Configuring and Managing Websites and Language Versions

section

Indicates which type of content it is.

identifier

Number or name of each text element.

text type

In this column, you define if the respective row contains header or body of a message.

language

Language version’s abbreviation.

content

The previous content of each text element. Do not change!

new content

Text changes or new texts are entered into this column.

status

Indicates the status of the editing process.

placeholders

Wildcards for text elements.

errors

Error messages.

messages

Notifications.

Global redirection URL for all websites

Occasionally, clients may want to use the panelists administration of EFS People and conduct their surveys with EFS People while using an external website as their panel’s address.

In this case, the global redirection allows you to redirect all traffic from websites of the specific panel installation to your desired alternative domain.

• The panel websites will be de facto inaccessible.

• Panel surveys and master data survey, however, will remain accessible.

Select whether a header with X-Frame-Options should be sent to the client

Today, almost any browser makes it possible for web applications to sent a HTTP header „X-Frame-Options“ which declares to the browser if a certain website is allowed to be shown in a frame or not.

Possible value options are:

• „Do not send“: By mentioned default value the header is not sent, which effectively leads to a permission of framing.

• „Deny“: The header is sent and will prevent any framing.

• „Sameorigin“: The header is sent and will allow framing only by website of the same domain.

Name of the session cookie

The cookie is set by the panel.

panel-session

Length of panel session validity (in seconds)

In this field, you can set the session period for panel visits.

3600

Cookie type to be used when the panel website is visited

You have the option not to place cookies when your website is visited.

The following options are available:

• Use normal cookies: These are the conventionally used cookies. They can be read by HTTP or Javascript.

• Use HTTP-only cookies: These cookies were also available in earlier versions of EFS. They can be read by HTTP but not by Javascript. Therefore this setting provides a higher degree of security. Browserbased scripts cannot access the cookie data.

• Do not use cookies: When using this option, authentication is done via the SES parameter in the URL or via HTTP POST data.

The “HTTP-only cookies” option is preset on new installations.

Please note: The described settings only apply to the panel website.

• The cookie settings for EFS surveys are set in the respective project.

• The cookie settings for the EFS installation itself are configured by  our support. On new installations, HTTP-only cookies are used per default.

Use HTTP-only cookies

Mode to determine the language version

When a visitor navigates to the panel website, EFS will automatically try to determine and to open the most appropriate language version. It is up to you to decide which procedure is to be employed:

• Domain name is used only if language version was not previously determined: This is the default setting reflecting conventional behavior where the system first tries to evaluate information from previous visits (session, cookies) and request parameters. The domain name that is called up serves as a fallback.

• Always use domain name: When this option is selected, the system will first check whether the domain name being used is assigned to a particular language version of the CMS. If so, this language version will be used. Otherwise, the older algorithm will be used as a fallback.

Example:
A website visitor has visited the French version (www.example.fr) of the website. Now he enters the domain name of the English version (www.example.co.uk).

• When set to default, EFS will analyze his session or cookie settings to find out that he already visited the French version
  before, and consequently display the French version.

• If the second option has been selected, the explicitly requested English version will be displayed.

Domain name is only used if language version was not previously detected

Session parameter handling

If the session parameter is not automatically appended to URLs, the panel will only work with cookies enabled.

Append session parameter automatically to URLs

Panel login is possible for panelists with the following panel statuses

With this option you can define the statuses under which the panelists are allowed to log in.

For example, you may allow a temporarily admitted candidate to already log in.

If all panel statuses are deselected, the internal website areas become inaccessible while surveys remain accessible irrespective of the website.

Please note: The panel statuses are not website-specific, but all panelists are described by the same panel statuses. Therefore, the selected setting will apply to all websites of the panel installation.

It is possible for all panelists to log in with the exception of those with a “deleted” status and those with user-defined statuses.

Participation in panel surveys is possible for panelists with the following panel statuses

With this option you can define the status under which the panelists are allowed to participate in panel surveys (given that they belong to an appropriate sample, of course).

Participation in master data surveys is possible for panelists with the following panel statuses

With this option you can define the status under which the panelists are allowed to participate in master data surveys (given that they belong to an appropriate sample, of course).

Direct panelists to the website/language version they´ve been assigned to after login

This setting ensures that when logging in, panelists will be directed to the website/language version they are assigned to.

Please mind: This option influences the behavior of the system during the login process, it does not control access to language versions in general. If you want to control access to specific pages, please go to the Page configuration tab and restrict access to appropriate panelist groups.

No

Activate brute force login protection

This option activates the brute force protection for the panelists’ personal area. Brute force protection is activated, once the panelist has reached the defined number of failed login attempts. The panelist account is then deactivated for the set amount of time, and an error message is displayed to the panelist upon each new login attempt during that time. New login attempts during the deactivation phase will not extend the duration of deactivation, and they will not be counted as additional failed login attempts.

Brute force account deactivation time (in seconds)

In this field, you specify for how long the panelist accounts are to be suspended upon triggering the brute force protection.

Please note:

• The messages "brute_force" and "brute_forced", used in case of a suspension, can be edited in the Website → Standard content → Messages menu.

• Manual reactivation ahead of time is not possible.

Number of allowed failed login attempts

In this field, you specify how many failed attempts are allowed. If the specified number is exceeded, the respective panelist account will be suspended.

Activate change log

In the period specified (see below), the password can be changed only once.

Password change timeout

see above

Prevent re-use

In the period specified (see below), a password cannot be used again.

Re-use interval

see above

Validity period for the “Reset password” link

After the period specified, the “Reset password” link will not be valid anymore.

Activate security question

Optionally, a security question can be used.

• If you want to use this feature, please add appropriate entry fields and check expressions to the forms Registration form and Change account data.

• Dedicated participant variables “u_sec_quest” and “u_sec_quest_answer” (newly introduced with EFS 9.1) allow to store security question and answer.

• More information and a detailed description can be found here.

Activate brute force protection

This option activates brute force protection dedicated to the answering of the security question. If the security question is entered wrong too many times, this feature will temporarily disable the panelist account. Find more information on this topic above under "Activate brute force login protection".

Brute force account deactivation time (in seconds)

In this field, you specify for how long the panelist accounts are to be suspended upon triggering the brute force protection via the security question.

Please note:

• The messages "brute_force" and "brute_forced", used in case of a suspension, can be edited in the Website → Standard content → Messages menu.

• Manual reactivation ahead of time is not possible.

Number of allowed failed login attempts

In this field, you specify how many failed attempts are allowed for answering the security question. If the specified number is exceeded, the respective panelist account will be suspended.

Master data group 1 to 5

Optionally, the visibility of master data may be made configurable.

In order to keep the profile settings form clearly structured despite large numbers of master data variables, these variables are grouped. The panelists can then define the visibility for each group.

In this section you can assemble the groups. Use the Ctrl or Shift keys to select multiple variables for each group.

Time period that should be taken into account when calculating “panelists online” (in seconds)

600

Only logged-in panelists should be taken into account for calculating “panelists online”

No

First day of week

Sunday or monday can be selected. From EFS 8.2, you can choose any day of the week.

The setting affects the calculation of the upper limit of friends to be recruited per week and the display of the survey of the week, as long as you do not select another day for a specific language version.

Monday

Time zone for data display on panel pages

Europe/Paris

Rating scale

Various scales are available for community rating functions.

Panelists are allowed to change their ratings

In this field, you can specify whether the panelists are allowed to subsequently change their ratings.

Maximum number of tags per post per panelist

See Chapter "Tagging and Categorization of Community Content".

Maximum number of user tags per panelist per language version

see above

Maximum number of tags per minute

see above

Minimum length of tags

see above

Auto-tag hashtags in posts

see above

Modules available in search