What is Sonoran CMS?

Sonoran CMS is the all-in-one management system built for gaming communities.

With advanced applications, Discord role sync, FiveM and ER:LC game panels, a built-in file drive, and more—Sonoran CMS streamlines your operations like never before.

Roster Trigger Actions

Communities can use the panel to send webhooks, in-game messages, and other automated tasks. These actions can run on a schedule or be triggered when roster cells change.

Example: A community roster includes a Status column that automatically switches members between Active and Inactive based on their recent in-game activity. When a member’s playtime drops below the required threshold and their status updates to Inactive, a Discord webhook should be sent automatically.

Note: Activity time columns update automatically when new logs (join/leave game) are created. If a member hasn’t logged in recently, no logs exist to trigger a recalculation, so a 12-hour scheduled task re-processes them.

CMS Not Loading (ESET Antivirus)

In certain cases, antivirus programs such as ESET are known to block connections to the CMS. To add CMS to ESET's allow list, please follow the following instructions:

1. Open ESET program on your computer

2. Press the F5 key to open Advanced setup.

3. Click Web access protection. Expand URL list management and click Edit next to Address list

4. Select List of allowed addresses and click Edit

5. Click Add in the Edit list window. Paste *sonorancms.com* in the respective field, click OK → OK to save your changes, and exit the Advanced setup window.

   • If using CAD, also add *.sonorancad.com*

For more information, see .

1. Enter In Your Community Information

Once logged in, press the "Plus Icon" on the community selection menu. You will be prompted for five information fields:

The Sonoran CMS Gallery System is a custom page element allowing you to create and organize your gallery(s) to fit the needs of your community. Easily add Gallery Categories to any custom page, create or use existing categories across multiple pages. Each category has the ability to manage permissions to Upload, with more coming soon.

Creating Gallery Categories & Adding Gallery Elements

To create a Gallery Category navigate to the Website Builder located at Administrative Panel > Website Builder

Viewing Server Logs

The last 1,000 server logs will be populated into the logging panel.

Click to copy any log row.

Type to filter and find logs more easily at the top left.

View and Manage Vehicles

You can view information associated with all vehicles registered in your server. Additionally, if you have the corresponding perms, you can click on any entry to bring up a panel allowing you to Repair or Despawn said vehicle.

Viewing the Dashboard

The dashboard offers a brief overview of your server statistics, including:

• Players Online

Whitelisting Users

Here you can select ranks to either allow or deny them on the whitelist for the server you've selected.

Within either list, each department shows as a sub-menu allowing you to toggle the ranks you wish to be added to this list.

Managing Resources

All in-game resources will appear on the panel with three options:

Viewing Server Logs

The last 1,000 server logs will be populated into the logging panel.

Click to copy any log row.

Type to filter and find logs more easily at the top left.

Account Flags

Advanced alternate account detection keeps your community safe from bad actors and previously banned users.

What Does Role Sync Do?

With TeamSpeak role sync enabled, all changes to a user's ranks in CMS will automatically update their groups on your TeamSpeak server. You're able to fully customize which groups correspond to which ranks!

Select and Manage a Player

Click on any online player to interact.

• Copy unique identifiers

• Warn the player in-game

• Kick the player from the server

Warn a Player

Selecting Warn on a player will prompt you to add a reason message. The player will then receive a warning notice in-game, requiring them to hold down SPACE for ten seconds to dismiss.

Docs overhaul coming soon.

TODO

• Filters

• Sort Order

• Search

Viewing the Dashboard

The dashboard offers a brief overview of your server statistics, including:

• Players Online

• Server Uptime

• CPU Usage

• Memory Usage

1. Navigate to the Login Page

On the website or app, select your Login method.

When viewing a specific community, they may have .

2. Enter Your Account Information

Enter in your email, username, and password. Then, select the Register button.

3. Verify Your Email Address

Check your inbox for an email from Sonoran CMS. Select the Verify Email button, and your account will be automatically verified.

Accessing a User's Community Profile

There are a few ways to view a community profile, which are listed below.

From Administrative Panel > User Accounts, you can right click on any user, then select View Member Profile.

You can also click on any user's account avatar to be redirected to their profile. This can be done from the User Accounts page when viewed as a grid, from the Edit Account Information popup, as well as from form submissions, forum posts, and any other places where a user's avatar may be displayed.

Customizing Profile Fields

Profile fields can be customized in the admin panel, and communities can control who is allowed to view or edit these fields for both their own profiles and those of other users.

Rank Permissions

When configuring a rank, each permission can be set to Grant, Unset, or Deny:

• Grant — Explicitly gives the permission to anyone with that rank.

• Unset — Neither grants nor denies the permission; it simply leaves it unchanged.

• Deny — Blocks the permission, even if another rank would otherwise grant it. A denied permission always overrides a grant.

Use Deny sparingly. It’s best suited for special ranks that must override other granted permissions, such as a temporary ban rank. In most cases, leaving a permission Unset is sufficient, as it will not grant the permission on its own.

Viewing User Permissions

You can view a user’s computed permissions directly in the account portal. Click the (?) icon above their ranks to see every permission that’s granted, unset, or denied. Hover over any permission to see a tooltip listing the groups and ranks responsible for granting or denying it.

What are Promotions?

Promotion flows let you easily promote or demote members within your community.

For example, a user with the Rookie rank can be promoted to Member, or an Administrator can be demoted to Moderator.

Creating Promotion Flows

Label and Ranks

1. Access the Promotions Panel In the Promotions panel, select Promotion Flows to view, add, edit, or remove existing promotion flows.

2. Set Up the Flow Header Use the Promote From and Promote To fields to label the flow. Example: Promote from Moderator to Admin.

3. Configure Rank Changes

Actions

When a promotion flow is ran, you can also run automated actions like a Discord webhook, push notification, and more.

Running Promotion Flows

Via CMS

In the Run Promotions panel, select the user(s), choose the promotion flow, and specify whether to promote or demote.

Use the green “+” icon to add additional rows, allowing you to run multiple promotional flows simultaneously.

Via Discord Command

Communities can !

Community Leaderboard

The leaderboard at the top of the growth panel displays your global rankings compared to other CMS communities.

These placements are used to , helping to drive new users to your community!

Community Metrics

The metrics panel offers historical metrics and performance graphs for your community. This allows administrators to easily track their community's growth, decline, or stagnation.

• New Members

  • Number of new members joining the community

• Lost Members

  • Number of members that left the community

1. Access your Sonoran Software Account

You can access your Sonoran Software account by going to account.sonoransoftware.com, or by selecting "Profile" in the side menu then "Edit Account" on the next page.

2. Send an Account Removal Email

On the Sonoran Account website, select Account > Advanced > Delete Account

This will send an email confirmation to the address on file.

3. Verify your Email

Check your email for an account removal request and click the "Remove Account" button. Having trouble seeing it? Be sure to check your spam/junk folder.

What is Archiving a member?

Archiving a community member keeps the member within the community in a "Archived" state. They're technically kicked from the community which won't allow them to log into the community till they've rejoined. While a user is "Archived" you're still able to view their Community Profile and edit information on that user.

How to Archive a Member?

To archive a member head over to the Administrative Panel > User Accounts. Once you've located the member you'd like to archive, click their row which will provide you with a editing dialog.

Below their account name and to the right of the "Kick" and "Ban" options, there should be a grey Archive button, if you have permission. Click that button and it will ask you to confirm that you want to archive this user.

Additionally you're given the option to choose whether their rank and identifiers get removed or if they stay on the account. If rank(s) are not removed from their account upon archiving it does not mean they still have permission or can do anything additional, it's simply for organization.

How to Unarchive a Member?

To unarchive a member head over to the Administrative Panel > User Accounts and click the drop down in the top left to filter user accounts. You'll want to change this to the "ARCHIVED" option. This will now display all Archived members.

Once you've located the archived member, click their row which will provide you with a dialog.

Choose whether or not if their rank(s) and identifier(s) should be removed and confirm the unarchiving.

Managing Jobs

Click any job to expand the contained grades/ranks.

Select the + symbol to add a new grade and the pencil icon to edit a job type.

You can adjust the grade name, pay, toggle it as boss, and reorder via drag-and-drop.

Add a New Job

You can create a new job type by selecting New Job at the end of the job list.

Expand it to edit the job information and add grades.

Setup

Ensure you have the following in your server.cfg (if you don't permissions won't be able to be granted)

add_ace resource.sonorancms command allow

Mapping Ranks to ACE Principal Identifiers

You can select the ranks you would like and input the principal identifier you would like to grant them. This makes it easy to grant users in-game permissions en masse.

You can further customize the permissions each Principal group receives in your server.cfg, make sure to follow the conventions outlined in .

Additionally, ensure all players have added their to the CMS.

For more details, read our documentation on the "Ace Permission Sync" module for CMS Core .

What is the Disciplinary Panel?

The Sonoran CMS disciplinary panel makes handling misbehaving members easy!

This panel allows you manage disciplinary "points" to a user when they break the rules, misbehave, etc. Additionally, you can configure automated actions like sending the user an email, Discord message, modifying their ranks, banning them from the community, etc.

Configuring the Disciplinary Points

Configure Point Expiration

Many communities may wish to have points expire after a certain length of time.

In the configuration tab, you can enable or disable point expiration and set the length of time.

Configure Automated Actions

You can also configure automated actions that apply to users once they meet specific point levels.

In this example, once a user receives 1 or more points they will receive a Discord DM message.

Using the Disciplinary Panel

View Active Points

Disciplinary points will be displayed on a member's avatar for anyone that has access to the disciplinary panel.

Use the search bar to filter to a specific community member.

Select the user to view all active points or remove them.

Manually Add Points

To add points to a member press the green + icon.

Use the popup dialog to select the account, amount of points, and a description.

Add Points via Form Stage

Communities can also that add disciplinary points.

You can specify a Member Selector field on the form for someone to report a community member.

Additionally, a Number field on the form can also be utilized to add a custom amount of points to a user.

Managing Gangs

Click any gang to expand the contained grades/ranks.

Select the + symbol to add a new grade and the pencil icon to edit a job type.

You can toggle a grade as boss and reorder them via drag-and-drop.

Add a New Gang

You can create a new gang type by selecting New Gang at the end of the gang list.

Expand it to edit the gang information and add grades.

Get Started Today!

Using the QBCore & QBox Panel

Using the vMenu Panel

Commands Via CMS

Select Run Command on the panel to open up the ER:LC command palette. Here, you can select a command, player(s), enter additional information, and execute the command.

Some commands have two states (e.g., Jail/Unjail, Admin/Unadmin). Simply click the command badge again to toggle between states.

The Kick and Ban command will create a corresponding player record when used.

Commands Via Discord

ER:LC commands can be ran via using /erlc command.

Commands via In-Game

Some specific commands can be ran entirely .

Whitelisting Users

Here you can select ranks to either allow or deny them on the whitelist for the server you've selected.

Within either list, each department shows as a sub-menu allowing you to toggle the ranks you wish to be added to this list.

Time & Weather Sync

To sync the in-game time and weather to a real-world location, click a location on the map. Then, toggle on Sync Weather and Sync Time to enable environment sync.

Managing Items

Click any item row to initiate editing.

You can adjust the item label, weight, description, image, and various other options

Add a New Item

You can create a new item by selecting New Item above the item table

Installation

Setting up the ER:LC management panel is easy! Learn more below:

Panel Usage

Learn more about each of the ER:LC panel's features using the guides below:

Priority Player List

The Priority Player List highlights in-game users with specific CMS ranks by moving them to the top of the player list. This is useful for quickly identifying which staff members (or other ranks) are currently online.

Players with one of the configured CMS ranks will display a rank badge on their player card and appear at the top of the dashboard list.

Username Moderation

Even with Roblox’s built-in username moderation, some inappropriate names can still bypass filters. The Username Moderation panel allows you to automatically kick users with “All” or “Others” in their username — preventing commands targeting them from affecting the entire server.

You can also configure AI-based moderation standards to automatically detect and handle inappropriate usernames.

Administration Panel > Limits

In the Admin Panel, under Advanced, click Limits to view your community limitations.

What is the Timeclock?

Sonoran CMS offers a Clock In/Out system available for all users of Sonoran CMS. The goal of this system is to assist with time-clocking with the "Patrol Log" type.

Finding your TeamSpeak UID

1. Press CTRL+I or CMD+I while in TeamSpeak to open the Identities popup

How-To: Deleting a Community

Submitting a Form

The available applications page lists all forms that the user has permissions to submit.

Select Submit Form to create a new form submission.

Written Guides

Click the cards below to learn more about each feature:

The ER:LC game panel's dashboard provides basic server information at a glance.

Online Players

Quickly glance at your online players, or use the search bar and team filters to find a specific one.

Setup

Ensure you have the following in your server.cfg (if you don't permissions won't be able to be granted)

What is the Logging Center?

The logging center allows administrators to search and find historical user actions in their CMS community. If a user maliciously deleted a document or updated a webpage, it's easy to find out who and when!

Getting Started

Get started with Sonoran Bot today by inviting it to your Discord:

1. Manage a Character

The characters tab allows you to view and edit:

ER:LC Panel Setup

1. Locate your Submodules

Every CMS addon resource installed will have a separate folder. These are located in the \[sonorancms]\server\modules directory.

Managing Job Sync

Select the rank(s) which you would like to associate with a given job in-game on the left box, then select the job in the right box.

When a player has the job in-game, they will be granted the associated CMS ranks. This allows you to restrict permissions for Sonoran CAD, Radio, etc. to specific character jobs only.

Click ADD

Manage Weather

Here you can set the current weather on your server. Open the dropdown menu and choose from 15 different weather options! You can also toggle Freeze and Blackout on the side.

Freeze forces the weather to stay as what you set it to, if toggled, it will not change on its own.

These submodules are included when you download and install the regular resource. They can be found in the server/modules folder.

Managing Resources

All in-game resources will appear on the panel with three options:

Social Requirements

The Social Requirements section allows you to require that CMS accounts be linked to both Discord and Roblox accounts. When users have both social accounts connected, the ER:LC panel and Discord integrations can operate with full functionality.

Manage Weather

Here you can set the current weather on your server. Open the dropdown menu and choose from 15 different weather options! You can also toggle Freeze and Blackout on the side.

Freeze forces the weather to stay as what you set it to, if toggled, it will not change on its own.

Community Events allow you to organize and plan events for your community to further engage with your members. Events allow you to plan the start & end time, title, description and an optional header image for each. Events also allow your members to RSVP to track who's attending your event.

Create an Event

To access the Community Calendar navigate to the top toolbar and select "Calendar".

To create an event click the "Create Event" button along the top of the month selection. This will open the Event Creation dialog, and from there select the Calendar Category that you're wanting to create an event for.

Once you've got the create an event dialog you can now input all of the event information that you'd like to associate with this event, once the event is created it can be edited if any information is no longer correct.

Regarding RSVP Limit

Setting the RSVP Limit from anything but -1 will restrict the total RSVP spots available, setting it to -1 will allow for an unlimited spots for RSVP.

Once you're satisfied with the information inputted for the event you can publish event, this will now add the event to the calendar to be accessed by your community.

RSVPing for Events

To RSVP for an event navigate to the Community Calendar, select the event you're wanting to RSVP to and click the "RSVP" green button on the bottom left of the event view. This will now mark yourself as attending the event, at any time you can remove yourself from the RSVP for the event by navigating to the event and clicking the same button.

Sharing Events

To share an event to your community members you can simply click the "Share Event" button located on the event, this will copy the share URL to your clipboard. You can now share this URL with members of your community to view.

Editing Events

To edit an event simply navigate to the event and click the orange pencil paper button located on the bottom row. This will open up a dialog to edit details of the event.

Once you're satisfied with all of the event details you can click the orange "Save" button and it will be saved.

Removing Events

To remove an event simply navigate to the event and click the red trash can button located on the bottom row. Once you click it, it will be removed from the community calendar.

Discord Integration

If you have linked you community to our , creating an event in CMS will automatically create an event within your community's Discord channel making it easy to coordinate community events across multiple platforms!

By clicking the Interested button, you will be automatically RSVP'd in CMS.

Switch Between Live and DB Vehicles

You can switch to view only live vehicles active in the server, or all vehicles in the database at the top right.

Add a Vehicle

Selecting Add Vehicle at the top right allows you to create a new vehicle and assign it's ownership to a player.

Manage a Vehicle

Select any vehicle to modify it's information, transfer ownership, repair it, or delete it from the server.

Supported Garage Scripts

Currently, Sonoran CMS supports the following QB Core garage scripts:

• QB (Base) Garages

• Codesign Garage

• Quasar Advanced Garages

• JG Advanced Garages

You can suggest more integrations on our or if you would like to add the support yourself, simply paste this code snippet in any SERVER-sided file in your garage resource.

Sonoran CMS allows you to easily manage your community's Sonoran Radio permissions based on their Sonoran CMS rank automatically!

1. Add New Radio Integration

Click the Sonoran Radio icon or click the plus button to sync another Radio to you community

1. Enter Credentials

Enter your Sonoran Radio community's ID & API Key.

Your Community ID and API Key are located in Sonoran Radio's Administration panel. Enter these into your Sonoran CMS as shown below.

2. Configure Sync Settings

Check the sync options that best fit your community's needs, explanation of each sync feature can be found .

3. Map CAD Permissions to Ranks

Select a CMS rank and toggle the desired Radio permissions below.

When you're done setting up Radio sync and configuring permission mappings, simply close out of the window by clicking the red X button and it will automatically save your credentials, settings, and trigger a mass sync of all permissions.

Feature Overview

Multi-Setup Sync

Sync multiple Sonoran Radio communities with your single Sonoran CMS community. This will sync all of the below features with each community you have setup.

Kick & Ban Sync

This will trigger an action to kick the same user from your Sonoran Radio community if they're kicked from your Sonoran CMS community. This also applies to bans.

Auto Join Radio

This will have all new members that join your community automatically join your Sonoran Radio community under the same user account.

Name Sync

This will automatically set a user's radio display name to match their CMS display name. This is updated on:

• CMS community name change

• User account update/save

• Radio integration configuration change

Creating Player Records

Via CMS Panel

New player records can be created directly from the ER:LC server dashboard.

• Kick and Ban records automatically execute the corresponding in-game commands.

• Disciplinary Point records add a specified number of points to a user and can be used for warnings or punishments.

• Note records allow staff to store important information or observations about a player.

Via Discord Bot

Player records can be added via by using the /erlc record command.

• ServerID specifies the ER:LC server you wish to add this player record to.

• Player is a selected Discord user or Roblox user ID.

  • Players must for this to work!

• Type is the type of player record (kick, ban, disciplinary, note, etc.)

Via In-Game Command

Players in-game can use the :log command to create records.

Syntax: :log record [type] [player name] [points - optional] [reason]

Example: :log record note John This is an example note!

Record Types:

• points (uses extra [points] parameter)

• note

• kick

Players can also manage their timeclock in-game using the :log command.

Timeclock shift types are configured in the community customization panel.

• :log clockin [shift type - optional]

Searching Player Records

Search Filters

Find a specific record by expanding the filter menu on the Latest Activity section to specify a record's type, staff member, user, and date range.

In Latest Activity

Click the orange icon to toggle the latest activity from viewing all activity logs and records to viewing only recently added records.

In Player Activity

Click any player to open their account modal. You can view all recent activity and records in the Activity expansion area. Additionally, click the orange icon to toggle from viewing all activity logs and records to viewing only recently added records.

Editing Player Records

Click any player record to open it in the editor. Here, you can modify the record and view the record's edit history.

You can enable role syncing with TeamSpeak after setting up the connection by navigating to the Role Sync tab and checking the Enable Role Sync button.

Adding a Rank

Steps for adding a rank that is associated with a group on your TeamSpeak server:

1. Click the Add Mapping button on the CMS admin panel

1. Select the CMS department and rank you'd like to use in the dropdown that just appeared

1. Input the TeamSpeak group permanent ID into the TeamSpeak Group ID input

• A TeamSpeak's group ID can be found by hovering over it in the permission editor

• Additionally, if you have Sonoran Radio installed you can also follow

Repeat this for all ranks you'd like to map to a TeamSpeak Group.

This method will soon be deprecated and be replaced by the following:

1. (Coming soon) Select a TeamSpeak group from the dropdown to the right.

Setting up Your Users

For users in your community to benefit from this feature, they must setup their TeamSpeak UID after you've setup your connection. Check out this guide for adding your UID to CMS:

1. Invite & Configure Sonoran Bot

In the Sonoran CMS Administrator Panel, under Advanced select Integrations > Discord In order to configure your Sonoran CMS Webhooks you must invite and configure Sonoran Bot. Follow each step in the setup process stepper directly in the Sonoran CMS UI.

2. Configure the Sonoran CMS Webhook

Select the channel you want your webhook logs to send to for each log type When you are done editing, click anywhere outside and it will automatically save any changes.

3. Role Mention

In the middle drop down menu you can select any roles you would like to be mentioned in the webhook. You can select as many roles as you wish and this will mention these roles at the beginning of the message.

Alternatively, if you would like to integrate the mention into the content message, you can also manually mention roles.

To tag and mention a role in the webhook edit the Webhook Content box and format the mention as <@&ID> with ID being the Discord Role ID.

You can copy a Discord Role ID in your Discord server's Settings > Roles > Right-Click on the role > Copy ID

You can also right-click on any user's role in their profile popup and copy the Role ID from there.

Example: <@&1234567890>

4. User Mention

To tag and mention a user in the webhook edit the Webhook Content box and format the mention as <@ID> with ID being the Discord User ID.

You can copy a Discord User ID in your Discord. Right-Click on the user > Copy ID

Example: <@1234567890>

Select and Manage a Player

Click on any online player to interact.

• Copy unique identifiers

• Warn the player in-game

• Kick the player from the server

• View their

Warn a Player

Selecting Warn on a player will prompt you to add a reason message. The player will then receive a warning notice in-game, requiring them to hold down SPACE for ten seconds to dismiss.

Roster Activity Time

The ER:LC panel extends functionality to CMS rosters by allowing you to add an Activity Tracker Hours column that automatically displays each user’s in-game time over a configurable period. This column can also be configured to track time spent on specific ER:LC team(s).

Routine Actions

The performs routine actions at custom intervals. This panel integrates with the ER:LC panel to offer automated in-game hints and notifications.

Disciplinary Points

can be assigned either through an or manually in the CMS. Once a user exceeds a defined point threshold, the associated disciplinary actions are executed automatically.

The ER:LC panel extends this functionality by enabling automated kicks or bans when a user reaches the configured disciplinary point limit.

Setting up the Connection

To begin, head to Administrative Panel > Integrations > TeamSpeak

Once in that section, enter the information corresponding to your TeamSpeak server:

• IP/Hostname: The IP (like 1.2.3.4) or the hostname (like google.com) that you use to connect to your TeamSpeak server

• Query Port: By default 10011 for most TeamSpeak servers (especially self-hosted ones). Check with your host provider to be sure

• Server Port: The port you use to connect to your TeamSpeak, which is by default 9987. (This will always be different from the Query Port)

• ServerQuery Username/Password: Check the section below for creating a serverquery login

Once you put all the TeamSpeak information into the inputs, click the Save Integration Settings button to save. If something is wrong, it'll display an error at the top of your screen that identifies the issue. If all correct, you should see:

Creating a Server Query Login

The User Method

This method is the easiest for creating a server query login, but the permissions of the login are tied to the user creating it. In the event that the person who created the login loses their permissions, role syncing will not be possible

1. While connected to your TeamSpeak server, go to the Top Toolbar -> Tools -> ServerQuery Login

1. Enter any preferred username into the "Name" field of the popup and click OK

1. In the new popup, the "Name" field is your username is the "Password" is your server query password. Note that you will lose the password if you close the popup without saving it.

The serveradmin Method (Self-Hosted Only)

This method only works if you self-host the TeamSpeak server, but it doesn't have the permission issues like the user method.

The serveradmin password is found:

1. In the original popup when you create your TeamSpeak, the same dialog that had your Server Admin permission key

2. Or by changing the serveradmin password manually ()

Now that you have the password, you can put that into CMS along with the username serveradmin

Setting up Role Sync

Now that you've got the connection, it's time to setup which CMS Ranks correspond to which TeamSpeak Groups!

This whitelist module utilizes Sonoran CMS's to enforce player connections.

Whitelisting on QBCore / VMenu

If using QBCore or VMenu on your server, it is recommended that you control whitelisting through their respective game panels, rather than through this plugin. For more information, see the links below:

Installation / Configuration

1. Configure Clock In Module

Locate the whitelist module within your [sonorancms]/sonorancms/server/modules folder and rename whitelist_config.dist.json so that it is just whitelist_config.json.

Next, open the whitelist_config.json file and set enabled to true.

Configuration

2. Setup Whitelist Permissions

Navigate to the Rank Manager within the Administrative Panel.

Administrative Panel > Ranks

For users in your Sonoran CMS community to be accepted through the whitelist, they'll need to be granted permission for the whitelist through rank permissions.

Granting each rank the permission of Allow Whitelist allows those members through the whitelist.

Granting each rank with the permission of Block Whitelist blocks users from passing through the whitelist.

3. Add your API ID

Ensure all players have added their to the CMS!

Reliability Notice

In the event that the CMS API is temporarily unavailable, this resource utilizes a local backup cache. The resource will automatically fall back to the latest saved version of the whitelist, allowing members to join as normal.

Configuring Actions

Actions are routine automations ran at specific intervals. Communities may wish to send an in-game reminder message every 10 minutes, or a Discord webhook once per hour.

In the actions panel actions can be configured, enabled, and manually triggered.

Action Triggers

• Interval: Triggers the action every X minutes.

• Roster: .

Profile Fields allow communities to put direct information onto member's profiles that can be restricted to certain viewers, editors, etc. with rank permissions. Profile Fields are dynamically displayed on profiles depending on what ranks the profile you're viewing holds.

Easily create and edit profile fields to your liking to fit your community's needs. Each field can be customized to have a different type and label with more to come in the future. Additionally, you can drag and drop profile field blocks to change the order in which they display on user's profiles.

Accessing the Rank Manager

To access the "Rank Manager", head to Administrative Panel > Ranks

Within the Rank panel you'll be able to create groups and ranks for your members, this will be the central panel for deciding permissions based on "ranks", when new, removed, or modified Custom Forms, Calendar Categories, and Rosters will be reflected with available permissions under each rank.

Navigate to the Accounts Panel

Video Tutorial

1. Install the CMS Core Framework

The QB Core management panel will help walk you through each step.

Community Spotlight

The community discovery system highlights both active, growing small communities and large communities with many members. Communities in the spotlight are also advertised in the , CMS, and main menus.

All of these metrics are based off the last seven days.

The Sonoran CMS Forum System is a custom page element allowing you to create and organize your forum(s) to fit the needs of your community. Easily add Forum Categories to any custom page, create or use existing categories across multiple pages. Each category has the ability to manage permissions to Create a Topic, Remove Topics, and Remove Topic Replies.

Creating Forum Categories & Adding Forum Elements

To create a Forum Category navigate to the website builder located at Administrative Panel > Website Builder. Once you've located the editor, add a Forum Section to your Custom Page.

Now that you added a Forum Section you can select from existing Forum Categories or create a new one. If you're looking to create a category, simply click the forum category . This will display a popup with various inputs, click on editor then create and fill in the category label and select the permission preferences that apply. Once the category fits the needs that you like click outside the box and it will save automatically.

Once you have saved the Custom Page you can now view the page with the Forum element added.

Creating Forum Sub-Categories

To create Forum Sub-Categories navigate to the Custom Page Editor located at Administrative Panel > Website Builder. Once you've located the editor, select a page that has a Forum Section already.

Now that you're at an already set up Forum Category you can easily add sub-categories by clicking on Add Sub-Category, on the desired forum. Click this button and it will prompt you with the sub-category label. Input that sub-category label that you would like and click SAVE. This will add the sub-category to your forum category, sub-categories can be created on sub-categories to create a forum category depth of your choosing.

Viewing & Creating Topics

To view forum topics navigate to a Custom Page that has a Forum element added. Once you've located a page you will be shown a table with all of the topics in the forum category. Click the topic table row to open up the topic for viewing and replying.

To create a forum topic simply click Post Topic button located on the Forum Topics table, this will display a topic creation dialog. Fill in the appropriate information for the topic you're wanting to create. Once the topic information suffices your needs simply click the green CREATE TOPIC button to create the topic. Once it's created it'll automatically navigate you to the topic. This will allow you to edit and reply to the topic.

Topic Creation - Forum Topic Attachments

Forum topics can include image attachments during creation. To add them, go to any Forum Category and click the green Create Topic button. In the popup, use the uploader near the middle/bottom to select your images. After creating the topic, the attachments will appear below the topic content.

Creating Private Topics

Private topics let users create forum posts visible only to the ranks they choose, allowing tighter control over sensitive discussions inside public categories. To create private topics in a category, a user must have permission on the root category. To allow a rank to create private topics, add that rank to Can Create Private Topics in the forum section’s permissions.

To create a private topic you will need to locate a Forum Category and click the green button in the top right, this should provide you with a popup dialog to create a topic. On the bottom there should be settings for private topics as well as a switch to toggle this topic as private. Flip the switch to toggle the topic as private on and add the ranks that you would like to view and reply to the topic.

Topic Actions: Pin & Lock

To improve the organization of your forum, you can pin and lock topics. Pinning a topic will move it to the top of the forum category, and locking a topic will prevent any new replies from being added. You can access these options by right-clicking on a topic from the list view, or by using the buttons next to the edit and remove options while viewing a specific topic. These features will help keep your forum organized and on-topic.

Forum Sub-Categories

Each Forum Category can have it's own sub-categories created for it, this allows for better organization and design of your forum categories.

Dedicated Forum Category Page

To get a complete view of all the topics in a specific forum category, you can navigate to its dedicated page. This page can be shared with other members through a link, so they can easily access it as well. You can access the dedicated page without having to use a custom page element, so it's quick and easy to view all the topics in a particular category.

To view the dedicated page for a particular forum category, first locate the custom page forum element that contains that category. Then, click on the category's name at the top-left corner of the topics table. This will take you to the dedicated page for that category, where you can see all of the topics it contains.

Remove all the hassle of managing your community's Sonoran CAD permissions. Sonoran CMS is now your single point of management!

Sonoran CMS allows you to easily manage your community's Sonoran CAD permissions based on their Sonoran CMS rank automatically!

Web Panel Sync

1. Add New CAD Integration

Click the Sonoran CAD icon or click the plus butt on to syn another CAD to you community

1. Enter Credentials

Click the Enable Sync check box and enter your Sonoran CAD community's ID & API Key.

Your Community ID and API Key are located in Sonoran CAD at Admin Panel > Advanced > In-Game Integration > Web API. Enter these into your Sonoran CMS as shown below.

2. Configure Sync Settings

Check the sync options that best fit your community's needs, explanation of each sync feature can be found .

3. Map CAD Permissions to Ranks

To edit, click any rank on the left-hand side. This tree will contain all department and ranks that your community currently has. Enable all permissions you want to grant to the individual with this rank. When you're done setting up CAD Sync and configuring permission mappings, simply close out of the window by clicking the red X button and it will automatically save your credentials, settings, and trigger a mass sync of all permissions.

Feature Overview

Multi-Setup Sync

Sync multiple Sonoran CAD communities with your single Sonoran CMS community. This will sync all of the below features with each community you have setup.

Kick & Ban Sync

This will trigger an action to kick the same user from your Sonoran CAD community if they're kicked from your Sonoran CMS community. This also applies to bans.

API ID Sync

This will sync all member's API IDs to the same user from your Sonoran CAD community, if they have a Discord account linked to their account it will sync that ID as well.

Auto Join CAD

This will have all new members that join your community automatically join your Sonoran CAD community under the same user ID.

Manual Syncing

Full Community

Community Owner's can trigger a full community sync of CAD permissions through the FULL SYNC button located at the bottom of the CAD Rank Permission Selector.

Individual Account

Individual member's can trigger a sync of their account with the community linked CAD in their Account Settings dialog.

Vanity URL's

Each community gets a FREE vanity URL, vanity URLs allow all communities to get access to the community homepage without a login.

You can also .

Your community's vanity URL can be found in your Administrative Panel > Custom Domain.

The vanity URL will take users to the home page created in the website builder.

Custom Domain

1. Enter your Domain Name

This can be a root domain example.com or a subdomain cms.example.com

2. Configure DNS Records for your Domain

Copy and paste the values to add three DNS records (two CNAME records and one TXT record). This verifies your domain ownership, community ownership, and redirects traffic on your domain to the CMS.

The example record below sets cms.example.com as the custom login page URL.

3. Save the Custom Domain

Press Set Custom Domain in the CMS to save. Your new custom domain name will be shown below your vanity URL.

Troubleshooting

I can't see other communities when using a custom domain

Custom domains prevent other Sonoran CMS communities from being visible. You will need to use the root sonorancms.com domain to view multiple communities at once.

This module manages player's in-game permissions right from the CMS!

Installation / Configuration

1. Ensure Resource Has Permissions

Ensure you have the following in your server.cfg (if you don't permissions won't be able to be granted)

2. Configure Rank Mappings via UI

Navigate to either game panel's within your Sonoran CMS community and open up the Aces & Principals tab.

This is where you can configure ranks to principal groups, simply select the ranks you want to map to individual groups.

3. Configure Aces & Principals via Server.CFG

Locate and open up your server.cfg

Configure your aces and principals to how you desire while following the syntax for

4. Add your API ID

Ensure all players have added their to the CMS!

Functionality

Permissions On Join

When a player joins the server, the resource will ask the CMS for the players ranks. ACE permissions will be assigned based on the configuration.

Permissions on Push Event

For communities on the Plus plan or higher, permissions can be synced instantly in-game when ranks are updated.

Simply add your FiveM server's public IP address and at Administrative Panel > Integrations > Sonoran CMS API > Servers.

Manual Sync

Individual players can run the /refreshpermissions command in-game to force a permissions update.

Example Configuration

Game Panel -> Aces & Principals

permissions.cfg/server.cfg

Reliability Notice

In the event that the CMS API is temporarily unavailable, this resource utilizes a local backup cache. The resource will automatically fall back to the latest saved version of the permissions list, allowing members to access permissions as normal.

What are Short URLs?

Create friendly, short URLs for anything in your community!

The URL shortener takes any link and converts it to a short and readable format! Ex: https://discord.com/invite/123456 -> mycommunity.com/discord

Creating a Short URL

New Short URL

To forward https://discord.com/invite/123456 to our 's mycommunity.com/discord

1. Enter the existing URL https://discord.com/invite/123456

2. Enter the new short URL path discord

3. (Optional) add a description Discord invite link

After adding the new short URL, it will be viewable, searchable, and copyable in the table below.

Domain Formats

The CMS supports three types of short URL formats:

• : customdomain.com/shorturl

• : example.customdomain.com/shorturl

• : communityid.sonorancms.com/shorturl

The custom path will work on all three of these options. The toggle simply allows you to select which format you are copying.

Custom Subdomains

Subdomains are extensions of your custom domain and are used to organize or separate different sections of a website (e.g., info.customdomain.com).

Adding A Subdomain

Reserved Paths

Sonoran CMS has several internal URL paths that can not be overridden by a custom short URL.

Sonoran CMS will also not allow you to override an existing with a custom short URL.

These paths are restricted only in their absolute form. Appending additional paths to these are allowed. For example:

A short URL can NOT be: example.com/forms

However, a short URL CAN be: example.com/forms/civ

Accessing the Roster Editor

To access the "Roster Editor", navigate to Administrative Panel > Rosters

Within this "Roster Editor" panel you'll be able to create custom and automatic rosters with whatever columns you please. You can specify some of the columns to utilize the custom column types that are in place such as the:

This module is a in-game way of automatically* clocking in/out of Sonoran CMS's system.

Video Tutorial

Written Guides

Click the cards below to learn more about each feature:

A. One-Click Installation (RocketNode)

We've partnered with Rocket Node to bring you one-click Sonoran CMS installation for FiveM — making it easier than ever to host your community and connect with Sonoran CMS.

Manually Join with a Community ID

Users can , and click the blue arrow Join button on the main page.

• Enter the