Dropbox

Behaviour of the Dropbox file-exchange tool.

Access these settings under Administration > Configuration settings > Dropbox. This category contains 8 settings, listed below with the title and comment shipped in the platform's settings fixtures (SettingsCurrentFixtures.php).

The variable name in code is shown in monospace. Use it when scripting via the API or when you need to change those settings at a global level by editing config/settings_override.yaml.

Settings

dropbox_allow_group

Dropbox: allow group

Users can send files to groups

Default: true

dropbox_allow_just_upload

Dropbox: Upload to own dropbox space?

Allow trainers and users to upload documents to their dropbox without sending the documents to themselves

Default: true

dropbox_allow_mailing

Dropbox: Allow mailing

With the mailing functionality you can send each learner a personal document

Default: false

dropbox_allow_overwrite

Dropbox: Can documents be overwritten

Can the original document be overwritten when a user or trainer uploads a document with the name of a document that already exist? If you answer yes then you loose the versioning mechanism.

Default: true

dropbox_allow_student_to_student

Dropbox: Learner <-> Learner

Allow users to send documents to other users (peer 2 peer). Users might use this for less relevant documents also (mp3, tests solutions, ...). If you disable this then the users can send documents to the trainer only.

Default: true

dropbox_hide_course_coach

Dropbox: hide course tutor

Hide the session course tutor in Dropbox when a document is sent by the tutor to students

Default: false

dropbox_hide_general_coach

Hide general tutor in Dropbox

Hide the general tutor name in the Dropbox tool when the general tutor uploaded the file

Default: false

dropbox_max_filesize

Dropbox: Maximum file size of a document

How big (in MB) can a dropbox document be?

Default: 100000000