Qatar News Agency

Website Backend User Guide

Prepared for
Qatar News Agency
Feb 2014
Version 1.1

Prepared by
ADabisc Future Qatar
PO BOX 23177, DOHA, QATAR
Tel: +974 44227222
Fax: +974 44077 138
Website: http://www.adabisc.com

Copyright 2014, All rights reserved

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Reference Number:

Qatar News Agency - Website Backend User Guide

Author:

Nezar Abdel Hadi

ADabisc Digital Account Executive
Phone: +974 44227294
Fax:
+974 44077 138
Email: nezar.abdelhadi@adabisc.com
Ahmed Yhia
ADabisc Senior Web Developer
Phone: +974 44227231
Fax:
+974 44077 138
Email: ahmed.yhia@adabisc.com

Glossary of Terms
Term

Description

ADabisc

ADabisc Future Qatar

QNA

Qatar News Agency

Table 1: Glossary of Terms

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.

Introduction............................................................................................................................. 4

2.

E-Mail Settings ........................................................................................................................ 4

3.

2.1.

Main Mail Settings ............................................................................................................ 5

2.2.

Correspondents E-Mail Settings ....................................................................................... 6

2.3.

Media Organizations E-Mail Settings ............................................................................... 7

2.4.

Suggestions E-Mail Settings............................................................................................. 8

Media Gallery .......................................................................................................................... 9

3.1.

Photo Gallery .................................................................................................................... 9

3.1.1. Media Gallery Patch Uploader .......................................................................................... 10

3.2.
4.

5.

Video Gallery .................................................................................................................. 12

Adding News Media ............................................................................................................. 13

4.1.

Sync Media Folders ........................................................................................................ 14

4.2.

New Folder...................................................................................................................... 14

4.3.

Folder Properties and Permissions ................................................................................ 15

News Control Panel .............................................................................................................. 16

5.1.

Adding News ................................................................................................................... 16

5.2.

Added News Approval .................................................................................................... 17

5.3.

News Archiving ............................................................................................................... 18

6.

Polls Admin page ................................................................................................................. 18

7.

Daily Newspapers Admin page ........................................................................................... 20

8.

Documents Admin page ...................................................................................................... 21

9.

Home Widgets Admin page ................................................................................................. 22

10. Happened on This Day Admin page ................................................................................... 23

11. Events Admin page .............................................................................................................. 24
12. Nationalities Admin page .................................................................................................... 25
13. Professions Admin page ..................................................................................................... 26
14. Media Organizations ............................................................................................................ 27
15. Correspondents Admin page .............................................................................................. 28
16. Website Visits Admin page ................................................................................................. 29
17. Suggestions Topics Admin page ....................................................................................... 30
18. Suggestions Admin page .................................................................................................... 31
19. Footer Settings ..................................................................................................................... 32

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20. Custom Configurations & Synchronization Task Settings .............................................. 34

20.1. Synchronization Program and App.config File ............................................................... 34
20.1.1. App.config XML Configuration .......................................................................................... 35

20.2. Web.config File ............................................................................................................... 36

20.2.1. Web.config XML Configuration ......................................................................................... 37

20.3. Task Scheduler To schedule Sync Task ..................................................................... 39

20.4. Scheduled Task Setting General Tab ......................................................................... 41
20.5. Scheduled Task Setting Triggers Tab ......................................................................... 42
20.6. Scheduled Task Setting Actions Tab .......................................................................... 43

21. Template Design .44

21.1. Template Design Configurator Files.44
21.2. CSS Configurator..45
21.3. Resources Management.46
22. SHARE..47
23. MAP..50
24. Back-UP .57
25. Restore...65

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1. INTRODUCTION
After logging in to the admin backend you will get a list of Admin pages and sections that you
can change settings to. Each of these Admin pages will be explained in this guide.

Language selector

List of custom Admin Pages

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2. E-MAIL SETTINGS
2.1.

Main Mail Settings

From here the user can set the email account and name to be used to send out emails from
the QNA website.

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2.2.

Correspondents E-Mail Settings

The Admin e-mail address
that correspondent forms
will be sent to.

Subject of E-mail
Admin will receive.

This is the body text of

the email to be sent to
the admin when a
correspondent submits
a form.

Subject of Confirmation Email sent to correspondent.

This is the body text of

the confirmation email
to be sent to the
correspondent after
they submit a form.

Subject of Status Email sent to

correspondent.

This is the body text of

the status email sent to
the correspondent.

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2.3.

Media Organizations E-Mail Settings

The Admin e-mail address

that Media Organization
forms will be sent to.

Subject of E-mail
Admin will receive

This is the body text of

the email to be sent to
the admin when a
Media Organization
submits a form.

Subject of Confirmation Email sent to Media

Organization.

This is the body text of the

confirmation email to be
sent to the Media
Organization after they
submit a form.

Subject of Status E-mail sent

to the Media Organization.

This is the body text of

the status email sent to
the Media
Organization.

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2.4.

Suggestions E-Mail Settings

From here the user can set the

body text and layout for the
suggestions email that will be
sent to the admin when a user
submits a suggestion

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3. MEDIA GALLERY
3.1.

From here the Admin

can browse for and
upload the photo

Photo Gallery

From here the Admin

can set the date to be
displayed for the
image.

The Admin enters the

image description here
in English, Arabic, and
French

From here the Admin

can upload the
thumbnail
If the Admin wishes to
upload more than one
photo at a time they can
do it from this tool
The Patch Uploader is
explained in the next page

Edit Button
- To edit the
image file or
date and
descriptions

Delete
Button - To
delete the
image from the
gallery

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3.1.1. Media Gallery Patch Uploader

After clicking the Patch Uploader

Button
from the previous page this tool will
pop up

The Admin can add more than one image

using this tool by selecting the group of
images they want to add directly from the
folder they are in and simply dragging and
dropping the images on to the Patch
Uploader Tool in the browser

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After dropping the dragged images to the uploader

and clicking on "Submit" from the previous page
this window will pop up.
Here the Admin can set the date to be displayed for
the images and add English, Arabic, and French
descriptions for each of the added images.

Clicking select will allow you to

browse for and upload more
images

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3.2.

This will appear if the YouTube video URL option is chosen

Video Gallery

From here the Admin

can set the date to be
displayed for the
video.
The Admin enters the
video description here
in English, Arabic, and
French

Videos can be added to

the gallery from one of 2
locations:
1. Upload the file
2. YouTube video
URL
If the Admin chooses to
add the video by
uploading the file, they
must upload the video in 4
different file formats:

(.mp4)
(.webm)
(ogg)
(swf)

The Admin can

browse and upload the
video image &
thumbnail from here

1. D
G
V

Edit
Button - To
edit the image
file or date
and
descriptions

Delete
Button - To
delete the
image from
the gallery

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4. ADDING NEWS MEDIA

Hide Media Folder
Path

Sync Media Folders

Explained on next
page
Grid/List view
switch

New Folder
Explained on
next page

Media folder
path

Folder Properties & Permissions can

be accessed from clicking the right
mouse button on the folder
Explained on Page 15

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Upload Files button, will open this

platform shown on the left where
Admin can drag & drop files to be
uploaded

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4.1.

Sync Media Folders

Sync Menu
Refresh: Reload folder listing if some
folders not showing
Sync this folder: Must click on this to
show manually added folders (Folders
added through windows explorer not
using the add new folder button.
Sync this folder & subfolders: Same
as Sync this Folder but will also Sync
sub folders. It is recommended to
always use this option when you want
to sync Media Folders to Sync
everything

4.2.

Parent folder for the new

folder to go under

New Folder

New Folder
Name

This is set according to

the folder you are in when
the New Folder button is
clicked
Folder Type Menu
Standard: Normal folder with permissions to
view and edit for everyone by default
Secure: Same as standard with permissions to
view & edit only for Admin users by default
Database: Same as standard but no actual files,
virtual folder saved in database

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4.3.

Folder Properties and Permissions

After clicking on View folder properties from the folder right click menu , shown on Page 13
you will get the window below:

Click on the Permissions

Tab to edit folder
Permissions.

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5. NEWS CONTROL PANEL

5.1.

Category for
news item to
appear on in
website

Adding News

Start Synchronization with

Fileworx
This process is done
automatically by default

Update sitemap for search

engine purposes
This process is done
automatically by default

News icon
legend
Category for
news item to
appear on in
Bulletin.

Filter display of List of

News items

Automatically set
by Fileworx file

List of News items

retrieved from Fileworx
Region for
news item to
appear on in
website

Region for news

item to appear on
in Bulletin.
Automatically set
by Fileworx file

Retrieved news item

description

Select image &

thumbnail for
news item from
Multimedia
Folder using File
Location and
File Name drop
down menus.
Upload file from any
destination if not
found in Multimedia
Folder but the file
location must be set
from the file
location drop down
for the uploaded file
to have a
destination to be
saved in.

Save the added news and

update website

Send request for news item to

be approved and published

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Select a video to be added from

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5.2.

Added News Approval

From here the authorized person

to approve the news to be
published, can check the boxes
of the news they want to Approve
or Reject.

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5.3.

News Archiving

Top category of news

to be listed for
archiving.
Sub category of news
to be listed for
archiving.

Sub Category

From here the user can check

the boxes of the news they want
to Archive and then click on the
Move to Archive button.

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6. POLLS ADMIN PAGE

After filling in the

questions and
clicking the save
button, the
answer fields will
be enabled and
the admin can
start to add the
answers

After adding the

first answer in all
languages and
clicking save, the
answer will be
saved and the
fields will be
cleared for the
input of the next
answer for the
same question

After entering and

saving all the
answers, the
admin can click
cancel to start with
a new question.
Note: you will not
lose any saved
entries when
clicking cancel

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The Admin enters the

Poll question here in
English, Arabic, and
French

The Admin enters the

Poll answer here in
English, Arabic, and
French

This is the Poll answer order in the

multiple choice answer list

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7. DAILY NEWSPAPERS ADMIN PAGE

Daily News Title,

Description and
Image

Text to appear
under Daily News
Entry

List of added Daily News Titles

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8. DOCUMENTS ADMIN PAGE

Document titles
can be entered
here in English,
French and
Arabic

Document
Description can
be entered here
in English,
French and
Arabic

List of saved documents

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Document
Large and
Thumb images
can be
uploaded from
here

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9. HOME WIDGETS ADMIN PAGE

Home widget name
in English, French
and Arabic can be
entered here

Browse
upload
icon

and
widget

Set Widget Type:

Open User Control:
The widget will open a
user control
User Control Path must be
defined

Open New Page URL:

The widget will open a
URL in a new page
A field to enter URL in will
appear if this radio button is
selected

HTML Text:
HTML text will be shown
when widget is clicked
An HTML text field will appear
if this radio button is selected

List of saved widgets

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10. HAPPENED ON THIS DAY ADMIN PAGE

Happened on this day Date

(Day/Month) and description can
be entered from here

List of saved history days

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11. EVENTS ADMIN PAGE

The admin can add events from here. The
event details in English, Arabic and French
are entered here

Browse and upload an image for the

Event

The admin can enter

the Event English
description here

The admin can enter

the Event Arabic
description here

The admin can enter the

Event French description
here

List of Saved Events

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12. NATIONALITIES ADMIN PAGE

Nationality name in
English, French and
Arabic
can
be
entered here

List of saved drop

down
menu
entries

These are shown in

any drop down
menu on the
website labeled
Nationality

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13. PROFESSIONS ADMIN PAGE

Profession name in
English, French and
Arabic
can
be
added from here

List of saved
Professions

These professions are

shown in any drop
down menu on the
website
labeled
Profession

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14. MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS

Media Organization
submitted form
details

Media Organization application

or form can be approved from
here

Send Media Organization email with

application status (Approved or
Pending)

List of Media
Organizations who
submitted forms
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Export all submitted forms

to Excel file

Advanced search of
Media Organizations
who submitted forms

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15. CORRESPONDENTS ADMIN PAGE

Correspondent submitted form details

Correspondent application or
form can be approved from
here

Send Correspondent email with

application
status (Approved
or
Pending)

Advanced search of
Correspondents
who submitted
forms

List of Correspondents who

submitted forms

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16. WEBSITE VISITS ADMIN PAGE

Website Visits name

in English, French
and Arabic can be
entered here

List of saved drop

down
menu
entries
These are shown in
any drop down menu
on
the
website
labeled
Website
Visits

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17. SUGGESTIONS TOPICS ADMIN PAGE

The Admin
enters the
Suggestion
Topic Names
here in
English,
Arabic, and
French

List of suggestion topics to be

chosen from the drop down
when a user wants to submit a
suggestion

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18. SUGGESTIONS ADMIN PAGE

The suggestion and

the information of the
person who submitted
the suggestion is
shown here.
Indicator that this
suggestion has
been sent to the
email the
suggestions are
supposed to go to.

Error
returned if
email was
not sent

Edit
Button

This is a list of submitted suggestions.

Clicking on the highlighted edit button
will show the suggestion and the
information of the person who submitted
it in the fields above.

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19. FOOTER SETTINGS

Footer Section Link

Footer Main Section

Header

Footer Main Section Header and Section Link settings are explained in the next
page

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Set new footer

item link type
URL: A text
field will
appear where
the admin can
enter the URL
address for the
item.

Set Footer item

type to Main
Section Header
to add a new
main item in the
footer

Set new Footer

item Title

Page: A drop
down menu will
appear with a
list of pages on
the QNA
website to
choose from.
List of Footer Main
Section Header
items
After setting the
Footer Item
Type to Section
Link this drop
down menu will
appear to select
the Main section
you want to
have the sub
item or section
under

Set Footer item

type to Section
Link to add sub
items or
sections under
the main
sections added
in the figure
above

Set sub item

title

List of Footer
Section Link items

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20. CUSTOM CONFIGURATIONS & SYNCHRONIZATION

TASK SETTINGS
20.1.

Synchronization Program and App.config File

Folder Path
C:\Adabisc\website\qna_local_xml

Synchronization
program (.exe) file
App.config XML Configuration
file

Arabic and English synced news

folders

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20.1.1.

App.config XML Configuration

Set the key UseFTP

to false to override
the synchronaization
process to not use
FTP and get news
from local file which is
LocalNewsFolder

Database connection
Must be changed whenever
database and server
settings are changed
accordingly
FTP Server
Settings
Must be changed if
the FTP Server was
changed
accordingly

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20.2.

Web.config File

Folder Path
C:\Adabisc\website\

Web.config XML
Configuration file

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20.2.1.

Web.config XML Configuration

Rased Folder Path

Backend grids (lists) maximum
listing

Must be changed if
the Rased folder
was moved to any
location

Explained on next page

FTP Server
Settings
Database connection
Must be changed whenever
database and server settings
are changed accordingly

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Must be changed if
the FTP Server was
changed
accordingly

Set the key UseFTP to

false to override the
synchronaization process to
not use FTP and get news
from local file which is
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PageSize value is the number of entries to be listed in any

backend list or grid like the one shown above.
If PageSize value=10 then 10 entries will be listed and any
other entries will be moved to Page 2

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20.3.

Task Scheduler To schedule Sync Task

START MENU
ALL PROGRAMS
ACCESSORIES
SYSTEM TOOLS
TASK SCHEDULER

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Task Settings
Settings for each tab can be
only viewed from here settings can be changed from
the properties window
QNA-fileworx-News
Sync Scheduled Task

Scheduled Task
Controls
Clicking on Properties
will open the window
shown in the next page

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20.4.

Scheduled Task Setting General Tab

Task Name
Set when task was created
(cannot be changed)
Leave this setting to Run
whether user is logged on
or not to ensure
Synchronization task runs
and news is retrieved from
fileworx even if the user is
logged out.

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Task Description
May be changed from here

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20.5.

Scheduled Task Setting Triggers Tab

Double Click to Edit

Trigger

Choose On a schedule from

drop down to have the task
begin as scheduled

Date and Time for scheduled

task to start on
Task to re-run every 1 day but
will repeat every 5 minutes for
the duration of that day

Task to stop if runs longer than 30 minutes Synchronization process should not
take more than 30 minutes to ensure availability of latest news.
If Task takes more than 30 minutes it is because:
A. FTP connection down
B. There is a problem - Check Hardware and Software (Machines, cables, or
settings)

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20.6.

Scheduled Task Setting Actions Tab

Double Click to Edit

Action

Type of Action Choose

start a program

Browse for and choose synchronization program (.exe) file to run

C:\Adabisc\website\qna_local_xml\FileWorxSynchronization.exe

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21. TEMPLATE DESIGN

21.1.

Template Design configurator files

These are the files

to
configure the
content

The path for this file is:

C:\Adabisc\website\Portals\_default\Skins\QNA

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When you select one of the files this

page will show and then you can
configure the template

21.2.

CSS Configurator

Select styleqna.css to configure the

css content

The path for this file is:

C:\Adabisc\website\Portals\_default\Skins\QNA\css

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21.3 Resources Management

All the static titles and link titles in the website are located in the Resources files
separate resource file for each interface language
The Resource files Paths are:
C:\Adabisc\website\App_GlobalResources\ AdabiscQNA.ar-qa.resx
C:\Adabisc\website\App_GlobalResources\ AdabiscQNA.en-us.resx
C:\Adabisc\website\App_GlobalResources\ AdabiscQNA.fr-fr.resx
To change the Value of any text open the correspondent file for the specified
language in Visual Studio and change the required text

Except for the Text used in the each of the forms (Correspondents Media
Organizations), they are located in a separate resource files for each form.
Correspondents:
C:\Adabisc\website\DesktopModules\CorespondentSubmitForm\App_LocalResources\CorrespondentLookup.ascx.ar-qa.resx
C:\Adabisc\website\DesktopModules\CorespondentSubmitForm\App_LocalResources\CorrespondentLookup.ascx.en-us.resx
C:\Adabisc\website\DesktopModules\CorespondentSubmitForm\App_LocalResources\CorrespondentLookup.ascx.fr-fr.resx

Media Organizations:
C:\Adabisc\website\DesktopModules\ MediaOrganizationSubmitForm\App_LocalResources\MediaOrganizationSubmit.ascx.ar-qa.resx
C:\Adabisc\website\DesktopModules\ MediaOrganizationSubmitForm\App_LocalResources\MediaOrganizationSubmit.ascx.en-us.resx
C:\Adabisc\website\DesktopModules\ MediaOrganizationSubmitForm\App_LocalResources\MediaOrganizationSubmit.ascx.fr-fr.resx

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22. SHARE
Kindly go to:
www.addthis.com/login

E-mail:
noreplyqna@gmail.com

Password:
QNAol.net

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Select Date
Range
Filtration

Total Shares
Summary

After you log in you will see this

page Top Content shows you the
shared content on your website

Select one of them to see

more details of each

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Shows you how many share,

clicks, from which service,
from which country, etc

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23.

MAP

Go to:
www.mapsengine.google.com

E-mail:
noreplyqna@gmail.com

Password:
QNAol.net

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Select Open a map

Select which one you want to edit

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After selecting which

one you want to edit
this page will be shown

Select Data to edit the

information of the
markers

Double click on which you

want to edit and edit the
text

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Click on Embed on my site

Copy and paste this to

your website

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Select Create a new

map

Double click the title to

change the map title and
description

Select this layout to

change the layout of the
map

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Write the title and

description you want

Click Save

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To add marker press this

button

Add your
description

Select where you want

the market

When you finish

click Save

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24.

BACK- UP

Right click
Tasks

Select Back Up

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Select Disk
Click on Add

Click which is
browse

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Choose where you

want to save the back
up file

After you choose

where you want to
save, press OK

NOTE:
After you name the file to
add .bak

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It will start to back up

the information

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After it finish back up,

it will show back up
completed

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To back up website files

Right click

Click Add to archive

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Name the file

Click OK

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It will start creating archive

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25.

RESTORE

Right click

Choose tasks

Choose
Restore

Database

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Select From
device

Click .. which is
browse

Right Add

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Choose where you have back up the file

Click OK

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The file that you

have selected will
appear

Click OK

After you check the

box down,Click
Options

Check this box

by click ing on it

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Check this box

Press OK

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