Managing places

This section will cover managing the places that have been created on the system. Items to be covered in this section are as follows:

• Locking and unlocking places

• Archiving/backing up places

• Restoring places

• Place policies

Locking and unlocking places

In Quickr 8.5, we have two ways of locking places. The first way is by using the qptool command from the Quickr server console, and the second method is by using the Quickr Administrator user interface (UI) from the My Places server page. Locking a place takes it in and out of service without having to restart the Quickr server. Administrators may want to use this feature to lock a place that needs maintenance or if they didn't want users to add to or log into a place. This can be helpful if you are wanting to archive a place from a certain point as this will not allow anyone to make changes until the place has been unlocked.

To lock a place using the the qptool command use the following syntax (replacing the words place name with...