Selecting Additional Administrators

As WebBoard administrator, you may want to assign other users administrative privileges so they can help manage the WebBoard site. In previous versions, all users shared one administrative account. In WebBoard 4, you can create multiple administrative accounts. To add WebBoard administrators, follow these steps:

1. On the Management menu, click Manage Administrators. The Administrators form opens. Any WebBoard administrators appear in the Administrators list box.
2. To add more administrators, click Show User List. The Select Users form appears in the left frame. You use Select Users to find the users you want to make a WebBoard administrator. You can list any user with an account on the WebBoard site.
3. You can search for users by first or last name or login name; search by first letter of last name; or list all users.
   • To search by first or last name or login name, select First, Last, or Login, enter the text to search for, and click Search. WebBoard will try to match the text you enter with the information in the selected category on the user profiles. You don’t have to enter a complete word.
   • To display a list of all users whose last name starts with a given letter, click a letter in the Show by Last Name area.
   • To list all users, leave the text box empty and select First, Last, or Login to tell WebBoard what to use in alphabetizing the list. For example, click Login to sort the list alphabetically by login name. Click Search.
4. WebBoard lists the names that match the search criteria. WebBoard displays 25 names at a time. Click the Show Next link to see the next batch of names.
5. Select the users to add as WebBoard administrator from the list generated by the search. As you click a name, it appears in the Administrators list. Continue clicking names until you have added all the users. If the list returned by the first search does not include all the users you want to add, search again and add names from the new list.
6. To remove a name from the Administrators list, click the name. You cannot remove the first administrator account (the one created during installation) nor can you remove yourself.
7. Click Submit to make the users in the Administrator list WebBoard administrators.

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Note The Select Users list is used for several tasks in WebBoard, including assigning board managers, conference moderators, private conference members, and mailing list subscribers. You can leave the list open for easy access during WebBoard administration.

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