Configuration Setup

Sign-up tool can be easily configured to set up the default value or user option choice according to user's specific needs.

The following property values in Sign-up tool can be defined either in tool\src\bundle\signupConfig.properties or defined in sakai.properties file, which will overwrite the former ones.

Property name

Default value

purpose

signup.default.email.notification

false

if false, all Email Notification Checkboxes are unchecked to avoid sending out unintended emails.

signup.post.eventTracking.info.to.DB

true

if false, the eventTracking for sign-up tool is turned off.

signup.default.allow.waitlist

true

if true, the waitlist option is on for participants when the space at a timeslot is full.

signup.default.allow.comment

true

if true, the participant can add a comment during sign-up.

signup.event.default.auto.reminder

true

if true, the attendee of the meeting will receive an email reminder, one day in advance.

signup.permission.update.enabled

true

if true, the permission link at the tool bar will be available to organizer.

signup.autoRiminder.option.choice.setting

true

if false, the organizer will has no choice to decide whether the meeting should send a auto-reminder email or not. The process will be determined by signup.event.default.auto.reminder value.

signup.userId.inputMode.choiceOption.setting

true

if false, the organizer will have no option to enable the UserId Input Mode.

signup.default.export.to.calendar.setting

true

if true, the event will be published into Calendar tool (Scheduler)

signup.enableAttendance

true

if true, it provide the ability to take attendence of the event

signup.maxAttendeesPerSlot

500

it defines the max. number of attendees in a slot

signup.maxSlots

500

it defines the max slots allowed in an event

signup.otherSitesAvailability

true

enable/disable option to share events with other sites (reason to disable include mitigating risk of sending email reminders to hundreds of large sites.

(if you defined the following parameter: signup.other.sites.availability=false/true in the tool property xml file, it will precede over value defined in sakai property)

signup.default.create.groups.settingfalseif true, the event will enable it to automatically generate the site related groups according to the timeslots. However, user still has the option to uncheck it during the event creation.
signup.email.notification.mandatory.for.newMeetingfalseif true, the notification is mandatory when a new event is created.  This will make sure that the organizer will receive the iCal attachment for third party.
signup.csv.export.enabledfalse

if true, organizer will have an additional option to download data in csv format.

signup.email.notification.attendee.signed.uptrue

if true, the attendee will always get one email notification when he signs up

How to set up email auto-reminder

In order to make it work, you need to set up the CronJob at Job Scheduler tool by selecting Sign-up Auto Reminder Notification and the trigger should be run at every early morning time!