Setting up a result date in future for a poll

Setting a future result date for a poll in uKnowva ensures that the poll results are disclosed at the desired tim...

How to Restrict Polls for certain user groups only in uKnowva

uKnowva allows you to limit the visibility of polls to specific user groups, ensuring that only the intended audi...

How to get #Tag Input Box in your Form

We all know what are #Tags in uKnowva. If you wish to get a tagInput in your web form, something like this,

Then, simply write this in your form code. Note: This works only for uKnowva 2.5.1 and above

echo uKnowvaUI::tagsInput('tags[]');

The function definition is as below:

/**
* this function returns an input field that can be displayed in a form where users can select # tags
* @param string $name
* name of the field...

How to Add & Edit a Holiday in uKnowva HRMS

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The List Holiday dashboard displays a list of all holidays added for the current year. Check the date range set. If there are holidays already listed for the set range, they will be seen here.

To add a holiday Click Add Holiday on the List Holidays page
Select the Date, Occasion, and whether this holiday is yearly

How to Change Themes in uKnowva Email Client

Just follow these steps:

Login into uKnowva Go to your Email client menu Click on Settings Under Common Tab: Select the Skin

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How to Get a List of All Managers in uKnowva

Sometimes you need to get a list of all users who have some reportees, i.e., other users reporting to them.

You can get this list using a simple function.

For uKnowva versions 2.5.1 and above, use the following code:

$managers = ConvHelper::getAllManagers();

For Older versions, use the following function:

/**
* this function returns all users who have some reportee with them .i.e. they are all managers
* @param bool $return_all, if true, the...

How to Disable Chat for Certain User Groups

uKnowva HRMS provides a flexible platform for managing communication feat...

How to Check the Last Cron Activity of Your Instance

To check the last time a cron activity was carried out on your uKnowva instance,

Go to uKnowva Configuration --> System Information tab Under the System Information heading, the last title is for Last Cron Activity

 

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How to Unarchive an Archived Project

To unarchive an archived project,

In the project manager, go to Projects Select Archived from the drop down
In the Archived Projects page, select the project you wish to unarchive and click Activate. The project will then be seen in your Active Projects list
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uKnowva Extensions

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How to Archive a project in uKnowva Projects

To mark a project as completed in uKnowva's project management App, you just need to archive it. Follow the below steps to Archive a project

Login into uKnowva as admin or Project manager Go to Projects page Click on the checkbox next to the project you want to mark as completed and Click Archive button

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What are daily digest reminders in uKnowva and How to stop them

uKnowva sends daily digest reminders which is a cumulative reminder for your pending notifications, calendar events, pending connection requests, unread personal messages and much more. This ensures your users are always informed and keeps reminding them to visit your instance regularly. It looks like this

In case you wish to disable such reminders for any specific user, then just follow these steps:

Login into uKnowva as an administrator Go to uKnowva Configuration -...

Security on Cloud

uKnowva is available on the cloud and on premise. For instances hosted on our cloud, we are responsible for the security at all levels.

How Secure is Our Cloud?

The security for Cloud instances of uKnowva follows a layered approach. The Hardware, software and network security are handled by uKnowva. For the cloud, we handle security at the following levels:

Application Level: uKnowva is completely VAPT tested (read al...

How to Reset User Account Password

User account password can be reset by the user or by the system Admin.

Password Reset by the User

To reset your account password, 

Go to My Menu (top-right of the page) --> Change Password Enter the new password Click Save

Password Reset by System Admin

The system Admin can reset the password in 2 ways:

From the user's profile page:

The Admin can visit the user's profile<...

How to assign Admin Role to a user?

To change the role of any user you need to have admin privileges. To change roles there are two ways you could follow in uKnowva.

Method 1:

    1. Go to the user’s profile by using the search option or using the people’s directory

    2. On the user’s profile page, you will find ‘Edit user’ option on the top.

 

3. A pop will appear, wherein against the role option, you can select the role as ‘...

How to Find and Read the Configuration File of your uKnowva Instance

Follow the steps mentioned below to find and read the configuration file of your uKnowva instance.

To find configuration file path, go to includes/defines.php OR administrator/includes/defines.php file and check below parameter.
define('JPATH_CONFIGURATION', '/home/account_name/config'); Go to config folder i.e. /home/account_name/config For security reasons configuration file is stored in an encrypted format; to read this file you need to decry...

How to Check the Import/Export User Logs

At times, when importing/exporting users to/from uKnowva, the browsers die. This does not mean that your operation was not completed, it is just that since the browser or connection dies, you did not receive an update.

In such cases, you should check the logs files available in the Logs Folder....which is usually in

[[logs folderpath]]/userimportlogs/

There you can find details of the import/export operations.

 

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How to Setup Cron for uKnowva

For uKnowva versions 2.4.4 and earlier, you can set up cron by following the steps mentioned below.

Setting up Cron for a Newly Installed Instance

If you have newly installed uKnowva and are setting up cron for the first time, then follow these steps:

Create a crontab file by entering the following terminal command: 

crontab -u <user> -e

Entering the above command will open a terminal editor with a new blank crontab file, or it will open an ex...

How to Check if an App/Component Exists in uKnowva

From uKnowva 2.5.1, you can do it this way:

if(JComponentHelper::exists('com_hrm')){
//component is installed and enabled....
}

For earlier versions, you can use this:

if(JComponentHelper::isEnabled('com_hrm',true)){
//component is installed and enabled....
}...

Release Notes for uKnowva 2.4.4

Less than a year after releasing uKnwova 2.4.3, Team uKnowva has now come up with uKnowva 2.4.4—Stallion. This new version is more user friendly and like all previous updates, has a long list of updates, bug fixes and new features. In fact, this is uKnowva’s largest release yet, and if you are a developer, you will love it. Read on for more details about the release.

New Features/Improvements Admins can now set the video quality and video size from Global Config...