You 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 (on page ).
- Configure the IIS server registry settings. See IIS server registry settings (on page ).
- Customise the academic period displayed by the portal. See Configuring the year and semester to display
Anchor H_15724 H_15724 (on page ). - Customise what information is displayed for each year level. See Customising the portal per year level (on page ).
- Customise whether future and past students are shown in the portal. See Configuring the students displayed in the portal
Anchor H_31646 H_31646 (on page ). - Use the Community Portal Admin Panel to set the attributes of the main menu and side menu. See Using the <Admin Panel (on page )_Panel>.
- Configure how the side menu appears. See Configuring the side menu
Anchor H_35063 H_35063 (on page ). - Customise the information displayed when the portal is undergoing maintenance. See Customising maintenance messages (on page ).
- Customise reports. See Customising reports
Anchor H_39499 H_39499 (on page ).
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. | ||||||||
Customise the way student names are displayed. | ||||||||
Customise the name of the portal. | PortalName configuration setting (on page ) | |||||||
Customise the banner displayed on portal pages. | ShowHeader configuration setting | |||||||
Customise how the portal menu is displayed. | HideUnusedItemsPerUser configuration setting H_28233 | H_28233 | (on page ) ShowMenu:VerticalFlag configuration setting Anchor | H_28234 | H_28234 (on page ) | |||
Determine whether Crystal Report links are displayed on the Community Portal. | EnableCrystalReports configuration setting (on page ) |