The ciparms list is a BillMax List and may be used as such. See Configuring Lists.

The Authorized BillMax User to be used when entering payments from credit card/bank draft processing through the Customer Interface. This Authorized BillMax User must have Accounting Write and Basic Read Permissions.

Allow access to the Customer Interface through a Service in Closed State.

Allow existing Accounts to add a new Services.

Allow existing Accounts to add a new User and a new Service.

Allow new customers to register without supplying a credit card.

Allow access to the Customer Interface through a Service in Suspended State.

Allow access to the Customer Interface through a Service in Wait_For_Payment State.

Directory which contains the Registration Response templates for a successful registration. See the section called “Registration Responses”.

On the machine hosting the web server that executes bmui.cgi, the filesystem name of the Bourne shell. Used when executing the program specified by cgimenu.

Diagnostic printout mask. The following values may be added together to create a mask:

Specify "-2" to turn on all diagnostic output. Specify "-1" as a shortcut to "DEBUG_TRACE+DEBUG_FIELDS+DEBUG_EXTOUT+DEBUG_CONFIG+DEBUG_SERVDEFS+DEBUG_FILTERS+DEBUG_LOOKUPS+DEBUG_AUTH". This setting will cause bmuid to write diagnostic output to /tmp/bmuid.XXXXXX and bmui.cgi to write diagnostic output to /tmp/bmui.XXXXXX where XXXXXX is determined at the time of file creation.

The default basename of the template that bmui.cgi will display if run with no arguments. ".tmp" will be appended to this value to determine the actual filename.

On the machine hosting the web server that executes bmui.cgi, the webserver location of the templates.

On the machine hosting the web server that executes bmui.cgi, the webserver location of the images used by the templates.

On the machine hosting the web server that executes bmui.cgi, the webserver location of bmui.cgi.

On the machine hosting the web server that executes bmui.cgi, the filesystem name of a program that will generate the left hand navigation pane of the Customer Interface. See the section called “Replacing the CI Tree Pane”.

Message to be displayed whenever customer supplied data is invalid. This value is substituted for the tag "##Dgeneralmessage#" in the CI template error.tmp. See the section called “Advanced CI topics”. The default verbiage is "Your submission failed due to an error in your input. Please correct the error and re-submit. Specifics on the error are shown below:".

Message to be displayed whenever customer data is successfully updated. This value is substituted for the tag "##Dgeneralmessage#" in the CI template updatesuccess.tmp. See the section called “Advanced CI topics”. Only used when cgirefreshform is NO.

Message to be displayed whenever a system error occurs. This value is substituted for the tag "##Dgeneralmessage#" in the CI template error.tmp. See the section called “Advanced CI topics”. The default verbiage is "A system error occurred. Specifics on the error are shown below:".

Password used between bmuid and bmui.cgi.

On the web server machine hosting bmui.cgi, the filesystem directory name where the templates reside.

Message to be displayed whenever customer data is unsuccessfully updated due to input error. This value is substituted for the tag "##Dgeneralmessage#" in the template that is refreshed. See the section called “Advanced CI topics”. Only used when cgirefreshform is YES.

Used when updating data in an existing account. If YES, the form used to collect the data is refreshed with data or error messages. If NO, then the Customer Interface template updatesuccess.tmp is displayed.

Message to be displayed whenever customer data is successfully updated. This value is substituted for the tag "##Dgeneralmessage#" in the template that is refreshed. See the section called “Advanced CI topics”. Only used when cgirefreshform is YES.

IP address of the BillMax server, i.e. the machine running bmuid.

On the machine hosting the web server that executes bmui.cgi, a temporary directory to which bmui.cgi is able to write.

Username used between bmuid and bmui.cgi.

If a new Account has registered and has chosen to pay by credit card or bank draft, collect the funds immediately if applicable for the BillMax installation.

If an existing Account paying by credit card or bank draft has added a new Service, collect the funds immediately if applicable for the BillMax installation. Note, only the amount billed for the new Service will be collected.

Directory in which to put the bmui.config file on the BillMax server. This file should then be copied to the same directory as bmui.cgi on the machine hosting the web server that executes bmui.cgi.

Send email alerts when system errors occur to the administration contact of the Virtual Company to which an existing customer belongs or to which a new customer is attempting to register. If Virtual Company cannot be determined, the email is set to "root".

Indicates whether or not a credit card number on file is required to add new Users or Services.

The number of security fields the customer must successfully match to gain access through the Customer Interface. The security fields consist of the service.d02, user.dob, user.ssn, user.maiden, user.dlnumber, user.dlstate and user.custsecret.

Specify whether or not the customer has to supply, at a minimum, the service.d02 value (Service password) to gain access through the Customer Interface?

The name of the database field and/or bmuitemplate form field. Not all values specified here need to be a database field.

A filter used to choose a record from tabledefaults table. Supplying the value for htmlfile is described in the section called “New Customer Self Registration”. "*" matches any value for htmlfile. If the desire is to use more than one htmlfile, all htmlfile will need to be specified for the fields in question and the "*" entries for the fields in question will need to be removed. The default value for htmlfile is "default". Note that this means that is any htmlfile desired other that "default" will require the removal of the "*" entry for that field.

The default value for a field. If non-NULL, this value is used when creating a new record. As an example, if htmlfile is "special", then the default value for the field SERVICE_price could be set to the special price. Note that the default may be used even if the field is not submitted by a bmuitemplate.

An override to the standard error message generated by BillMax. As an example, when a credit card is invalid, then a customized message may be displayed.

User specified sort order of entries. Used for display purposes.

Specify whether a field must be supplied by bmui.cgi to bmuid upon creation of a Account/User/Service triplet for a new customer. An example is requiring that SERVICE_d01 (the field in which BillMax stores login names) be supplied.

Specify whether a field may be supplied by bmui.cgi to bmuid upon creation of a Account/User/Service triplet for a new customer. Using SERVICE_price as an example, in general SERVICE_price should not be allowed to be supplied as a customer could specify their own price for a service.

When updating the records of an existing customer, is a value for the field required.

Specifies the customer's accessibility to the value specified by tabledefaults.field.