Configure the Accolade Site Overview

Accolade provides the option to configure portions of the site so it better fits with your company terminology, location, and general application use.

Administrators and Process Designers can do the following:

• Add additional menu items that link to websites, FTP sites, email, local intranet sites, or files available on the company network.
• Add additional fields to deliverables, activities, user accounts, resource pools, and timesheets. Resources and timesheets are available in optional features available for Accolade.
• Design custom pages to display in projects or as menu items within Accolade.
• Translate text displayed throughout the application into multiple languages to support international operations and those employees who speak a different primary language.
• Replace Accolade terminology, such as role names, to those used in your organization.
• Replace logos and splash screens to contain your own company graphics.
• Replace or add to the header or footer that displays on each application page.

After making changes to parameters on the Parameters page, it is necessary to recycle the application pool on the Accolade website.

• Define which metadata fields are included and where in deliverables and activities.
• Change functional aspects of the application, ranging from whether project IDs are automatically generated to indicating whether to include a week number in calendar controls. The character to use to separate recipients on emails addressed to multiple people. Additional configuration parameters are available in the Administration Console, which can be accessed from the Sopheon program on the Start menu on the Accolade application server.
• Set a system wide consent that will prompt users to acknowledge a consent form prior to accessing Accolade.
• Enable portfolio hierarchy navigation to move up, down, and across the portfolio hierarchy for your organization.