Global settings

Main Page > User manual > Administer > Settings > Global settings

Global settings allow administrators to control certain aspects of how the DCB appears and behaves. Features currently controlled by global settings include:
 * The default display size of uploaded files
 * The number of search results that will be displayed on results pages
 * Whether or not the application is a multi-repository or single-institution system




 * 1) Click the Admin > Settings menu
 * 2) Click the Global information area to display global settings

Application version
This field shows the current version of the software, which is pre-set and cannot be edited. The version number is automatically updated when you upgrade the DCB to a newer release.

Upload directory
This field shows the name of the directory in which the DCB stores files when users upload them. The value is pre-set, ships with the application, and cannot be edited.

Maximum image width (pixels)


One of the DCB's design assumptions is that the display dimensions of files users upload typically will be too large to fit into the view page for a resource description. Therefore, when you upload a file, the DCB creates a reference display copy for displaying in the view page.

The DCB ships with a default setting specifying the maximum width of the reference display copy at 480 pixels. This is the optimized width given the DCB's field width. Administrators, however, can increase or decrease the maximum reference image width to suit the requirements of their institution or network.

Results per page
By default, the DCB lists objects in list pages and search results ten at a time, with a pager at the bottom of the page to allow users to navigate through long lists of objects. Administrators can increase or decrease this default number.

Inherit reference code (information object)
When this is set to "yes", the reference code string will be built using the resource description identifier plus the identifier of all its ancestors (parent records). Note that this setting relates only to the Canadian Rules for Archival Description (RAD) resource description template.

Sort tree view
This setting determines how lower-level descriptions are sorted in a resource description's context menu.
 * Selecting "none" means the descriptions will appear in the order in which they were entered into the DCB.
 * Selecting "title" sorts the descriptions by title.
 * Selecting "identifier - title" sorts the descriptions by identifier, then by title.

Multiple repositories
Select Yes if your the DCB application is acting as a union list or portal for descriptions of materials held at more than one institution.
 * The repository will appear as a column on the Browse resources page.
 * The repository will appear as a link in the context menu.

Select No if your the DCB application is being used only by a single institution.
 * The creator rather than the repository will now appear as a column on the browse resource descriptions page.
 * No repository link will appear in the context menu.