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The group configuration settings
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## The group configuration settings

On this page you configure the settings for up to three different groups of users.

- enable Restriction: enables the restrictions if checked. If not checked, all the other detailed restrictions on the lower part of the screen are ignored.

- Group Name: choose the group for whom the restrictions will be applied.

  The restrictions will be applied to every member of the group. If the user has user restrictions too, both will be applied.

- same restrictions for every day: if checked, the same restrictions for the specified group will be appplied to every weekday.

- red and green time slider: this slider shows the allowed times for active sessions. The green area shows the allowed time range, In the red area there is no session allowd. You can move the whole range, or only the upper or lower limit by clicking with the mouse on the yellow border and drag it to the left or right. The time limits are displayed beneath the slider.

- or max time: allowed time (measured in hours and minutes) for the user belonging to the group to have an active session per day.

- restrictions depend on weekday: if checked, the restrictions for the specified group will be appplied to the individual days of the week.

- Monday ... Sunday: if checked, the restrictions for the specified group will be appplied on this day of week. If not checked, there will be NO restriction on this day of week!

- red and green time slider: allow active sessions in the green time range.

- or max time: allowed time (measured in hours and minutes) for the user to be logged in on this weekday.

In the above example, the group "teenager" is allowed to be logged on the computer from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm on mondays to thursdays. The time limit is 3 hours. If a user of the group logs in at 11:00 am, he will be logged out at 2:00 pm. If he logs in at 7:00 pm, he will be logged out at 9:00 pm. The same restrictions are applied on tuesdays, wednesdays and thursdays. On fridays he may use the computer longer and later. On Saturdays and sundays there are NO restrictions, he may use the computer as long as the maximal weekly usage is not reached... This weekly limit is 12 hours per week in this example. The values for the usage times are reset to zero the first time you log in on a new week.

If you want to disallow the usage on a certain weekday, limit the usage to a short time window fom e.g. 03:00 to 03:15

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