Admin Menu Tab
Administrator controls and what they do.
- Site Settings: Set up your basic portal configuration and style sheet.
- Tabs: Create new pages.
- Security Roles: Add new groups/roles for controlling access to your site.
- User Accounts: Modify, update and delete user accounts.
- Vendors: Create and control domain Vendor Accounts for Banner Advertising.
- Site Log: Displays log files from your database.
- Bulk Email: Sends email to administrators, registered users and custom groups that you have created.
- File Manager: Permits uploading and deleting of your portal files.
- Recycle Bin: Allows restoration of any content module or Tab that you have deleted.
- Log Viewer: Displays a detailed log of errors and events that occur in a portal.
- Skins: Preview, apply, parse and delete the skins. This Tab is displayed for the first Administrator account only.
Administrators have access to the Admin tab. There can be as many administrators’ in your portal site as you allocate.
If you have logged in with the user name admin and the password admin complete the following steps otherwise skip to Site Settings:
- Click the Admin Account link located at the top of the portal page. (NOT the Admin tab in the main menu bar) You will now see the User Accounts screen.
- Enter a new first and last name if applicable.
- Enter a new username of your choice. This is the username you will use when logging in from now on.
- Enter a new password of your choice. This is the password you will use when logging in from now on.
- Enter the password again to confirm.
- Enter an email address where administrator's portal messages can be sent to.
- Enter all required address information denoted by an asterisk in the checkbox.
- Click on the Authorized checkbox.
- Click on the Update link in the lower left hand corner.
Creation Date and Last Date Logged in are displayed at the bottom of the page. Make sure you store your username and password in a safe place.
You have now secured your Admin Account.
Site Settings
Site Settings displays your basic portal site configurations, style sheet, hosting details and system messages.
- Use your browser to navigate to the Admin Tab located at the right side of the main menu bar.
- Select Site Settings from the drop down menu and click on it. You have opened your Site Settings Form.
- Complete the information requested in the following Site Settings Form.
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Title |
Enter the title of your site. |
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Logo |
Select your logo from the drop down list box. Note: You must have previously uploaded your file using the Admin File Manager. |
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Portal Skin |
Select a skin from the drop down list. |
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Portal Container |
Select a Portal Container from the drop down list. |
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Admin Skin |
Select a skin from the drop down list box for the administrator page views. |
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Admin Container |
Select a container from the drop down list for the administrator page view. |
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Preview |
View your page with the selected skin or container change in a new window before you save the record. |
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Description |
Enter a description of your site: Note this description will be used by search engines. |
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Keywords |
Enter key search words for your site separated by a comma. Note: these key words will be used by search engines. |
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Submit Site to Google Search Engine |
Click On this button to automatically register your site with Google. Can be done once a month especially after changes are made. |
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Body Background |
Click on the drop down list box to select a background image for your portal. Note: You must have previously uploaded your file using the Admin File Manager. |
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Footer Text |
Enter the text that you would like at the bottom of the page. |
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User Registration |
Click on None to not allow any new users. No register button will show up.
Click on Private to allows user to enter a New User Registration Record without an 'authorized' checkbox button. You will have to manually go through the users and click on the authorized button or click the All link.
Click on Public to allow users to complete a New User Registration Record. This record includes an 'authorized' checkbox and lets the user login to your portal after completing the registration record. To automatically assign a new user to a group click on the 'auto assignment' checkbox in Edit user group.
Click on Verified to automatically send an email to the user with a verification number for the user to enter. Email password verification |
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Banner Advertising |
Click on None to not allow any banner advertising.
Click on Site to display banner ads from this portal.
Click on Host to display banner adds from the Host Banner Ad Directory. |
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Home |
Choosing Home redirects the user to the Home Tab after they login. Default is the last page the user was on. |
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Login Tab |
or Default is the admin skin with the Account Login module in it. Make a new tab and add the Account Login Module to it. Select the new tab from the drop down list box here. There is also a skin object called 'signin' for this purpose. |
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User Tab |
Default is the user profile screen. Select a custom User Tab from the drop down list box. This is what the user will see when clicking on their profile (username) link on the page. |
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Currency |
Select a monetary type from the drop down list box. |
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Administrator |
Select the Site Administrator account from the drop down list box. The Security roles you enter show up here. The DNN pre-defined role for adminstrators is 'Adminstrator Account'. |
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Payment Processor |
Select a payment processing service from the drop down menu list. Note: only required if you add e-commerce modules to your site. |
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Go to Payment Processor Website |
Click On to go to the payment processor service sites sign up page. |
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Processor
User Id |
Enter the User ID assigned by your payment processor service. |
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Processor
Password |
Enter the password provided by your payment processor service. |
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Portal Alias |
Enter the IP Number.
Enter a Comma.
Enter the Domain Name for the Portal.(i.e.:www.yourcompanyname.com, 199.60.233.22)
Note: to add additional addresses to your portal repeat the above procedure separating each entry with a comma. |
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Expiry Date |
Click on the Calendar Button.
Click on the last day that access will be allowed in the portal. The date will now appear in the text box. |
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Hosting Fee |
Enter the cost for a sub portal. |
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Disk Space(MB) |
Enter the amount of hard drive storage you wish to automatically allocate new sub portals. |
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Site Log History |
Enter the number of days to keep your site log records. |
4. Click on Update to save the new site settings record.
You have now entered your site settings.
Edit Style Sheet
Your style sheet controls portal fonts, colors, text styles, and much more! Some CSS knowledge required.
- Click on the Edit Style Sheet checkbox to open a window containing your portals style sheet.
- Scroll though the style sheet to make changes or cut and paste a new style sheet in the window.
- Click on Save Style Sheet.
Refresh your screen to see your changes. Learn more about DotNetNuke's Personal CSS stylesheet easily accessible for users.
Restore Default Style Sheet
Click on the Restore Default Style Sheet Button to revert back to the original Style sheet.
Hosting Details
The Hosting Details form section is used to display premium content modules provided by the Host. Changes or edits must be done by the Host Account.
System Messages
This is where you modify your system messages. You can move this module to the top or bottom of site settings by hovering over the pencil icon next to the title System Messages, then choosing your preference.
Add a message for users who are logging in.
- Message Name: From the dropdown list highlight and choose MESSAGE_LOGIN_INSTRUCTIONS
- Message Value: Type “Thanks for logging into “
- Message Fields: From the dropdown list highlight and copy
- [Portal:PortalName]
- Message Value: Paste the field in the message value. It should read: Thanks for logging into [Portal:PortalName] or if you want to add some html bold portalname to get- Thanks for logging into [Portal:PortalName]
Click Update to save the new message.
You have now added a new message for users to see when they click on the Login link.
Scroll through the Message Name list and choose to edit any of the default values you want. Click Update to save the changes.
If you make a mistake then;
Click on the Restore link to restore the Message value to the default value.
You have now completed Site Settings.