Application configuration

OpenKM configuration file

OpenKM.cfg file is the main OpenKM configuration file. You can find this file in your server in $JBOSS_HOME/OpenKM.cfg. This is a list of the admitted configuration properties:

repository.config
repository.home
system.user
default.user.role
default.admin.role
principal.adapter
max.file.size
max.search.results
system.demo
system.ocr
application.url
default.lang
system.login.username.lowercase
system.pdf2swf
system.openoffice
kea.thesaurus.skos.file
kea.thesaurus.owl.file
kea.thesaurus.base.url
kea.thesaurus.vocabulary.serql
kea.stopwords.file
kea.automatic.keyword.extraction.number
kea.thesaurus.tree.root
kea.thesaurus.tree.childs
kea.automatic.keyword.extraction.restriction
subscription.message.subject
subscription.message.body
notify.message.subject
notify.message.body
validator.password
validator.password.min.length
validator.password.max.length
validator.password.min.lowercase
validator.password.min.uppercase
validator.password.min.digits
validator.password.mini.special
validator.password.error.min.length
validator.password.error.max.length
validator.password.error.min.lowercase
validator.password.error.max.uppercase
validator.password.error.min.digits
validator.password.error.min.special
chat.enabled
chat.autologin
schedule.repository.info
schedule.mail.importer
schedule.session.keepalive
schedule.dashboard.refresh
wizard.property.groups
wizard.keywords
wizard.categories
hibernate.dialect
hibernate.hbm2ddl

Each time you make some change in the OpenKM.cfg file JBoss server must be restarted to take effect.

Changing uploading max file size

The default limit is 25MB. If you want to increase to 50MB:

file.size=50.

Changing repository.xml configuration filename and path

repository.config=repository.xml

Changing default repository home

By default repository is stored in $JBOSS_HOME/repository folder but you can change it with:

repository.home=repotest

Changing default connection role

By default connection role to OpenKM is called UserRole, you can change to other role name. This change need some changes too in web.xml file into OpenKM.war/WEB-INF

default.user.role=OtherRole

<security-constraint>
    <web-resource-collection>
      <web-resource-name>OpenKM Protected Area</web-resource-name>
      <!-- GWT -->
      <url-pattern>/es.git.openkm.frontend.Main/*</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/es.git.openkm.backend.Main/*</url-pattern>
      <!-- JSPs -->
      <url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/mobi/*</url-pattern>
      <!-- Servlets -->
      <url-pattern>/RepositoryStartupServlet</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/Test</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/OKM*</url-pattern>
    </web-resource-collection>
    <auth-constraint>
      <role-name>AdminRole</role-name>
      <role-name>OtherRole</role-name>
    </auth-constraint>
    <user-data-constraint>
      <transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
    </user-data-constraint>
  </security-constraint>
  <login-config>
    <auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
    <realm-name>OpenKM</realm-name>
    <form-login-config>
      <form-login-page>/login.jsp</form-login-page>
      <form-error-page>/login.jsp?error=1</form-error-page>
    </form-login-config>
  </login-config>
  <security-role>
    <description>Admin user access</description>
    <role-name>AdminRole</role-name>
  </security-role>
  <security-role>
    <description>General user access</description>
    <role-name>OtherRole</role-name>
  </security-role>

Changing default admin role

By default connection role to OpenKM is called AdminRole, you can change to other role name. This change need some changes too in web.xml file into OpenKM.war/WEB-INF

default.admin.role=OtherAdminRole

<security-constraint>
    <web-resource-collection>
      <web-resource-name>OpenKM Protected Area</web-resource-name>
      <!-- GWT -->
      <url-pattern>/es.git.openkm.frontend.Main/*</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/es.git.openkm.backend.Main/*</url-pattern>
      <!-- JSPs -->
      <url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/mobi/*</url-pattern>
      <!-- Servlets -->
      <url-pattern>/RepositoryStartupServlet</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/Test</url-pattern>
      <url-pattern>/OKM*</url-pattern>
    </web-resource-collection>
    <auth-constraint>
      <role-name>OtherAdminRole</role-name>
      <role-name>UserRole</role-name>
    </auth-constraint>
    <user-data-constraint>
      <transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
    </user-data-constraint>
  </security-constraint>
  <login-config>
    <auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
    <realm-name>OpenKM</realm-name>
    <form-login-config>
      <form-login-page>/login.jsp</form-login-page>
      <form-error-page>/login.jsp?error=1</form-error-page>
    </form-login-config>
  </login-config>
  <security-role>
    <description>Admin user access</description>
    <role-name>OtherAdminRole</role-name>
  </security-role>
  <security-role>
    <description>General user access</description>
    <role-name>UserRole</role-name>
  </security-role>

Change max results in UI

This option limits the search results in UI.

max.search.results=25

Change principal adapter

OpenKM can handle user access using the JBoss DatabasePrincipalAdapter login module by default. OpenKM needs an available method for reading users and roles. The class DatabasePrincipalAdapter does this job. For more information take a look at OpenKM authentication and Active Directory

principal.adapter=com.openkm.core.DatabasePrincipalAdapter

Switch OpenKM to demo mode

In demo mode some options are disabled by default.

system.demo=on

Enabling OCR

To enable OCR you must put the files system path of OCR engine

system.ocr=/usr/local/bin/tesseract

Setting default lang to OpenKM UI

OpenKM By default guess language depending on user language browser configuration. But you can set a language for all OpenKM users by default:

default.lang=es-ES

Force username to lowercase

You can forge all username be written in lower case. It's useful for example when you integrate with microsoft active directory where username is not case sensitive

system.login.username.lowercase=on

Enable pdf to swf conversion

To enable preview UI tab, OpenKM need to convert pdf files to swf. And must have installed open office as a service too.

system.pdf2swf=/usr/bin/pdf2swf

Enable OpenOffice.org service

OpenOffice.org is used by OpenKM to convert files to PDF and generating the preview.

system.openoffice=on

Note: Read Third-party software integration: OpenOffice.org for a more up-to-date documentation.

Configuring e-mail

To configuring e-mail service you must enable subscription and notification properties. View a complete example in Notification and subscription messages.

subscription.message.subject=OpenKM - {0} - {1};
subscription.message.body=Document: <a href=\"{0}\">{1}</a>
notify.message.subject=OpenKM - NOTIFICATION - {0}
notify.message.body=Document: <a href=\"{0}\">{1}</a>

Configuring password validation

To configuring password validation you have several properties. CompletePasswordValidator is default password validator class that comes by default with OpenKM. By default validator is not enabled. You can also create your own Create password validator .

You can select which rules validation you want to enable, for example if you only enable validator.password.min.length property, the validator only will validate minimal length.

validator.password=com.openkm.validator.password.CompletePasswordValidator
validator.password.min.length=numeric value greater than 0
validator.password.max.length=numeric value greater than 0
validator.password.min.lowercase=numeric value greater than 0
validator.password.min.uppercase=numeric value greater than 0
validator.password.min.digits=numeric value greater than 0
validator.password.mini.special=numeric value greater than 0
validator.password.error.min.length=Your message error
validator.password.error.max.length=Your message error
validator.password.error.min.lowercase=Your message error
validator.password.error.max.uppercase=Your message error
validator.password.error.min.digits=Your message error
validator.password.error.min.special=Your message error

Configuring chat service

By default chat and autologin are enabled. In order to enable or disable values can be "on" or "off".

chat.enabled=off
chat.autologin=off

Configuring schedulers

There're some schedulers that OpenKM uses. Some internally like mail importer and getting repository news and others used by user interface like dashboard refreshing time and keepalive.

Values are in minutes.

OpenKM inquires for repository news ( by default each 24 hours )

schedule.repository.info=1440

OpenKM imports mails from imap server ( by default set to 0, that is disabled )

schedule.mail.importer=0

In OpenKM 4.1 and before, the default value was 60 and cannot be disabled.

KeepAlive is used by user interface to mantaining browser connected to OpenKM althought users stay sometime without using any operation. For it reason never might be lower that server timeout session ( by default set to 15 minutes ).

schedule.session.keepalive=15

Dashboard data is refreshing by default each 30 minutes.

schedule.dashboard.refresh=30

Configuring wizard

You can configure a wizard each time any user uploading a document. Wizard can be a sequence of property groups, keywords ( included thesausus ) and categories. By default wizard is disabled.

Can be configured a property groups as a list of property groups name separed by ","

wizard.property.groups=okg:consulting,okg:technology

To enable keyword wizard value must be "on". Default value is "off".

wizard.keywords=on

To enable categories wizard values must be "on". Default value is "off".

wizard.categories=on

See also OpenKM.cfg.