User Control – Setup Department Default Settings

🎯 Purpose

This feature allows Corporate Administrators to enforce standard configuration settings across all users within a department by applying shared settings from the Department.ini file, overriding individual Personal.ini preferences.

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✅ Apply Default Settings

• Select User Control | Setup Department and click the Use Selected Settings for all users button. 

• Tick the configuration items you want to apply department-wide (e.g., Raster, MasterMap settings).

• These options will override the corresponding entries in each user’s Personal.ini.

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🗂️ How to Update the Department.ini File

• Copy the desired sections from an existing Personal.ini file (e.g., from an admin user’s setup).

• Alternatively, set up the admin user with the preferred configuration and use:
  Tools > Save Settings as Default Client

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⚙️ Advanced Tool: UpdateConfiguration.exe

Corporate Administrators can also use the UpdateConfiguration.exe utility for more comprehensive control.

🧭 Steps:

1. Launch UpdateConfiguration.exe

2. Define the source and destination settings

3. Click Execute

4. Use the dialog to specify which .INI settings to replicate

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📌 Notes

• These settings are stored in the department’s:

  \\GGPWIN\LICENCES\LOCK\CLIENT\{Department Name}\DEPARTMENT.INI
  

• Only Corporate Admins can access or use this feature.