GUI Configuration

The outward appearance and look of ]project-open[ is controlled by several parameters.  These have nothing to do with the functionality, and are meant to be used by a business in order to put their "personal" stamp onto ]project-open[. ­

• Portlets
• System Logo
• Left Navigation Bar 
• CSS

Portlets

­ Portlets do appear on Portlet Pages such as the principle pages for particular projects, users or companies.
Each Portlet Page consists of one or more portlets.

Portlets can be managed on two different levels:

• Application Level
  
• User Level
  

Configuring Portlets on Application Level

Configuring Portlets on an Application Level defines if a Portlet is visible to members of a particular User Group.    
Portlets for all user / user groups are managed using the following admin page: http://[YOUR_SERVER]/intranet/admin/components/




A fully installed ]po[ might contain up 100 different portlets. Use the filters on the left side to limit the elements shown.
The very right columns containing either a lowercase or uppercase letter 'r' define if a is visible ('R') to a user group or not ('r').
Portlets can be hidden for all user groups by disabling them (see column "EN"). 
 

Configuring Portlets on User Level

Once a Portlet  is a available to a user, each user is capable to switch on/switch off this portlet and change its location. Settings are stored on a user level. 
Location and Display (on/off) of portlets can be changed by using the buttons that appear when doing a "mouse over" of the top bar of the portlet:



Disabled portlets can be recovered by by either resetting all Portlets to the default or add them individually. Please use the links located on the top right corner of each page:



 

System Logo

(Default System Logo found in the upper left hand corner of the page) 

Please modify the parameter SystemLogo in Admin -> Parameters -> intranet-core in order to customize the system logo. This parameter represents the relative URL of the logo file. For example, the value "/logo.gif" refers to the folder /web/projop/www/logo.gif (C:/project-open/servers/projop/www/logo.gif in Windows). You can copy your corporate logo into the same folder and modify the SystemLogo parameter accordingly.

The parameter SystemLogoLink controls the URL that is associated with logo.  Default is http://www.project-open.com/.

Left Navigation Bar

(Default Nav Bar found on the left hand side of page)

The left navigation bar should adapt itself automatically to permission settings of menus and other permissions.

You can disable the left navigation bar completely in Admin -> Parameters -> intranet-core and set the parameter ShowLeftFunctionalMenupP=0.

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets are used in order format HTML output for the dynamically produced pages of ]project-open[.  The default style sheet used throughout the system is controlled by the parameter SystemCSS below the "intranet-core" grouping of parameters.  The parameter consists of a file pathname to the style sheet.  Default set-up for the parameter is "/intranet/style/style.default.css"­  on Linux.  

We recommend to anyone wishing to modify the CSS that they do so by copying and pasting the original, and then modify according to suit their needs.  Add the newly modified C­SS to "intranet/style/" and then alter the paramter accordingly to point to the new CSS. ­ 

References

• System Configuration