Getting Started
To get started, log into the AMM and familiarize yourself with the major components on its homepage.
Logging In
To login, follow these steps:
- Open your favorite web browser. (Firefox version 3.5 or higher is recommended. You may also use Internet Explorer 7.0 and/or Safari 5 or higher. Please note that Internet Explorer 6 is not supported for use within the AMM.)
- Enter your AMM access URL (generally this is https://yourdomain.amm.clockwork.net) in the address line and press Enter.
- Sign into the AMM using your AMM username and password and click Log In. If you do not have a username and password, contact your super user.
- Upon successful login, you will be directed to the Active Media Suite home page, your portal to the Clockwork products your company has purchased. (Products your company has not purchased are grayed out and are inaccessible.)
- Click Active Media Manager to access the AMM.
User Roles
A user is a person within your organization who accesses the AMM to create, edit or publish content to your web site. The AMM has four distinct user roles. Depending on your role, you may perform one, some, or all of the functions listed below. The table below demonstrates the functions of each role.
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Role |
Edit content on web pages to which they have access |
Review and edit web pages. |
Approve web pages for publication. |
Publish or schedule publishing of web pages. |
Manage Personalization Features |
Manages Users and Permissions |
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Authors |
X |
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Editor |
X |
X |
X |
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Publisher |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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Super User |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
Navigating the Active Media Manager
The Active Media Manager Home is your central location for maintaining, updating and personalizing your organization’s Web site. Each Web site your company maintains, and all Clockwork products your company has licensed are accessible through this page.
Product Options Navigation
Active Media Suite icons in the upper left allow to you navigate to the other Clockwork products to which you have access.
AMM Tools Navigation
Review the table below to familiarize yourself with the tools accessible from the AMM homepage so you can quickly perform authoring, editing, publishing, and administrative functions.
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Clockwork Logo |
Takes you to the Active Media Suite home page, which lists all available products. |
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Home |
Returns you to the AMM home page, which lists all the sites managed by your AMM. |
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Active Site Map |
A hierarchical list of your site pages. You can add or change web pages here. |
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Change Map |
Displays all page changes since the last publish, and provides an interface for editing, approving and publishing site changes. |
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Publish Map |
Allows you to publish changes from the AMM to a web site. You may also choose to unpublish, removing pages from the live web site. |
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Users |
Allows AMM superusers to control other users' access to the AMM, and what permission levels they have. |
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Assets |
Organize and store the digital assets (images, Word documents, spreadsheets, Flash files, audio, video, etc.) that you will use when building and maintaining your web sites. |
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Personalization |
Configure registration (signup forms and responses), manage a site's membership, organize members into lists, and specify the details in a member's profile. (Advanced user feature.) |
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Feeds |
Create, edit and manage your AMM's Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feeds. (Advanced user feature.) |
Navigate Your Sites
The Sites page is a list of sites your organization maintains within the AMM.
You can perform certain actions on this page.
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Active Site Map |
Access all aspects of page and site development. |
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Change Map |
Monitor site workflow and page updates. Edit and publish pages. |
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Publish Map |
Publish site changes to your live website. |
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Site Setup |
Manage domain setup, theme defaults, SSL options, etc. |
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Delete |
Make it all go away. Be careful with this one. |
