Flightdec Sites

To create or edit a site a user will require the correct permissions.

Site Mechanics - This will allow editing the site.
Reseller - This will creating of a new site.
Replicate Site - This will allow replicating the current logged in site.

To edit a site, it may be accessed from the sites top level menu in the 'Site Tools' drop down by selecting Edit Site or from the 'Assigned Sites' page by clicking the the 'Edit Site button'.

When creating a site you will need to click 'Create a Site' or 'Replicate This site' from the sites Dashboard.

Setting up a site

From your dashboard click on "Create a Site". If you do not see this you do not have the correct permissions for this action and you will need to use the front end form, Sign Up on Flightdec.com
Fill in each field. You will need the required fields:
Site Name
Site Stage
Subsite URL
Google Analytics Number
Email Address
Site Description
Structure
Colour
Activate any modules
Going live with the site will then require you to enter its domain/url

Fill out Google Analytics and get code. 3. Go to: Site Tools / Site Modules (menu top right) Switch on Custom Panels 1 Custom panels 2 Events Form Gallery Group Sites ( for Broadcasting ) Members Area Table of contents

Site Fields

Site Name

This is the name of the Site. It will show up in broadcasts, Index Listing pages and in the administration banner or Assigned Sites page. It does not have to be unique but should be descriptive enough that it is recognisable at a glance.

Site Stage

The stage that the site is currently at. This may be used on the Assigned Sites page to filter sites for developers or content administrators when looking for their sites that need attention.

Site Password

You may wish to secure your site from the general public or robots/crawlers. By entering a password (not encrypted) a visitor will be required to enter it once to view your site.

Site Domain

A sites domain is the URL visitors will enter into their browser to visit your site eg. to visit Flightdec you will type flightdec.com You will have to purchase this through an ISP, Domain host or Flightdec.com.
When entering the domain you will not need to type http://. You will also not need www. unless you explicitly want that as your MAIN domain. You may assign more domains to your site in the Secondary Domains section

Subsite URL

The subsite url is the keyword used to identify your site on the flightdec.com domain. It will also store all your sites uploaded and web accessible data. This will be a unique string and can use any combination of letters (a-z), numbers(0-9) and hyphens (-) or underscores (-) but it must start and end with a letter or number. Once entered this will not 'easily' be able to be changed and you will need to contact Flightdec to change it.

If you have not purchased a Site Domain you will have to use this subsite URL along with flightdec.com to access your site. eg. a subsite URL of smiths will be accessible on smiths.flightdec.com

Site Parent

You may associate a parent to this site for group or membership associations. This will allow the administrators of the parent site will be able to see the sites assigned to them.

Site SSL

If you wish to use a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate you will need to tick this. This will then server your site and its connected media from a secure connection using the HTTPS protocol. Certificates will need to be purchased from a reputable supplier or Flightdec.com and will need Flightdec to install them on the server.

Site Live

This is the date that you made this site go live, merely for your reference and to connect it to the Flightdec information on what sites are on the platform.

Broadcast Content

This will allow the site to share content with other sites in the community. When enabling broadcasting you will be opening your site up to the ability to send and receive content from other sites. This will allow each page to have its own options and a broadcasting button will appear when editing a page.

Enable Broadcast Sharing

Enabling Broadcast Sharing will allow administrators to broadcast a page that will open the link to it in the RECEIVING site. This will mean that the link will NOT BE A REDIRECT to your site and your pages content will show in the receiving sites template.

Google Analytics Number

Flightdec will use its own Google Analytics account for monitoring traffic but you may also assign your own accounts to store any recorded data. Each account can be entered with a separating comma, eg. UA-123456, UA-123457, UA-0943965. If you do not have an account you may sign up for Google Analytics or learn more about it here.

NOTE: If this field does not contain a 'UA-' in it it will be classified as invalid. This will still save the form so you will not have to create an account, but no data will be reported on the entered account and it will show on the Assigned Sites as having an invalid Google Analytics account associated to it.

Google Analytics Domain

This is the domain you entered for registering your Google Analytics Number. This was originally used to report data to that number, Flightdec has since updated to use the new Google APIS and this is no longer a required field.

Who Owns this Site

This should be an existing member of Flightdec. They will be assigned as an administrator of the site and will be the main contact of the site. It will default to the person entering the form.

From Name

When the site send an email this will be the name used to send them. By default it will copy the site name field above.

Email Address

This is the email that will be associated to the site and the From Name above. In some instances an email supplier has restricted sending of emails from their domains from other servers (Yahoo, office 360). Flightdec will now send emails as "contact@flightdec.com" with a reply to address of the email address entered here. This will circumvent the SPF record restriction or server permission problems.

Site Description

The Site Description is brief text used in site searches and the display of basic information on the "Assigned Sites" page. It should be simple and short.

reCAPTCHA Site key

reCAPTCHA Secret key

reCAPTCHA is a way to verify that a user is not a robot. This is supplied through an API from google. By default enabling reCAPTCHA on any page or form will use the old version 1 system which requires a user to type in some text from an image. V2 is much more effective and can be done with a click of a button but will require you to register your own set of keys to the site domain it will be used on. If you wish to use V2 you can sign up here.

Allow Commenting

Enabling commenting on a site will allow the check boxes on pages for commenting. This will include moderated and unmoderated comments.

Allow Anonymous Commenting

If you wish to allow unknown users or members that have not logged in to your site to make comments you will need to enable this option. This will allow a page to enable anonymous comments as well as moderated comments.

Moderation Address

This is the email address that moderation alerts will be sent to if the Moderation Alerts option is enabled.

Moderation Alerts

Enable this option to email comment alerts to the Moderation Address above. Alerts will contain a link for comments to be moderated and will sent out as the comment is made.

Allow Comment Images

This option will allow pages the option of having an image be uploaded with the comment.

Comment Image Height

The Height restriction of the box that will resize the uploaded image thumbnail (cropped to best fit). Original will open to screen size with a faded background. The default dimensions will be 100 pixels

Comment Image Width

The Width restriction of the box that will resize the uploaded image thumbnail (cropped to best fit). Original will open to screen size with a faded background. The default dimensions will be 100 pixels

Enable Homepage Articles

This is a system to enable a basic dynamic homepage that links to articles you create on your site. A basic form on an Index Display page from the modules system.

Site layout and Colour

When defining a site you must also choose its layout and the colour or theme to apply to its look.

The available templates for the structure are listed here. This will be the starting point of your site and can easily be modified from there.

To view the available themes you may visit this page of snapshots.

Secondary Domains

Extra domains that your visitors may enter into their browser to visit your site. eg Flightdec.co.nz is an extra domain for Flightdec.com. These will be redirected to your main domain.