Administrator settings

Administrator settings

In this section you are able to change the
configuration of the administrator.

This includes changing the username and
password and the user interface preferences.

Admin's username

Here you can specify the username that you
can use to log into the administrator interface.

Password

Here you can specify the password that you
use to log into the administrator interface. If you want to change the password
you need to enter the old password first and then enter the new password twice
to avoid typing errors.

Admin's full name

Specify the administrator's full name. This
used when sending statistics via email.

Admin's email address

The administrator's e-mail address. This is
used as the from-address when sending statistics via
email.

Company Name

This name is used in the e-mail sent by
Openads.

Language

Specify the default language Openads should
use. This language will be used as a default for the admin and client
interface. Please note: you can set a different language for each advertiser or
publisher from the admin interface and allow clients to change their language
themselves. Openads currently supports a large number of languages, including:
Chinese (gb2312), Dutch, English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Polish,
Portuguese, Russian (cp1251), Russian (koi8r) and Spanish.

Check for updates

If you want to check for new versions of
Openads you can enable this feature. It is possible the specify the interval in
which Openads makes a connection to the update server. If a new version is
found a dialog box will pop up with additional information about the
update.

Prompt for newly released development
versions

If you enabled the previous feature, it is
possible to choose whether to be alerted when beta and/or development builds
are released. This feature is disabled by default, because those version are
not declared stable and could not work as expected. If you want to try the
newly added features and help beta testing, enable this feature and you will be
prompted when you login to the admin panel and a development build has been
released.

Admin's delete actions need confirmation
for safety

If you want to receive a warning before
deleting advertisers, campaigns, banners, publishers and zones; enable this
option.

Log all outgoing email messages

If you want to keep a copy of all outgoing
e-mail messages send by Openads you can enable this feature. The e-mail
messages are stored in the userlog.

Log hourly priority calculations

To ensure the priority calculation ran
correct, you can save a report about the hourly calculation. This report
includes the predicted profile and how much priority is assigned to all
banners. This information might be useful if you want to submit a bug report
about the priority calculations. The reports are stored inside the
userlog.

Log automatic cleaning of
database

To ensure the database was pruned
correctly, you can save a report about what exactly happened during the
pruning. This information will be stored in the userlog.