Administration

Author:Étienne Loks date:2012-10-08 Copyright:CC-BY 3.0

This documents presents the administration of Chimère. The version has been updated for version 2.0.0.

Administration pages presentation

Administration pages accessible at: http://where_is_your_chimere/admin/

Don’t forget the ending slash in the URL.

Identification

First of all, you’ll have to identify yourself with the login and password provided.

Main page

Once authentified you’ll have access to the main admin page.

This looks like this:

1. links to this Documentation, to the Change password form and to Log out
2. a list of recent actions made with this account
3. an application title, most of your action will be in the Chimere application
4. an item inside the application. From these page you can Add a new item or consult/Change items. The Add link lead to the new Item form. The Change link lead to the Item list. The Item list is also available by clicking on the item label.

Item list

1. path in the admin site. This is a convenient shortcut to come back to the main page.
2. link to create a new item from the item list
3. search items by word (not available for all type of items)
4. this filter box permit to filter current entries with some criteria (not available for all type of items)
5. the header of the table is clickable. Click on an header sort the items by this header (ascending or descending). Multiple header sort is possible (the number on the right of the header explain the order of sorting).
6. each item can be checked (for applying an action) or selected (by clicking on the first column) to see the detail and possibly edit, delete it.

Item form

1. fields for the selected item (or blank if it is a new item) are displayed in this form. A few of the fields concerning an item are read-only and a few of them are hidden. Mandatory fields have their label in bold. Changes on theses fields are only effective once the form is submitted.
2. for some items there are associated sub-items. Theses associated items can be modified in this form. If there are many sub-items associated for the current item, they can be ordered by drag and drop.
3. the form has to be validated by one of theses actions buttons. They are self-explanatory.

Creating news

A news system is available. All you have to to do is to click on the Add button near News. For each news you have to provided a name and a content. The content can contain HTML tags. The avaibility is set with a checkbox.

Creating categories/subcategories

Before adding categories you have to set some icons. Theses icons appears on the map and in the categories’ box on the main map. Be careful to resize correctly your icons. Indeed the icon will be presented at their real size on the map. To add icons: the Add button near Icons.

Categories are in fact only containers for subcategories. You’ll have to provide only a name and an order. To add categories: the Add button near categories (quite clear now, isn’t it?)

Fields of subcategories are: an associated category, a name, an icon, an order, a color and an element type. Theses fields are mainly quite self-explainatory. The color is used to draw routes (if this subcategory contains routes). If it a basic color it can be set with the english name (for instance: “red”, “blue”, “yellow” or “purple”) otherwise you can put the HTML RVB code (for instance “#9227c9”). The element type is the type of element the subcategory can contain: POI, route or both.

Moderation

The moderation step is quite simple. It works the same with POIs and routes. The moderator can access to all POIs (or routes) by clicking on the Modify button. A search field is available to search by name but the more interesting is to filter POIs (or route) by state and by subcategory. Then to modify an item you have to click on his name. The submission can now freely modified. Compared to the main submission interface there is only on field add: the state field. To be publish in the main site the item must have the state: Available. If an item is not revelant the Delete button permit to remove it.