System Configuration

Main system configurations are available under:

Admin > System configuration > Settings

From each tab panel, you can access a different configuration section with different groups of options

Most of the options are self-explaining, we will describe the most important and critical.

Main Options

General Settings

This group of options includes the main basic configurations for your Forma LMS installation

Page Title

The name that appears in the user's browser;

Default Template

The default template assigned to the installation;

Website URL

The web address of your platform (must finish with a /)

Default language

The default language for the platform labels, if a user specific language isn't defined

Sender email for alerts

The e-mail address from which notifications are sent to users

Visual HTML Editor

The visual editor used for text formatting

Site Owner

Text to be shown as custom footer credits in your template

Email Options

 Set-ups for the general email settings for the platform

Prefix for helpdesk

Enter a text to prepend to the helpdesk email subject. 

Add CC or CCN Addresses

All the emails sent by the system will also be sent to these addresses. If you want to use multiple email addresses in those fields, please use a comma (,) followed by a space as a separator.

User

General Settings

Main settings for user related configurations:  from this sectionsection, it is possible to edit:

Password

Main settings for password related configurations

Register

Settings for platform registration modes and features

Registration Types

Free self registration

Users can self-register directly to the platform, receiving just their credentials if a notification event is enabled (Check Event Manager for notification settings)

Free registration with double OPT-IN

Users will receive an email with a confirmation link upon self-registration

Moderated self registration

User registration must be approved by an administrator

Only administrators

Only administrators can register new users. Registration link on login page is disabled

Advanced Registration

Select the option “Use advanced registration form” to:

1. Split registration for custom fields: users will be asked first to fill the main registration fields, while all the custom fields will be prompted on a following page
2. Enable self registration to Groups: upon registration, users will be prompted with a list of groups and will be automatically added to the selected groups

Registration Code Usage

This feature extends the registration form, asking the user to select or insert a code.

This will:

• automatically insert the user in an orgchart node
• automatically enroll the registering user to some course
• both of the above

Other Options

Limit the user to only one node

Select to avoid users to be registered in multiple nodes

Mandatory customfield

mandatory customfields will be required also in administration user edit

E-Learning

This section includes some configuration options for frontend LMS and courses

General Settings

Home Page

Select the page to be shown to users after login

Send user to catalog if not enrolled

Redirect user to catalog if MyCourses page is set as home page but is empty

Hide Empty category

In the catalog page, empty categories are not listed in the side tree categories listing

Show login catalog

A button to the courses catalog will be shown on the login page

 

Ecommerce

Settings for the ecommerce features. You just need to enter your PayPal account and, if you actually want to sell courses, unflag the “sandbox” option. The sandbox would be used to run tests without actually completing the transaction, obviously when you are ready to sell your courses you don't need a sandbox anymore. 

Important: if you want to use the ecommerce functions, you also have to do 2 more things

• enable the course catalog
• flag the “sell course” option when you create or edit your course, and put a price on it.

Main

 Enable the “Labels” Feature

Videoconference

Advanced

General Settings

Session

The period of inactivity, after which a user is disconnected (session length)

Domain template assignment

Set the template to be assigned to specific domains. Add one domain per row, like: [www.yourdomain.com],[template]

File uploads

 Set the default folders for different types of asset.

Caution. Changing these paths may lead to link and display errors.

Twig Cache

 Use this button to empty the Twig Cache folder in case of visualization problems after plugin install or template changes.

Debug Options

 Options to enable code and language debug features

Google

 Settings for Google Analytics integration

Newsletter

Settings to avoid blacklisting and antispam issues when sending emails with the newsletter feature

 

Report Settings

 Use these settings to configure automatic report sending conditions

Security Related

Some security related options:

IP control

If this option is selected and the user changes connection during the same login session, he will get an error

Disable simultaneous access

The same user cannot be logged from different devices at the same time

API & Authentication

Check the API & Integration documentation for details

SMS

You can also send SMS from Forma. We have an integration with the popular Skebby service. Just create an account with them (click on the button), purchase credit from them and fill the required fields with the account information you will receive from Skebby.

Then you'll be able to send Forma notifications with an SMS instead of an email. Every automatic event can be configured with email or SMS from the event manager. For the manual communications, you can decide what to use from time to time.

Of course, you need to have the mobile phone number of your users in an additional field, and you need to set the correct field for the mobile number in this section.

SMTP settings

If you want to send trusted and authenticated emails with one of your email accounts, remember to set these 2 parameters as “on” during the installation of Forma Lms

$cfg['use_smtp_database'] = 'on';
$cfg['use_smtp'] = 'on';

If you select that you will use the SMTP, a new tab will appear in your general settings, and you'll be able to insert your account information in your User Interface (host, port, password, username, security…).