The Convention Wizard is designed to allow convention owners and administrators to set up a
convention quickly and easily. The Convention Wizard takes you through all the steps to get
your convention up and running. You can fill out as much or as little as you want; come back
to it later when you have more information or use the departmental setup screens instead.
This page will give you a preview of all screens in the Convention Wizard and their use. The
screen shots you see here are from early in ConTrak v2's development, so some things may change
before it is released.
Welcome
The welcome welcomes users to the wizard and provides some quick information about its use.
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Convention Information
All fields on this screen are required. This screen tells ConTrak about the convention. The convention's abbreviation
is used in the navigation drop-down menu.
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Departments
As this version of ConTrak is designed for the marketplace, this screen shows all departments in ConTrak and allows a user
to show or hide departments allowed to that convention. If a department is not allowed (an example of this is not in the
screen shot), a price tag will appear next to the department and the user will not be able to use the department.
When a user clicks on a department from the list on the left, information about that department will
appear in the main section of this screen. The information tells the user about the department and its capabilities. Another
point to this is that the description markets the department to the user.
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Owners
This screen is only available to the system administrator. A convention owner is responsible for the convention as a whole
and can do anything s/he wants to the convention, which includes deleting all the data and creating administrators. An owner
cannot create other owners.
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Administrators
This screen is only available to convention owners. From here, owners can drag users from the left side to the right to give them
administrator status. From there, move your mouse over an administrator's name and the white box will pop up. The owner can then
assign specific departments to that user to administer.
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New User
This screen allows an owner or administrator to create a new user in the Convention Wizard. The user name and password are checked
automatically and only unique user names are added to ConTrak. A tip is to create a user name and append it with "@<convention name>".
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User Permissions
Assigning permissions to users has never been this simple! Drag a user from the left side to the right to give that user access to
the convention. Put your mouse over the user's name when it's on the right to bring up the white permission box. Click whichever
permission, if any, you want to give the user for that department: "V" for read-only view, "A" for add, "E" for edit, "D" for delete,
and the shield to give this user admin rights, if you missed it in the previous screen. Why have a separate screen for admins? When
you are dealing with a potential of over 50 users in a convention, it's easier to filter your admins out if you have a separate screen.
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