●       Access Newforma Support

Click to open the Newforma support website.

●       Return to My Project Center

Click to close this activity center and return to the My Project Center activity center.

Project Center Administration

Use the Global Settings tab to customize the global settings, which are the settings that are used by all Project Center users across all projects.

Mail Servers

Use this section to set up project email addressing and define an email server for all Project Center Servers.

Mail Server Address

The name of your company's email server.

Mailbox Access

Indicates whether the mail server is Microsoft Exchange or IMAP-based.

IMAP Folder Illegal Characters

The characters that are not allowed in IMAP folder names as set in the Configure Mail Server dialog box.

Add

Click to open the Configure Mail Server dialog box to define an email server.

Modify

Click to open the Configure Mail Server dialog box to modify the selected email server.

Remove

Click to remove the selected email server.

Project Email Mailboxes

Use this section to link Project Center to the project email mailbox.

Mail Server

The corporate email server on which you created the mailbox.

Mailbox

The SMTP address of the mailbox that was created. For example, projectemail@newforma.com.

Require Prefix

Indicates if the email sender is required to add a prefix to the beginning of the project email address.

Prefix

The prefix that senders must add to the beginning of the project email address.

Domain

The email domain name (the name that follows the @ sign) in the project's email address.

Add

Click to open the Configure Project Email Mailbox dialog box to link Project Center to the email mailbox on your corporate email server that will collect all email messages sent to each project's email address.

Modify

Click to open the Configure Project Email Mailbox dialog box to modify the link from Project Center to the email mailbox on your corporate email server that will collect all email messages sent to each project's email address.

Remove

Click to remove the selected project email mailbox.

Prevent Certain Email Message Classes from Filing

Mark this checkbox if you want to prevent filing of certain types of email messages to Project Center projects.

Define

Click to open the Message Classes dialog box to define the message class you want to prevent from being filed.

Custom Project Activity Summaries

Use this section to add, modify, and configure project activity summary tabs. These customized tabs are added to the bottom section of the My Project Center activity center.

Name

The name of the project activity summary. This is the name that will appear on the tab in the My Project Center activity center.

Status

Indicates whether the project activity summary is active or inactive. If it is active, it is available to Project Center users. If it is inactive, it is not available to Project Center users.

Connection String

The connection string value to connect to the server and the database.

SQL Server

Indicates whether this project activity summary connects to a SQL server database.

SQL Statement

The SQL query that will retrieve activity summary data.

XSL File

The full path to the XSL style sheet file.

Add

Click to open the Add Custom Project Activity Summary dialog box to create a new project activity summary.

Remove

Click to remove the selected project activity summary.

Modify

Click to open the Modify Custom Project Activity Summary dialog box to modify the selected project activity summary.

Electronic Document Management System (EDMS)

Use this section to configure the connection between Project Center and your EDMS.

Connection Name

The name given to the EDMS connection.

EDMS Server Type

The type of EDMS Server that Project Center is connected to.

Connection String

All of the combined values from the Connection Information section of the Configure EDMS Server dialog box.

Username

The name the Project Center Server uses to connect to the EDMS provider.

Uses Windows Authentication

●        True indicates Windows Authentication is being used.

●        False indicates EDMS Server Authentication is being used.

Add

Click to open the Configure EDMS Server dialog box to add a connection between Project Center and an EDMS Server.

Modify

Click to open the Configure EDMS Server dialog box to modify the connection between Project Center and an EDMS Server.

Remove

Click to remove the connection between Project Center and the selected EDMS Server.

When removing a connection, make sure the EDMS is not in use by any Project Center projects. If it is in use, you cannot delete the connection.

Additional Settings

Stored Markup Preview Size

Enter the pixel size for previewing markups.

Use Email Links that are Compatible with Web Mail Clients

Mark this checkbox if you use a web email client such as Gmail. Enabling this feature prevents web email clients from removing hyperlinks to Project Center and Info Exchange in email reminders and notifications.  Important: You must restart the Newforma Project Center Server and all users must restart their Project Center clients after this feature is enabled.

Do not use this feature if you use Microsoft Exchange.

File transfers Through Outlook

For Attachments Larger Than nn MB, Send Via Info Exchange

To prevent sending large file attachments through Outlook, mark this checkbox and enter the size at which files will be re-directed and sent via Info Exchange instead of Outlook.

You should set this value either at or below your Microsoft Exchange server setting.

You must also set the Do Not Allow Transfers Larger Than nn MB option in the Project Center Administration Activity Center Servers tab.

Global Font Control

Allows you to set the default font for all Rich Text Font controls within the Project Center client for a consistent font on all forms. Simply select the desired font from the dropdown list and select the Set Default Rich Text Font checkbox.

Save Changes

Click to save any changes made in this tab.