Server

Warning

The server owner security group is required in order to change server settings.

Server wide settings are on the Server tab of the settings page. To open it select Admin, then Settings, and then the Server tab. Each setting is described in Server.

The settings on the server tab are defaults that apply to all organisations, but many of them can be overridden in an individual organisation's settings.

This page adds some details that are not covered on the settings page.

The server owner security group

This security group indicates that the user owns the server and can therefore change server-wide settings or monitor server-level events. You cannot set this security group through the user interface. Instead, run SQL directly:

  1. Connect to the survey_definitions database.

  2. Get the user ID for the user who should have server administration rights:

    select id from users where ident = '{user_ident}';

    Replace {user_ident} with the user's ident.

  3. Update the user_group table. The numeric identifier of the owner security group is 9:

    insert into user_group (u_id, g_id) values (123, 9);

    Replace 123 with the user ID from the previous step.

SMS Url

The URL used to send SMS notifications should include placeholders for the phone number and message.

  • ${phone}

  • ${msg}

For example:

https://sms.provider.com/send?user=auser&password=apassword&number=${phone}&msg=${msg}

If AWS is used to send SMS messages, enter aws in this field.

Once the SMS URL is set, SMS becomes available as a notification target. In the notification, you can specify the destination number directly or provide a question in submitted data that contains the number. Define the message text in the notification content section. You can insert submitted data values using ${question_name}.

Warning

SMS messaging may result in a cost. Therefore it cannot be set up at the organisational level and can only be enabled in the server settings.

API requests per minute

If set to 0, there is no limit. Otherwise, this value sets the maximum number of API requests per organisation, per module, per minute. The API services currently managed by this limit are:

  • /api/v1/data

  • /api/v1/data.csv

  • /api/v2/data

  • /api/v2/data.csv

  • /surveyKPI/items

Minimum Password Strength

The enforced strength is the higher of the server value and the organisation-level minimum password strength. See Password Strength.