Preferences: System
The System functional area is used to manage anything that applies across all installed companies. The main tasks performed include maintaining user security, enabling report access, and managing currency access. The system functional area covers all NorthScope functional areas. The purpose of the System Preference Page is to configure how these features work. From here, users can set defaults, identify which features are used, and how the enabled features perform.
Software Version: 2023.07.31 and newer
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| Toolbar Icons | Description |
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| Excel |  Clicking the Excel toolbar icon exports the current contents of the grid to an Excel file that is automatically downloaded. The contents that export are only those currently visible. If the grid is filtered, only the filtered contents will be exported. |
| Favorites |   Clicking on the star icon when it is an outline, adds the page to the 'My Shortcuts' tab and fills in the star. Clicking on the star icon when it is filled in (solid color), removes the page from the 'My Shortcuts' tab and returns the icon to an outline.
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| Grid Layout | Opens the Saved Grid Layout menu that allows the user to select another saved layout, create a new layout, save changes to a layout, or assign a saved layout as the default for the page. Once changes are made to a grid, such as columns are added or removed, the user can click the Saved Grid Layout icon and save the changes to the grid layout and name the new layout. The new layout can also be set as the default, instead of the System View. This is useful for creating specific views to separate master files or transaction types (i.e. Invoice specific vs. Credit Memo specific).
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| Help | Opens the online WIKI help page for the current page.
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| Save | Saves all changes. |
| Fields | Description |
| Preference Name | Identifies the Preference that is being setup. |
| Value | A text box or lookup to set the value of the preference. Preference values are always editable and can be changed at any time, unless otherwise specified. |
| Preferences | Description |
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| Number of days until messages are purged | A text box to set the number of days until messages are removed from the system. This value defaults to 30, is required, and can be set to any value between 1 and 1000. If missing the message "Number of days until messages are purged is required" will be displayed on Save. If a value of less than 1 or greater than 1000 is entered, the message "Number of days until messages are purged must be between 1 and 1000" will be displayed on Save. This field is always editable. |
| Number of hours for low priority messages to be accessible | A text box to set the number of hours that users can access low priority message for. This value defaults to 10, is required, and can be set to any value between 1 and 1000. If missing the message "Number of hours for low priority messages to be accessible is required" will be displayed on Save. If a value of less than 1 or greater than 1000 is entered, the message "Number of hours for low priority messages to be accessible must be between 1 and 1000" will be displayed on Save. This field is always editable. Note: Low priority messages are only applicable to the NorthScope Mobile app at this time. |
| Number of days to archive integration records after | A text box to control how long (inbound and outbound) integration records that have been successfully integrated or user bypassed remain in the initial tables (ERPx_INTEG_Inbound and ERPx_INTEG_Outbound) before they are moved to their corresponding archive tables. Keeping the # days relatively low results in records being processed faster. This value defaults to 1, is required, and can be set to any value between 1 and 1,000. |
| Number of days to purge archived integration records after | A text box to control how long (inbound and outbound) archived integration records remain before they are deleted from the database. This should be set a level that provides you enough time to review transactions. This value defaults to 180, is required, and can be set to any value between 1 and 1,000. |
| Number of days to purge save log after | A text box to set the number of days before the Save Log data is removed from the system. This value defaults to 3, is required, and can be set to any value between 1 and 1000. If missing the message "Number of days to purge save log after is required" will be displayed on Save. If a value of less than 1 or greater than 1000 is entered, the message "Number of days to purge save log after must be between 1 and 1000" will be displayed on Save. This field is always editable. |
| Log Users Out After Minutes | A text box to set the parameter for how long an inactive user can remain logged into the system before NorthScope auto-clears them. Because NorthScope is a web application, users are not required to "log out" and many just close their web browser. When this occurs, those users are still logged in and taking up one or your concurrent user licenses. This property lets the system know when it is safe to log them out. This defaults to 60, is required, and can be set to any value >5. |
| Direct Printing | |
| GhostScript Location | |
| Email Notifications | |
| Email Processing Package Location | |
| File Locations | |
| File Attachment Archive Location | |
| Login | |
| Prevent Log In by Non-Administrative Users | A Yes/No lookup to identify whether or not the feature is turned on. The value defaults to "Yes" but can be changed at anytime. |
| Reports | |
| Report Server URL | |
| Report Server Database Name | |
| Report Server ParentDirectory | |
| User Name | |
| Password | |
| User Domain | |
| Report Print Folder | |
| NorthScope Base URL for Report Hyperlinks | A text box to identify the absolute URL for reports to launch. This field is not required and defaults as blank. If entered, it must be <= 250 characters. It is always editable. Database Field: ERPx_MFSysPreferences.PreferenceValue |
Users must log out and back in before the pages will be visible in the 'My Shortcuts' tab.