> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.norrnext.com/norrcompetition/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.norrnext.com/norrcompetition/configuration/component-options.md).

# Component Options

NorrCompetition global configuration options.

NorrCompetition provides a comprehensive suite of configuration options allowing you to customize the behavior, layout, voting mechanics, media processing, and security of the extension.

### Accessing Global Configuration

In the Joomla Administrator panel (Atum template), you can access NorrCompetition options through either of the following ways:

1. Navigate to **Components > NorrCompetition** and click the **Options** button in the top toolbar.
2. Navigate to **System > Setup > Global Configuration** and select **NorrCompetition** from the component list in the left sidebar.

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### Configuration Sections

The global configuration is organized into the following tabs:

* [General](/norrcompetition/configuration/general.md) — Core settings, date format, upload folders, SEF routing, UIkit settings, remote storage, and social Open Graph options.
* [Contests](/norrcompetition/configuration/contests.md) — Default filtering, sorting, pagination, and display fields for the contests listing view.
* [Contest](/norrcompetition/configuration/contest.md) — Global defaults for contest submissions, voting modes, vote frequency limits, anti-fraud checks, and verification codes.
* [Entries](/norrcompetition/configuration/entries.md) — Display options, grid columns, video playback, countdown timers, and filtering for the contest entries view.
* [Entry](/norrcompetition/configuration/entry.md) — Display options for the single entry details view, contestant attribution, EXIF photo data, navigation, and comments.
* [Categories](/norrcompetition/configuration/categories.md) — Maximum nesting depth and display parameters for the categories listing view.
* [Category](/norrcompetition/configuration/category.md) — Display options, filtering, and subcategories presentation for single category views.
* [Images](/norrcompetition/configuration/images.md) — Image processing libraries (GD/ImageMagick), resizing dimensions, quality, cropping ratios, watermarks, video thumbnails, and batch import settings.
* [Comments](/norrcompetition/configuration/comments.md) — Integration and ordering for comments providers (Facebook, Disqus, VK.com, JComments, Komento).
* [Contest Form](/norrcompetition/configuration/contest-form.md) — Visibility of tabs and fieldsets in the frontend contest submission and editing form.
* [Permissions](/norrcompetition/configuration/permissions.md) — Joomla ACL rules controlling administrative access, entry submission stages, voting, unvoting, and frontend contest creation.