Backend customizing
Introduction
Backend customizing is a mechanism to customize various parameters of the backend. There are not many settings you can do, as this mechanism is relatively new. However, this mechanism will be used more and more in the future.How it works
Customizing Contenido settings is very easy and can be done via the group or user customizing settings.
User settings have precendence before group settings. User settings always override group settings. If the user is added to more than one group, the result is undefined. Make sure that your groups don't override each other.
Common parameters
| Area/Type | Property | Value (Description) | Applies to |
| backend | currentlogintime | Date and Time when this session has been started (automatically set by the backend) | Users |
| backend | lastlogintime | Date and Time when the last session was started (automatically set by the backend) | Users |
| backend | preferred_idclient | ID of the client which should be selected after backend login | System, Clients, Groups, Users |
| backend | leftframewidth | Defines the width of the left frame. Standard value is 250. | System, Clients, Group, Users |
| backend | small-navigation | (true, false): If true, a small navigation is shown. Default: false | System, Clients, Groups, Users |
| articles | show-new-window-checkbox | (true, false): If true, show "new window" checkbox for redirects in article properties. Note: If a redirect has been specified, the page is redirected to the new URL using an html page header. As header redirects can't open new windows, this setting is only useful, if a navigation module is used, which mentions the "open in new window" setting and adds a ′target="_blank"′ to the link, if necessary. Default: false | System, Clients, Groups, Users |
| cms_img | directory-height | Height of the directory lister in rows, default 5 | System, Groups, Users |
| cms_img | directory-width | Width of the directory lister in pixels, default 300 | System, Groups, Users |
| cms_img | file-height | Height of the file lister in rows, default 5 | System, Groups, Users |
| cms_img | file-width | Width of the file lister in pixels, default 300 | System, Groups, Users |
| cms_img | description-height | Height of the description box in rows, default 5 | System, Groups, Users |
| cms_img | description-width | Width of the description box in characters, default 70 | System, Groups, Users |
| cms_img | preview-height | Height of the preview area in pixels, default 400 | System, Groups, Users |
| cms_img | preview-width | Width of the preview window in pixels, default 600 | System, Groups, Users |
| imagemagick | available | Set "1" if ImageMagick is available on your server to receive best results when resizing images | System, Groups, Users |
| modules | java-edit | Enable the java module editor | System, Groups, Users |
| modules | edit-with-tabs | (true, false) If set to "true" you can use the <tab> key to insert tabs in the input and output code areas (IE 6/7, FF 1.5/2). Default: false | System, Clients, Groups, Users |
| modules | disable-history | (true, false) If true, don't use the module history. Default: false | System, Clients, Groups, Users |
| modules | storeasfiles | Defines if Contenido should store modules as text files. THIS IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL, ONLY USE IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! Default off. | System |
| modules | loadfromfiles | Defines if Contenido should load modules as text files. THIS IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL, ONLY USE IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! Default off. | System |
| modules | force-menu-check | If system/modulecheck is enabled, force module check while module list will be generated (instead of using database information). Default $quot;false$quot;. | System, Clients, Groups, Users |
| system | modulecheck | if set to "false" (as string), modules aren't tested for syntax errors (needed for older PHP versions) | System |
| system | languageorder | If set to "name", languages in the drop-down (top right) will be shown ordered by name, if not specified or set to something else, languages will be ordered by language id (default) | System, Clients, Groups, Users |
| system | multiassign | If false, don't allow multi assignments for articles. | System, Clients |
| layout | htmlvalidator | (true, false): If true, use the HTML validator. Default: true | System, Groups, Users |
| newsletter | option-cronjob-available | (true, false): If true, then a newsletter option can be activated to send the newsletter using cron jobs. Note, that this option should only be used, if a real cron service is available (do not use the Contenido built-in pseudo cron service). Additionally, note, that there is a send job file available in the contenido/cronjobs folder, but it hasn't been added to the cron job list - just generate a real cron job on your server running this file. Default: false | System, Clients, Users |
| newsletter | disable-rn-replacement | (true, false): If true, "\r\n" will not be replaced by just "\n" to prevent double lines in mails. This may be a good idea on Windows-Servers. Usually, use the default setting. Default: false | System |
| newsletter | remove_base_tag | (true, false): Usually every article contains a "e;base href"e; tag. This is nice, as all links, URLs and sources can be relative and we can move the client around, as we like. But there is a problem with anchors: They only work, if the link to the anchor (on the same page) contains the URL of the current article (e.g. "front_content.php?idart=77#MyAnchor"). This works fine, if you are on the website, but not, if you use anchors in html newsletter articles (as the mail doesn't has this URL). If you like to use anchors in html newsletters, set this setting to "true" and check everything twice, as also all URLs and source path will be changed by Contenido code. Default: false | Client |
| newsletter | html_username html_password | If the frontend (the website) is proteced using .htaccess (username/password), you have to specify html_username and html_password to be able to send html newsletters (as html newsletters are just usual articles). Default: empty or not specified | Client |
| frontendusers | pluginsearch | (true, false): If true, the frontend users menu also searches trough plugins. However, searching trough plugins have a huge performance inpact on the list. If you have alot of frontend users, set this to false to disable this function. Default: true | System, Clients, Users |
| frontendusers | pluginsearch_valid_plugins | If pluginsearch is set to true, you can hereby limit the plugins to search over. This property must be a comma-separated list (no whitespaces) of all plugins that should be used for pluginsearch. All other plugins will be skipped to improve performance. | System, Clients, Users |
| generator | xhtml | (true, false): Defines if the tags generated by Contenido should be XHTML compliant. WARNING: This does not alter the HTML code in your layouts and modules! You have to revise your modules and layouts to be XHTML compliant. Default: false. | System, Clients |
| generator | basehref | (true, false): Defines if Contenido should automatically insert a base href tag. Default: true. | System, Clients |
| edit_area | activated | (true, false): Defines if syntax highlighting editor is used in backend for modul, js, css and html code Default: true. | System, Clients, Groups, Users |
| system | insight_editing_activated | (true, false): Defines if insight editing is used in article editor | System, Clients, Groups, Users |
| maintenance | mode | (disabled, enabled): In maintenance mode, only sysadmins are allowed to login into contenido backend. Default: disabled | System |
| pw_request | enable | (true, false): Property definies if contanido is allowed to generate new passwords for backenduser and submits them via mail. Default: true | System |
| system | mail_host | Host which is used for sending system mails (PW-Request). Default: localhost | System |
| system | mail_sender | Sender mail-adress of Contenido Systemmails. (PW-Request). Default: info@contenido.org | System |
| system | mail_sender_name | Sender name of Contenido Systemmails. (PW-Request). Default: Contenido Backend | System |
| update | check | (true, false): Update checker notifies sysadmins, if there are new updates for contenido on contenido org. Default: false | System |
| update | news_feed | (true, false): Update RSS News notifies sysadmins, about news on contenido org and security issues. Default: false | System |
tinyMCE-related Parameters
Starting with Contenido V4.6.16 all tinyMCE settings which may be specified for tinyMCE and the plugins may be specified as system, client, group or user setting. Use "tinymce" as type and as name the name of the parameter according to the tinyMCE documentation.
These parameters can't be set using a setting: document_base_url, file_browser_callback
| tinymce | content_css | Defines the stylesheet to include within tinyMCE (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-stylesheet-file). | System, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | theme_advanced_styles | Defines the available styles in the tinyMCE style dropdown (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-styles) | System, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | width | Defines the width of tinyMCE (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-width, default 100%) | System, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | height | Defines the height if tinyMCE (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-height, default 480px) | System, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | contenido_height_html | Overrides the tinyMCE height when editing the CMS_HTML element (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-height-html) | System, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | contenido_height_head | Overrides the tinyMCE height when editing the CMS_HTMLHEAD element (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-height-head) | System, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | contenido_gzip | If set to "true" use gzip compression. The server has to provide the compression method. Default: "false" | System, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | contenido_toolbar_mode | Defines the tinyMCE toolbar mode (default "full"). Available choices: full, simple, mini, custom (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-toolbar-mode) | System, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | theme_advanced_buttons1 theme_advanced_buttons2 theme_advanced_buttons3 | Defines which items should be shown on the first/second/third toolbar. Please have a look at the tinyMCE documentation to find out which items you can use (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-toolbar1/2/3). Only used if the toolbar mode is "custom". | System, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | plugins | Defines which plugins should be loaded (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-plugins). Only used if the toolbar mode is "custom". | System, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | valid_elements | Defines which elements are allowed. See tinyMCE documentation for more information (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-valid-elements). Default: +a[name|href|target|title],strong/b[class],em/i[class],strike[class],u[class], p[dir|class|align],ol,ul,li,br,img[class|src|border=0|alt|title|hspace|vspace|width|height|align], sub,sup,blockquote[dir|style],table[border=0|cellspacing|cellpadding|width|height|class|align], tr[class|rowspan|width|height|align|valign],td[dir|class|colspan|rowspan|width|height|align|valign], div[dir|class|align],span[class|align],pre[class|align],address[class|align],h1[dir|class|align], h2[dir|class|align],h3[dir|class|align],h4[dir|class|align],h5[dir|class|align],h6[dir|class|align],hr | System, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | extended_valid_elements | Defined which elements are allowed. These elements are added to valid_elements (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-extended-valid-elements). Default: form[name|action|method],textarea[name|style|cols|rows],input[type|name|value|style|onclick], a[name|href|target|title|onclick],img[class|src|border=0|alt|title|hspace|vspace|width|height|align|onmouseover|onmouseout|name], hr[class|width|size|noshade],font[face|size|color|style],span[class|align|style] | System, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | contenido_background_color | This setting will be removed in version 4.9.7. Defines the tinyMCE background color (any valid CSS color value can be used). If you use an HTML hex color code, also include the # sign before the color (e.g. #ffffff). Default is "white" (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-backgroundcolor). | System, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | convert_urls | (true, false): Defines, if URLs will be converted (e.g. to relative URLs) at all. Please note, that URLs should be converted (e.g. for the time you may have to change the domain or server path). Default: true (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-convert-urls) | System, Clients, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | relative_urls | (true, false): If convert_urls is true, then this setting specifies, if URLs will be converted to relative or absolute URLs. Please note, that relative URLs should be used (e.g. for the time you may have to change the domain or server path). Default: true (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-relative-urls) | System, Clients, Groups, Users |
| tinymce | contenido_lists | If specified, adds dropdown lists with links for all articles (Insert Link popup window), images (Insert Image popup window) and/or all media/flash files (Insert Media/Flash popup window). Valid values are: link, image, media, flash. Values have to be separated by a comma, e.g. "link,image". Do not specify, if you have a lot of articles, images and/or media files (<= V4.6.15: wysiwyg/tinymce-lists). | System, Groups, Users |
Style-editor, Script-editor and HTML-editor related Parameters
| style_editor | wrap | {on, off} Default off. Defines the wrap attribute of the textarea to edit the CSS file. In case of 'on' the lines will be wraped. | System, Clients, Users |
| script_editor | wrap | {on, off} Default off. Defines the wrap attribute of the textarea to edit the JS file. | System, Clients, Users |
| html_editor | wrap | {on, off} Default off. Defines the wrap attribute of the textarea to edit the HTML file. | System, Clients, Users |