General settings

18You can customise generally how the Community Portal appears and functions to suit your organisation's needs.

How to:

Edit the configuration xml file. See Editing the SynCommPortal.xml configuration file.
Configure the IIS server registry settings. See IIS server registry settings.
Customise the academic period displayed by the portal. See Configuring the year and semester to display.
Customise what information is displayed for each year level. See Customising the portal per year level.
Customise whether future and past students are shown in the portal. See Configuring the students displayed in the portal.
Use the Community Portal Admin Panel to set the attributes of the main menu and side menu. See Using the Admin Panel.
Configure how the side menu appears. See Configuring the side menu.
Customise the information displayed when the portal is undergoing maintenance. See Customising maintenance messages.
Customise reports. See Customising reports.

What you can do

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Determine whether the Community Portal admin can see every tab including disabled tabs when impersonating another user.	AdminImpersonateShowDisabledPagesFlag configuration setting
Define the live web address of the Community Portal for your organisation.	CommunityPortal:Settings:LiveURL configuration setting
Customise the way student names are displayed.	NameExternal configuration setting
Customise the name of the portal.	PortalName configuration setting
Customise the banner displayed on portal pages.	ShowHeader configuration setting
Customise how the portal menu is displayed.	HideUnusedItemsPerUser configuration setting RenderMethod configuration setting ShowMenu configuration setting ShowMenu:NewStyleFlag configuration setting ShowMenu:VerticalFlag configuration setting