These settings control the student portal functions and should be useable by any portal administrator.
This field is used a number of times throughout the portal and in places where the template tag {school_name} appears. Please fill it in as you would expect your school name to appear on the website.
If you enter an email address here (and configure the SMTP settings below) then there will be an option on the details page to email that address with a change of details request.
This setting will adjust the visual style of the site.
This will change the page that the user sees directly after logging in. Make sure it matches the name of the page as it appears in the URL.
The number of days to delay the display of attendance by. Zero will show live attendance information as it is entered into KAMAR.
Toggles the display of the present code on the attendance page. Disabled codes will show as blanks, as if the period had not been marked yet.
Toggles the display of the late code on the attendance page. Disabled codes will show as blanks, as if the period had not been marked yet.
Toggles the display of the unjustified code on the attendance page. Disabled codes will show as blanks, as if the period had not been marked yet.
Toggles the display of the justified code on the attendance page. Disabled codes will show as blanks, as if the period had not been marked yet.
Toggles the display of the holiday code on the attendance page. Disabled codes will show as blanks, as if the period had not been marked yet.
Set the earliest year to show groups from. Useful for showing only the current years groups or for trimming out earlier, no longer relevant, years data.
Selected result items will be allowed to show on the portal.
Toggles the display of the first Careers field on the Careers page.
Toggles the display of the second Career field on the Careers page.
Toggles the display of the third Career field on the Careers page.
Toggles the display of the fourth Career field on the Careers page.
Toggles the display of the fifth Career field on the Careers page.
Toggles the display of more of the pastoral fields on the Pastoral page. Please be wary of enabling this; it may reveal more information that was ever intended to be shown to parents/students.
Toggles the display of the Credit Balance on the Fees pages.
Toggles the display of Carry Forward charges on the Fees pages.
Please confirm your Payment Gateway account and Web Server are correctly configured to receive payments before completing these fields. Failure to do so could result in parents or students being informed their payment is accepted when it isn't being correctly processed.
Toggles the fields that allow partial fee payments via an online payment gateway.
Assuming Partial Payments are allowed, selecting this option will mean only charges with a donation component will be allowed to be paid.
The address of the Flo2Cash payments page you wish to send users to in order to pay fees.
The account ID assigned by Flo2Cash assigned to the school for the payment of student fees via the payments page specified above.
The address of the DPS payments page you wish to send users to in order to pay fees.
The user ID given by DPS and assigned to the school for the payment of student fees via the payments page specified above.
The 64 character, hexadecimal, key given by DPS and assigned to the school for the payment of student fees via the payments page specified above.
The address of the PayPal payments page you wish to send users to in order to pay fees.
The address for using the PayPal API to process payments.
The username for the PayPal account you want funds to be paid into.
The API password for the PayPal account you want funds to be paid into.NOTE: This is not the password you use to log into your PayPal account!!
The signature key for the PayPal account you want funds to be paid into.
These settings will likely require the help of a technician to complete.
The IP/DNS name of the machine with the Web Publishing Engine deployed. This is almost always the FileMaker Server running KAMAR.
The path to a directory on the web server in which cache files can be created to speed up portal performance. Don't forget to give the web server user write access to the directory and its contents.
The path to a directory on the web server which contains the Archived (Web) reports from KAMAR. Don't forget to give the web server user read access to the directory and its contents.
The name of an optional file in each reports directory to adjust the display name of the report in the portal interface.
The path to a course selections xml file for subject selection.
These settings are currently only used by the change of details request screen and are not required for regular portal operation. If you are connecting to a mail server over SSL, make sure the extension=php_openssl.dll line is uncommented from your php.ini file.
The IP/DNS name for a SMTP server to send emails from the portal.
The port number to send email using the specified SMTP server.
The username required to send email using the specified SMTP server.
The password required to send email using the specified SMTP server.
The password required to log into this page in the future.
Security level can be specified per page, per user, on the portal. A tick indicates access to a page for the corresponding user .:
Notices
Calendar
Details
Timetable
Attendance
Ncea Summary
WARNING: Don't enable this page until you update to KAMAR version 911.12 or later
Results By Subject
All Results
Groups
Reports
Pastoral
Awards
Fees
Fees With Flo2cash
Fees With Dps
Fees With Paypal
WARNING: Don't enable this page, Fees with PayPal is still in development
Careers
Library
Course Selection
These settings should only be adjusted by people who understand what they do.
Normally there will be no need to adjust this as the detection code should be robust enough to cover typical configurations.
This field will not normally need to be adjusted. Please leave it on "guess mode" unless you know this will not work for you.
This field will not normally need to be adjusted. Unless you are familiar with URL rewriting, please leave it as index.php
If you are unhappy with the way that dates appear on the portal, adjust this value to suit. See PHP Date Format for usage.
If you are unhappy with the way that full dates and times appear on the portal, adjust this value to suit. See PHP Date Format for usage.