What do all of the settings do that are not form specific?

This is the setting that, if set to true means a person requires to provide an additional security phrase on top of the reference number to access their form. 

The user can choose which type of additional phrase to provide from these types:

• Name of your first school
• Your mother's maiden name 
• Your National Insurance Number 
• A password of choice

When set to true this will mean that a person cannot use Mother's maiden name, NINO or first school as a password. The only option will be 'a password of your choice'. It is this option that is subsequently affected by the settings below

This allows you to change the minimum length of the password the user must provide. The default is 8 digits long

 This allows you to change the maximum length of the password the user must provide. The default is 16 digits long.

 This setting when true means that the password they provide must contain a mixture of upper and lower case characters. I.e. if the password was 8 digits long and set to IEEGFOUR it would not be allowed if this setting was true. But iEEG4FOUR would

This setting controls the number of letters that need to be present within the password the user sets up I.e. you can control the number of letters the customer needs to provide in their password

This setting controls the number of numbers that need to be present within the password the user sets up I.e. you can control the number of numbers the customer needs to provide in their password

This setting controls the number of non-letter or number based characters that need to be present within the password the user sets up I.e. you can control the number of special characters the customer needs to provide in their password. E.g. !@£$%^&*() 

This provides the ability for you add a captcha control to the form retrieval process. The purpose of this is to completely remove the capability for repeat brute force hacking capability. 

This allows you to set the actual characters that can be used in the random generation of a reference. The default characters used are:

BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ

However, you can use whichever you want e.g.

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890

Would ensure upper, lower, and numbers are used in a reference number. If this were the case for an 8 digit reference number it could look like this:

4qApf5Xc

But it important to note that these characters could be anything i.e. you could set this to:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890!@£$%^&*()_+|~

Meaning that an 8 character reference number could be:

4~Apf5X!

Where this is the case, the number of combinations for an 8 digit reference increases significantly to:

1,113,034,787,454,976 (1 quadrillion)

For perspective if a hacker were to try every second to get into your data it would take them 35,294,101 (35 million) years to go through each combination

This is a setting that typically will need to be added by IEG4. Once added it enables you to have a custom CSS file linked to the format of your PDFs. This means you can customise the look and feel of your PDFs. 

You simply type the Branding folder and the CSS file e.g. 

IEG4/pdfcustombranding.css

This allows you to use your own custom light high contrast stylesheet. Simply create a custom stylesheet and then place it in a branding folder. 

You then simply type the Branding folder and the CSS file e.g. 

IEG4/contrastlight.css

You then simply type the Branding folder and the CSS file e.g. 

IEG4/contrastdarkmode.css