Administration Overview

When you are logged in as a MultiTerm administrator on MultiTerm Online, you have access to the Administration view where you can configure the following settings:  

Back End Administration

Most of MultiTerm Online can be configured using the settings in the application but some settings can only be configured using the mtonline.properties file. This file can be found in the following location:

C:\
<tomcatfolder>\webapps\multiterm\WEB-INF

where <tomcatfolder> is the location of the Apache Tomcat Server installation.

These settings correspond to the settings shown in the Overview page of the Administration view.

In the mtonline.properties file, you can configure the following:
 

Setting

Description

mtonline.router.location

Specifies the name of the SDL Anywhere server.

Default is 127.0.0.1

“localhost” is not supported. Change the location value to the full server name if SDL Anywhere server is configured to run on https.

mtonline.router.portNumber

Specifies the port number for the SDL Anywhere server

Default 80.

Change port number to 443 if SDL Anywhere is configured to run on https. If SDL Anywhere is running on https on a

non-standard port, specify the port number here and add https:// as a prefix to the server name mentioned above.

mtonline.webservice.sessionTime

Specifies the number of minutes that an inactive user remains logged in to MultiTerm Online.

This setting overrides the setting in the <session-timeout> element in the file web.xml, in the same folder as mtonline.properties.

Minimum is 2.

Default is 30.

mtonline.webservice.sessionTime=

Specifies the time in minutes that an inactive user will remain logged into MultiTerm Online. The minimum value is 1. Default is 30. You also need to modify the web.xml file to change this setting.

 

mtonline.webservice.language=

Specifies the MultiTerm Online user interface language.

Valid values are: en de fr.

Default is en.

mtonline.webservice.editEnabled=

Specifies whether the MultiTerm Online toolbar displays Editing tools. Editing tools allow termbase entries to be edited.

Default is true.

mtonline.webservice.supportAddress=

Specifies an email address or website for the Contact Support link.

Default is http://support.sdl.com.

mtonline.webservice.enableLinkPassword

If true, MultiTerm Online will use any password included in a link URL. If false, MultiTerm Online will prompt for the password.

Default is false.

 

mtonline.webservice.AutoselectAllTermbases

If true, when you log in to MultiTerm Online, all termbases on the Select Termbases page are automatically selected.

Default is false.

 

mtonline.webservice.displayVerboseErrors

Specifies whether MultiTerm Online displays verbose error messages.

This is primarily a support tool, not an end user tool.

Default is true.

mtonline.webservice.toggleFullForm

 

If True, the default display for editing termbase entries is to show all available fields. If false, only used fields are displayed.

Default is false.

mtonline.webservice.publicHost

Specifies the external web address that the user will use to access MultiTerm Online. Required if MultiTerm Online is behind a reverse proxy.

Default is empty.