The administration panel can be accessed by:
Settings
link.Administration
link.Administration
link in the upper right corner.Feng Office 3.0 - Settings panel:
Feng Office 2.1 - Administration panel:
Older version - Administration panel:
From the administration panel you may have access to the following settings:
Each Feng Office installation has something we call an owner company (which may be an organization or simply a group of people as well). The owner company has the same structure as any other company in your contacts. What makes the owner company different from all other companies is the fact that every user which belongs to that company is a potential administrator of your Feng Office installation. Users that belong to any another company can never become administrators.
The opposite of an owner company is a client company (see below).
The owner company is created at the end of the installation process (see Feng Office installer), so every Feng Office installation has its owner company. You can update the owner company info at any time, but you can not delete the owner company. 1)
Since the owner company owns the Feng Office installation there is no reason to lock certain functions or workspaces from this company. As a consequence there is no screen for setting permissions for the owner company.
Client companies (or clients) is just another word for all companies that are not the owner company (see above).
From the administration panel you can add, edit and delete clients, you can add users to them, and you can manage their permissions. To understand the settings for a company, please read Working with companies.
From here, administrators can create, update and delete user profiles. The options here are the same as in your own user profile, we therefore refer to the page about managing your account.
As an exception to the rule, you can't delete your own user account; this safety feature prevents you from locking yourself out from your Feng Office installation. You are also not allowed to delete the account of the very first user, who is typically the main administrator.
Groups in Feng Office are roles: sets of permissions which can be given to any user. Groups make it easier to manage permissions, especially if you have many users. To learn more about the permissions you can manage here, please see Understanding user rights
In the administration panel you can create, edit and delete groups. However, there is a special group, called “administrators” by default, which can't be deleted.
From the administration panel you can add, edit and delete workspaces. You will notice that Feng Office has automatically created a personal workspace for every user in the system (called <username>_personal
, i.e.: msauter_personal).
For details about editing workspaces see the workspace properties page. For general information regarding workspaces see Working with workspaces.
PLEASE NOTE: There are some restrictions to personal workspaces here:
From here you can edit and delete existing templates. To create a new template use Add template
on the main screen of the administration panel.
More information about Templates.
PLEASE NOTE: There is a bug in Feng Office 1.0 that creates ordinary tasks instead of task templates. The only way to create task templates in this version is to use the Save as template
command in the task detail view.
PLEASE NOTE: There is a bug in Feng Office 1.0 that converts task templates to ordinary tasks when you edit them. The only way to edit a task template in this version is to create a new task from a template in the task module, to modify this task and to save it as a task template again.
This section of the administration panel lets you manage billing categories. A billing category consists of an hourly rate for a certain function or job, which then can be assigned to one ore more users. The individual user on the other hand can only have one hourly rate at a time.
Custom properties are additional data fields that allow you to store information that is specific to your needs. In this section of the administration panel you can define your own custom fields. For more details please see the page on Custom properties.
The general settings apply to all users.
In this section, you can select the default timezone for the system and also define which timezones are using daylight saving time.
To check this, go to go to Settings → General Configuration → Timezones
The mailing settings let you control how Feng Office is sending notification mails. These seetings are global as well. (Don't mix up these mailing settings with the settings for individual e-mail accounts.)
Options in the mailing settings:
Here you will find more information on how to configure mailing settings.
In this subsection you can enable or disable each Feng Office module.
PLEASE NOTE: Disabling a module only hides it from the graphical interface. It doesn't remove permissions from users to create or edit content objects.
PLEASE NOTE: Disabling a module will hide any corresponding dashboard widget automatically.
In this subsection - introduced in Feng Office 1.4 - you can define the requirements for valid passwords chosen by the users and control some other security related features.
If there is a new release of Feng Office available you can upgrade your installation either by automatic or by manual upgrade. For more information please see the page on installing and upgrading Feng Office.
Cron events let you execute tasks in Feng Office periodically, without having to login to the system. To enable cron events you need to configure a cron job to periodically execute the “cron.php” file, located at the root of Feng Office. The periodicity at which you run the cron job will determine the granularity at which you can run the cron events that are available in this section of the administration panel. For example, if you configure a cron job to run every five minutes, and you configure the cron event to check for upgrades every one minute, it will only be able to check for upgrades every five minutes. To learn more about cron jobs please see the page How to set up Feng Office.
The tabs section lets you activate modules (tabs), and select the order for the tabs.
Here you can find detailed information on how to activate modules
PLEASE NOTE: The backup feature has been outsourced as a plugin as of Feng Office 1.5.
The backup menu lets you create a backup copy of your whole Feng Office installation, including the database and the documents in the file system, and download it as a ZIP archive to your local hard drive.
The process of backing up Feng Office constists of three steps:
PLEASE NOTE: Depending on the amount of data that is stored in your Feng Office installation creating a backup file my take some time.
For details, simply follow the instructions on the screen:
Discussion
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If you have an SMTP which requires an SSL connection, which many do, specify port 465 in order to connect.
Is there a way to duplicate workspaces? The manual doesn't seem to cover this.
As far as I know you can not duplicate workspaces. Please see this thread in our forum: http://forums.fengoffice.com/index.php?topic=3624.0
let me know how to use backup zip file
When I created a new user and selected the option to send a mail to use with details, the Subject line says Subject: Your new Feng Office account has been created
How can this subject be customized and the mail template that is sent to userrs be customized.
You may look into the code and change it yourself or you may contact sales@fengoffice.com if you are looking forward to having a customized installation.
Thank you. have been able to achieve what I wanted to do.
No problem!
I'm failed test sending email. I think I'm correct to setting the email. But always failed. Any clue?
If you are experiencing this in the 1.7.2 version, it is because there is a little bug in the mail testing tool, which has already been fixed for our future release. However, if you set up your email account correctly, you should not be having problems sending/receiving emails
Yes. I'm using 1.7.2 version. I already setup mail account on Administration - Mailing. But it's not work. I already test sending using Tools - Test mail setting page and I got error message and the email not come. :)
That is what I meant. There is a problem with 'Test mail settings' tool in the 1.7.2 version, but it has already been fixed for our next version. So in order to test your mail account you should do it in a different way
So. If test mail not work, is there notification will send by email? what kind notification that sending by email?
That is right. Please feel free to create a limited trial installation with no fees for 30 days ( http://www.fengoffice.com/web/trial.php ) where you may be assisted in these kind of questions if you are interested in subscribing to Feng Office
OK. Thanks
If you tell Feng Office to store files in the file system (which is the default setting) anyone can read your documents by going to the fengoffice/upload folder using their webbrowser.
That stuff feels rather insecure for me, and does not make me want to switch from something like Google docs.
Not quite. You should change your settings in order not to allow access from the browser to that folder and that is it.
It should be secure by default… without making a change in settings.
Even a simple empty index.php in the upload folder or a redirect (either through html or through .htaccess) there to the homepage would make it a somewhat more secure.
Well, you do have a point in the index.html files, that is why our next version is covering this. However, about the .htaccess, servers usually have different settings, so if we provided an .htaccess, it may not work in some environments, so the server's administrator should be the one in charge of this. Please do not take me wrong, we do appreciate a lot your feedback and we are very thankful for it. Do remember we do welcome this kind of feedbacks and also any contribution you may have for the application