Configuring Content Station Aurora

Various parts and features of Content Station can be configured to suit your needs. This can be done in the following ways:

• By enabling or disabling features in the Management Console
• By manually modifying configuration files

Enabling or disabling features in the Management Console

Info: This feature requires Content Station 11.18 or higher.

To ease the process of configuring Content Station, certain features can be enabled or disabled by using the Management Console.

Step 1. In Enterprise Server, access the Management Console for Content Station.

Step 2. In the menu, choose Features.

The Features page appears, showing all features that can be enabled or disabled through this page.

Figure: The Features page in the Management Console can be used for enabling or disabling specific features.

Step 3. For each feature, verify if it needs to be enabled or disabled.

Notes: For more information of each feature, check its tooltip. When a feature is configured in the configuration file (see below), it is disabled in the Management Console.

Step 4. Let the Content Station users log out and log back in for these changes to take effect.

Setting the features in a configuration file

It is also possible to configure the options in the config_overrule.php file of Enterprise Server. This way they can be easily transferred when Enterprise Server is upgraded.

The following tables shows how the features are mapped to Enterprise Server options:

For the Digital editor

Feature	Enterprise Server option
Keep the article checked-out as long as it is opened	ContentStationDigitalEditorLockWhenOpen
Images have to be stored in Elvis1	ContentStationDigitalEditorEnforceElvis

¹ Requires Content Station 11.28 or higher.

For the Print editor

Feature	Enterprise Server option
Accept all Tracked Changes when opening the article	ContentStationDisableEditorAutoSave
Disable the article preview	ContentStationDisableEditorPreview
Disable the article preview auto refresh1	ContentStationDisableAutoRefreshPreview
Disable auto save	ContentStationDisableEditorAutoSave

¹ Requires Content Station 11.32 or higher.

For the Publication Overview Application

Feature	Enterprise Server option
Prevent page previews from being used as thumbnails1, 2	PublicationOverviewGridPreventPreviewLoading
Control the maximum zoom level for page thumbnails1	PublicationOverviewMaxGridViewZoom

¹ Requires Content Station 11.32 or higher.

² To make sure that the page thumbnails do not become too pixelated by zooming in on them too much, limit the maximum zoom level by setting the 'Control the maximum zoom level for page thumbnails' option).

Manually modifying configuration files

Configuring Content Station can also be done by directly modifying the configuration files that are part of the Enterprise Server instance in which Content Station is installed:

• configserver.php file. This file is used for configuring settings for all Content Station users who log in to that Server. It is stored in the following location:

<Enterprise Server path>/Enterprise/config

• config.js file. This file is used for configuring general Content Station settings. This is typically done when installing Content Station. The file is part of the Content Station installation on Enterprise Server:

<Enterprise Server path>/Enterprise/contentstation

• config.php file. This file is part of the Content Station Server plug-in on Enterprise Server. It is used for configuring various settings. It is stored in the following location:

<Enterprise Server path>/Enterprise/contentstation/plugins/ContentStation

Tip: To edit these files, open them in a plain-text editor such as Notepad, TextEdit, or TextWrangler.

Note: When editing PHP, always use forward slashes ‘/’ as path separators, and make sure to keep the correct PHP syntax.

Where to find information

For information about the settings that can be configured in these files, see the comments in the configserver.php file as well as the articles in the following sections of the Help Center:

• Content Station Aurora configuration
• Publication Overview configuration
• Content Station text editors
• Enterprise Server configuration

Document history

• 20 February 2019: Updated section 'Setting the features in a configuration file' with options for Content Station 11.32.
• 20 February 2019: Updated section 'Where to find information' with a link to 'Text editors'.