Control Panel Structure tab
Add site
This control will create a new Firefly.NET site. It has three tabs, Basic, URL and Permissions
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The site Title and Template can be set in the Add Site dialog box as usual, the template being selected from the pulldown menu provided.
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AUP Page ID applies if the site has e.g. an Acceptable Use Policy which must be electronically "signed" before the user can access its content. The AUP page number is entered into the box alongside. Otherwise leave blank
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Search can be set either to Search all default sites or Search this site only. It allows selection of default search behaviour and aslo determines if the site is included in a "default sites" search.
Check the Use friendly URLs box to enable friendly URLs, e.g. www.fireflysolutions/manual/Images rather than http://www.fireflysolutions.co.uk//support/documentation/images.
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Domain name: the primary domain name at which this site should be accessed. You will also need to configure your DNS and IIS server to point to Firefly for this domain. The example shown refers to the St Mary's Catholic Church Monmouth website.
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Domain aliases: these domain names will alos point at this site. You will also need to configure your DNS and IIS server to point to Firefly on these host names.
When Friendly URLs are enabled, the system will choose sensible URLs based on page/link title attributes and what section a page is in/what its parents are. In the example below, the opened page is called "Flower Rota" and it is in a top level section called "rotas". Before Friendly URLs were switched on its URL was http://www.monmouth-catholic.org/page.aspx?id=74; the URL now ends much more meaningfully as /rotas/flower-rota.
These can be overriden in one of two ways, both on the Metadata tab of the Modify Page dialog box:
Short title - provide an alternative piece of text to use in that page's portion of the URL. In the example above, if the word "flowers" were inserted as the Short title, the friendly URL would end /rotas/flowers instead.
Manual URL - only available to administrators - overrides the URL completely. So you could make the above page end simply as /flowers by entering "flowers" as the Manual URL.
This tab allows control over which users can read pages on the site and which can write pages throughout the site. It also allows control over which users can leave comments on pages on the site and which can leave moderated comments:-
Modify Site
This allows you to select which site you want to modify and then brings up a dialog box identical to the Add Site box above (but labelled Modify Site instead) which gives access to the same controls.
Delete Site
Self explanatory! You are asked to confirm that you wish to delete the site by entering "CONFIRM" into the appropriate box first.
Add Section
Used to create a new section, whether it is top level section or a child section. There are three tabs, Basic, Advanced and Permissions.
Allows the section Title to be entered and the Parent section to be selected from the pulldown menu. The screenshot below shows the default top level section being selected.
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select the Template from the pull-down list of installed templates. Leave the External link blank unless you want the browser to redirect to the given web address (e.g. http://www.google.com) instead of displaying the section's homepage.
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Section type is left at Normal (there are no other options!)
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Comment permissions allows control over which users can leave comments on pages on the section and which can leave moderated comments.
Modify Section
Clicking this option first brings up a dialog box asking which section is to be modified. It then brings up a dialog box identical to the Add Section box above (but labelled Modify Section instead) which gives access to the same controls but also includes two extra features, Hit statistics and Take ownership in the Advanced tab (see below).
The first allows a summary of hits on the section to be made, broken down as shown in the screenshot below. The Date Filter tab allows the setting of a start date and an end date between which the hits are counted.
Take ownership
The owner of a section will be notified if changes are made that need approval.
Reorder sections
This allows the order in which the top level sections are displayed to be altered by clicking on a section name and dragiing it up or down as appropriate:
Child sections can be reordered in the same way. For example, to reorder the child sections of the top level Its People section shown in the screenshot above, click on the hyperlinked "Its People" and the child sections will then be displayed.
Restore alphabetical ordering: does as it says!
Delete Section and Undelete Section
These are self explanatory and are not often used! Note that a section can also be deleted inline using the edit button revealed by mousing over the section menu title as below:
Create news source
This is an alternative means of accessing the Create News Source dialog box.
