A set of 71 new Member Area Icons have now been added to all Making Music Platforms. Many of you made suggestions for new icons, and most were added (some were omitted if they were too similar to other icons). There is now total of 105 possible icons, which you can find on our demo site: https://demo.makingmusicplatform.com/dbpage.php?pg=hsicons. Note that the page simply lists available icons - it's not a whole new set of functions for your Platform and clicking on an icon on that page will not do anything.
These icons can be used in your Making Music Platform main member’s area (which can be found by clicking on the members home button at the top right hand corner of your Platform), for your members to click on to access a particular page within your site. If you want to use one of the new icons then complete the following instructions:
- Ensure you're logged in as a Webmaster (or as a Data Administrator with permissions to edit Navigation Links).
- Click the Admin link in the top-right corner to view your Admin Dashboard.
- Click the Site Navigation Menu link:
- Either click the Add new navigation link button in the top-right corner, or click the little Update icon to the right of the existing navigation link that you wish to change
- Fill out the following fields, if necessary:
- Enter any Text to display you want
- Nominate the page that the icon should link to (select it from the drop-down list called Page from this website)
- The Parent should be your main Members menu (this is the menu item that your members click to access their Members Dashboard). Usually this is called Public Access - Members (80) (or similar).
- The Display ranking specifies where this icon should be positioned within the set of icons. If you get it wrong, the icon can easily be dragged into a better position, if necessary, on the Site Navigation Menu page
- The Members page icon field is the important one here. Just below the spot for the icon, there's some yellow help text. In that help text there's a link called Members Area Icons:
Click that link to see all available icons to choose from. When you have chosen the one you want, copy its name (e.g. icon-assessments.png), and paste it into the spot on the previous page. IMPORTANT: You must also copy/paste the text in the yellow help box that reads /brostools/applications/singing/images/icons/ - so the contents of that box will look something like: /brostools/applications/singing/images/icons/icon-assessments.png
- The Members page text field is optional text that members will see in a little pop-up tooltip when they hover their mouse over the icon on the main Members page
- Ignore the Display ranking in footer box
- Set the Access Level required to either Restricted Member Access or Regular Member Access, dependent on whom you wish to access that particular funcitonality.
- Do not select anything from the Only display up to drop-down.
6. Click Save at the bottom when you're done.
7. Visit your main Members page, and you'll see your new icon.
If the available icons don't meet your needs, you can also add a new icon to your main Members page with any text on it (but no picture). For example:
To do so, follow the steps above, and make sure:
• The Text to display at the top of the Navigation link Details page is set to the text you want on the icon
• In the Members page icon field put: /brostools/applications/singing/images/icons/icon-blank.png
That's it – you are done. If the text you entered for the icon is too big, and it is truncated or overflows, please email platform@makingmusic.org.uk and we can fix it for you (or if you know CSS, you can fix it yourself!).
