File Dump Details
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Depending on whether you're going to build a news or a classified network, ask your IT department to provide you with a file containing a dump of your classified or news feed.

In the case of classifieds, we have found that for most people it's easiest to just get a dump of the entire classified feed.

You will be able to limit which categories circulate later within the CityTools system. But if you like, you may ask your IT department to dump only the categories you want to share with others in a network.

Important note about file formats
The file format of the dump needs to be either XML, CSV or the native Morris Communications classified format. Don't worry if you don't know what this means – your IT staff will.

If you like, you can find a sample e-mail to send your IT staff here.

If your IT department can't dump classifieds as XML, CSV or Morris, ask them to identify what kind of external format your system can export and import.

Then relay that information to our fearless technical team at support@citytools.net. We're eager to help as many companies to use our networking system as possible and we shall add additional formats as needed and as time permits.

Special geek bonding moment! tell your IT staff that we can directly handle tarred and gzipped (or zipped) versions of the file formats above.

This is handy for you because it means lower bandwidth usage on your end. Don't worry if you don't understand what all this means, just say to IT “CityTools can automatically expand tarred and gzipped and zipped files so if you want to give that to me, it would be great.” Consider it a moment of geek bonding. Wink.


tips!
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The 15-minute sign-up howto

The full version of the 15-minute setup howto is here

"fast track" version of the 15-minute howto (experienced users)

Here you go!
 fast track howto

Upload and download Howto

There is a detailed and fast track version.
 The detailed version is here

The fast track version is here

How do I resign from a network?

There is a howto that discusses how to resign from a network

Control incoming feeds in a network

There is a Howto on managing feeds from other network members

Control HTML in your network feeds

There is a Howto about controlling HTML in your network feeds.

Edit: Change map from your categories TO the network

A howto about editing the maps of your categories TO the network is available

Edit: Change category maps FROM network to your categories

A howto on changing the incoming mappings from the network is available

Invitation-only network passcode howto

A howto on changing the passcodes for invitation-only networks is available

Send other publishing members a message

There is a Howto that explains how to send other publishers a message

Admin: managing members

There is a Howto that deals with managing member access. It's only relevant if you are an administrator of a network.

Join a private network

Instruction on how to join a private network is available.

Admin: Add/reorder network categories

A howto dealing with adding or reordering network categories is available

Admin: Rename network categories

A howto on changing network category names is available.