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MAKEWILD TIPS Here are some tips about using MAKEWILD for the first time in setting up your board: Follow the instructions in the manual: but be alert to the following: GENERAL INFORMATION PART I 6. Set number of conferences at 1000. This way you can block off certain areas for conferences with the same theme. 7. Give yourself about 10 more file areas than you need. Unfortunately there is no way to move file areas, you simply have to add on to the bottom. 8. External doors. Give yourself about 6 more than you currently have. For future expansion sake. 12. Make this path read: C:\WC30\WCWORK\NODE1 GENERAL INFORMATION PART II 3,4 should be N and Y, respectively. You want to swap out on DOORS and Menu Hooks. 6. Hold overlay in EMS - Yes , if you have EMS. 8. Default number of lines 23. 10. YES - this automatically generates filebase keywords, so the user doesn't have to fill them in manually. 11. YES Don't be sloppy and have your menu screens scroll and run into each other on the screen. 12. YES - take modem off hook on exit...so that if someone calls when the board is off it will get a busy signal instead of continuous ringing (which happens when you drop to dos from the Idle Screen, by the way!) 16. YES Have this on - if you have a quotes.bbs file in your DISP directory. GENERAL INFORMATION - PART III 2. If YES, this means that a file called from the security profile for that level is displayed: it has whatever name you give it in the Security Profile section. This means that every time this sec level logs on THIS FILE is the first thing they will see. It is good for communicating messages to users in a given level. 4. FIREWORKS are the coolest! 7. You can force the bulletin menu if you want, so that in logging on the user has to at least pass by the first screen .... or you can answer YES here which makes the bulletins menu optional. 9. It is best for event management later on to have this set at military time eg. 1800. SECURITY INFORMATION 1. OPEN means open to the general public. CLOSED is another option, which means only people who are already logged on, can get on. They have to contact you first, in other words, to belong to your board. 2. If YES, then those with MASTER SYSOP access can DROP to DOS on their remote system. THis is good if you call in long distance and need to get to DOS to manipulate files on your system. The DOORWAY program is needed to to this though. DON'T LET ANYONE ELSE HAVE THIS POWER....your entire system is at the hands of those with this access. MODEM DEFINITION - PART I All of this needs to be configured with the proper .mdm file. Run WCMODEM from the Home Directory and this will automatically be configured for you. If you are running a 14.4K modem be sure to lock the baud rate at 19200 (#6). MODEM DEFINITION - PART II This too, is part of the general config for your modem gotten by running WCMODEM and selecting your brand of modem. If you have any problems, call your mentor!!! EXTERNAL PROTOCOLS Wildcat really doesn't need to use any, as all of the protocols are built in! MAIN MENU DEFINITION The only thing that needs changing here is one of the hooks if your have a Time Bank Door and want it to run from the Main Menu. Edit the HOOK 1 to read T for Time Bank Door, then fill in the name and the lowest security level to access the door. You will need to make a MAIN1.RUN (bat file) and put it in your NODE 1 directory. To operate an autocallback verifier from the Main Menu you would use HOOK 2 and name it A for Auto Callback Verifier. Give it a security level of 1 since you want the newuser to be able to use it. Make a MAIN2.RUN file and put it in the NODE 1 directory. The directions on how to do this are clear in the User Manual. MESSAGE MENU DEFINITION This stays pretty much as it is: you can plug in two HOOKS here as well, but I can't think of a reason for them right now! The only letter change would be T for D or vice versa for the TOMCAT MAIL DOOR. It could be D for DOWNLOAD TOMACAT MAIL - this is the way it is on my board. But I have seen it T as well. FILE MENU This stays generally as it is. There are hooks here too, but I can't think of a reason to use them as of this writing. SYSOP MENU DEFINITION This stays generally the same. SECURITY PROFILE DEFINITION This is an all important part of MAKEWILD. BEFORE YOU GET ANY USERS preset your security levels. You don't have to keep them at WC30 or WC40 etc. You can give them regular names like FULLUSER, REGULAR, TEEN, ADULT. This is the place to toggle on the restrictions to DOORS, CONFERENCES and FILES (UPLOAD & DOWNLOAD ACCESS). Wildcat has airtight security, if these things are set correctly. This is also where you can activated FAST LOG-ON - this allows users who use *USER NAME to go straight to the Main Menu, bypassing all of the opening screens; and !USER NAME, straight to the TOMCAT MAIL DOOR. This can be used as an incentive to get people to donate to the board....only give this feature to those who contribute! You can have practically as many security levels as you want, up to a thousand or so, I believe. I have about 30 right now on my board, a lot of them are clones of each other, with subtle differences for different purposes - those who contribute just a little more than someone else, gets a little more privileges. You can also set daily time limits here. You can set it so a certain call gets a restricted amount of time, but the total time for the day is twice that or more. Or you can simply make the daily limit also the call limit - which is what I do, meaning when the time is up, it is up for the whole day! This is the place to name to Security display file name...a .BBS extension is automatically added to what you put here, and that is what is displayed when that level logs on! There is a copy feature where the level can be copied, which makes it easy to clone levels and then make the subtle differences to them. FILE AREA DEFINITION After creating the empty file areas by giving the number of file areas in GENERAL INFORMATION PART I - now you simply highlight each area and then hit enter, which will give you a pop-up screen and two spaces to fill in blanks: the exact name of the file area as you want it to appear on the File Menu Listing; and also the exact path to where the files in that directory are stored on the hard drive. e.g. File Area Name: DOS Utilities File Area Path: C:\WC30\DOS-UTIL\ The trailing backslash is necessary at the end. Back at the highlighted area, if you hit F2, you will be able to set flags for upload security, download security and conference security for each file area. The upload security means: which security access level do you want to have permission to upload to this particular area. Generally I reserve the right to upload anywhere on the board to myself, as Sysop. I like to see who is uploading what before it goes on the board. The download security: this mean which levels do you want downloading from this particular file area. Conference access: I have ALL of my flagged on! (ALT-S) This means that no matter what conference you are in you will be able to download this file from the File Menu. Unless of course you have the board set up where File Areas match the Conferences. That is a whole other ballgame. CONFERENCE DEFINITION This is where it is important to have a LOT OF SPACE to play around with. That is why I recommend having 1000 conferences created in GENERAL INFORMATION PART I. Give yourself ROOM TO EXPAND. I have Conference 0 as a General Post Office and Conference 1 as Private E-Mail. My next conference however is number 100. 100-110 are system related files. Then I go up to 150 where there are a few on UReVU: restaurants, movies etc. Then we go up to 200 where there are a few on Computer Related Topics, etc. then on to 250. This leave big gaps in between each grouping for future expansion. When the listing appears on the screen there are no gaps, but there are groups of conferences in the same number range. This is much better than bunching everything all together, then suddenly realizing that you are forced to put something in space 75 that should really have been squeezed in at the 25 mark. After highlighting the numbered conference you are present with a screen which asks information from you, like: Conference name as it will appear on the listing, the conference sysop: here I put my name, as sysop, in ALL the conferences, because no matter what conference a user is in, when he writes a message to the Sysop he intends it to go to ME! and not the conference Sysop who might happen to be a co-sysop: if HIS name is in there, I will never get the message, he will and he will wonder what is going on.......so it is easier all around for me to put MY name is all of them! Maximum number of messages! here is a place to put a ceiling on the volume of messages in a given conference. Only allow 50 messages, say, in a given, conference, then at 51, it will erase #1 etc. to make room...... This is for lazy sysops and co-sysops who don't like to clean out conferences. THere is nothing worse than having year old messages in a conference though! Number of questionnaires has to be set in EACH conference for the same total amount that you actually have. If you have 20 questionnaires available on your Questionnaire Menu, or at least potentially will have, then put 20 in EACH conference on the board! This is just the way it works! The same goes for # of bulletins, I have 300. So I put 300 in EACH conference. This would be a way to allow certain bulletins for certain levels, though, if you wanted to take the time to do it! TOGGLES: Allow message attachments to messages. THis should be set to yes....which would allow the user to attach a file to his/her message. Prompt to kill messages: should be set at YES, for space sake on the board: if a message is no longer needed it should be deleted to make space for an active message. Force all messages private: only conferences where it is expected to have mail private should this be toggled: like Private E-Mail Conference; and individual mail conferences. DOOR DEFINITION THis doesn't do a darn thing except the names of the doors! IDLE SCREEN DEFINITION There are two hooks here: one to enter MAKEWILD for read-only purposes; the second to activate the WCPRO Program, which does not come with WC but can be purchased separately. WCPRO is a sophisticated statistical program to manipulate all of the databases, and generate reports on them. I have it and use it a lot! Makes life easier! I recommend it! Get it from MSI!