Once the Subscription or Building administrators have successfully configured the building, it is still in a draft version. Mapiq lets you review and finally publish your building, so it is available to the employees in the application. The review process ensures that your building is not published with any issues or conflicts in its configuration. 

What can you do?

1. Review the building for any issue or conflict.
2. Get redirected to where to fix the issue with a simple click.
3. Fix the issue or conflict.
4. Publish the building to be used by your employees in the application.

Accessing the admin portal

To access the admin portal, go to https://admin.mapiq.com and log in with your company account. If you receive a message informing you that you don't have the right to access it, get in touch with your Subscription administrator. They can set the proper permissions for your account. Not sure who to contact? Go to 'Your Profile' in the top right corner and a contact e-mail address will be shown under 'Questions' (if properly configured by your company). 

Not sure what permission level you need to adjust/configure your building? Check out this article to find out all about permissions.

Issues and conflicts

Before you review the building, it is good to know the difference between Issues and Conflicts. In what situation will you encounter them, and how to solve them. The resolution depends on the detected issue or conflict. Mapiq indicates what is the error and gives you a suggestion on how to resolve it.

Issues

A building configuration issue that will prevent you from publishing your building until the issues are resolved.
An example would be a desk group that is placed outside the area boundaries. 

Conflicts

Warns that a change that is about to be done could result in difficulties for the end-user. It will not prohibit you from publishing the building, but it is recommended to resolve the conflict directly after or prior to publishing. A conflict can only appear in an already existing building.
An example of a conflict would be decreasing the capacity of a building/floor/area to a number lower than the number of bookings already booked on it. In this situation, the conflict will be that more bookings are created than the capacity allows.

Review your building

Once your building configuration is completed, it is time to review your draft and make it ready to be published. By doing so, your building is free from any possible conflict or issue in its configuration. So how do you do it?

1. After you are finished with configuring your building, go back to the Buildings tab.
2. Navigate to the building you want to review and select the building by clicking on it. In the current view, an overview of your building is visible.
3. Above the building overview, there is a Review & Publish button visible, adjacent to it an indicator is shown highlighting if your building has any errors.
4. In case there is no issue detected with the building, it will show a green checkmark and indicate No issues. No adjustments are needed, and if you are happy with your configuration, you are ready to publish.
5. In case an issue or conflict is detected, it will show a red exclamation mark and the number of issues and/or conflicts detected.
6. Click on either the Issues or Review & Publish button to open the Review changes menu that shows you an overview of the encountered issues and conflicts.
7. In the Review changes menu, an overview of the issues and conflicts is shown. Per issue or conflict, an explanatory message is given, either on how to resolve it (Issues) or how the change will impact employees (Conflicts).
8. For issues, click on the specific issue to get redirected to the map and resolve it. Check out our Adding a map or How to add desks articles to help you along with making adjustments in the map editor.
9. The error messages are also shown in the map editor to give you the suggestion on how to resolve the issue directly in the affected configuration.

     Issue indicator

   The issue indicator is also active when you are busy configuring your building. So in theory, you are already reviewing your building while you are configuring it. Note that it might take a few seconds to process the changes made.

10. After fixing the issues in the map editor, press the Done button in the top right corner to finalize the changes.

Publish your building

Now that all the issues are fixed, it is time to publish your building to the rest of the company. 

1. Go to the building overview of the building you want to publish.
2. Click on the Review & Publish button in the top right corner.
3. Just to be sure, check if all the issues are resolved and you are aware of any possible conflicts.
4. Now click on the Publish button in the bottom right corner of the Review changes menu.
5. It will take a few seconds to process all the changes, but if published successfully, you should see a confirmation message as shown below.
6. After publishing the building, it is visible and bookable for your employees through the Mapiq app.

If you are curious how your employees can make a booking with a map and desks added to your building configuration, take a look at our Using Mapiq article.

Discard changes

In the Review changes menu, you also have the option to Discard changes. Discarding your changes will discard all the changes that are unpublished. It will go back to the latest published version.

1. When clicking on the Discard changes button, another message pops up asking if you really want to proceed with discarding your changes.
2. If you proceed by clicking Yes, discard you need to give final approval by typing the line Discard all changes followed by pressing the Delete button.

Unpublished changes

Within the Admin Portal multiple administrators can roam and make changes. Looking at the building configuration it is not always clear what building contains changes that have not been published yet. Especially when the building is faultless (no conflicts or errors). This can cause unwanted changes to be published or hard work from other admins to be undone. To ensure that administrators know changes have been made to the building and these changes are not published yet, two statuses are added in the building overview to visualize unpublished changes are active in the building.

Unpublished changes

When changes are made to the building but have yet to be released. This could also include changes that still contain conflicts and issues.

Unpublished

This is a building that has never been published yet.