About the Site Management area – OpenCities

The Site Management area of your OpenCities admin is where you manage the important details and settings of your site. You can manage the site name, domain, themes, Dashboard shortcuts, and module settings.

To get to the Site Management area, go to More > Site Management from the main menu. You'll see a list of your existing sites down the left side of the screen. Once you select one, you'll be able to work in the following tabs:

Overview
Settings
Shortcuts
Themes

Remember to Save all your settings once you've finished.

Site management area

Overview

The Overview tab contains settings that are necessary for your functioning site, so be careful about changing them. Here's what they mean:

Field	Function
Site name	The name of the site as referenced in admin areas, such as the Site Management settings. There is no character limit for this setting, and it can be changed at any time.
Site alias	The name of the site as referenced in admin areas, such as the site picker dropdown and as part of the URL. The Site alias has a maximum of 12 characters, and cannot be changed once created.
Description	An overview of the site, for internal purposes only.
Requires login	Use the dropdown menu to indicate if this site requires a login to access it when it goes live.
Main address	The main URL of the site, including the Scheme, Domain, and Folder. Scheme: this field is automatically set to HTTPS and cannot be changed. Domain: the domain for your new site. When first creating the site, use the domain for the public site so admin users can preview content. You can change this to an independent domain when you're ready to go live. Folder: if your new site is filed under a folder within the larger domain, enter that name here. For example, the URL for one of our demo sites is: https://pointrussell.opencities.com/Leisure/Home In this example, the Domain is "pointrussell.opencities.com", while the Folder is "Leisure"
Http handling	Indicate what to do when someone attempts to access the site using "http" instead of "https".
More addresses	Enter any additional URLs people can use to access the site. When entered into a browser, these extra URLs will redirect the user to the Main address.
Hide from search engines	Check this box to hide your entire site from external search engines. This prevents your site from being indexed and searchable before you go live. Once you uncheck this box, your site will be available to index. Do not uncheck this box until you are ready to go live.
Sitemap
Create and submit to search engines	Select the Create and submit button to create a sitemap for search engines. Once you have done this once, the setting and button name will change to "Recreate", so you can create a new sitemap if you significantly change your site's structure.
Manually submit to search engines	Once you have created a sitemap once, this field will appear which allows you to Copy the sitemap file so you can manually submit it to search engines.

Settings

The Settings tab allows you to edit a wide variety of options for your site, including all of the module settings. Here's what you can do (please note the order they appear in your admin will differ):

Setting	Available on	Help article(s)
	All sites	Manage your site settings Connect your OpenCities sites with Google Analytics
	All sites	Check your content for accessibility and offensive words
	All sites	Manage the settings for custom content types
	All sites	Manage your site’s metadata
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Set up a language
	All sites	Manage emails sent by OpenCities
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Set up internal site search
	Intranets, MyCity, and subsites	About the Site Login module
	All sites	Manage the Location settings
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Let your visitors convert site text to speech
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	About Page Discussions
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	About the Related content module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	About the Subscriptions module
	All sites	Manage your file settings
	All sites	Update your site footer
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Homepage module
	All sites	Manage the General page module Manage the Landing page module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the A-Z Directory module
	All sites	Manage the Announcements module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Bids and Tenders module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Community Engagement module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Community Engagement module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Departments module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Development Applications module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Document Libraries module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Elected Officials module
	All sites	Manage the Events module Change the settings for MyCity page types Manage the Eventbrite module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Use featured sections to group pages together
	All sites	Manage glossary pages
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Image Gallery module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Initiatives module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Jobs module
	Main sites and MyCity	Manage the Local Directory module Change the settings for MyCity page types
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Lost Animals module
	Intranets	Manage the Message Board module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Minutes & Agendas module
	Main sites	Customize your My Area map
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the News module
	Intranets	Create and manage org charts
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Parks module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Works and Projects module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Public Notices module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Services module
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Help your visitors share pages on social media
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Embed Twitter and Facebook social media feeds
	Intranets	Manage the Staff Directory module
	MyCity	Manage MyCity users
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Show off important links in the Utility Bar
	Main sites, Intranets, and subsites	Manage the Venues module

Shortcuts

The Shortcuts tab displays all the shortcuts for content types you currently have on the dashboard for this site.

You can also use this tab to create additional shortcuts for the Dashboard.

Themes

This tab will only be available for users with the OC Site Designer role.

The Themes tab displays all the themes you have in your theme builder, and shows which theme is currently applied to the site you're working on.

From this tab you can also Apply or Preview a different theme, by hovering over the theme and selecting the action you want. If you click on the name of the theme, you'll be taken directly to that theme in your theme builder.