemize}
1.9     ! raeburn    39: 
        !            40: Domain configurations can also be set for institutional user types via the same screen.
        !            41: 
        !            42: Prior to LON-CAPA 2.11, institutional user types were defined in the \&inst\_usertypes
        !            43: subroutine in localenroll.pm, which would be customized for consistency with types 
        !            44: defined in institutional data feeds.  Setting of user types via the Domain Configuration
        !            45: web GUI supersedes use of localenroll::inst\_usertypes().  Items that can be set are:
        !            46: 
        !            47: \begin{itemize}
        !            48: \item Internal ID (e.g., faculty)
        !            49: \item Name Displayed (e.g., Faculty/Academic Staff)
        !            50: \item Order (Listing order, 1 through N, when the type is to be selected from a list).
        !            51: \item Whether status type can also be assigned to a non-institutional user with an e-mail
        !            52:  address as username
        !            53: \end{itemize}
        !            54: