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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.

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

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 pages 

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

• Page Title, Headline and URL matches the member name / city name
• A listing page for all members
• A listing page for all cities

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.

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.

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.

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

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, 2015TLPAAddons.
• 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.

Buyers Guide Addon

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.

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

Home Page Login

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

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.

Contact Us Form

Invoice Manager

This is a Public Contensive Addon. See Invoice Manager

Meeting Smart

This is a Public Contensive Addon. See Meeting_Manager

Membership Manager

This is a Public Contensive Addon. See Membership_Manager

Buyers Directory

Ad Campaign Container

Home Page Call To Action Tiles

Home Page Member Logo Scroll

Use Cases

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