ES GUIDE: ADMINISTRATION: Dashboard > Settings > Activity Logs & Alerts
By Randall McCallum on Friday, 01 November 2013
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Administration and Customizing Your EasySocial Network - Making changes to the Activity Settings and the Alert Settings.

With EasySocial you can do some configuration and customization in the Dashboard Administrator to make your social network feel more like your own. Learn how to configure your EasySocial powered social network to match your website or organization's needs.

This Help Guide is designed for individuals or organizations in the early stages of developing their social community; newcomers to community administration and management; those who need to understand community management to develop policies or procedures; and community managers who need to revitalize a stalled community.

Welcome to EasySocial! Ready to dig into the EasySocial Administrator Dashboard to set up your social network?
This guide details the special administrative privileges available exclusively to paid customers like yourself. As an EasySocial administrator, you now have access to a robust suite of tools designed to help you configure and manage your social network. You can enable and disable features, integrate EasySocial with other Joomla Extensions, applications, provision and deprovision users, monitor activity, export data and more. This guide is just the beginning -- as you get started, keep in mind your designated StackIdeas Customer Support Team and other members of this community are always here to help.



1. Activity Logs Settings - This is where you will set the Pagination for the Backend Limit and the Frontend Limit for the user activity logs.

To access the Activity settings go to: Joomla Administrator > Components > EasySocial > Settings > Then click on Activity Logs, and this will show you the Activity Log settings.



Pagination:

Backend Limit: - Set the maximum number of activity logs to retrieve when editing a user.

The default value is set to 5.

Frontend Limit: - Set the pagination limit on the maximum number of activity logs for the user to displayed in the frontend on the site.

The default value is set to 10.



To access the Alerts Settings go to: Joomla Administrator > Components > EasySocial > Settings > Then click on Alerts, and this will show you the Alerts settings.

2. Alerts: Live notifications appears in the toolbar by updating your user in real time whenever there are updates for their account.

General Notification settings:



Pagination: Set the number of notification items to display on the pagination page layout.

The default value is set to 10.



System Notifications:



Enable system notification: - By turning this option on, system notifications will be enabled on the site. It automatically polls for new system activity and alerts the user with an activity counter.

Polling interval: Set the polling interval for system polling. On a huge site with lots of users and activity it would be advisable to set it to between 30 and 60 seconds.



Friends Notifications:



Enable friend notification: By turning this option on, the system will display a friend request counter by polling the server at a specified interval.

Polling interval: Set the polling interval for system polling. On a huge site with lots of users and activity it would be advisable to set it to between 30 and 60 seconds.



Conversation Notifications



Enable conversation notification: By turning this option on, the system will poll the system for new conversations and display a counter when there are new conversations.

Polling interval: Set the polling interval for system polling. On a huge site with lots of users and activity it would be advisable to set it to between 30 and 60 seconds.
Nice, thanks for sharing this Randall By the way, we would like to invite you to contribute for our documentation area that's located at http://docs.stackideas.com/administrators/ . Would you like to be part of this?
Mark
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Friday, 01 November 2013 10:18
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Mark wrote:

Nice, thanks for sharing this Randall By the way, we would like to invite you to contribute for our documentation area that's located at http://docs.stackideas.com/administrators/ . Would you like to be part of this?


Of course I will contribute. I was waiting for someone in your marketing group to contact me. I can document one or two areas of the administrator a day, but I will need to ask questions from you and your team periodically when I need an explanation of Settings, and what something does. I am using the tooltips, but sometimes more of an explanation makes it easier for users to understand. This is where my queries as to what a feature does in more detail I will ask you or your team members to give me a better understanding. I will do as much as I can each week. I am a firm believer that excellent documentation with addition of How To Step by StepmVideos can make a huge difference to attracting new users that are intimiidated.

Getting Started Guides of the Basics to set up EasySocial, EasyBlog and EasyDiscuss will give new users more comfort that they can get a site set up more quickly, without having to ask for mich help.

Another setvof Guides would be How to Create a Basic Social Network from start to finish. A complete step by step guide, and this will attract new customers that want to create their own social network but don't have enough site building experience to put it all together. This is a much bigger undertaking.

Let me know what you need from me Ok.

My email and Skype have been added in the details area.
Randall McCallum
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Friday, 01 November 2013 10:35
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On another note, when looking at Yammers Administrator Guide I found out how the display inline documents within Yammer.

They use crocdoc. Inline Document Viewer: Yammer uses Crocodoc (http://crocodoc.com/) to display inline previews of images, PDFs and Microsoft Office files. Inline previews let users collaborate on documents by enabling review and direct commenting within files.

This feature alone would give EasySocial very strong appeal for Enterprise customers. And it would propell it into new markets beyond what Jomsocial can be used for.
Randall McCallum
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Friday, 01 November 2013 11:09
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