Personal Configuration Options

Your personal configuration settings are accessible from the Tools drop-down menu in the Options section.

Tools - Options

This will open a pop-up window that contains up to three sub-sections, depending on whether your institution holds both the EBS4Timetables and EBS4Registers licences or just one of them.

The following windows are available to change your configuration settings:

In the Main Application Window section, you can view or set the number of 'documents' (that is: timetable, overview, or event details screens) retained in the File menu Recent Documents list. The default value is 6. You can change this to any number between 1 and 9.

Options - Main Application Window

Here you can also set up ebs: shape for single sign-on.

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In the Timetables section you can view or set the following fields.

Options - Timetables window

The fields in the Timetables section are described in the following table.

This field Holds this information...
Default session The default session when a new timetable, or Timetable Overview is opened.
Days to use in timetable The days of the week to show in the timetable. Default is Monday to Sunday.
Timetable Time Range The time range to show in the timetable. Default is 09:00 to 17:00.
Snap to grid period in minutes The 'snap to' interval used when dragging and dropping events. Default is 15 minutes.
Show clashing areas on the timetable background when an item is moved or resized Whether real-time shading of the timetable to indicate where moving an event would create a clash is turned on or off. Default is for shading to be turned on.
Show child course events in course timetables Whether to show events for child courses of the current course. Defaults to ticked, meaning that child course events will be shown.
Apply group filters to children where group names match Whether to apply parent group filters to child course events where the group names match at both levels.

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In the Registers section you can view or set the default session used when a new register event is created.

Options - Registers window

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The Service Setup section will be globally setup by one of your MIS staff. These settings will display the workflow details.

Options - Service Setup window

If the workflow has stopped, a warning will display in the top right-hand corner of ebs: central meaning that any newly created enrolments will not cascade to registers until the workflow has restarted.

Workflow Service Status

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