System Settings

The System page allows you to control application-wide settings, and is only accessible by employees with a permission level that allows them to edit system settings, such as Administrator. The following properties can be set:

Property

Description

Week Start

The first day of the week, for instance Sunday or Monday. Note that you can still have different time periods with different week starts, but this value will be the default value.

Hours Per Day

The default number of work hours in a day. This value is used when putting leave and holidays on timesheets. In addition, this value is used when displaying how many days of balance are available on the employee's home page. Note that you can override this value for each employee by setting the Scheduled Hours Per Day property on the Employee page.

Default Locale

The default locale for new employees. A locale is a language/country combination that determines the formatting of dates, currency and numbers. All diagnostic and audit log information is formatted using the default locale, too.

Default Time Zone

The default time zone for new employees.

Base Currency

Base currency for application. This is used when displaying or prompting for currency amounts.

Outgoing Email (SMTP) Server

The host name or IP address of your outgoing email server. Specify a value here in order to enable the application to send email notifications such as timesheet events or forgotten password requests. Self-hosted version only.

Port

The port number for your SMTP server. The default is 25.

Security

If your SMTP server is using connection security you will need to select the appropriate value here. Your options are:

None	No connection encryption
TLS	Transport Layer Security encryption
SSL	Secure Socket Layer encryption

The optional login name for the outgoing email server. Self-hosted version only.

Password

The optional password for the outgoing email server. Self-hosted version only.

Reply Address

The email reply address for notifications sent by the application. This is required if you have specified the outgoing email server address.

Audit Level

The audit level controls the amount of auditing the system performs. All audit events can be reported on using the Audit Report, available from the Reports tab. The following audit levels are provided:

Audit Levels
None	No auditing
Standard	Standard auditing, which includes the following audit controls: Logging successful and unsuccessful login attempts, including their IP address Logging login name and password changes Logging audit setting changes Logging user creation, modification and deletion Logging timesheet deletion
High (DCAA)	Full Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) auditing. This provides the following additional audit controls over the Standard audit level: Logging of any changes made to an employee's timesheet by another employee (for example their manager). Logging of any changes an employee makes to their own timesheet if the time entry is more than 24 hours in the past. Timesheets require approval Comments must be recorded when timesheets are approved, rejected, or resubmitted for approval. For more information see http://www.dcaa.mil/

Audit Days

The number of days to keep audit data (maximum 365). Note that audit data, especially if using the high (DCAA) level, can consume a considerable amount of storage.

Application URL

The base address for this application, for example http://hostname/timesheet. This is used when formatting links in email notices and other messages. For instance, the notice variable ${System.url} will be replaced with this value (see the Notices topic for more details). Self-hosted version only.

Send Test Email

After configuring your email server settings it is a good idea to send a test email. The email will be sent to the same address as the reply address.