Application Settings

Application settings define the PHC Hub configuration and must be set up prior to using the application. The Main > App Settings menu link can also be hidden from users (see Hide Application Settings).

Configure Settings

To configure the application settings, click the Main > App Settings menu link. The Application Settings page opens. Enter the information as needed and click Save. Restart the application for the changes to take effect.

Field	Description
Upload Directory	Enter a location on the local drive where manually uploaded files are saved until they are processed. When the user uploads a file it is saved here, processed, and then deleted.
Google Map API Key	Enter the map API key obtained from Google to enable contact mapping. When a geocode is defined, you can see a map of where a contact is located in the contact record.
From Email Address	Enter a From email address to use when sending detailed debug messages. Required for scheduled reports to run and email.
From Email Friendly Name	Enter a user-friendly email name that identifies who the debug email messages are from.
Email Subject Line Prefix	Enter a message to use in the email subject line. The subject begins with this text.
SMTP Server URL	Enter the URL to the SMTP server used to send email. Required for scheduled reports to run and email.
SMTP Server Port	Enter the port number of the SMTP server.
SMTP Username	Enter a username if password based authentication is used when communicating with the SMTP server.
SMTP Password	Enter the password for the SMTP username. This setting is ignored when the Username is blank.
SMTP Use Secure Connection	Select this option to force SMTP to use a secure connection.
Bogus Names	Enter the name(s) that are considered invalid for all import interfaces. How the invalid names are handled is import profile-specific.
Flag Incoming Messages as PreProduction	Select this option to enable all incoming HL7 messages to be flagged as pre-production. Enabling this setting overrides the setting of the same name in all import profiles. Disabling this setting returns the import profiles to their original state.
Ignore Imports for Overaged Patients	Select this option to ignore patients over a specific age. Then set the patient age in the Starting Age for Ignore field.
Starting Age for Ignore	Enter an age (in years). Patients this age or older are not imported when the Ignore Imports for Overaged Patients option is enabled.
Daily Export Time (24 hour format)	Enter the time of day when daily exports are scheduled to start.
Login Max Retries	Enter the number of times a user can attempt to log in before the account is locked. This value is independent of the value set in IWeb, but is only active for IWeb integration. The value is maintained in WIR for WIR integration.
Login Lockout Duration in Minutes	Enter the amount of time the user can attempt a login before the account is locked. This value is independent of the value set in IWeb, but is only active for IWeb integration. The value is maintained in WIR for WIR integration.
Registry Base URL	Enter the internal URL of the IIS from the PHC Hub server. The URL is required to enable certain functions in IWeb and WIR integration.
PHC-Hub Internal Base URL	Enter the fully qualified URL, including context path, that is accessible from the server that PHC Hub is running on. For example, http://192.168.56.1:8080/phchub. Required for scheduled reports to run and email.
PHC-Hub External Base URL	Enter the fully qualified URL, including context path, that users type into their browsers to access PHC Hub. For example, http://192.168.56.1:8080/phchub. This setting is currently used by the web services to set the soap address location attribute. Normally the location is configured automatically by the incoming HTTP request, but that can fail when a proxy server (usually IIS or Apache) is running between the user and the servlet container (Tomcat or Weblogic). If the WSDL normally gives an invalid location, use this setting to override it.
PHC-Hub External Base URL for ONC	(IWeb only) Enter the value used by the web service WSDL files to create the "location" value. This setting is necessary when there is a proxy server in front of Tomcat (like IIS or Apache) that makes the WSDL show up with an internal-only network address. For example, http://10.0.3.77:8080 instead of http://epicenter.stchome.com. Entering a value here overrides auto-detection.
Email Text	Enter the default text used in the email body.
Enable Trusted network IP Address	Select to enable the Network IP address as a trusted source.
Trusted network IP address	Enter the network IP address for your trusted network IP address.
Interop Portal Messaging Base URL	Enter the URL to the Interoperability Portal queuing system. Use the format Host:Port
Interop Portal Messaging Username	Enter the username used to log on to the Interoperability Portal queuing system.
Interop Portal Messaging Password	Enter the password for the username used to log on to the Interoperability Portal queuing system.
Interop Portal Messaging Queue	Enter the queue name of the Interoperability Portal queuing system.
PHC-Hub FTP Root Directory (Ohio RC users only)	This is the root folder under which folders are created for each provider, for users to use when uploading the files via the FTP server.

Hide Application Settings

You can use a database key to hide the Application Settings page for all users. When the page is hidden, application settings are changed using a database update statement by someone with direct access to the CPWEB database.

To show or hide the Application Settings page, navigate to the cp_keys table in the CPWEB database. Set the Application Settings Display option to one of the following:

Next, to hide the Application Settings page, execute the following statement in SQLPlus: