Documentation & guides

Website preferences

The Preferences section of the Content Management System (CMS) is where you can configure your project website.

They used to be in the same tab called Site Settings. We’ve moved things around but the process of deciding your settings is still the same, and we’ll update the video soon.

This tutorial is available in video and text/image.

We’ve updated our user experience since this video was published, but this video is still useful.  

Logging in

  • To access the admin area, make sure you have the Project Admin level 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:

The log in screen for the Humap platform

A screenshot of the Subscription Platform login

  • That will take you to the Subscription Platform home screen.
  • There will be a list of map projects created on your subscription.
  • Click Admin next to the project you would like to access, and you will be taken to the admin dashboard of that project.

A screenshot of the Subscription Platform Homepage

  • That will take you into the admin content management system.

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

A screenshot of the Humap admin dashboard, showing the visitor numbers for that website

Managing your website preferences

  • Click Preferences in the menu on the left to get to this screen:

A screenshot of the general settings page of the Humap admin dashboard

A screenshot of the general settings page of the Humap admin dashboard

  • Add a name into the Site Title text box. Don’t worry; you can come back and change this later. The site title is the name that will appear in the tab and on search pages.
  • Copy and paste a URL into the Website text box. This can link to your Humap instance, a project page, or an institutional webpage.
  • Add an email into the Contact Email box. This will be prominently displayed on your Humap.
  • Write a short description of your sites purpose in the Short Site Description Box. This will show on search result pages.

Tray links

A screenshot of the Tray Links links section of the Humap admin area

  • This page will list the features available to you. Select the items you would like to be visible on the left of the map.

Dates

A screenshot of the Dates section of the Humap Preferences admin

  • If you want or need a start date to be present on every Record, you can indicate that here using the tickboxes.
    • By default, dates on Humap are not mandatory, but they are very useful for finding and ordering specific Records.
  • You can also define a date range for the search page of your Humap website using the fields underneath. You can see how this looks on the Layers of London search page.

Starting point and zoom

A screenshot of the Starting point and zoom page in the Humap admin

  • The starting point is the centre of your map, as it will appear when someone goes to your-humap.site/map.
  • Type the name of a location in the search field at the top right of the map to find your desired map centre.
  • Click on the map to drop the red pin. Click somewhere else to move it.
  • You can also type in the lat/long fields below if you have a specific geographic coordinate.
  • Use the zoom level field to indicate how much you would like the map to zoom in on the starting point location. If your map is specific to a small area of one city, higher zoom is better. Likewise, for projects that cover a larger area a lower zoom level is needed. This may require some trial and effort!

A screenshot of the Starting point and zoom page in the Humap admin

  • You can also set bounds for your project by typing or pasting lat/long coordinates for southwest and northeast bounds for your map. This limits the space that will be searched for results on your map, and means your users won’t be able to pan away from the section of the map your project focuses on.

Lists

A screenshot demonstrating how to manage lists

  • The List tab lets users decide how lists of Humap content are displayed on the browse and results pages. You can use the drop down menus to toggle between different visual options (show thumbnail image/show text only). You can also decide which data will appear in the list view, for example:

A screenshot of a list view of content items on Layers of London

  • The data options for the list will include taxonomies and dates, and you can add more by creating Data Fields.