The dashboard
How the sidebar, system pages, switches and saves work. The parts that behave the same on every page in Arclo.
Everything is set from the dashboard, which reads and writes the same records the bot reads. There is no export step, no sync button and no restart. (A few commands change one setting from Discord, such as /logs channel or /automod toggle; they write those same records, so the dashboard shows the result.)
The sidebar
The left column is the whole product: one row per system, in seven groups, and any group can be folded away (the dashboard remembers which). The dot at the end of a row says whether that system is switched on in the server you are editing; the Social Alerts platforms that are behind Premium carry a Premium badge there instead. Clicking a system that is off does not open it straight away: Arclo asks whether to switch it on first, then opens its page. Someone with page access sees only the rows they were given.
- General: views and controls rather than systems: the Overview, Server Analytics, System Analytics, Command Info, Emojis, Logging and Settings. None of these has a master switch, because none of them is a feature you turn on.
- Onboarding & Access: what happens to somebody who arrives, and what they can earn.
- Essentials: tickets, moderation, automatic moderation, security, automations and invite tracking.
- Server Management: giveaways, custom commands, statistics channels, starboards, backups.
- Utilities: embed messages, voice tools, forms, polls, sticky messages.
- Community: boosts, birthdays, suggestions, reminders, tags.
- Social Alerts: 14 platform rows over one alerts engine, each with its own switch.
A system page
Every system page opens the same way: the system's name and one sentence about it, its master switch on the right, and on the larger systems a row of tabs. Below that, the settings sit in cards you can fold.
Welcome
Greet every new member with a message, a personalized banner and a private DM.
Welcome channel *
The test sends the greeting exactly as the editor below shows it, with your own avatar and name. No save needed.
Greet members
The greeting goes out the moment they arrive.
@mira
Welcome to Nebula Collective!
@mira just joined. Say hello! You're member #1250. Have a look around, and enjoy your stay.
- The master switch
- Off means the system does nothing at all. No listeners, no messages, and its commands leave your server's slash menu. Turning it off never deletes the configuration, so switching a system off to debug it and back on later is safe. One thing to know: work on a timer waits too. With Moderation off, a temporary ban stays in place until you switch it back on.
- Problems before saving
- When something has to be fixed before a page can save (a required channel left empty, a channel that was deleted), an amber notice under the header lists each problem in plain words, and Save waits until the list is empty.
- Tabs
- Larger systems split into tabs. Moderation has 8, Auto Moderation 8, Security 9. Tabs are addressable: the URL carries
?tab=, so a link you paste in your staff channel opens the same tab for everyone. - Commands section
- A system that owns commands lists them on its own page (on the tabbed pages, under a Commands tab), where you can restrict them to roles, redirect their output or switch one off. It is the same data as the Command Info page, edited from either side.
Saving
- Settings wait for you. The moment you change one, a bar rises at the foot of the page saying You have unsaved changes, with Discard and Save changes, and nothing is written until you press Save changes (or
Ctrl+S). It covers everything on the page at once, every tab and the Commands section included, and leaving the page with changes still unsaved asks first. Nothing saves on its own. Once saved there is no publish step: if the dashboard says a message will be sent to#welcome, that is where the next arrival's message goes. The Information Channel is the exception: saving it posts the channel, so its Discard and Publish sit at the top of the page instead. - Things you build one at a time (a ticket panel, a giveaway, a tag, a reminder) open in a builder with its own buttons at the top. Until the item goes live it has Save draft, which keeps your work without putting anything in Discord, and Publish, which puts it live. Once it is live there is only Publish, which saves your changes and applies them, beside Delete. Discard and Publish become clickable as soon as you change something. An item's on/off switch is on its card in the list, never inside the builder.
- Changes reach the bot within about twenty seconds. Most systems keep a short cache of their configuration so a busy server is not querying the database on every message.
One editor at a time
Two admins editing the same system page at once will overwrite each other. The last save wins. The Settings page keeps a Recent dashboard activity feed so you can see who changed what, and Logging's Dashboard change log type posts each change to your log channel.
The Overview
The first page inside a server. It opens with the server's headline numbers (members, who is online, recent activity), then a card per system, grouped as the sidebar groups them, each saying whether it is on. A system that is off can be switched on from its card.
Overview
Nebula Collective
Members
Server
48 text · 9 voice
Channels
64
Roles
3 months ago
Arclo joined
Mar 2021
Created
Activity
messages · against the day before
Active
In voice
New members
Onboarding & Access
7Welcome & Goodbye
Greet arrivals with a banner, a private DM and a message you designed, and mark departures with the same designer.
Information Channel
A read-only channel with banners, rules and server info.
Verify System
Gate access with reaction, button or dropdown verification.
Reaction Roles
Let members pick up roles with reactions, buttons or dropdowns.
Auto Roles
Assign roles automatically on join, on return, or reserved for specific members.
Levels
Reward activity with XP, levels, role rewards and a public leaderboard.
Achievements
Tiered badges for chatting, voice and giveaways, with role rewards and a leaderboard of its own.
Previews are the real thing
Wherever Arclo is going to post something (a welcome message, a ticket panel, a rank card, a boost banner) the dashboard draws it with the same code the bot uses to send it. A banner preview is rendered by the identical drawing core; a rule tester runs the identical filter. If the preview is right, the message is right. A preview about one member (a welcome, a level-up, a rank card) is drawn with you in it, your own name and avatar, while leaderboards and lists use sample names.
Add a message above everything… (optional)
Welcome to Nebula Collective
Start in #rules, then pick your roles below. Events are announced every Friday.
Need help?
Open a ticket in #support
Events
Fridays at 8 PM
Read the rules
Pick rolesLive preview of the published message. The pinned text and every element post as their own messages, so the stack appears under one bot header in Discord. Click a button or dropdown option to see its configured response.
Still stuck? Ask in the support server: somebody there has almost certainly configured this before.