The following entries describe the server settings in LAMS. They may be set via the "Configuration Settings" screen in System Administration. The entries with the are entries used for customising LAMS to your site.

In most cases, changing a setting using the "Configuration Settings" screen will change the setting straight away. But if you change the User Inactive Timeout Period or the Allow Multiple Login flag then you will need to restart LAMS for the changes to take affect as these settings are cached for efficiency.

Please do not change any of the values that do not have an unless specifically told to change them!

If you wish to change the logo or colour scheme in LAMS, see Themes.

Chat Server

Chat server settings. See "Setting Up Wildfire Chat Server" on http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lamsdocs/Windows+Installer+Help

	Label	Configuration Key	Description
	Chat Service Admin Username	XmppAdmin	Admin username set up in Wildfire e.g. admin
	Chat Server Conference	XmppConference	Same as XmppDomain, but prepended with 'conference.', e.g. 'conference.localhost'
	Chat Server Domain	XmppDomain	The address of the chat server e.g. localhost
	Chat Server Admin Password	XmppPassword	Password for the Wildfire admin user

Email

	Label	Configuration Key	Description
	LAMS Support Email	LamsSupportEmail	Not used at present.
	SMTP Server	SMTPServer	Required for sending system emails.

Features

	Label	Configuration Key	Description
	Allow Direct Lesson Launch	AllowDirectLessonLaunch	The lesson launch page is a special url which will display a short page with basic lesson details and a button to allow the user to start the learner interface for this lesson. If AllowDirectLessonLaunch is "true" then the url for the lesson launch page will be shown in authoring for staff to copy and paste into another system, or send by email to the learners. Default to "false". Should be "true" or "false".
	Allow Live Edit	AllowLiveEdit	Live Edit allows a staff member to change a learning design (sequence) once a lesson has started. It changes just the copy of the learning design that is being used for the lesson - the original design created in authoring is not changed by LiveEdit. This configuration parameter shows/hides the Live Edit button in Monitoring. Added in LAMS 2.0.3 / RAMS 1.0. Defaults to "true". Should be "true" or "false".
	Enable LAMS Community	LAMS_Community_enable	Turn on the LAMS Community tab on the user's main screen.

Look and Feel

	Label	Configuration Key	Description
	Authoring Activities Colour	AuthoringActivitiesColour	Show the the activity icons with a variety of background colours in authoring. Defaults to true, change to false to give the icons a consistent background colour
	Default Flash Theme	DefaultFlashTheme	Default theme to be used for Flash parts. Defaults to "default", which matches to the defaultTheme.xml in lams.ear\lams-central.war\flashxml. No alternative themes are available at the moment.
	Default HTML Theme	DefaultHTMLTheme	Default theme to be used for HTML pages. Defaults to "default", which matches to the defaultHTML.css and defaultHTML_learner.css files in lams.ear\lams-central.war\css. No alternative themes are available at the moment.
	Batch size for monitoring's learner progress screen.	LearnerProgressBatchSize	Number of learners to be displayed on the learner progress screen in monitoring
	Locale	ServerLanguage	Default server language. Must be an entry from the lams_supported_locale table e.g. en_AU, es_ES. If this entry is invalid, the login pages will revert to Australian English
	Locale Page Direction	ServerPageDirection	Overall page layout - LTR (Left to right) or RTL (Right to left). Should match the ServerLanguage. Not fully supported in LAMS 2.0.

LDAP (To be added in LAMS 2.1)

See LDAP Configuration.

LDAP Attribute Mapping (To be added in LAMS 2.1)

See LDAP Configuration.

System Configuration

	Label	Configuration Key	Description
	Number of Days to Keep Preview	CleanupPreviewOlderThanDays	Not currently in use.
	Flash Dump Files Directory	DumpDir	When the Flash clients receive an unexpected response from the server, the user can write out a dump file to this directory. The dump file can be used for reporting bugs back to the LAMS team.
	EAR Directory	EARDir	The "deployed" or "running" version of LAMS will go here. It is usually <JBOSS directory>/server/default/deploy/lams.ear. If this is wrong then the export portfolio will not work correctly.
	Help URL	HelpURL	This website! Defaults to http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lamsdocs/
	Server URL	ServerURL	ServerURL must be set to the url you intend to use to run LAMS. If you put one url here, and then access LAMS via another url the look and feel will be wrong as the stylesheets will not load properly. It may also call the Flash parts of LAMS to fail.
	Server URL Context Path	ServerURLContextPath	This is the part of the ServerURL that comes after the http://<server:port>/. For example, if your ServerURL is "http://localhost:8080/lams/" then the ServerURLContextPath must be "lams/". If your ServerURL is "http://somehostofmine.com.au/rams/" then the ServerURLContextPath must be "rams/". This is used to build paths to the HTML editor, so if it is wrong then the HTML editor will not work.
	Temporary Files Directory	TempDir	Location of temporary files. Should be allocated to an area with plenty of disk space. These files can be deleted if they are more than a couple of days old.
	Cache Debug Listener	UseCacheDebugListener	Development only usage - used when debugging issues with the JBOSS Debugger.
	Inactive User Timeout	UserInactiveTimeout	Number of seconds until an inactive user's session should timeout. Defaults to 86400 (24 hours).
	Version	Version	Overall version string identifying LAMS. Displayed on the login screen. Value set when a release is done.

Uploaded Files

	Label	Configuration Key	Description
	Content Repository Directory	ContentRepositoryPath	This is where all uploaded files are stored, so it needs to be on a disk with plenty of space.
	Executable Extensions	ExecutableExtensions	Not used at present.
	Maximum Memory Used When Uploading	UploadFileMaxMemorySize	Maximum amount of memory that should be used when user's uploading files. If the file is larger than this, then it is temporarily written to disk.
	Maximum Upload Size	UploadFileMaxSize	Maximum size of file uploaded by a learner. Given in bytes. Defaults to 1048576 (1 MB). Used from LAMS 2.0.1 onwards.
	Maximum Large Upload Size	UploadLargeFileMaxSize	Maximum size of file uploaded in special areas where a larger file is permitted (e.g. authoring). Given in bytes. Defaults to 10485760 (10 MB). Used from LAMS 2.0.1 onwards.

Version

	Label	Configuration Key	Description
	Authoring Client Version	AuthoringClientVersion	Version string identifying the build of the Authoring Flash client. Value set when LAMS is compiled.
	Language Pack Install Date	DictionaryDateCreated	Date when last language pack was installed. Used to trigger the download of new language files to the Flash clients. Should be set when new language packs are installed.
	Learner Client Version	LearnerClientVersion	Version string identifying the build of the Learner Flash client. Value set when LAMS is compiled.
	Monitor Client Version	MonitorClientVersion	Version string identifying the build of the Monitoring Flash client. Value set when LAMS is compiled.
	Server Version Number	ServerVersionNumber	Version string identifying server component version. Value set when LAMS is compiled.

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