Collections are records grouped together along a common theme.

Examples:

• Inventive Vents on Layers of London
• Albert Dock on Mapping Memory
• Coventry Heroes on Coventry Atlas

To access the admin area, make sure you have the proper permissions and go to your-humap-url.humap.site/admin.

If you’re not already logged in you will be redirected to your-humap-url.humap.site/log-in and presented with this screen:

You can then log in with your email and password.

This takes you to the home screen of Humap’s content management system:

Click Collections in the menu on the left to get to the Collections Dashboard:

Here’s how to make collections:

Click New Collections or create one, if you haven’t made any collections yet.

This will take you to the collection creation wizard, which is the same interface Contribute users. As an admin user you will have a range of Advanced options not available to Contribute users, such as the creation of QR Codes.

Introductory page

You are now on an introductory page. When you’ve read it, click Begin.

Add a name and description

Type the name of your collection in the top text box, and a description in the larger box underneath.

Top tip: try and pick something eye-catching and descriptive, to make your collection stand out. Make the most out of the formatting options in the description text box toolbar to make your description as readable as possible, and remember to use paragraph breaks if needed!

At any point in this process you can save a draft and exit, return to the previous screen, or delete your record.

When you’ve named and described your collection, click Next

Add a cover image

On this page, you can add an image cover for your collection of records. Click Browse files, then select the image you would like to upload.

Press enter, or click open or upload depending on your machine. You can only pick one cover image, so pick one that’s eye-catching and interesting. 

Assign to a team

If you add a collection to a team, other members of that team will be able to edit and add things to this collection.

To select a team, click the tick box and then Next. 

Add content

Now it’s time to add some records to your collection. 

Several records will automatically load in.

You can also choose to search for records that you have uploaded, by clicking the “show only your records” switch. 

 Use the search bar to find the records you want to add, or click “more search options” to look at pre-existing categories, such as location or topic. 

For more specific subtopics, click the downwards arrow and select the subtopic you wish to find records about.

So, if I wanted records that were about Wonders of the Ancient World I would click more search options and then “Wonders of the World.” I’d then scroll back to the top and click “Search”  

Click the plus icon in the top left of the record image to add it to your collection, and click that same button again to unselect something. Click the forwards arrow beneath the record preview in order to see the next page of results. You can add as many records as you like, and you can come back to it after you’ve published it to add or subtract records.

You can then change the order of the content on the next screen.

Either by using the sort options in the dropdown menu or by manually clicking and dragging on the records via the three line icon in the top right corner.

Alternatively you can order the items my start date, end date, name (alphabetically), latest created, or by having collections show up first by selecting the appropriate options.

Your collection has been completed! You can now publish it or save as a draft.

Advanced options

Back on the Collections Dashboard in the Admin area, you’ll see a button labelled Advanced next to created collections:

Clicking Advanced will take you to this screen:

You can change the collection’s location here.

If you would like to create a QR code or permalink go the Sharing tab and click Create Permalink.

Humap will then generate a permalink and a QR code for this collection.

Calls to Action on Humap look like this and are used to get a specific reaction from your audience. This could be taking them to a different webpage, a donation portal, an invitation to contribute  anything, really.

They look like this:

If you would like to add one to your collection click the CTA block tab

You can then add a title, description, button text, and a URL.

To delete your CTA click delete below the URL field and then Update collection.

You can then type directly into the textbox to change the URL.

If you have the associated overlay group feature turned on, this button will appear in the menu:

If you would like an overlay group to be associated with this record, click the drop down menu.

You can then select which overlay group you would like to be associated with this record.

Click Create Collection or Update Collection.

Your collection is now finished! It won’t be visible until you click Publish. You can come back at any time to edit, unpublish, or delete this collection.

Once you have collections, you can use the tickboxes and the batch action feature to publish or unpublish several collections at once.