TLPA

Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association (TLPA)

Terms

Production Server 

http://www.tlpa.org and http://tlpa.sitefpo.com

Staging Server 

http://staging-tlpa.sitefpo.com

Roles

See Roles for the built-in Contensive Roles.

HowTo

Update an organization's Longitude and Latitude

• The system automatically calculates Longitude and Latitude on all Organizations with blank fields each hour.
• To update an existing Organization, clear its Longitude and Latitude and wait one hour.

Edit Home Page Slider

• To edit sliders, login and click EDIT.
• Click the paper/pencil icon next to the slider you want to edit.
• You can edit the name, caption, image linked page or slider sort order.
• Click OK to save changes.

Edit Home Page Audience Boxes

• To edit content in these boxes, login and click EDIT.
• Click the paper/pencil icon next to the box you want to edit.
• You can edit the name, linked page or copy under the image.
• Click OK to save changes.

Edit Home Page Popular Page Tiles

To get a page to appear in the home page tiles:

• Login and click EDIT
• Go to the page you want to appear and click the paper/pencil icon to go to the edit record.
• Go to the HomePage Tile tab and click Enabled.
• Add a caption and upload an image (285 px x 285 px).
• Click OK to save changes.
• To remove a page from this list, simply edit the page and uncheck the Enabled field in the HomePage Tile tab.

Edit Home Page Call to Action boxes

• To edit any call to action, login and click EDIT.
• Click the paper/pencil icon next to the call to action you want to edit.
• You can edit the headline, template, text, caption, button name, button link, image, HTML for a media file and the sort order.
• Click OK to save changes.

Add and Edit News Stories

An overview of each news story appears on the home page. If you go to the page /News-Stories, you will again see each story listed and can click on a link to a specific story. < br/>

To add/edit news stories:

• Login and click on ADMIN.
• Click MANAGE ADD-ONS, NEWS STORYS, STORY LIST.
• Click ADD for a new story, or click the paper/pencil icon next to a story to edit it.
• Enter the story title, brief overview, link to a web page, image, link to a pdf or similar file type, story date, and/or full story text.
• Click OK to save changes.

Add and Edit Advocacy Issues

Here TLPA will describe any current issues affecting the industry and will present the association's position. Sometimes there will be an option to send a letter to your representative to support TLPA's position on a specific issue.

To add/edit Advocacy Issues:

• Login and click ADMIN.
• Click MANAGE ADD-ONS, 2015ADVOCACYCOLLECTION, ADVOCACY ISSUES.
• Click ADD for a new issue, or click the paper/pencil icon next to an issue to edit it.
• Click on the BILLS tab and enter the bill name, overview, bill sponsor, learn more link, check if TLPA is for the bill, bill details, bill date and content of letter (if applicable).
• Click OK to save changes.

Manage Home Page Banner Campaign

On the home page is a special case of the Banner Campaigns addon designed to allow multiple banners to display together. To change the banner layout from 1, 2 or 4 banners wide, turn on advanced edit and click the wrench tool. Click the drop down from the Campaign field and click UPDATE to save changes.

Banner image size should be 936x60 if you are displaying one banner on the page, 468x60 if you are displaying 2 ads on the page and 234x60 if you are displaying 3 ads on the page. To add images to the campaign, click EDIT and then click on the paper/pencil icon. Click the IMAGE tab and then CHOOSE FILE to upload a new image file. You can specify the width and height for the file. You can also include text in the Caption field, and the image will include this caption when the mouse hovers over it. You can also set image alignment by putting right or left in the Align field. If you want the ad to link to a web page, click on the LINK tab. Type the URL in the Link field as http://www.website.com. If you want the link to open in a new window, click the box. Click OK to save changes.

NOTE: For banner campaigns to display properly, EDIT must be turned off.

Add and Edit Stories in the Article Library

The article library can be found on the page http://www.tlpa.org/Resource-Center. This tool enables you to search articles stored in the article library by keyword or category.

To Add/Edit Categories

• Login and click ADMIN, MANAGE ADD-ONS, ARTICLE LIBRARY, ARTICLE LIBRARY CATEGORIES.
• You will see a list of current categories.
• Click the paper/pencil icon next to a category to edit it, or click ADD to add a new category.
• Type the category in the NAME field.
• Click OK to save changes.

To Add/Edit Articles

• Login and click ADMIN, MANAGE ADD-ONS, ARTICLE LIBRARY, ARTICLE LIBRARY DATA.
• You will see a list of current articles.
• Click the paper/pencil icon next to an article to edit it, or click ADD to add a new article.
• Type the name of the article and select the category from the drop down.
• In the Copy field type text that you want to use to summarize the article.
• In the Upload field click CHOOSE FILE to upload an article if your article is a file, such as a PDF, that you will store on the website.
• If your article is on a website, type the URL in the LINK field. Enter the link as http://www.website.com
• Click OK to save changes

To Add/Edit The Supplier Directory

• Login and click ADMIN, MANAGE ADD-ONS, then SUPPLIER DIRECTORY and finally ORGANIZATIONS.
• On the right side of your screen you will see a list of all organizations currently available on your website.
• To edit information for an organization, click on the paper/pencil icon next to the name to open the record. Make any necessary changes and click OK to save them when you are done.
• To add a new organization to the supplier directory, you will click ADD at the top of the screen.
• In the DETAILS tab, you will enter the company name, address and additional contact information.
• Click on the DIRECTORY tab and click on INCLUDE IN DIRECTORY to include this company in the supplier directory.

Here you will enter the company name, address and contact information as you want it to appear in the directory. In the web box put the heading you want to appear for them to click on to take them to their website. The URL for the website should appear in the link field. Place an email address in the EMAIL field if you want website visitors to be able to email the company directly with a link from the supplier directory. Upload an image for the supplier to be shown in the list overview by clicking CHOOSE FILE in the LISTING IMAGE field. This opens a browser for your computer; select the image and click OPEN.

• Click on the DIRECTORY ENHANCED tab and click on IS ENHANCED LISTING if the supplier has purchased an enhanced listing.

Add the profile contact and click on the PROFILE APPROVED BY ACCOUNT once they have reviewed the listing. THIS MUST BE CHECKED in order for the profile listing to show up in the supplier directory. Here you can also upload a profile image, which can be a larger image than that shown on the listing page. You will also enter the PROFILE DESCRIPTION for this supplier.

Every time an organization is added or modified and the IS ENHANCED LISTING field is checked, a process will automatically run to create a vanity URL for the organization, which will be http://www.truckload.org/supplier-directory/company-name. All spaces and single and double quotes in the name are replaced with dashes. The vanity URL is displayed when you click on the profile for the company.

Click OK when you are done to save changes.

Reference

Housekeeping Tasks

Housekeeping runs once per day and updates website data as needed. The time of day when it runs can set changed in TLPA settings, under navigator settings. Housekeeping does the following in this order:

MemberMax Sync 

• Changes to Organizations and People are copied from the MemberMax system to the website
• Members are placed in the group MemberMax TLPA Members and non-members are put in the group MemberMax TLPA Non-Members

Populate Longitude and Latitude 

All organizations with empty Longitude and Latitude and updated based on their address

Build Organization Subcategory Select for Membership Directory 

A new list is created

Build SEO city pages 

creates Search Engine searchable pages for each city and state to include:

• Page Title, Headline and URL matches the member name / city name
• A list of all members in that city

Create a single page that links to all the city pages

Build CityState Selectors 

For find-a-ride

Login, Data Management and Synchonization

Users are authenticated with one of two methods, local login and member login.

Local login is a username and password stored within the Contensive application database and can be accessed at the /admin url. This is reserved primarily for site administrators.

Member login lets users authenticate with their MemberMax username and password and is accessed through all other logins on the site. For security reasons, site administrators and developers cannot use this login method

Membership data is stored within MemberMax, and periodically copied to the Contensive site. Typically this will be once per day. Updates to member data on the website may be 24 hours old.

Banner Campaign

This is a Public Contensive Addon. See Banner Campaigns.

News List Add-on

This add-on enables you to add news stories to a news page and to have a specified number of the latest stories display on the home page.

• To add or edit stories, login and click ADMIN, MANAGE ADD-ONS, NEWS STORIES, Story List.
• You will see a list of current stories. Click ADD to add a new story or click the paper/pencil icon next to a story to edit it.
• Enter the story title in the HEADER field.
• Enter a brief overview in the STORY BRIEF field, which will appear under the story title on the news page.
• Enter the text for the story in one of the three available fields:

1. Use the STORY LINK field if you are using a story located on a webpage. Include http:// in the web address.
2. Use the STORY DOWLOAD field if your story is from a PDF or similar file. For this story type, click CHOOSE FILE and then select the file from your computer and press OPEN.
3. Use the FULL STORY field if you will include the content for the story in the story record. Just type the story into this field.

• If you have an image to include, upload it in the IMAGE field.
• Also put the date in the STORY DATE field.

Click OK to save the new story.

Advocacy Addon

This add on allows TLPA to present bills that they Favor or oppose and automatically create a letter that can be sent to their house representative or their senator signed by the user

• Populate the Advocacy Issues Table with the bill that is being lobbied for
• enter the name of the bill
• give a brief overview
• identify the sponsor of the bill
• check the box on whether TLPA is for or against the bill
• Present position details
• identify the bill date
• fill in the letter content on what you want the letter to the congressmen or senators to say

Find A Ride Addon

This feature enables members to search for a taxi, limo or paratransit company near them.

Users can search in the US by city/state or zip code and internationally by country.

Searches can be limited by type of vehicle: taxi, limo or paratransit.

Results for each company include organization name, logo, phone number, address, city, state, zip and country.

NOTE: For an organization to appear in the Find A Ride results:

• In the Divisions tab, there must be a check next to one of the fields for Taxi, Limo or Paratransit and
• The Member No in the MemberMax Data tab must be greater than 0.

Home Page Slider

The home page slider add-on allows you to put a new image on the home page in the slider open the slider images table

• Name the slider You are creating
• By checking active this will populate the current slider that is running
• Caption Allows you to add a caption to the slider
• Image Upload self explanitory this is the image that you are adding * Note the image size should be 1200px x 500px
• site link allows you to add a link to the image if you click on it
• Alpha sort order allows you to sort the images alphibetically

Membership Group Directory

This directory provides a search of TLPA members by city/state or zip code for US members or city/country for international fleet operators. Searches can also be carried out by last name or first name of the organization contact and by organization name.

The types of members included in the search are US Fleet Operator, US Public Sector, International Fleet Operator, Associate Member and Trade Association.

Results include contact name, address, city, state, zip, country, toll free numbers, fax numbers and other numbers that vary by member type as specified below:

• US Public Sector and Trade Association members will list the Phone number (comes from Main Phone field in the organization record).

• Associate Members will list Sales phone number (comes from Sales Phone field in the organization record).

• US and International Fleet Operators will list the Administrative number (comes from the Main Phone field in the organization record) and the Reservations number (comes from the Sales Phone field in the organization record). In addition, when users check the taxis, limos, and/or paratransit boxes, search results will only display operators with ALL types of transportation checked and will include a count of each type of vehicle the company owns.

Additional information provided in each search result is Service Description (if provided), logo, primary contacts and their title.

NOTE: To display in the Membership Directory, an organization must list one of the following in the Member Type field in the MemberMax Data tab:

• us fleet operator
• us public sector
• international fleet operator
• associate member
• trade association

Contact Us Form

The contact us form has two parts

• the contact page content

With the headline contact US and editable page content in the copy area

• It also run a subsequent add-on called dynamic form

the dynamic form can be created in the form wizard and then selected by clicking on the wrench on the page when edit is turned on.

Invoice Manager

This is a Public Contensive Addon. See Invoice Manager

Ecommerce Cart

This is a Public Contensive Addon. See Ecommerce Cart

Meeting Smart

This is a Public Contensive Addon. See Meeting_Manager

Membership Manager

This is a Public Contensive Addon. See Membership_Manager