Project Settings Overview

This page provides an overview of Project Settings within the CommCare HQ Dashboard.

If you are a CommCare HQ user with Admin permissions to your project space, you can configure the overall project settings by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen or by selecting Project Settings from the Dashboard.

Project Information

Basic: Configure general settings for your project, including:

Privacy and Security: Configure privacy and security settings for your project space

  • Restrict Dimagi Staff Access - CommCare support staff sometimes require access to your project space to provide rapid, in-depth support. Checking this box will restrict the degree of support they will be able to provide in the event that you report an issue.

  • Secure submissions - CommCare HQ only accepts secure submissions to your project space. You can choose to disable this protection if your project does not require it. If you choose to disable this feature, it means that someone without credentials to your project could theoretically submit arbitrary and possibly malicious forms to your project space. If you change this setting, you may need to rebuild and deploy any affected apps for the new setting to take effect. Known downsides to secure submissions:

    • makes form submission slower in rare instances

    • not compatible with admin-facilitated mobile user registration on feature phones

    • incompatible with multimedia submissions

  • Shorten Inactivity Timeout - All web users will get logged out of the project space after 30 mins of inactivity

  • Web user requests - If anyone has a link to your project space, and are not listed as a web user on your project space, they will be able to send a request for access to the admins of the project space

  • Two Factor Authentication (2FA) - This forces all users on your project space who are accessing CommCare HQ to enable Two Factor Authentication. If an individual disables the 2FA from their own account settings page (not the project settings), they will not be able to access the project space until they re-enable it. For more information on Two Factor Authentication, please see https://dimagi.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/commcarepublic/pages/2143958299.

  • Require Strong Passwords for Mobile Workers - This will force all mobile workers to be created with a strong password (i.e. At least one Upper Case letter, at least one Lower Case Letter, at least one numeric character, at least one special character and a minimum of 8 characters)

My Timezone: This feature allows you to view the reports in a different timezone from the reports default timezone. Details on https://dimagi.atlassian.net/wiki/x/Ii7Kfw.

Project Administration

Feature Previews: Before we invest in making certain product features generally available, we release them as Feature Previews to learn the following two things from usage data and qualitative feedback.

Integration

Data Forwarding: If you would like to capture the data on your own server in addition to CommCare HQ, you can forward all form submissions from CommCare HQ to a URL

Subscription

Current Subscription: Overview of the active subscription plan, start date, end date, and basic usage summary.

Billing Information: Manage your organization's billing information.

Billing Statements: View and download all invoices associated with the project space.