Module settings and options

Switching a module off hides its menu in the admin, its content type and its templates. Nothing is deleted: switch it back on and the content returns.

• News: news stories, with categories and the Need to know widget.
• News updates: short notices that expire, shown in the News updates widget.
• Blog: personal posts from colleagues.
• Events: events with dates, places and maps.
• Tasks and guides: the How do I? side of the intranet.
• Projects, Vacancies and Training: each a listing page and a content type.
• Jargon buster: an A to Z of terms. See Jargon Buster template.
• A to Z: an index of everything on the intranet by first letter. See Add an item to the A to Z index.
• Intraverts and Ultraverts: targeted promotional panels and banners. See the Intravert guide.
• Teams: team pages. Switching it on shows Team news pages, which adds a team news content type that teams post to.
• Wonderwall: a wall where colleagues thank each other.
• Enable user account support: despite its name, this switches on the theme’s support for bbPress forums, and shows the Forums tab. Leave it off unless bbPress is installed.
• Staff directory: staff profiles, the directory and people search. See Setup the staff directory.
• Locations: appears when the staff directory or intraverts are on. Adds Locations under Users, so that people can be given a site and building, and intraverts can be aimed at a location.

When Vacancies or the staff directory is on, a Grades list also appears under Users.

• News page: the page that uses the News template. Used for breadcrumbs, for highlighting the right menu item and for “more news” links.
• Need to know icon: the Font Awesome icon shown by the Need to know widget, typed as its name without the fa- prefix, such as circle-exclamation. The default is flag.

• News updates page: the page that uses the News updates listing template. Used for breadcrumbs and “more” links. See the News updates widget.
• Force expiry date: every news update must have auto-expiry switched on and an expiry date. Editors cannot publish without one. Use it to stop old notices piling up.
• Default expiry period: appears when Force expiry date is on. Choose None, or 1, 2, 3 or 6 months, or 1, 2 or 5 years. New news updates get an expiry date that far from their publish date, which the editor can change. Expired updates come off the intranet every few minutes.

• How do I? page: the page that uses the How do I? template. Used for breadcrumbs and menu highlighting.
• Only show tags applicable to tasks and guides: the tag cloud on the How do I? page shows only tags used on tasks, as plain buttons. Off: it shows every tag on the intranet, sized by how often each is used.
• Manuals: adds a Manual box to the task edit screen, so that a task can be treated as a manual with chapters shown as an accordion. See Add or edit a guide.
• Allow category filter by tag: shows tag buttons at the top of each category page, so that people can narrow a long category to one tag.
• Card listing: shows the tasks on a category page as image cards instead of a list of titles. Pages are then filled in rows of cards.
• Default image: appears when Card listing is on. The image used on the card of any task with no featured image.

Each of these tabs has one setting: the landing page that uses that module’s template. It is used for breadcrumbs, for highlighting the right menu item and for “more” links, so choose it as soon as the page exists.

• Blog page: the page that uses the Blog template.
• Force expiry date and Default expiry period: as for news updates. Blog posts are rarely expired, so most intranets leave these off.

• Events page: the page that uses the Events template. See Setup the events page.
• Change past events to draft status: once an event’s date has passed, it is unpublished, every few minutes. Off, past events stay published and drop out of the listings by date.
• Google Maps API key: needed for the map picker on the event edit screen and for the map shown on an event page that has a location. Get a key from the Google Cloud console with the Maps JavaScript API and Places API enabled. Without a key there are no maps, but events work in every other way.

The A to Z lists items under each letter and picks out the important words of each title as keywords. These two boxes tune that. Separate words with commas.

• A to Z exclude list: words of three letters or more to ignore as keywords, such as “the”, “for” and “and”. Add words that are common on your intranet but useless as an index entry, such as your organisation’s name.
• A to Z include list: words of one or two letters to keep as keywords, such as HR and IT. Short words are otherwise ignored.

Enable WYSIWYG in forums: gives forum posts and replies the visual editor with formatting buttons instead of plain text. Needs bbPress.

• Staff directory page: the page that uses the Staff directory template. Used for breadcrumbs and menu highlighting.
• Show My Profile link: adds a My profile link to the secondary navigation for anyone logged in, going to their own profile.
• Show login/logout link: adds Log in or Log out to the secondary navigation. After either, the person comes back to the page they were on.
• Team dropdown name: appears when Teams is on. The label of the team menu at the top of the directory. The default is “Browse by team”.
• Show hyperlinks on staff cards: each card in the directory shows separate links to the person’s email, phone and profile. Off, the whole card is one link to the profile.
• Show circular avatars: round photos instead of square, in the directory, on profiles and wherever a person is shown.
• Default avatar: the image shown for anyone who has not added a photo, in place of the grey silhouette. A neutral image in your brand colour works well.
• Directory name order: sets the default sort order for staff in the staff directory and team listings; first name or last name.
• Show extra details on mini org-tree: the small organisation tree on a profile shows each person’s name and job title as well as their photo.
• Show grade on staff cards: this setting has no effect at present.
• Show mobile on staff cards: shows the person’s mobile number on their directory card and on team pages.
• Allow password change on profile: adds a change password section to the edit profile page on the intranet. Leave it off if your organisation signs in with single sign-on, because a password changed here would not be the one people use.

See Setup the staff directory for the pages, roles and fields the directory needs.

• Wonderwall page: the page that uses the Wonderwall template. Used for breadcrumbs and navigation.
• Add to Wall page: the page that uses the Wonderwall Form template, where people write an entry. Used for the “Say thank you” link.
• Email notifications: emails each person named in a new wall entry to tell them. On by default.
• Wall name: what your organisation calls the wall, such as “Wonderwall”, “Hall of Fame” or “The Credits Roll”. Used in buttons, links and headings across the intranet.
• Button text: the wording of the button on the wall page and of the submit button on the form. The default is “Say thank you”.
• Button icon: the Font Awesome icon on that button, such as heart, hands-clapping, star or trophy. The default is heart.
• Person dropdown display: how colleagues are listed when someone picks who to thank: name only, name and job title, name and team, or name and username. Choose one of the fuller options if you have colleagues who share a name.