Administrators who have "Appset" task security rights can view and change application set parameters. The parameters that require a value include 'Required' in the description. Parameters that do not require a value include 'Optional' in the description. If an application set parameter is required, you can leave it blank to accept the default, but if you delete the parameter, the system may not work correctly. If an application parameter is optional, you can leave it blank or delete it.
The following table describes the parameters you can set.
Key ID Description
APPROVALSTATUSMAIL Defines whether owners and managers get email when one or the other changes an work status. Valid values are Yes (send email) and No (do not send email). (Optional)
APPROVALSTATUSMSG Allows you to define a custom email message that is sent when a work status code is changed. The message is applicable to all applications in the application set. You can customize the message using the following variables:
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%USER% - name of user who changed the status•
%ED% - Entity dimension•
%EM% - Entity member•
%CD% - Category dimension•
%CM% - Category member•
%TD% - Time dimension•
%TM% - Time member•
%STA% - Work status•
%OWNER% - Entity owner•
%TIME% - time of changeFor example, you can enter "This is to inform you that %USER% has updated the work status for %EM%, %CM%, %TM% on %TIME%". The message can be up to 255 characters, and there is no need for quotes or brackets around parameters.
AVAILABLEFLAG Controls whether the system is offline or not. Yes means the system is online and available for sending data to the database. You can take the system offline by changing the value to No. (Required)
See Setting application set status
AVAILABLEMSG The message that is displayed to users who try to access an application that is offline (AVAILABLEFLAG = No). (Required)
For example, the message might be BPC is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance. Please try again later.
See Settingapplication set status
AVAILABLEURL The name of the Web page to display to users who try to access an application that is offline (AVAILABLEFLAG = No). (Required) For example, the url might be: /osoft/NotAvailable.asp See Maintaining applications
COMMITTIMEOUT The amount of time (in seconds) the system attempts to commit data to the database before timing out. (Optional)
Key ID Description
CONTENTBORDER Border thickness of a section of content on a BPC Web page, in pixels. (Optional)
CONTENTSPACE Blank space around the outer edge of a section of content, in pixels. (Optional)
HOSTADDRESS The host address of the Collaboration forum. If blank, Content Library will use defined host address. If host is behind firewall, administrators can define host address as IP address to access direct from out of firewall. JREPORTZOOM This parameter allows you to allows you to set the default zoom
magnification value on HTML journal reports. We recommend that you set the value to 75%. (Optional)
LANDINGPAGEITEM To customize the Getting Started page on BPC Web, please contact your system administrator.
MAXLRCOLUMNS The maximum number of columns to display in a live report in BPC Web. The value includes header and data columns. For example, if you specify a value of 5, one heading column and four data columns are displayed. MAXLRROWS The maximum number of rows to display in a live report in BPC Web. The
value includes header and data rows. For example, if you specify a value of 5, one heading row and four data rows are displayed.
MSNIMPassword The password that the system uses to operate IM alerts in Insight. MSNIMUser The user name that the system uses to operate IM alerts in Insight.
OFFICEFILELINK This is a toggle. If this parameter is 0, offline shortcuts to Office documents are created as HTML. If this parameter is 1, offline shortcuts to Office documents are created as JavaScript so that Content Library information is preserved. (Optional)
SESSIONTIME Reserved for future use.
SMTPAUTH The authentication method of the SMTP server. (Required)
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0 = Anonymous•
1 = Basic•
2 = NTLMThis setting does not change the method on the SMTP server, but must match the type of authentication enabled on it. Failure to set this appropriately can result in errors from the email server. SMTPPASSWORD The password for the sending email user name. (Required)
SMTPPORT Port number for your SMTP email server. Default is port 25, the default SMTP server port number. (Required)
SMTPSERVER The name or TCP/IP address of the SMTP email server the system uses to send email. (Required)
Key ID Description
TEMPLATEVERSION Current version number of the dynamic templates in your application set. Whenever you add to or change your input schedule or report dynamic templates, you should increment this version number so that users will automatically get the new templates downloaded when they log on to this application set. (Required)
You can also reset the template version from the Admin Console. See Setting template version.
UPLOADTEMP Temporary folder used to store Content Library documents. (Required)
When you design a Content Library page that contains a BPF object, an application set parameter starting with B0000000000 (such as B00000000002) is automatically created by the system. This is an internal number only, and is reserved for future use.
To set application set parameters
1. Start BPC Administration, and from the Administration Configuration action pane, select Set AppSet parameters.
2. Modify the parameters, as desired, then click Update .