Help - Admin (more information on front-end help page)

MEMBERS:

  • The members page shows a listing of ALL your current site members, along with their usertype "role" in the site (user or admin), when they registered, last login IP address, who created the user profile, total points to date, who last modified the user profile and the option to make the user a “featured user” or not.
    • You can use the search box to search for and find a particular user without having to scroll through all the users, one by one. Just type in the full name or part of the name of the user you wish to find and click search.
    • As an admin member, you also have the option edit any profile you wish to edit as well as to delete those that are dormant, offensive, corrupt or whatever other reason there might be to do so.
    • As admin, you can also make any member a featured member on the site as well as take away their featured member status.
    • From the members' page, you can add a new user, either as a new profile page for yourself or for someone who does not have access to the site at present but wants a profile as well. By clicking "add new member" you be redirected to another page to fill out the required details related to the member you are adding (as shown below).

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    TEAMS:

    • The teams page gives a round up of all the current teams available and created on brandstation. The round up includes the team names with time and date it was created, a short description of the team and who it was created by.
    • As admin, you have to the option to edit the team and its content, delete the team for whatever reason there might be to, approve the team hence making it joinable and active, make it a featured team and also manage the members in the team.
    • You also have the option to create a new team, which takes you to a new page where you would fill in the properties and text related to team creation. The difference as admin in that you can invite any member of the site to your team, whether a friend on your profile or not.

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    TEAMS – MANAGING MEMBERS:

    • By clicking "Manage Members" you get taken to a new page where, you have two options to view only currently joined team members to those that are due to still accept an invite to join.
    • Through this listing you have the options to delete current members or decline requests from members to join.
    • As admin you also have the option to mark a team that that all new registered users will have an invite to that team (useful for newbie or getting started information).

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    EVENTS:

    • As admin you get a full listing of current events that have been created on brandstation, along with the date it was created, the date of the event and who created the event.
    • You get the option to edit features and text that would be related to the event in question or delete the event for whatever reason that may be (event has passed, event is of a sensitive nature etc).
    • You can also mark a certain event and make it a featured event is you think that people might find it interesting and worth while knowing about (Featured events appear if the multi view homepage option is selected and Events component is turned on).
    • Using the search engine, you can search for a particular event due to take place or bring up all the events that contain a certain search tag.
    • You also have the option to go and create a brand new event. This takes you to the page to create and fill in all the details related to the event you wish to create. The difference with creating an event in admin and not as a regular user is that you can select any team you wish to send the event to instead of only the teams that you are a member of.

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    BLOGS:

    • The blog page contains a listing on all current blogs added to brandstation and that are currently viewable.
    • Columns show the blog title, the owner (person who created the blog), count of comments made by the users viewing the blog as well as comments made by the owner. The option to edit, delete and turn the blog into a featured blog also subsides within the page.
    • From the blog page, you also have the option to create and add a new blog posting to brandstation. Clicking on “add new post” which directs you to a new blog entry page for you to fill in all the relevant information and text regarding the blog post you are creating.

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    FILE SHARING:

    • The file sharing page shows a listing of all the files that have been uploaded onto brandstation and are still available for download.
    • The listing shows the name of the files, the team the file was shared with, date created and date that it was modified (if modified).
    • You also have the option to edit the file tags, to make it a featured download, to delete the file off the site and also to download the file to you desktop (whether apart of the team the file was shared with or not).
    • If you wish to upload your own file, do so by clicking “add new”. This will direct you to the upload page for you to fill in the necessities regarding the file you wish to share and the team(s) you wish to share it with. You do not have to be a part of a team to share the file while in the admin section.

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    RSS FEEDS:

    • When looking into the RSS feeds page, the first thing noticeable is that the RSS feeds are broken into two separate tables. The "News Ticker" and the "RSS Reader".
    • The News Ticker is an RSS feed that runs scrolling headlines across the top of the your brandstation site when logged in.
    • The RSS Reader is a listing and selection of all the RSS feeds uploaded onto the brandstation website.
    • Both show a listing of current RSS feeds uploaded onto the site, stating the label(or name of the RSS feed) and the URL from which the RSS is derived.
    • The options to edit, delete and make a certain RSS a featured RSS are also available as well as the option to make the feed viewable to the public (all users) or private (to be viewed by certain users and/or teams).
    • If you wish to add a new feed, click on "add to ticker" if you wish to add a new feed to the ticker feeds which scroll across the top of the brandstation page or "add to RSS reader" to add a new feed to the current list of RSS feeds on display.
    • Next to each RSS feed are two blue arrows. One pointing upwards, one pointing downwards. By clicking these arrows, you are moving the feed up or down the listings.

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  • BOOKMARKS:

    • The options to edit, delete and make a certain bookmark a featured bookmark.
    • Next to each bookmark are two blue arrows. One pointing upwards, one pointing downwards. By clicking these arrows, you are moving the feed up or down the listings.
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  • FORUMS:

    • The forums page shows a listing of all the current forums open for discussion on brandstation.
    • The forums are listed with the forum title and whom created the forum.
    • In admin, you have the option to go into each forum and edit it, view the replies and what was said in them or delete the forum altogether.
    • You also have the option to turn the forum into a featured forum as well as whether the forum topic should be shown in the forums listings at all.
    • If you wish to create a new forum, click on "add new topic" and fill in all the relevant information and text regarding the forum you wish to create.

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  • MANAGE VIDEO:

    • Video can be added as streams or playlists.
    • Video streams and playlists can be live streams or video on demand (VOD) video files.
    • Video playlists can consist of one or more playlist items. Playlist items can be reorder and the video channel will play the videos in that order.
    • Videos can also be uploaded to your brandstation if you do not have a live streaming server with the video stream URL available.
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    CONTENT MODERATION:

    • The content moderation page is basically an up to date summary of all content that has been denied/rejected/made inactive or removed from the brandstation site for whatever reason.
    • You can view a listing of total posts on the brandstation site along with number of flagged items, items moderated in a certain section, active post, inactive posts, posts that have been commented on, comments reassigned and the number of users that have been made inactive (i.e. the user profile has been denied access to your site).
    • Beneath this summary, you can view a listing of current flagged items waiting to be attended to. You can view the user in question that has been flagged as well as the user that report/flagged the content down, along with the reason for such an action, comments regarding the action and the title of the flagged content (title constitutes more to which section of the site the flagged content is situated, i.e.: bookmarks.) and also what the content is related to in that section.
    • As admin you have the power to select a moderator to take action or resolve the situation regarding the content. Moderators can only be selected from a listing of admin-registered users.
    • The items that can be reported depend on which components you have selected to allow moderation. The items that must be moderated depend on which components you have selected to require pre-moderation. Items posted that require pre-moderation will not appear online untill a moderator makes them active.

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    ACTIVITY REPORT:

    • The activity report serves the purpose of showing the amount of activity taking place on the brandstation site. This activity includes logins, creations of events/blogs/forums, comments made by users, files uploaded, RSS feeds, bookmarks added, etc.
    • With each activity undertaken, points are earned which form the basis of the user ranking.
    • You have the option to filter through the activity report using two drop down lists labelled as "Action" (any activity occurring on the site) and "User" (the user creating that activity).
    • Above the activity report is a summary showing the amount of visits within a certain time period and the amount of new member registries within that time period as well.

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    COMPONENTS:

    • The components list shows which features are available on your site.
    • When you unselect or select components and save your settings, you will be changing which components and features your site visitors and members will see. For example unselecting Forums will remove Forums from the front-end navigation.
    • The "Moderation" column allow you to turn on the "report abuse" link for the components selected.
    • The "Pre Moderation" column allow you to turn select which components require contents to be moderated before they appear on the site.
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    HOMEPAGE:

    Selecting the "homepage" navigation icon takes you to a page where you can select what the view the users homepage will be upon login and visiting your site.

    You have two options: "single default homepage" and "select multi homepage view".

    Single Default Homepage – gives you the option to choose one of the components/features on brandstation to be displayed.

    Select Multi Homepage View – with multi view, you can select multiple features to be displayed on the homepage. This will display each of those features with a short "summary" of what is in those components (if there are items marked as featured items, these will be displayed if there is space available).

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  • SEO:

    SEO stands for search engine optimisation. The brandstation sites are already search engine optimised but you can add further information here to increase your site search placement.

  • Meta tag keyword and description fields are by default available for your site. Seperate your site keywords with commas. The fields are limited in size to provide to optimal size for search engine indexing.

You can also add in other meta fields if needed like google site verification codes etc.

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  • LOGIN:

    • Through the login page, you can modify the login and registration process for all the end users that visit your brandstation site, that register and that login.
    • You can choose to let all end users register themselves for the site or can change it so that only admin members can register new users hence keeping control of the site in case you only want certain people to have access to it.
    • You can also customize the registration text that appears to all none registered users that are browsing the site.
    • You can also make the login process more secure by including a CAPTCHA code that all members would have to key in to successfully login. A CAPTCHA code being a randomly generated and obscured graphic representation of numbers, that the user will have to key in before they can login.
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    NOTIFICATIONS:

    • The notifications page shows a list of notification email template that are sent out for certain activities that occur on the brandstation site.
    • These activities are: after registration notification, daily notification and forgotten password notification.
    • "After registration notification" is an email sent to the user confirming registration of the users email address and supplying them with a password to successfully login as well as the URL to be directed straight back to the brandstation homepage.
    • "Daily notification" is an email sent out to users notifying them of activity on their profile or related to their profile, i.e. friend invites, team invites, event invites, etc.
    • "Forgotten password notification" is an email sent out to the user notifying them of a NEW password that has been created for them to login with in the case that they have forgotten their current one due to changing it or losing the original email password sent out.
    • To edit either of these notifications, select “edit” located next to each one and fill out the information as you which it to appear.
      Note the dynamic text fields that are included to bring in the correct user information.

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    BILLING:

    • The billings page provides an up to date, account statement regarding you current profile. It displays the current plan that demo.brandstation users are on, how much disk space is available to them; date of registration for demo.brandstation, and the last date payment was made and when the next is due.
    • The option to upgrade the current site plan is also available which entails making a payment. Depending on the plan chosen, payments will vary.
    • You can also choose the number of months (1-12) that you wish to pay for this certain payment plan.
    • After successful payment your site will be upgraded immediately.

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    SEARCH:

    • The search page is just that... it is a search engine for admin users to use to search the site quickly for a certain user or information containing a keyword and/or user activity on. This is quicker and more effective rather than searching the entire site manually and scrolling through tons of information just to acquire a certain piece that you might be looking for. The checkboxes allow you to select which components of the site you want to look in.

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