Other Settings

The Other Settings section provides a centralized location for configuring various essential settings. This helps administrators to efficiently manage key aspects of their ChromeOS devices.

Configuring Other Settings

1. On Scalefusion Dashboard, navigate to Device Profiles & Policies > Device Profiles.

2. Create a new profile for ChromeOS or edit the existing profile.

3. On the left panel, click on Other Settings

4. The settings can be configured under following tabs:

   1. Kiosk

   2. Display & Power

   3. Generative AI

   4. Imprivata

   5. General Settings

   

Kiosk

Clicking on the Kiosk tab shows the kiosk specific settings,

1. Auto-Launch App: Select the app to automatically launch when the device boots into kiosk mode with following options:

   1. All configured web apps,

   2. PWAs, and

   3. Android apps (excluding extensions)

2. Kiosk Device Status Reporting:

   • Send Email Alerts: Enable or disable email alerts when the kiosk device is turned off. Enter a comma-separated list of email addresses to receive alerts.

   • Send SMS Alerts: Enable or disable SMS alerts when the kiosk device is turned off. Enter a comma-separated list of phone numbers (with country codes) to receive SMS alerts.

3. Lid Close Action: Configure the action to be taken when the device lid is closed, by selecting one of the following options.

   1. Sleep,

   2. Shutdown,

   3. Do Nothing

4. Auto-Reboot: Set the number of days after which the device will automatically reboot at the sign-in screen.

5. Allow Shutdown Using Shutdown Icon: Enable or disable the ability to shut down the device using the shutdown icon.

6. Power Settings:

   1. On AC Power: Select the action to be performed when device is on AC Power

      • Action: Sleep, Logout, Shutdown, Do Nothing

      • Idle Timeout: Time in minutes before the device enters idle state.

      • Logout/Shutdown Warning: Time in minutes before the device logs out or shuts down.

      • Screen Dim: Time in minutes before the screen dims.

      • Screen Off: Time in minutes before the screen turns off.

   2. On Battery Power: Select the action to be performed when device is on Battery

      • Action: Sleep, Logout, Shutdown, Do Nothing

      • Idle Timeout: Time in minutes before the device enters idle state.

      • Logout/Shutdown Warning: Time in minutes before the device logs out or shuts down.

      • Screen Dim: Time in minutes before the screen dims.

      • Screen Off: Time in minutes before the screen turns off.

Display & Power

These settings allow you to customize the display behavior to meet specific user requirements.

1. Allow Users to Change Display Settings: Enable or disable the ability for users to modify display settings.

2. Use Custom Resolution for External Displays: Enable or disable the use of custom resolutions for external displays.

   • Display Width (px): Set the desired width of the external display in pixels.

   • Display Height (px): Set the desired height of the external display in pixels.

3. Allow Device to Sleep/Shutdown When Idle on Sign-in Screen: Enable or disable the device's ability to sleep or shut down when idle at the sign-in screen.

4. Enable Scheduled Reboot of Devices: Enable or disable scheduled reboots for the device.

   • Frequency: Daily, Weekly, Monthly

   • Device Time: Set the specific time for the scheduled reboot (in hh:mm format).

Generative AI

These settings allow you to control the use of AI-powered features and data collection preferences. For each feature you can choose whether to collect data or not by selecting one of the following options:

• Without collecting data

• Collect data

• Disable

1. Allow Using "Help me write": Controls whether users can use the "Help me write" feature and whether data will be collected for AI model improvement.

2. Allow Using "Create themes": Controls whether users can use the "Create themes" feature and whether data will be collected for AI model improvement.

3. Allow Using "Tab organizer": Controls whether users can use the "Tab organizer" feature and whether data will be collected for AI model improvement.

4. Allow Using "DevTools AI features": Controls whether users can use AI features in Developer Tools and whether data will be collected for AI model improvement.

5. Download Foundational AI Models Automatically: Enable or disable automatic downloading of foundational AI models.

Imprivata

This section provides information on configuring Imprivata (solution that provides single sign-on (SSO) and virtual desktop access for Chrome devices) settings within the Scalefusion platform.

1. Allow Use of Imprivata Extension on Sign-in Screen: Enable or disable the use of the Imprivata extension on the sign-in screen.

2. Allow Shared Kiosk Mode: Enable or disable shared kiosk mode, allowing multiple users to share a single device.

3. Configure IDs for shared apps & extensions that are not cleared between users: Enter a comma-separated list of app IDs from the Chrome Web Store to keep persistent across user sessions in shared kiosk mode.