Setup 1 - Define platforms

What's a platform?

In Desk-Net stories are assigned to so-called platforms. 

Depending on the type of company you work for these can be a website, a magazine, a newspaper, a radio channel, social media, etc.

What's a category?

Categories divide platforms into sections.

Example: The platform is a news site and its categories are Politics, Business, Sport, etc.

Every category may be divided into several sub-categories (e.g. Sport, sub-divided into Football, Basketball and Baseball).

How to add a platform and its categories?

• Go to the page Admin > Platform and click on to "+PLATFORM".
• Enter a name for the platform.  
• Enter the publication dates by selecting from one of these two options:
  a) Every week: Select one or several weekdays
  b) Manually entered dates: If your publication is not a daily or weekly publication select the manual setup, choose the publishing dates and optionally enter a label (e.g. "Summer issue"). Later on, you can always add dates, edit or remove them. Please note: Once you have set the publication frequency, you cannot change it anymore. 
• Click "SAVE & CLOSE" or "SAVE & ADD DETAIL SETTINGS" if you want to add categories.   
• Click on "Categories" and "+CATEGORY". Type the category's name and press enter.
• Repeat this process as often as necessary. You can re-sort the list of categories by drag'n'drop.
• Add a sub-category by hovering over the category and clicking on "+SUB-CATEGORY".
• Platforms and categories can be colored. They are currently displayed in color only on the Story List 
• Save it. 

Done!  

Next set-up step: Create user profiles