The Preferences & Contribute sections 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 also updated our user experience since this video was published.  

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:

• You can then log in with your email and password.
• You can also access the admin area via the Subscription Platform, if your organisation has an institutional license and you have Subscription Admin level permissions.
• Go to https://subscription.humap.site/users/sign_in and log in with your user name and password.

• 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.

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

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

Managing your Site Settings

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

General Settings

• 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

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

Field Settings 

• Do you want/need at least a start date for every record? Click the ‘yes’ tickbox if so. You can also set a date range.

Starting point and zoom

• 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!
• 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.

Contribute

• Use the tickboxes to select which types of content you would like your Contribute users to be able to create.

Single Sign-On Keys

• Add your SSO key in here. If you’re not sure, email us at [email protected].

Feedback form

• Add negative options for the feedback form, one per line.