Iconik lets you choose some defaults for how your users will interact with iconik in the System Settings panel.
Changing settings
- Click on ADMIN in the top navigation.
- Choose Settings
from the left navigation bar.
- Choose System Search Settings Tab
- Change the settings you wish.
- Click SAVE to update the settings.
Settings overview
Date Format
You can provide a default date format for the dates shown in iconik for all users in the account. Users can also choose their own from their settings page which will override this setting.
Enter in a date format here. The format is
| Input | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
| YYYY | 2014 | 4 or 2 digit year |
| YY | 14 | 2 digit year |
| Y | -25 | Year with any number of digits and sign |
| M MM | 11 | Month number |
| MMM MMMM | December | Month name |
| D DD | 31 | Day of the month |
| Do | 31st | Day of the month with ordinal |
You can see separators such as -
Date Time Format
You can provide a default date-time format for the dates times shown in iconik for all users in the account. User’s can also choose their own from their settings page which will override this setting. The format is the same as above, plus the additional time format:
| Input | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
| H HH | 0..23 | Hours (24 hour time) |
| h hh | 1..12 | Hours (12 hour time used with a A.) |
| k kk | 1..24 | Hours (24 hour time from 1 to 24) |
| a A | am pm | Post or ante meridiem (Note the one character a p are also considered valid) |
| m mm | 59 | Minutes |
| s ss | 0..59 Seconds | |
| S SS SSS | .999 | Fractional seconds |
| Z ZZ | +12:00 | Offset from UTC as +-HH:mm, +-HHmm, or Z |
You can see separators such as -
Download file names uses
- Original Filename - the original filename that was used on upload or when the file was discovered.
- Asset title - if the title of the asset is different to the original filename, it will instead download with the asset title.
Include asset ID in download filenames
Adds each asset's unique ID to the filename when downloaded by a user.
Prevent mapped collection from being modified
This will stop users from editing or deleting mapped collections. Mapped collections are collections that are created from directories on your storages.
Apply parent collection ACL to collections
Controls what ACLs should be used when creating new collections in the iconik Web. Can either use the users default ACLs or inherit the parent collections ACLs.
Hide favorites
Will hide the favorite functionality from all users
Homepage
Set the default home page for all users. This can be overridden on a Group (legacy) or Team setting, and on a User setting.
Search View
Allows you to set the default view (what columns or fields are shown on the search results page and how they are arranged and presented) for all users in the domain. This can be overridden via Group (legacy) or Team or User settings
Open panels
This allows you to set which panels should be shown when accessing search.
Asset Default Sections
This allows you to set which panels should be shown when accessing an asset. If this is left empty the panels shown when opening an asset will be Asset Metadata and Comments.
Required Metadata Views
By choosing one or more metadata views here you can force entry of metadata when a user is uploading through the web uploader.
Keep in Recycle bin for (hours)
This is how long entities such as Assets and Collections will be kept in the recycle bin until they are permanently deleted from iconik