manage oversights

Overview

The purpose of the oversight function is to permit one user to oversee the account of another. Typical examples include:

Parent Overseeing Child: Parental oversite allows parents of babies and toddlers to manage their accounts until they get older. In our experience older children sometimes cause problems by their shinanigans. Examples include: (i) inputting ridiculous or offensive gift wishhhes; (ii) like a child pushing every button on an elevator, they've been known to click 'grant' on everyone's wishhhes; and (iii) they set-up new groups or join other groups that parent's may not want them to be part of. With the oversite feature, parents can monitor their children's activities on wishhh.com and undo pretty much anything the child does.

Overseeing Elderly Parent: We want grandma and grandpa to participate as much as possible in our wishhh.com groups. However, using the site can often be difficult for them. With oversites set for elderly parents, other children in the group can assists much or as little as needed.

Secondary Admin Functions: Group administrators (ie: the person that set up the group, created accounts for each user and invited them to wishhh.com) have complete control over a group. Sometimes managing the group may be too much for that person. Consequently, the gropu admin can give group-wide oversite rights to another person so they can act as a secondary admin to reset passwords, undo mistakes and anything else a member of the group may be having problems with that the administrator doesn't have time to deal with.

How to Set Oversights

From the 'Groups' pull-down menu, select the group whose member's you wish to grant oversight rights to:

Select the 'Manage Oversights' option on the right side of the groups details page:

The 'Oversights' tab on the 'Manage Group' page will open. All of member's whose account you set up appear down the left column. To give oversight rights to a group member on the left (eg: a parent), over the member to be overseen in the pull-down menu on the right (eg: a child), select the member to be overseen from the pull-down menu then click the blue 'Add' button.

As shown below, the overseen member (child) will then appear under the overseer member (parent) on the left side. Click the (Remove) option beside the overseen member's name to remove the oversight.

A new 'Oversight' pull-down menu will thereafter appear on the overseer's wishhh.com main menu across the top of wishhh.com. All members that they have been given oversight rights over (whether by your or other admins) will appear in that pull down menu:

To learn how members use the 'Oversight' feature, please visit the 'parental oversight' option in the site tour.

Notes:

Overseer Restriction: The only people that you can grant oversight rights to (ie: the people that show up in the left column), are people whose accounts you created.

Overseen User Restriction: The only people that you can set to be overseen (ie: the people that show up in the pull down menue), are people whose accounts you created.

Less than Entire Group Membbership: Consequently there may be fewer people in this list than are people in a group; or there may be nobody in a given group that you can grant oversite rights to if you created the group and invited in users whose accounts you did not set up.

Something Not Quite Right?: So long as you participate in just one group and you created all the accounts for all the people in that group, the 'Oversights' tab in any 'Manage Group' page will look just fine. However, if you have created multiple groups and/or have invited people into your groups that set up their own account, things may start looking strange. This is because the oversite function, while managed under the 'Manage Group' page, are not strictly fixed to any group. Rather, on any given 'Oversites' tab you will be presented with every person that you created an account for on the left (whether or not that person is a member of the particular group you are managing) as a potential overseer. And everyone you created an account for will appear in each pull-down menu on the right as a potential person to be overseen (again, whether or not that person is a member of that particular group). While it may be preferable to have a separate 'Oversights' page outside of the group management function, I decided to leave it where it is because for the vast majority of wishhh.com users, it will make the most sense there because most members are part of only one group. The net effect is you can manage oversights for all your users from any group within any one particular group's 'Manage Group' page.