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| Administrative Help Center Manage Categories Manage Boards Manage Members Security Miscellaneous Things |
| Administrative Help Center |
| Introduction |
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As you are well aware, YaBB is a fantastic community platform. Easily installed; easily managed. It's the perfect solution for growing and maintaining a solid, proactive relationship with your user base. This help section will help you understand some of the many new and powerful features you now have at your fingertips. If you would like to skip ahead to a specific subsection of this help, please use the navigation menu to the left.
For a more complete manual, please visit The YaBB Codex.
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| Manage Categories |
| Accessing the Category Functions |
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This YaBB version comes equiped with powerful tools to manage and control the conversational flow of your community. The cornerstone of which is the ability to group boards into an unlimited* number of categories. In order to access these functions, you must, of course, be logged in as an Administrator (or Global Moderator with proper access rights). Once you are, look at the main menu. You will notice a link titled "Admin Center". Clicking this will bring you to a large control panel. On the left hand menu, search for the section titled "Forum Controls" and click on the first link titled "Categories".
* YaBB is only limited by the space allocated to you on your web hosting server. ^ |
| Editing a Category |
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Editing a cateogry with YaBB is fast and easy thanks to the hard work our fantastic team of developers. While inside of the Categories function of your Admin Center (see above for details), you will see a list of existing categories, each with a corresponding check box. Clicking on this check box will flag this category for editing.
Once you have checked all the categories you wish to edit, scroll to the bottom of the list and search for the set of radio buttons titled " With selected:". Click on the radio button for "Edit", then press the button to the right titled "Go". Inside you will find the following items for each category:
When you've finished making your edits, search for and click the button titled "Save" at the bottom of the list of categories. ^ |
| Deleting a Category |
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If you would like to remove a category, follow the directions above to access your category management page. In the list of categories, you will notice a check box that corresponds to each title. Check this box for each and every category you wish to remove. Once selected, scroll to the bottom of the category listings and locate the set of radio buttons titled "With Selected:". Click on the radio labeled "Remove" then press the button to the right titled "Go".
A small popup will ask you to confirm that you want to remove these categories. Click "OK" to remove them or "Cancel" to keep them. ^ |
| Adding new Categories |
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YaBB now allows you to add many new categories all at once. To do this, access the forum's category management functions as shown above. Once there, scroll to the bottom of the list and find the function titled "Add Categories:". Enter the number of new categories you wish to create in the box and press the button titled "Add".
On this new page, you will be given a set of options for each of the new categories you want to create:
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| Manage Boards |
| Accessing the Board Functions |
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Now that you have created your categories, you can use YaBB's amazing board-creation utilities to manage the postable sections of your community. YaBB allows you to create an unlimited* number of boards in every category. In order to access these functions, you must be logged in as an Administrator or Global Moderator with proper access rights. Once you are, look at the main menu. You will notice a link titled "Admin Center". Clicking this will bring you to a large control panel. On the left hand menu, search for the section titled "Forum Controls" and click on the second link titled "Boards".
* YaBB is only limited by the space allocated to you on your web hosting server. ^ |
| Adding New Boards |
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YaBB now gives admins the ability to add multiple boards from a single screen. To do this, access the forum's board management functions as explained above. Once there, scroll to the bottom of the list of existing boards (if any) and find the function titled "Add Boards". Enter the number of new boards you would like to create in the text box then press the button titled "Add".
On this new page, you will be given a large set of options for each of the new boards you are trying to add:
Once you have filled out all the information for your new boards, scroll down to the bottom of the list and click on the button titled "Save". Your new boards will be created and opened for posting! ^ |
| Deleting a Board |
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If you would like to remove a board, follow the directions above to access your board management page. In the list of boards, you will notice a check box that corresponds to each title. Check this box for each and every board you wish to remove. Once selected, scroll to the bottom of the board listings and locate the set of radio buttons titled "With Selected:". Click on the radio labeled "Remove" then press the button to the right titled "Go".
A small popup will ask you to confirm that you want to remove these boards. Click "OK" to remove them or "Cancel" to keep them. ^ |
| Editing a Board |
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If you need to make changes to any of the boards you have created, simply follow the directions above to access your board management section. In the list of boards, you will notice a check box that corresponds to each title. Check this box for each and every board you wish to edit. Once selected, scroll to the bottom of the board listings and locate the set of radio buttons titled "With Selected:". Click on the radio labeled "Edit" then press the button to the right titled "Go".
On this new page, you will be given a large set of options for each of the boards you are editing:
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| Manage Members |
| Accessing Member Controls |
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Since YaBB is built to encourage and facilitate an active community of users, it comes with several tools to assist administrators in the management of members. To access these controls, ensure you are logged in as an Administrator and enter your "Admin Center". Once inside, look for the 6th section down on the sidebar titled "Member Controls". ^ |
| Manually Add Member |
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It may become necessary from time to time for an administrator to manually create a new member account. For example, this can often be useful to help those with a disability become a member.
From your Member Controls section on the Admin Center sidebar, click on the very first link titled "Add Member". This new page will give you a simple registration form that will allow you to add a member without having to logout. Simply fill out this form with the new member's username, password and email. ^ |
| Banning Members |
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Unfortunately, users are not always filled with the great sense of community that YaBB provides. These users can become rude, break rules, harass other members, or even spam your board. This is why YaBB gives you the ability to block these troublemakers from disturbing your board. To begin banning a member, access your Admin Center and find "Member Controls" as described above. Find the link titled "Ban Members" and click on it. This new page will give you three methods for banning a member: by IP address, email and username.
IP Address
Email Address
Username
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| Member Groups |
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Member Groups give you the ability to assign a group or classification to a member. These groups can then be used to grant special privileges and/or access to your forum or simply be used for the fun of it. If you would like to create a group, enter your Admin Center and find the section titled "Member Controls" as described above then click on the link "Member Groups".
This new page will then show you the three group types. The first are system/static groups. These can be renamed by clicking on the "edit" button for each entry, however, because of their importance, they cannot be removed. The second are "Post independent Member Groups" and are assigned to a member by an Administrator or Global Moderator as they are not tied to a user's post count. The third and final group, however, is based on how many posts a user has. YaBB will automatically assign these when a user reaches the listed number of posts. To create a new Member Group, click on the link titled "Add Group" next to either "Post Independent" or "Post Dependent" Member Groups. This will bring up a new page with a form to add new groups. Name: This is the name that will be shown to everyone.
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| Security |
| Security Intro |
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YaBB is very secure against all types of attackers. Your forum is safe against attack due to the many built-in features of YaBB. ^ |
| Sessions |
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Sessions are a YaBB feature designed to protect administrative functions. If sessions are enabled in the Admin Center, staff will be required to revalidate their session when their computer changes IP addresses.
To revalidate your session, simply click "Update Session" on the YaBB menu at the top of the forums. If this link isn't present, then your session doesn't need to be updated. By default, it asks you for your password to revalidate. That can be changed in your profile, under the "Edit Profile" area, near the bottom of the items. To check if sessions are enabled, go into the Admin Center. From there, select "Flood/Session Security" on the left. If the checkbox to the right of "Activate Session ID's" is checked, sessions are enabled. ^ |
| Miscellaneous Things |
| General Observations |
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In the making of YaBB 2.2, we have done an overhaul to the admin panel's various sections. As the number of functions have grown larger, we have re-grouped some of them a bit into tabs and some functions may have changed places. ^ |
| New stuff |
There are some completely new features in YaBB which naturally need some adjusting on admin level. These additions are as follows:
Then there are some smaller additions in the forum settings and in 'Referer security' which won't be further explained here but may appear as usefull for you to go through. ^ |
