Administrating PyBossa

PyBossa has three type of users: anonymous, authenticated and administrators. By default the first created user in a PyBossa server will become an administrator and manage the site with full privileges.

And admin user will be able to access the admin page by clicking in the user name and then in the link Admin site.

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Administrators can manage different areas of the server:

  1. Background jobs
  2. Featured projects
  3. Categories
  4. Administrators
  5. Users
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Admins can also modify all projects, and also see which projects are marked as Draft: projects that do not have at least one task and a Task Presenter to allow other volunteers to participate.

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In the users option, admins will be able to obtain a list of all registered users in the PyBossa system, in either json or csv formats.

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In addition, admins can access an extension called RQ dashboard from where to monitor all the background jobs and even cancel them or retry failed ones.

Categories

PyBossa provides by default two type of categories:

  1. Thinking: for projects where the users can use their skills to solve a problem (i.e. image or sound pattern recognition).
  2. Sensing: for projects where the users can help gathering data using tools like EpiCollect and then analyze the data in the PyBossa server.

Admins can add as many categories as they want, just type then and its description and click in the green button labeled: Add category.

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You cannot delete a category if it has one or more projects associated with it. You can however rename the category or delete it when all the associated projects are not linked to the given category.

Administrators

In this section an administrator will be able to add/remove users to the admin role. Basically, you can search by user name -nick name- and add them to the admin group.

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As with the Categories section, a green button will allow you to add the user to the admin group, while a red button will be shown to remove the user from the admin group.

Audit log

When a project is created, deleted or updated, the system registers its actions in the server. Admins will have access to all the logged actions in every project page, in a section named Audit log.

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The section will let you know the following information:

  • When: when the action was taken.
  • Action: which action was taken: ‘created’, ‘updated’, or ‘deleted’.
  • Source: if it was done the action via the API or the WEB interface.
  • Attribute: which attribute of the project has been changed.
  • Who: the user who took the action.
  • Old value: the previous value before the action.
  • New value: the new value after the action.

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Only admins and users marked as pro can see the audit log.

Dashboard

The dashboard allows you to see what’s going on in your PyBossa server.

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This feature requires PostgreSQL >= 9.3. Please upgrade as soon as possible your server to have this feature.

The dashboard shows the following information for the last 7 days:

  • Active users: Number of users that have contributed at least 1 task_run in the last 7 days.
  • Active anonymous users: Number of anonymous users that have contributed at least 1 task_run in the last 7 days.
  • New projects: Projects created in the last 7 days.
  • Updated projects: Updated projects in the last 7 days.
  • Updated projects: Updated projects in the last 7 days.
  • New users: Number of new users registered in the last 7 days.
  • Number of returning users: Number of returning users in the last 7 days classified by number of days coming back.
  • Recent activity feed: Last events in real time of the server.

The dashboard is updated every 24 hours via the background jobs. These jobs are scheduled in the low queue.