Settings for a URL/content filter profile

These settings allow you to configure the following options:

Input box Description
Name Enter a name for the URL/content filter.
Override by user Check this box to allow overrides for this Content Filter profile. Depending on your settings, a code may have to be entered here. You can find out how to set the duration of this option or whether a code is required under Settings for URL/content filter. Learn more about managing the codes under Managing URL/content filter codes.
Important: This option is only available for profiles that are non-standard profiles.

Content filter

In the section Content Filter you specify which websites should be available to users on the network and which should be blocked.

Click the button next to a category to show its subcategories. You select entire categories or individual sub-categories by checking the appropriate box. Remove the check mark next to a category or sub-category to remove it from the blacklist or whitelist. To hide the sub-categories, click the button next to the category.

URL filter

In the URL Filter section you can define blacklist and/or whitelist filters for URLs.

Input box Description
Blacklist / Whitelists You create a blacklist and/or a whitelist by adding any number of terms to the respective list. If both lists are used at the same time, the whitelist takes priority. Each list has two ways of adding terms:
  • The entries are displayed in a long list like in a simple text editor. Simply click anywhere and then edit the clicked entry.
  • Alternatively, you can import search terms from a text file by clicking Import and opening the file. By default, the maximum file size for imports is 1 megabyte. Each non-empty line of the selected text file is added to the corresponding list.
Using the search field, you can enter an entry to search for it in the respective list. Afterwards you can edit it like in a text editor or simply delete it from the list. Please refer to Icons and buttons for further information. You can export a list of terms as a text file to the local hard drive by clicking on Export under the corresponding list.
Note: The terms used in the lists can include the following wildcards: * for whole words, ? for single characters.

To create a Blacklist or Whitelists, you can either enter an entry directly or use regular expressions (RegEx).

RegEx Description Example
. Wildcard for single characters ho.me – e.g. home, hole
* Any number of repetitions of the character hom* – e.g. hom, homm
.* Any number of characters ho.*e – e.g. home, house
^ Start of a line ^home – home is at the beginning of the line only
$ End of a line home$ – home is at the end of the line only

The buttons available at the bottom right of the edit box depend on whether you are adding a new URL/content filter or editing an existing one. For a newly configured URL/content filter, click Create to add it to the list of services, or Cancel to discard your changes.

If you have made changes, you can use the buttons at the bottom right of the edit window to save them (Save) or discard them (Reset). Otherwise you can close the window (Close).

Click Activate in the toolbar at the top of the desktop to apply your configuration changes.

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