This panel controls settings and preferences generic to Tiki. The settings are explained below:

General Preferences

Theme

This option sets the theme of the application, please note that if the user preferences feature is enabled then users can choose their own theme overriding this setting. CSS files are located in the styles directory.

Slideshows theme

The CSS file used for slideshows, found in styles/slideshows

Language

This option selects the language that the site will use.

Use URI as Home Page:

See below for use of this field.

Home Page:

(How to set the site's home page)

This is a very interesting feature, with this setting you can select what to use as the Home Page of tiki, the Home page has the following properties:

• It's where you go if you click the home link in the main menu
• It's where you go after you log in
• It's where you go if you use http://some.com/tiki/index.php or http://some.com/tiki/
• It's where you go if you click the logo in the logo module.

  
  

You have many options for the home page:

• The wiki home page. If selected then the home page will be the Wiki Page selected as home page. (See selecting the wiki home page in the wiki panel)
• The Articles Home Page If selected the home page will be the articles home page where you can see the last n articles entered
• A Blog If selected then the home page will be a vweblog that you have to select in the weblog settings part of this screen. (if you don t set it or no blogs exist please don t select this option as the home page it will break the site)
• An Image gallery If selected the home page will be an image gallery that you can select in the Image galleries setting section of this screen, if you don t have any galleries please don t select this option because it won t work at all.
• A file gallery If selected the home page will be a file gallery that can be selected in the file galleries settings section of this screen. If you don t have any file galleries please don t select this options or the home page will be broken.
• A forum If selected the home page will be the list of topics of a forum selected from the forums setting section of this screen.
• A custom home page If selected the home page will be a customized home page, the customized home page is called using tiki-custom_home.php which does nothing but display the tiki-custom_home.tpl template so you can edit the template and put whatever HTML you want for your home page with images, links to wiki pages, links to forums, anything you want. This is a neat way to make your Tiki site very personal, design your home as you want and provide links to different Tiki sections from there. Maybe you can even use some flash (ouchi!!) 😊
• Any URL If you select this option then the URL entered at the box will be used as your home page this is very useful to set for example an HTML page as the home page tiki-page.php?pageName=foo or something similar.

OS

Indicates the operating system for this Tiki system if windows is selected then some specific functions that are Unix-related and can t be disabled without any problems are not used. This is just to make sure that your Tiki site will work...no functionality will be lost.

General Settings

Open external links in a new window:

If checked then links to external pages will be opened in a new window (please note that featuredLinks and hotwords links don t use this property. This property applies only to external links in wiki pages.

Display modules to all groups always:

In the admin modules screen when you assign a module to the left or right sidebar you can select which groups will be able to see the module. If this box is checked then modules will be always displayed to all users without considering their group. Use this feature if you are not interested in having modules that are displayed only to specific groups. (Note: The admin menu module is displayed only to admins)

Use cache for external pages:

If checked then Tiki will try to cache external links to make them available if the site goes offline or the page is changed. If you are running Tiki in an intranet or you don t won t the cache feature you can disable the feature here.

Use cache for external images:

When this option is checked Tiki will download images, store them in the database and replace their URLs by a local one. This allows you to always have images available even if they were taken from a external site and the site goes offline.

Use direct pagination links

If enabled then direct links to pages will be displayed in listings.If not enabled only next/prev buttons are provided.

Display menus as folders

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Use gzipped output:

Tiki will try to send gzipped content to browsers accepting compressed content. Can speed up a lot the access to your site.

Count admin page views:

If not checked then admin page views are not counted for the site statistics.

Server Name

The server name that tiki will use to build absolute URLS, example http://SERVER_NAME/. Usually the default is ok but in some special configurations you may want to change it. Localhost is a good value if you are testing tiki in your local machine.

Browser Title

This will identify the name of the site that will show in the title bar of your web browser (like the <title> tag in HTML).

Temporary Directory

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Sender Email

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Contact User

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Maximum number of records in listings

This option sets the maximum number of records that will be displayed in listings, there re seveal listings in Tiki, when the listing would show more than this number of rows then links to prev/next pages are displayed (pagination is used).

Date formats

Formats used for dates in Tiki. You can change them as you want.