Administrator overview

As an administrator, you can customize and manage most of the features of TMT Fleet Maintenance to match your company’s needs. The general process you will follow when setting up the application is outlined below. The links direct you to the help for the specific tasks.

  1. Review modules and their pages.

    Each of the modules in TMT Fleet Maintenance contains a specific set of functions and pages. As you review them, consider the different tasks and responsibilities your users must perform. For example, you may want to provide administrators access to a larger set of pages than the set you provide to non-administrators.

  2. Review existing roles and, if necessary, create new roles.

    TMT Fleet Maintenance is a role-based application. Roles determine the types of pages, features, and data that are available to users. Basic roles are provided for all modules. You can use them as is, modify them as needed, or create new roles entirely.

  3. Create user accounts.

  4. Set up themes to customize the appearance of your website.

    TMT Fleet Maintenance includes the necessary tools to customize the look and feel of your website. You can customize almost every aspect of it.

  5. Customize and update website pages.

    You can:

    • Add, edit, or delete pages and subpages.

    • Customize menus.

    • Customize pages to reflect your company’s own terminology and control which elements appear on the page, which text will appear for field and button labels, and how that text will be formatted.

  6. Manage global settings.

    Settings are tied to roles. They allow you to specify the types of features, actions, and data users can access.

  7. Manage login security.

    TMT Fleet Maintenance provides several options for managing how usernames or passwords are changed or reset.

    You can:

    • Create a template for the e-mail message that is sent to users when they forget their password and request that it be reset.

    • Change the standard security questions that users must select and answer when they register as a new user or when they have forgotten their username.

    • Prevent users from ever changing their passwords, or require them to change their passwords at regular intervals.

    • Define password format requirements to ensure that users create secure passwords.

    • Set the number of failed login attempts allowed before the system locks out a user.

  8. Manage SQL reports.

    TMT Fleet Maintenance provides you with a web-based reporting interface that uses SQL statements to develop ad hoc or regularly-generated reports from information in databases to which you have a connection. You can configure roles to define who has access to certain reports.

  9. Manage communications.

    Administrative procedures allow you to provide information to users so they can keep up with company and industry news. You can configure roles to determine the types of information users receive.

    You can customize and manage:

    • News items

    • Surveys

  10. Monitor website usage.

    Administrative procedures enable you to manage the features that allow users to access the site and help you monitor it.