First Login

Welcome to Invision Community!

When you visit your site for the first time, the very first thing you’ll want to do is log in to your Admin CP, using the account details that were emailed to you when your site was created. This initial account is part of the Administrator group, which by default has full access to all areas of your community and the Admin CP.

Admin CP

The Admin Control Panel (referred to as the Admin CP) is the administration area of your community. This is where administrators manage all aspects of how the community itself is set up, and operated. Everything from basic settings, permissions, switching things on and off, and control how members interact with the site.

Think of it as setup area for everything that happens in your community.

First Login

When you log into the Admin CP for the first time, you’ll be presented with the screen shown below.

If you choose to continue, the quick setup will guide you through adding some key information about your site, such as your community name, logos, and other basic details.

Quick Search Menu

 The Quick Search menu is one of the easiest tools to use in your Admin CP, along with being the most useful. One you’ll quickly learn to love!

From here, you can search across the entire Admin CP, helping you do find things like :

• Search for specific settings

• Find Member accounts

• Lookup customer details like invoices or transactions

• Quickly navigate to specific areas such as the settings of a particular forum, gallery category, or club

Need to edit a member but can’t remember where to find them? Just type their name here.
Looking for a specific setting but can’t recall which section it lives in? Search for it.
Someone has asked you about an order and has the invoice number? Enter it and jump straight to it.

Menu Reordering

You can also reorder the main Admin CP menu to suit how you work.

Menu items can be dragged into a different order, and if you move a section to the top level, it will become your default landing page when you log in.

Small tweaks can make day-to-day admin work much quicker.

Dashboard

The Dashboard is usually the default page you’ll see when logging into the Admin CP (unless you’ve changed your menu order or access permissions).

It provides a customizable overview of what’s happening across your community. You can add or remove widgets, and rearrange them to suit your own needs a community administrator

This allows you to tailor the Dashboard so the most important information is always visible at a glance.

There is one widget in particular that is important to note:

Background Processes

One particularly important widget to be aware of is Background Processes.

Certain actions within the community are handled in the background to keep everything running efficiently. These include things like:

• Sending bulk emails

• Notifying members of new activity, when there are quite a few to send

• Rebuilding content or search indexes after upgrades or other admin tasks

• Moving or deleting large amounts of content

These tasks are queued, and intentionally built so you can continue using your community, while these are in progress.

The Background Processes widget lets you monitor these tasks, see their progress, and check whether anything is still running.

Admin CP Notifications

In the top-right corner of the Admin CP, you’ll notice a notification bell icon.

This highlights anything that may need your attention — such as system notices, errors, or events you’ve chosen to be notified about.

Clicking the bell shows your current notifications. From here, you can:

• View the full list

• Jump directly to the relevant area

• Manage your notification preferences

Notification preferences are set per administrator by selecting Settings, so each admin can get notified of what is important to them .

You can receive notifications for things like:

• New user registrations

• Members requiring validation

• Logged errors

• System or server issues

You can choose what notifications you wish to recieve via the Admin CP notification area, or via email.