Application Settings

LandTracker allows users to save and modify application settings. These settings are applied across all users of the LandTracker database that the settings are applied to.

To open the application settings screen:

  1. On the Dashboard under Settings, click Application Settings.

    The Manage Application screen displays, types of settings are in a Data Grids on the left of the screen. When selected, you can expand Xml Details to see information on the setting.

Types of Settings

WA Rent Settings

The Application.RentWAParameters setting contains the rent figures currently applied to your database. Expand Xml Details on the right to view the figures.

General Application Settings

The Application.General setting includes the following settings:

  • Rent and Rates calculations

    • RentCPI—Specifies the rent increase for forecasting actions.

    • RatesCPI—Specifies the rates increase for forecasting actions.

  • DefaultNameFormat—Sets the default name format displayed in columns that contain links to records. It can be chosen from the following options: "NameCode", "CodeName", "Name" and "Code".

  • DefaultCommentFormat—Sets the default format for comments in all views, unless manually changed. The options are:

    • DefaultCommentFormat="Under"

    • DefaultCommentFormat="Icon"

    • DefaultCommentFormat="Normal"

    • DefaultCommentFormat="None"

  • DisableAutoCompleteActions—When "true" rent and expenditure actions auto-completion is disabled.

  • AutoCompletePreserveChecklist—When "true" the checklist of tasks and completion history of actions and auto-completing or bulk completing actions and tasks is preserved.

  • ActionsMonthsForward"number"— The number of months in the future that actions are created.

    Note: Unless overridden, a maximum of 5 actions and minimum of one action are always created.

  • ActionsMonthsBack"number"—The number of months in the past to create actions. This setting also determines how LandTracker checks when auto-completing actions. It is recommended this number is set to a minimum of 3.

    Note: Reducing the ActionMonthsBack setting does not delete existing overdue actions; however, you can delete any that are older than the number of months specified and they will not be recreated.

  • ActionsMaxForward="number"—The maximum number of future instances to create. This works in conjunction with the ActionsMonthsForward setting, so a lower months forward setting may cause less than the maximum number of actions to be created.

  • BulkBatchSize="number"—This specifies the number of tenements to handle when performing batch imports and updates. By default this is set to 500.

  • AnniversaryRolloverOffset="number"—By default this date is set to 60 and rolls over to the next year 60 days after the anniversary of the commencement date when you Update from LandTrack Data Service. Setting to zero causes anniversaries to roll over immediately.

  • Alert defaults

    • AlertDaysDefault="number"—Set the default number of days notice to give for actions added to alerts.

    • AlertReplyToAddress="emailaddress"—Set the default reply-to email address. This can be overridden on individual alerts.

      Note: Changing this setting does not update existing alerts.

  • UseUncPaths="false"—Determines how document paths are stored. To store document paths as network (UNC) location and not drive letters, change the statement to ="true".

Change Tracker Settings

When you select Never Apply Changes in the Change Tracking screen the decision is recorded in the Xml Details of the Application.ChangeTracker setting.

You can delete any of these blocked changes by removing each statement from the Xml Details. The below text is an example of a full statement and must be deleted from the opening bracket to the end bracket.

<ChangeAction Type="Exclude" ChangeType="Add" Name="E  5204087" RowGuid="fb158f94-6037-11ef-bb8e-dca2664ab2e0" TemplateGuid="6075bcc7-0d0a-11e6-8295-14dae9eeef61" />

Auto Number Settings

The Application.AutoNumber setting affects how LandTracker assigns unique identifiers to fields in assets. See Automatic Numbering.