If you wish to allow the public to add locations, Ultimate Locator easily allows your website visitors to submit location details to your database.
On the navigation menu, click the link that says "Approve Visitor Adds" to bring up the pending records list screen.
This feature must be 'Turned On' via the 'Settings' tool:
By default, this feature is disabled. If you want to give your visitors the ability to fill out a form, and submit location details for inclusion in your database, you must turn on this feature in the Program Settings tool as demonstrated below in the graphic.
Near the bottom of the Program Settings tool, inside your Admin Control Panel, you will see a section labeled "Visitor Add Permissions". Here, you can adjust your settings to allow permission for your website visitors to add locations to your database.
Who is Allowed: Change the "Who is Allowed" option to "Admin & Visitors" to allow the Admin (you) and your website visitors to add location details to the database. Set to "Admin Only" if you do not want visitors to add to your database.
How do you want to process: Change the "How do you want to Process" option to Manual or Auto, depending whether you want to automatically add the records to the database or you wish for the Admin (you) to manually approve each new location before it goes live.
Once you have activated "Visitor Adds", a new link will appear (see below picture) on your front end screen. This link will allow your visitors to bring up the add location form. Visitors simply fill in the form with their location information and click the "Add" button.
Once the form is filled out by your visitor, the record will be added to your database. If you set the processing of these locations to manual, the admin must login and manually approve each location for inclusion in the database. Otherwise, they will be added automatically and visible.
Approve Visitor Additions:
If you have this feature turned on and you also set the system to manual processing of the newly added locations, the admin (you) must login to the Admin Control Panel to manually approve each record for inclusion.
You can access the list of "Pending" locations by clicking the "Approve Visitor Adds" from the menu.
Each location that has been submitted by visitors will be displayed in a list:
After reviewing the location details you have several options:
* Approve or Delete the record
- place a check-make in the "Select" box; red circle above
* Edit the record or Make a 1, 2 or 3 Rank level
- click the name link; green rectangle above
* Review who submitted the location
- read the name and email of the person who submitted record; blue rectangle above
You can also use the "Select All Records" check-box to select all pending locations on the list quickly:
Once you have all the records selected that you wish to process, you need to choose if you want to Approve or Delete your selections:
Choose "Approve Selected" from the drop down list to "Approve" all pending locations that you have selected. These records will now become live records in your database.
Choose "Delete Selected" from the drop down list to "Delete" all pending locations that you have selected. These records will now be removed from your database permanentely.
After you have selected your records you wish to process, and you have selected to "Approve" or "Delete" them, you may now click the "Process Selected Records" button to start your process.
