Tutorial 6: System settings and administration
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In this tutorial, you will learn where to find the system administration settings, a brief explanation of their function, and links to more detailed articles on each administrative function.
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Finding the Administration settings
All of the System administration settings are available under the 'Admin' menu, which is located in the top right hand corner of the console......
The options available are as shown here -
So what do all these settings mean?
These are all of the administration settings for your site. Generally these are the settings which are setup when the site is first built, and rarely modified after that point. They are not settings which generally require constant maintenance.
Let's run through them!
Manage Users
This option is where you administer everything to do with the Users of your site.
For more details, refer to this article -
Manage Roles
Once users are created, you will need to specify the Role they belong to, which defines what they have permission to do, and what messages they recieve.
For more details, refer to this article -
Manage Domain Name
When you are ready to take your site live, this is where you add and manage the various domain names that your site will have.
For more details, refer to this article -
Manage Site-Wide Templates
This is where you manage the Site Wide templates. The site wide templates can be applied to applied to the various pages and content of your site
For more details, refer to this article -
Manage Content Holders
Content Holders allow you to place small sections of code on to a page, updating the content holder will update all places that the module us placed.
For more details, refer to this article -
Manage Categories
You can set up the categories available for content classification across your site using this option.
For more details, refer to this article -
Manage Workflows
Workflows are used to notify site owners and related people of customers interaction with their website.
For more details, refer to this article -
Import Data
You can use the import function to import all sort of data into your site, such as Customers, Products, Web Pages 9301 Redirects) and more!
For more details, refer to this article -
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Google/Yahoo/Live Optimisation
This option allows you to enable the sitemap.xml file, which assists search engines to index your site.
For more details, refer to this article -
Build Web Apps
When you are liiking to design and build a new web App (or modify an existing Web App), you can access them through this option.
For more details, refer to this article -
Extend Customer Database
You can add your own fields to your customer database here, so that you can add fields relevant to your needs to your CRM database.
For more details, refer to this article -
API Integration
You can use our API framework with your website, allowing you to connect and snchronise external systems with your website data, such as Product inventory, Customer records, etc.
For more details, refer to this article -
Manage Meta Data
You can manage the Meta data in use across your site under this option.
For more details, refer to this article -
Customise System Messages
The various system messages that can be generated by the system are managed here
For more details, refer to this article -
Customise System Emails
If the site sends out an email in an automated fashion, you can customise it here
For more details, refer to this article -
More Customisation Options
Many further customisation options, such as customising the look of your Forums / Online Shop / Blogs / etc, can be found here.
For more details, refer to this article -
* Link to legacy reference articles
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