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+== Vanilla Administration ==
+In order to have access to the Vanilla administration pages, you will need to be assigned to Vanilla's Administrative role. By default that RoleID is 4. If you go into the users table and change vanilla_role_id to 4 on your user record, you will immediately have access. There are no new links that appear on the forum pages (yet, at least). To access the administrative page, enter the following into your url:
+http://site.url/discussions/settings.php
+If you have granted yourself access properly, you will see the admin pages. If not, you will be redirected back to the discussions index.
+There are currently only two administrative sections available to you. All other admin screens have been removed because they do not apply to the Mozilla installation of Vanilla. The two sections you do have access to are category management and role management.
+== Categories & Add-ons ==
+Shaver requested that the ability to create a discussion related to a category OR an add-on be available in Vanilla. I have made this possible. I changed the new discussion form to also have a category dropdown. This means that currently if a user is adding a discussion to an add-on, they also must select which category it goes into. If this is not the desired functionality, please let me know so I can change it. It might make more sense to have all add-on related discussions default to a "general" category when being added and only display the category dropdown if no add-on id was provided when creating the discussion.
+There is currently no way to relate a category-specific discussion to an add-on id (assuming that a discussion was added to a category and NOT an add-on). This will currently have to be accomplished through the database by specifying the add-on id in the discussion table manually - until we come up with some kind of "lookup" function to identify an add-on to relate. I am assuming that there will be far too many add-ons to place in a simple dropdown list.
+== Category Related Discussions ==
+The current way to review all discussions related to a particular category is to use a url like so:
+http://site.url/discussions/?CategoryID=1
+There is also a "categories" page at:
+http://site.url/discussions/categories.php
+The categories page has not had any css applied to it yet. I wasn't sure exactly how you guys might want it laid out - I received no mock-up for this type of page.
+Personally I don't like that page and I think a different page might be more useful. Recently an add-on was created for Vanilla which displayed all categories - underneath each category it displayed X number of new discussions. It was a much more useful screen and I think it might be much preferable here as well. You can get a peek at the add-on here:
+http://lussumo.com/addons/?PostBackAction=AddOn&AddOnID=189
+We could alter the categories page to work this way if you wish. This would give non-add-on-related-discussions a much more comfortable home.