Administrators Guide

(This page under development)

Intended audience

The PGV Administrator manages users who can have different roles (or privileges):

• Site Administrator who can do and see anything on the site and can create new users.
• Gedcom Administrator who can administer Gedcom configuration and privacy and accept changes.
• Acceptor who has edit privileges, and who can also accept or undo changes made by others.

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• Editor who can edit anything he or she can see. The changes he or she made need to be accepted by a user with higher access privileges.
• User (authenticated user) has access to the MyGedView portal and can view all public data and those private data that are allowed by privacy settings.
• Public visitor is a visitor that has not authenticated by entering a username and password. Default privacy settings do not give the public visitor an access to the data of living people. Public visitor cannot edit data.

The division between topics covered in Administrators Guide and Users Guide runs more or less in the middle of this list: information in this guide is geared for the Site and Gedcom Administrators and also Acceptors, while the Users Guide covers topics for Ediors and Users, (and also Visitors), with some Acceptor topics as well. Sections below outline responsibilities of the Administrators.

PhpGedView

• Install, update and manage PGV

• Features
• Download

• Download v4.2.x

• Install
• Upgrading (General instructions, all versions)

• Upgrading from 3.x to 4.x
• Upgrading from 4.0.x to 4.1.x
• Upgrading from 4.1.x to 4.2.x

• Perform periodic maintenance (logs, updates, backups, etc.)

• Database import/export/conversion utility

• Configure PGV

• A Guide to configuration functionality
• A Glossary of configuration fields

Family Trees

• Import and maintain Gedcoms

• Import or create the first Gedcom
• Add and manage Gedcoms
• Configure Gedcom parameters
• Configure privacy

• Verify and approve changes made by editors, manage media, places and other objects

• Accept or reject changes
• Manage media
• Manage places
• Add and maintain place maps (optional)

• Add and mange unlinked and duplicate objects

• Add an unlinked person
• Add an unlinked source
• Merge records

• Maintain Research Assistant
• Setup and manage multiple sites and site links (optional)

• How Remote Linking Works
• Remote Link Individuals Across Websites And Databases

Users

• Add and manage users

User experience

• Welcome page

• Select and configure Welcome Page components (blocks)

• Customize

• Themes
• Customizing themes
• Add-on modules
• Integration with Content Management Systems (optional)
• Modify the menu system (optional). There are two articles on this topic, the second approach required more extensive coding changes

• Build a custom menu
• Modify the toplinks menu

• Write News, Policy rules etc.
• Write and manage FAQ's

• Sample FAQ entries
• Writing FAQ's in multiple languages

• Manage languages

• Languages
• Configure supported Languages
• Translator tools
• Add a new language

• Configure and update Google maps

See also

• Administrators menu in Administrators Guide v4.1.x
• Admin Menu