My account

The My Account tab provides access to various preferences associated with a user. The options in the My Account tab vary, depending on the current user role.

Preference	Settings	Advertiser	Website	Agency	Administrator
User preferences	Change name, language, email address or password	X	X	X	X
Account preferences	Manage banner, email report, tracker, timezone and UI settings	Limited	Limited	X	X
Global settings	Manage global settings for banners, conversion tracking, database, debug logging, email. geotargetting, maintenance, synchronization and UI.	-	-	-	X
Maintenance settings	Check maintenance is running, check banner cache, recalculate priority, move images from database to server and synchronize delivery limitations.	-	-	-	X

See also:  About users and refer to the Adminstrator Guide for information about Global settings and Maintenance settings

Account preferences

The My Account > Account Preferences tab is visible to all administrator and agency users, and can be visible to advertiser and website users depending on the permissions assigned to them. In the Account Preferences tab, select a preference type from the drop down menu to view and change its settings. The preferences you can manage are:

Note: The options available to advertiser and website users are limited to those that are relevant to these roles, and to the permissions set for specific users.

Banner preferences

You can manage the following banner preferences: 

• You can enter a Default image URL and Default destination URL for OpenX to use if no other banners are available to display to a viewer. Setting these default URLs ensures that viewers do not see a blank space on a web page.
• OpenX automatically alters HTML banners in order to force click tracking. You can disable or enable this setting.
• You can change the Default Campaign Weight and Default Banner Weight from the pre-set value of 1.

Campaign email reports preferences

You can control when email alerts about campaigns are sent to administrators, agencies and advertisers warning when a campaign is about to end. The preset values are to send alerts when 100 impressions remain in the campaign, and when the campaign is due to expire in one day. Settings that are not relevant to the user role are disabled.

Tracker preferences

Tracker preferences are visible to administrator and agency users only, and include the following settings to manage conversion tracking:

• The Default tracker status can be Ignore (pre-set), Pending, On Hold, Approved, Disapproved or Duplicate.
• The Default tracker type can be Sale (preset), Lead or Signup .

You can also apply conversion tracking for all by campaigns by ticking the Link newly created campaigns by default checkbox.

Timezone

To change the timezone for a user, select an alternative timezone from the drop down menu.

User interface preferences

With the user interface preferences you can control the display of various types of information in OpenX, including: 

• enabling or disabling the display of items in the inventory, such as displaying banner previews or hiding inactive items from overview pages.
• disabling the warning that automatically appears before a delete action is executed.
• Adding additional items to be shown in your activity statistics. However, if you add a lot of extra columns they can become difficult to read.