General settings

This is the first screen under organisation settings and the one that shapes everything else: what the space is called, where it lives, what language new people get, and how much its users are trusted to do on their own.

What general settings are good for

This screen is opened rarely, but it decides things the whole space runs into every day. It is worth going through when the space is set up, and again whenever the question of how much people should do on their own changes.

• You are setting up a space and need an address to send out. At the top you enter the name, logo and subdomain. The subdomain becomes part of the address, so the link you send people leads straight into your space.
• Trainers should write courses themselves, but you want to keep publishing. Switch on content creation and leave activation off. Drafts come from the people who know the subject, and activation stays your decision.
• A supplier has released a new version of a purchased course. The third switch says whether users may accept it on their own. Leave it off and the course does not change under people just because someone clicked the new version through.
• A colleague reports that three options are greyed out. Look at permissions. Those three switches may only be changed by an owner, and the colleague is most likely listed as a manager. You save yourself hunting for a fault that is not one.

The lower half of the same screen, required user details and sign-in rules, has its own chapter: User details and sign-in rules.

The screen

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General settings in a company space, with the owner-only switches live

• (1) Obecné is the first entry in organisation settings.
• (2) Identity sits at the top: logo, name, address and subdomain. The subdomain is the part that fills the address — kws-dev-test gives kws-dev-test.knowspread.com — so it is how people reach the space at all.
• (3) Below it are the switches that decide what users may do on their own: creating content, activating it, accepting new versions of purchased content.

Who may change what

Three of these switches carry the note Pouze vlastník organizace smí provést změnu. In a company space, signed in as the owner, all three are live and the space name is editable.

Exactly one checkbox on this screen stays disabled — the hard domain check — and it is disabled for a different reason: it waits on the switch above it. User details and sign-in rules covers that dependency.

What to watch for

The three switches are bound to ng-disabled="general.userIsManager", so the gate really is the viewer’s role, exactly as their note says.