Adjust Network Settings
As a network manager of a Pressbooks network, you can change several network configuration options to suit the needs of your institution or publishing program. To access your Network Options, click Settings from your Administer Network dashboard.
View Current Network Managers
This section displays a list of user names and email addresses for your current network managers and instructions for requesting a change to this list.
Enforce Book Upload Space Quota
This setting allows you to enforce a per-book storage quota for books on your network. By default this setting is not activated on your Pressbooks network. To enforce a size quota for individual books:
- Click the check box in front of the ‘Limit total size of files uploaded to’ prompt
- Enter the per book quota size you’d like to impose (numerical values in megabytes or MB)
- Click Save Changes.
Set Max upload file size
By default, all Pressbooks networks impose a maximum file size upload limit of 25000 kB (25 MB). However, you can reduce this limit on your network if you wish. To do so enter your desired maximum file upload size in this field, expressed as kB (1000 kB = 1 MB) and click Save Changes.
Set Default Book Theme
While book administrators can select whatever theme they’d like to use for their books, each new book created on your network will have have your network’s default book theme applied when it is created.
Pressbooks networks generally use Malala as their default theme. As a network manager, you can choose to designate another book theme as the default book theme for your network. To change your network’s default book theme, select your desired theme from this drop-down menu and click Save Changes.
Set Default Language
Each book is created with a default language at the type of its creation. This value can later be changed by book administrators. To change the default language for new books created on your network, select your preferred option from the drop down menu and click Save Changes.
Set Default PDF Page Size
At the time of creation, books also have a default PDF page size. This refers to the size of the page used when generating PDF exports, and can be changed by book administrators in their theme options. By default, the value is set to ‘Digest (5.5″ x 8.5″)’ for all Pressbooks networks.
If you would prefer for books to have a different default PDF page size value, you can change this value by selecting your preferred page size (or choosing custom and entering your desired values using CSS-compatible units like in
or em
) and clicking Save Changes.
Update Iframe Allowlist
An iframe is an HTML element which allows users to display an HTML document (i.e. an external webpage) from one source inside of another HTML document (i.e. your webbook). Because the use of iframes involve embedding content from external sites into Pressbooks, we prevent the embedding iframes from non-trusted sources into their books by default. However, Network Managers can m