Default administrators are the default go-to person for certain aspects of the website.
These individuals will, by default, receive notifications relating to their field of responsibility.
Responsibility |
Description |
Example |
| Activity admin | The administrator who will receive all activity notifications* | Someone has submitted a new activity that needs reviewing. |
| Message admin | The administrator who will receive all notifications relating to messages | Someone has reported another user as sending an inappropriate message. |
| Timebank admin | The administrator who will receive all notifications relating to the timebank** | Someone has applied to be part of the timebank. |
| Guide admin | The administrator who will receive all notifications relating to guides** | Someone has uploaded a new document to be approved. |
* This will be overwritten if admins are set up to be responsible for certain communities. See Assigning admins to communities.
** Only applicable if the feature is enabled on your platform.
Once you and your team have registered a profile, your Made Open NI will grant you access to the CMS.
You can set different administration responsibilities for your administration team.
Depending on which feature(s) you have enabled on your platform, you will have a variety of different options to assign people to administration roles, eg 'activity admin'.
- Sign into your platform.
- Type /CMS after the platform URL.
- Use the left-hand menu to select 'Default administrators'.
- Use the drop-down options below each admin type to select a member for each role.
- Use the 'save admin' button.
Both communities of practice or place can make use of a handy feature to share the administrative workload.
- Notifications can be split between a whole team.
- Administrators are assigned a filter item from your platform.
- Administrator notifications associated with filters are sent to them.
- If no admin is assigned, the notification is sent to the default administrator.
Admin notification |
Example filter |
Filter source |
Recipients |
| New activity submitted for review | Quality improvement (Interest) | Adding to the activity via best match | Any admins assigned to 'Quality improvement' |
| New Timebank application | Paignton Town (Neighbourhood) | Added to member profile (best match) | Any admins assigned to 'Paignton Town' |
| Reported message | Carers network (Community) | Added to member profile (best match) | Any admins assigned to 'Carers network' |
| Reported activity | None | n/a | Default administrator |
To assign an admin to a community, interest or another filter, you first need to make sure that filters are set up to enable admins.
Once that is done you'll be able to go through each filter item and assigns admins from a list of your site administrators.
Enabling admins for filters:
- Sign into your platform.
- Type /CMS after the platform URL.
- Use the left-hand menu to select 'Filter management'.
- Find the filter you wish to set up and click the cog icon.
- Make sure the option "Can admins be assigned to this filter?" is checked.
- Click 'Save filter'.
Assigning admins to a filter:
- Sign into your platform.
- Type /CMS after the platform URL.
- Use the left-hand menu to select 'Filter management'.
- Find the filter you wish to set up and click the eye icon.
- For each filter item, click the cog icon to show the list of administrators.
- Check all the administrators you want to assign to this filter item.
- Click 'Save'.