Initial System Configuration

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Contents 1 Admin Password 2 Admin Email 3 System Email 4 Mail settings 5 Task Scheduler settings 6 Payment Gateways 7 User Groups 8 Membership Plans 9 Listing Types

This section of the Manual is intended to guide you in setting the initial system configurations to make the software work correctly.

 Note: The guidelines given below do not cover all settings and parameters, 
 they are to emphasize only the necessary ones.

• After the software was successfully installed, log in to your Admin Panel (www.example.com/admin/):

On the opened page you will see the Admin Panel login form displayed:

         

Enter the username and password specified during the installation and press the Login button. 

Admin Password

After the software installation we recommend you to change the Admin Panel access details for security reasons.
Go to Admin Panel -> System Configuration -> Admin Password page. You will see the following form:

         

Change the Username and Password and press the "Change" button.

Admin Email

Once logged in to the Admin Panel, go to System Configuration -> System Settings -> Notification tab.

         

Enter the email to be used for Admin to receive system notification. Press the "Save" button at the bottom.

System Email

Then go to "Mail" tab of the System Settings:

         

And specify the following parameters:

- From Name - the entered name will be displayed as Sender for site users when they receive any emails from the system (notifications, mailings and etc);

- System Email - from this email address users will receive all system emails.

Mail settings

Remain on the "Mail" tab. There you can see three transport methods options to be used for sending mails in the system: SMTP, Sendmail, PHP Mail Function and Email Scheduling option:

Enable the one you need checking the radio button. And specify the appropriate parameters for the selected one.
Also you can enable 'Email Scheduling' if needed. Make sure to press the "Save" button to complete.

 Note: The full description of the System Settings section of the Admin Panel you can find here

Task Scheduler settings

Without running the Task Scheduler script, such system tasks as: user subscriptions expiration, listings expiration, job/resume alerts mailing and etc would not be performed.
Task Scheduler can be run either manually or automatically.

The necessary information about Task Scheduler settings is provided in the Admin Panel -> System Configuration -> Task Scheduler page:

         

Payment Gateways

There are the following payment gateways are provided within the software:

         

Go to Admin Panel -> Payments -> Payment Gateways page to set the appropriate parameters for the Payment Gateways that will be used in the system.
There you will also be able to deactivate those you don't want to be used.

 Note: The full information about each Payment Gateway and setting instructions 
 you can find in the "Payment Gateways" section of the Manual. 

User Groups

There are 3 default User Groups in the system: Employes, Job Seekers and Guests (the last one can't be deleted).

 Note: More detailed information about User Groups function in the system you can get in "Users and User Groups" section.

Go to Admin Panel -> Users -> User Group page. You will see all existing User Groups displayed in the tabular format and available actions:

         

On this page you can edit parameters and permissions of each User Group to determine the way users of each Group will work with the site.

In particular there are the following settings to make for a User Group via Admin Panel:

- General parameters of a User Group:

         

Default Notification Settings:

         
- User Profile fields:

        

- User Group Default Membership Plan:

         

- User Group Permissions:

         

 Note: Instructions for making all listed above settings you can find in the "User Groups" section of the Manual. 

Membership Plans

Membership Plans are to configure the interaction between users and the site according to your charging model.

 Note: In the "Membership Plans and Packages" section of the Manual you can find general information 
 about Membership Plans function and work.

The Software includes 3 testing Membership Plans.
Go to Admin Panel -> Users -> Membership Plans page. You will see the existing plans displayed in the tabular format:

         

You can either modify the existing plans the way you need or delete them and create new plan(s).

 Note: In the "Setting Membership Plans" section of the Tutorial you can find 
 the examples of configuring different Membership Plan models. 

In particular there are the following settings to make for Membership Plans via Admin Panel:

- General parameters of a Membership plan

            

- Membership Plan Packages

          

 - Membership Plan permissions

         

 Note: The description of the Membership Plans Admin Panel menu and instructions to configure them 
 can be found in the "Membership Plans" section of the Manual. 

 - Deleting Membership Plan

In a case you want to delete a certain plan you first need to unsubscribe all users currently subscribed to this plan.

 Note: If users of this plan are testing and you'll delete them anyway, then there's no need to unsubscribe them,
 because once users of a Plan are deleted, deleting plan action becomes available too.

But if you need to keep the users and delete the Plan, see the instructions below how to unsubscribe users:

- Unsubscribe Users

To unsubscribe users from a certain Plan go to Admin Panel -> Users -> Manage Users.
Click on the "Click to modify search criteria" line on the top of the page:

             

In the Membership Plan drop-down list select the needed Plan and press the "Search" button:

           

Then only users subscribed to this Plan will be displayed. Check all users,  select "Change Plan" action, press Go, make sure that in the opened dialog box "Clear Subscriptions" selected and press the "Change" button:

           

Users will be immediately unsubscribed from this Membership Plan and it can be deleted if needed:

          

Listing Types

All listings posted in the system belong to one of the existing listing types that define the specific of a listing in the system. There are two default Listing Types in the software – Job and Resume.

Each listing type has its own fields. Also there are Common Fields in the system used for all listing types.

 Note: See "Listing Types and Fields" section for more information about listing types and listing fields and their function. 

To review and modify the settings and fields of each listing type, go to Admin Panel >> Listing Configuration >> Listing Types page.
You will see Job and Resume listing types and available actions: Add a New Listing Type and Edit Job / Resume listing types:

          

Also there you can set the Posting pages for each Listing type.

 Note: more information about Listing types and their setting you can find in the "Listing Types" section. 
 Intruction to set Posting pages see in the "Posting Pages" section.         

- Listing fields

Each Listing type has its specific listing fields, which users need to fill in to post their Job/Resume on the site.
Press the "Edit" button opposite a Listing Type (e.g.Resume) and on the opened page you will see listing fields used for this lisitng type:

         

 Note: The detailed instructions for working with Listing Types and Fields you can find in the "Listing Types" section of the Manual. 

- Common Fields

As it was mentioned above there is a set of fields that are common for all listing types.

To review and modify the Common Fields you need to go to Admin Panel -> Listing Configuration -> Common Fields page:

         

 Note: To find the instructions for modifying Common Fields see the "Common Fields" section of the Manual.