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This is an extremely helpful guide intended to help out the board owners who don't know, or just forget something in the Admin CP. ;)

Index:

1) Administration Menu
a. ACP Home
b. Board Home
2) InvisionFree Network
a. Account Info
b. File Manager
c. Board Directory
d. InvisionFree Forum
e. Terms of Service
f. Support Ticket
g. Ad Removal
3) System Setting
a. General Configuration
b. Security & Privacy
c. User Profile
d. Date & Time Formats [1axx]
e. PM Set up
f. Board On/Off
g. Calender/Birthday
h. Board Guidelines
i. Warning Set up
j. IPDynamic Lite Set-up
4) Forum Control
a. New Category
b. New Forum
c. Manage Forums
d. Permission Mask
e. Re-Order Forums
f. Moderators
g. Topic Multi-Moderation
5) Users and Groups
a. Pre-Register
b. Find/Edit/Suspend user
c. Delete User(s)
d. Ban Setting
e. User Titles/Ranks
f. Manage User Groups
g. Bulk Email Members
h. List Suspended Users
i. Manage Validation
6) Administration
a. Manage Word Filters
b. Manage Emoticons
c. Recount Statistics
7) Skinning & Styles
a. Board Wrappers
b. Images
c. Manage Style Sheet
8) Statistics
a. Registration Stats
b. New Topic Stats
c. Post Stats
d. Personal Message Stats
e. Topic View Stats
9) Board Logs
a. Moderator Logs
b. Admin Logs
c. Email Logs
d. Warn Logs
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|1) Administration Menu|
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a. ACP Home

Links you back to your ACP home, the main page.

b. Board Home

Links you to the board in a new window.
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|2) InvisionFree Network|
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a. Account Info

Account Information
Displays your main information of your board. Shows the creation date,
advertisements purchased, and serial number.

Disk Usage
Shows the number of files and space used from specific categories and the
total amount.

Overall Space Limit
Shows you all the space used and limit.

b. File Manager

Disk Usage
Allows you to manage all types of uploads used on your board. You can also
view the space used for each.

c. Board Directory

Directory Settings
Allows you to display your board in InvisionFree Forum Directory to gain more
members. Fill all the blanks to display your board.

d. InvisionFree Forums

Links you to InvisionFree Support Forum. It still keeps the ACP side menu.
This board is for fast support for anything about your board.

e. Terms of Service

Links you to InvisionFree Terms of Service. It still keep the ACP side menu.
Read the Terms of Service so you won't be violation any of it and won't take
chances of getting your board deleted.

f. Support Ticket

Allows you to send a Support Ticket to InvisionFree staff for any support of
your board. Only staff responds to this. Support Ticket is longer than
InvisionFree support forum but you get better support from it. For more
information, please read the Support Ticket Information in InvisionFree
support forums.

Tickets
Shows all your support tickets you have recently submitted. You can read the
responses.

Create A New Support Ticket
Here's where you make a new support ticket. Just enter whatever support you
need.

g. Ad Removal

You may purchase Ad Removal to remove all the banner advertisements from your
board. It cost $5.00 to remove them. There is no expiration.
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|3) System Settings|
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a. General Configuration

The main setting of your board. Very important that you carefully check this
to prevent inconvenience to your members.

b. Security & Privacy

This setting is for privacy and to allow or prohibit certain images and
security of troublesome users. This setting is very important for your board.

c. Topics, Posts & Polls

Allows you to manage limits and permission of topics, polls, and post.

d. User Profiles

Allows you to manage limits and permissions of users' profiles and avatars.
Also allows you to manage guests' permissions. This applies to all user groups.

e. Date & Time Format

A setting of the time zone of your board. Users can manage their own in their
user control panel.

f. PM Set-up

A small setting of personal messages. This applies to all user groups.

g. Board On/Off

This allows you to set your board offline, meaning closing your board if you are
moving, quitting your board, etc. You may leave a message while your board is
offline. You can make it so that specific user groups are still allowed to view the offline forum.

h. Calendar/Birthday

Allows you to manage events on displays and forthcoming events.

i. Board Guidelines

Allows you to put the board rules. You can use HTML. You type whatever message
you wish for the rules. You can't use BB codes here.

j. Warning Set up

A setting for warnings. You can manage the warnings of members. You can also
manage permission of Global Moderators and Forum Moderators to ban, moderator
preview, and/or restrict posting when they leave a warning to a member.

k. IP Dynamic Lite Set-up

Allows you to add a 'portal' link in the navigation bar. There are set ups of
how the portal will look like. You can also add any additional things you'd like to.
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|4) Forum Control|
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a. New Category

A setting for a new category to place your forums. Note, this is not a forum.
Visible only if you have at least one forum in it.

b. New Forum

A setting to create a new forum placed to your desired category. There are
many important options so please choose carefully.

c. Manage Forums

To edit, delete, or empty forums. You may edit or delete categories. You may
also manage permission mask on individual forums.

d. Permission Mask

A setting of permission mask of access. You may add, edit, or delete masks.
Note, if you tick "GLOBAL: All current and future permission masks" option
when adding or managing forums, you can not edit it unless you untick that
option. Also make sure all your user groups use the desired mask you chose for
the access level to work as desired.

e. Re-Order Forums

An option to sort all your forums in order. If there are same numbers, it will
be randomized with all the other same numbers. You may also sort the
categories.

f. Moderators

A setting to place an individual moderator or groups to moderate specific
forums. All user groups with Super Moderator will automatically moderate all
forums and have all the settings. You do not need to add super moderators.

g. Topic Multi-Moderation

A special setting for multi-moderations for your moderators. Each topic, your
moderators may use the options as you set it up. You moderators can't use this
option if the option to use multi-moderations is not ticked in figure "f".
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|5.) Users & Groups|
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a. Pre-Register

An option to register users without having them to register. The user would
not know the information you set up so you would need to inform the member the
information. If user e-mail or admin's choice validation is on, it will not
apply.

b. Find/Edit/Suspend Users.

To manage individual users' personal settings, email settings, permission,
etc. You may e-mail the member of changes in the setting. There is advanced
search if you have trouble finding the user you are looking for.

c. Delete User

An option to delete user accounts. When they are deleted, they won't be in the
member search but they're post will still exist but unregistered. Members may
still view the board with a different account.

d. Ban Setttings

A ban control filter to ban users with a specific IP, email, and/or reserved
names. If you ban their IP, they will not be able to access any part of the forum at all unless they
use a different IP.

e. User Title/Ranks

This section allows you to edit, delete, or add ranks.

Member Titles/Ranks
A view of all current ranks. You may edit or delete within this section.

Add a member Rank
Here's the setting on adding a new rank. You may upload a custom rank below
for custom use.

f. Manage User Groups

You can add, edit, or delete user groups. This is a setting for users on
posting, using PM system and e-mail, moderation permission, mask to use, etc.
All members are always on one of these groups.

g. Bulk E-mail Members

An option to e-mail all registered members on your board. You may send it to
specific user groups. If you tick all user groups, you will e-mail all members
registered on your board. You may only send it every 5 days. There is a quick
help for BCC.

h. List Suspended Users

A list of all temporily suspended accounts on your board. You may unsuspend
and edit users in this section.

i. Manage Validation

A list of all members who are validating with user email and admin's choice
validation. Members who are validating with user email, you may approve or
delete account before they fully validate. Members in admin's choice
validation, in no way to join until an admin approves the account.


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|6.) Administration|
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a. Manage Word Filters

A setting to manage bad words in post, signature, PM, etc. within the board.
This is useful to make all bad words censored. You may put each loose or exact
matching. This can not stop bypassed words unless you list those words.

b. Manage Emoticons

A setting of emoticons used in post, PM, signature, etc. You may edit the
code, upload a custom one, and delete current emoticons.

c. Recount Statistics

An option to reset or recount statistics of your board. After you reset, it
will no longer be displayed until a new record occured.
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|7.) Skinning & Styles|
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a. Board Wrappers

These are wrappers that are used/displayed on your board. You may use HTML
fully when editing a wrapper. A tip of advice: Do NOT edit it or remove copyright if
it is not yours or do not have permission from the creator of any copyright
material! If you ignore this, your board might end up shut down by Invisionfree.

b. Images

A setting for images placed on your board. You may manage these images. When
editing images, always tick the box next to it. For non-advanced users, it is
recommended to replace the URL of the image with the URL of your new image and
leave the code. Here is the code to help understand:

<img src='URL HERE' border='0' alt=''>

Just replace the text in red with the URL of your image.

If you use the code wrongly, your board may look different which may be an
inconvenience.

c. Manage Style Sheet

This is the skin of the board. You may manage it by changing images, text
colors and style, etc. WARNING: Do NOT edit it or remove copyright if it is
not yours or do not have permission from the creator![/b] It will result a
deletion of your board.

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|8.) Statistics|
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a. Registration Stats

Displays all registrations on this board. Stats shown are in vertical
column. Information of registrations are not shown.

b. New Topic Stats

Displays all new topics on this board. Stats shown are in vertical column.
Information of topics are not shown.

c. New Post Status

Displays all post on this board. Stats are shown in vertical column.
Information of post are not shown.

d. Personal Messages

Displays all personal messages on this board. Stats are shown in vertical
column. Information of personal messages are not shown.

e. Topic View

Displays all topic views on this board. Stats are show in vertical column.

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|9.) Board Logs|
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a. Moderator Logs

A list of all moderators and their recorded moderation actions. Displays
information per logs. You can remove these logs.

b. Admin Logs

A list of all administrators and their recorded administration actions.
Displays information per logs. You can not remove these logs.

c. Email Logs

A list of all members who have emailed other members at least once and their
recorded email information. You can remove these logs.

d. Warn Logs

A list of all members who have been warned and their recorded warn notes.
Information is displayed per log. You can remove these logs.

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