Admin Setup - Images

Administrators can use the Images setup screen to create and maintain the set of graphical images that will be available for use in your system.   

Images can currently be loaded and used in the following areas:  

 

Tip -- Using Login Screen image for Message of the Day

While the general intent of a particular image may be to display a logo on a particular screen, some customers will use this feature to accommodate a 'Message of the Day" functionality.  That is, they may configure a particular image to be displayed on their main login screen to point to a specific logo file location.  Unanet Administrators could create custom messages in another product (ie MS Word) and then create a snapshot of that message, saving it to the same configured logic screen image file name (and thus relatively easily allow for the quick customization of messages to your Unanet community.

 

Note: You can only have one active image of type 'Login' and 'Timesheet View' with no limit to the number of images of other types.

This screen is available with any Unanet license.

 

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Example Images maintenance screen:

This screen can be used to add, edit, delete and preview image files.  You cannot remove an image file that is currently being used in the system.  You can, however, modify an existing image by editing the entry, clicking on the replace  icon, and selecting a new image file to use for that entry.

 

Legacy Logo Management & Grayed out Entries

Prior to the availability of this screen, images could be configured using the "unanet properties" (either via the unanet.properties file or via the Admin >> Properties screen).  If you have existing images of a certain type defined via a legacy method, then any entries of that type that you add via this screen will be unavailable for use in your system and will appear in a light gray text (you will be unable to make these entries active). That is, the legacy image configuration takes precedence over the images loaded via this screen.

To allow for the use of the grayed out entries, you will need to remove any existing image property settings from the Admin >> Properties screen (or have your system administrator physically remove or comment out the corresponding entries in the unanet.properties file if that is where they were originally configured).

Generally speaking, if you still have custom logos and images defined via the Admin >> Properties method, you should consider removing those properties and instead use the functionality on this screen.  

This would include removing the unanet.logo.xxx, unanet.splash.xxx, and unatime.preview.logo.xxx properties.

Field Descriptions (click on a link below for additional information):

 

 

The types of files allowed can be restricted by a Unanet Administrator by supplying a list of valid or invalid allowable file extensions using the following properties: unanet.image.invalid_file_extensions and unanet.image.valid_file_extensions.  Further, the allowable size of an uploaded image can be limited using the unanet.image.max_size property.  Generally speaking, jpg and gif files tend to be much smaller than tif and png file formats.

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