New authentication configuration settings.

You can enable administration privileges for specified users using the SynCommPortal.xml configuration file.

Editing the SynCommPortal.xml configuration file

New ability when configuring PTI settings.

You can set a maximum number of interviews that can be booked per student for each interview cycle.

MaximumSlots configuration setting

New name configuration ability.

You can customise how student names appear in the Community Portal.

NameExternal configuration setting

New ability to display maintenance information.

You can customise how maintenance mode and shutdown related messages are displayed in the Community Portal.

DisplayOnIntoPage configuration setting

OfflineMessage configuration setting

OnlineMessage configuration setting

ShowOfflineDates configuration setting

Extra method to switch into maintenance mode.

You can manually place the Community Portal into maintenance mode.

MaintenanceModeOverride configuration setting

New tab display configuration settings.

You can use the ParentPageName, MenuOrder and Text configuration settings to customise how and where tabs appear on the menu bar in the Community portal.

Customising tabs

New Change Password tab.

You can configure whether users can change their own password for the Community Portal.

Customising the Change Password tab

New ability to upload spreadsheets.

You can upload Excel spreadsheets directly to the Accommodation Booking tab.

Customising the Accommodation Booking tab

New report ability.

You can display a confirmation message for reports launched through the Community Portal.

CommPortalPopupMessage configuration setting

New portal menu configuration settings.

You can customise:

• whether the portal menu is displayed
• the orientation of the portal menu
• the style the portal menu is displayed in.

General settings

New URL configuration settings.

You can customise the Universal Resource Location (URL) of portal tabs.

Absences:URL configuration setting

Attendances:URL configuration setting

ContactUs:URL configuration setting

Docs:URL configurations setting

Finance:URL configuration setting

Introduction:URL configuration setting

Logout:URL configuration setting

MyAccount:URL configuration setting

PTI:URL configuration setting

Results:URL configuration setting

Timetable:URL configuration setting

New configuration setting for the Absences tab.

You can choose whether to only display unexplained absences on the Absences tab.

OnlyShowIfCountAsAbsenceFlagTrue configuration setting

New configuration setting for the Attendances tab.

You can customise the date format on the Attendances tab.

DateTimeFormat configuration setting

New Attendances Extended tab.

You can customise information on the Attendances Extended tab.

Customising the Attendances Extended tab

New configuration settings for the Contact Us tab.

You can customise the headings for:

• class contacts
• form contacts
• campus contacts
• other contacts.

Customising the Contact Us tab

New configuration settings for the Finance tab.

You can customise:

• whether the total owing is displayed
• messages on payment receipts.

Customising the Finance tab

New configuration settings for the PTI tab.

You can customise messages displayed to users when:

• they confirm an appointment
• they cancel an appointment
• they create an appointment that clashes with:
  • another user
  • previously created appointments.
• there are no available appointments
• portal bookings are closed.

Customising the PTI tab

New configuration settings for the Results tab.

You can customise:

• whether classes without assessment codes are displayed
• the order classes are displayed in.

Customising the Results tab

New custom tabs available.

You can create custom tabs on the Community Portal.

Adding custom tabs

New configuration settings for emails sent by the portal.

You can customise:

• the name and address portal emails are sent from
• emails sent to users who forget their passwords.

Customising mail settings

New security configuration settings

You can customise:

• whether users can access pages that have not been enabled
• how many login attempts a user gets before they are locked out of their account.

Security settings

New Payment Gateway configuration settings.

You can configure the Community Portal to accept payments via a third party payment gateway.

Configuring payment gateways

New Single Sign On configuration settings.

You can configure the Community Portal to allow single sign on with trusted third party vendors.

Single sign on authentication settings

New configuration files for multiple databases.

You can run the Community Portal against more than one database at a time. For example, against an additional test database.

Running the Community Portal against multiple database servers

New authentication configuration settings.

Five new configuration settings have been added to authenticate users when they are logging in:

• CommunityPortal>Authentication>
  NonDBAuthenticationFailure>RedirectPage
• CommunityPortal>Authentication>
  SingleSignOn>AuthenticatePage
• CommunityPortal>Authentication>
  SingleSignOn>TrustedVendor>Code
• CommunityPortal>Authentication>
  SingleSignOn>TrustedVendor>
  ShowDetailsOnAuthenticationFailFlag
• CommunityPortal>Authentication>
  SingleSignOn>WebServiceURL.

Single sign on authentication

New Absences tab.

A tab has been added to display the student's absence events.

Community Portal - Absences tab

New Attendances tab.

A tab has been added to display the student's attendances.

Community Portal - Attendances tab

New Docs tab.

A tab has been added to publish the selected student's documents on the portal.

Community Portal - Docs tab

Documents Published

New Introduction tab.

A tab has been added to display a custom welcome screen.

Community Portal - Introduction tab

New My Account tab.

A tab has been added to display and allow editing of community member's contact details.

Community Portal - My Account tab

New Logout tab.

A tab has been added to allow community members to log out.

Configuring which tabs to display

New Contact Us tab configurations

The configuration setting CommunityPortal>Students>EnableContacts has been removed, and two new configurations have been added to customise whether the Contact Us tab is displayed, and what title to display for the tab in the menu bar:

• CommunityPortal>Pages>ContactUs>
  EnabledFlag
• CommunityPortal>Pages>ContactUs>
  Text

Community Portal - Contact Us tab.

New Finance tab configurations

The configuration setting CommunityPortal>Students>EnableFinance has been removed, and two new configurations have been added to customise whether the Finance tab is displayed, and what title to display for the tab in the menu bar:

• CommunityPortal>Pages>Finance>
  EnabledFlag
• CommunityPortal>Pages>Finance>
  Text.

Community Portal - Finance tab

New Results tab configurations

The configuration setting CommunityPortal>Students>EnableResults has been removed. Nine new configurations have been added to customise:

• whether the Results tab is displayed
• what title to display for the tab in the menu bar
• what information is presented:
• CommunityPortal>Pages>Results>
  EnabledFlag
• CommunityPortal>Pages>Results>
  Text
• CommunityPortal>Students>Classes>
  PostReportsHeading>Text
• CommunityPortal>Students>Classes>
  PostReportsHeading>VisibleFlag
• CommunityPortal>Students>Classes>
  PreReportsHeading>Text
• CommunityPortal>Students>Classes>
  PreReportsHeading>VisibleFlag
• CommunityPortal>Students>Results>
  AlwaysShowAssessmentArea
• CommunityPortal>Students>Results>
  AssessmentAreaOverviewFormat
• CommunityPortal>Students>Results>
  ShowReportLastPrintedDateFlag.

Community Portal - Results tab

New PTI tab configurations

The configuration setting CommunityPortal>Students>EnablePTI has been removed, and two new configurations have been added to customise whether the Interviews tab is displayed and what title to display for the tab in the menu bar:

• CommunityPortal>Pages>PTI>
  EnabledFlag
• CommunityPortal>Pages>PTI>
  Text.

Community Portal - Interviews tab

New Timetable tab configurations

The configuration setting CommunityPortal>Students>EnableTimetable has been removed, and two new configurations have been added to customise whether the Timetable tab is displayed, and what title to display for the tab in the menu bar:

• CommunityPortal>Pages>Timetable>
  EnabledFlag
• CommunityPortal>Pages>Timetable>
  Text.

Community Portal - Timetable tab

Look and feel customisation added

The ability to customise the images, fonts and colour scheme of the community portal using CSS and HTML files has been added.

Customising the CSS and images

New configuration setting replaces Students>Homepage

The configuration setting CommunityPortal>Students>Homepage has been removed, and new configuration settings have been added to customise:

• the message displayed regarding the use of Adobe Acrobat on the portal
• which tab or custom URL (Universal Resource Locator) the portal presents to community members once they've logged in
• whether the portal allows community members to log in during a system upgrade:
• CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>

AcrobatDetectHTML

• CommunityPortal>Login>HomePage
• CommunityPortal>Students>
  UseMaintMessages.

Community Portal Home page

New configuration settings replace CustomHTML>Greeting and Styles>ShowLastLoginDetails

The configuration settings CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>Greeting and CommunityPortal>Styles>ShowLastLoginDetails have been removed and eleven new configuration settings have been added to customise the messages displayed on the individual portal tabs:

• CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>
  Absences>Top
• CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>
  AcrobatDetectHTML
• CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>
  Attendances>Top
• CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>
  ContactUs>Top
• CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>
  Docs>Top
• CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>
  Introduction>Top
• CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>
  MyAccount>Body
• CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>
  MyAccount>BodyStudent
• CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>
  MyAccount>Bottom
• CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>
  MyAccount>Top
• CommunityPortal>CustomHTML>
  Results>Top.

Using CustomHTML

New documentation configuration settings

Three new configuration settings have been added to customise how the portal displays documents that are not stored in the database:

• CommunityPortal>Docs>FilePathOnlyStored>
  Hint
• CommunityPortal>Docs>FilePathOnlyStored>
  Text
• CommunityPortal>Docs>FilePathOnlyStored>
  VisibleFlag

Community Portal - Docs tab

New email configuration settings.

Sixteen new configuration settings have been added to customise emails sent from the portal:

• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  SchoolAdmin>ChangedIndicators
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  SchoolAdmin>FieldFormat
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  SchoolAdmin>HTMLFlag
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  SchoolAdmin>Priority
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  SchoolAdmin>Style
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  SchoolAdmin>Subject
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  SchoolAdmin>Text
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  StudentContact>ChangedIndicators
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  StudentContanct>EnabledFlag
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  StudentContact>FieldFormat
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  StudentContact>HTMLFlag
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  StudentContact>Priority
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  StudentContact>Style
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  StudentContact>Subject
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  StudentContact>Text
• CommunityPortal>Email>ContactDetails>
  ToAddress.

Email settings

New security configuration settings.

Three new configuration settings have been added to customise the portal's session length and use of URL encryption:

• CommunityPortal>EncryptURLQueryString>
  EnabledFlag
• CommunityPortal>EncryptURLQueryString>
  PassPhrase
• CommunityPortal>Login>VendorAuthentication>
  TokenExpiryMinutes.

Security settings

New settings to customise the portal configuration for each year level.

Portal configurations can now be customised per year level using the luYearLevel>CommPortalOverrideConfigKey5 lookup table.

Customising portal configurations per year level