Enabling

Enabling VSys Web requires four steps:

Contact Bespoke

Call or e-mail us to let us know that you want to use the VSys Web interface. We'll set up a MySQL database for you on our servers as well as make a few system entries for your website to work. You will be assigned a website like http://yourorg.vsyshost.com as the initial site. If you have your own website, http://www.yourorg.org or something like that, we can work with your technical folks to also set up http://volunteers.yourorg.org as a friendlier name for your volunteers to use and remember.

Turning on the web features in VSys

  1. From the main VSys screen, go into the Setup panel, then open up System Preferences.
  2. On the Feature enabling panel, check Enable VSys Web interface.
  3. Save your changes, then exit VSys One and restart VSys in for the changes to take effect.

Setting up VSys Web on your copy of VSys

This requires several steps:

  1. Entering the MySQL login information you received from Bespoke support,
  2. Entering your organization information, including the web server name, body content and optional header image, and
  3. Selecting where banned people are sent.

See Web Settings for more details on these fields and how to use them.

Synchronizing with the database for the first time

Because the website and your local copy of VSys do not communicate in real time, you must use the synchronization tool to upload your changes to the website and to download new applications from the website into your data. See Synchronization for more details on this process.

Technical notes

VSys Web does not require any special software on your machines other than VSys One itself. VSys must be able to establish a connection to your MySQL database on our server, though, which means that your software and/or hardware firewalls must permit outgoing TCP traffic on port 3306.