User Settings

The table below details the user settings for a project. The name, variable name, variable type, description, and default are defined for each setting.

Note: Your Watson™ Explorer Engine search application may or may not require the configuration of these parameters. If the description of the parameters listed here does not clearly identify its potential use in your search application, please contact IBM support for clarification.
Table 1. User Settings
Setting Name Type Description

Number of queries saved per user

(user.max-saved-queries)

 number

Watson Explorer Engine can save the queries performed by each user with an account, this is the maximum saved per user. Set it to 0 or less to turn this feature off.

Default: 10

User authentication

(user.authenticate)

 boolean

Should users be required to authenticate before doing a search.

Default: false

Authentication expiration

(user.authentication-expiration)

 positive-int

Number of seconds before a user's login cookie expires.

Default: 14400

Username expiration

(user.username-expiration)

 positive-int

Number of seconds before the cookie that records the current or last logged-in username expires.

Default: 172800

Enable persistent cookies for authentication

(user.authentication-persistent-cookies)

 enum

Decides if the username and ticket are persistent cookies, only the username or none of them.

Default: username

Maximum alerts

(user.max-alerts)

 int

The maximum number of alerts a user may create in their user profile.

Default: 10