CREATING A YES LIST

Creating a Yes List enables you to impose a very restrictive form of filtering on a user profile. For example, give a young child access to the Internet without running the risk of them finding something inappropriate. Then, when the child asks to visit a particular website, you can visit the site to make sure that it is safe before adding it to the Yes List. The user will then only be able to access sites contained in the Yes List.

To add sites to a Yes List:

1. From the Options Menu, click Customize Filter Settings. Web, then Sites Allowed.
2. Ensure you have the correct User Profile selected in the User list box at the top of the Sites Allowed screen.
3. Ask yourself the following question: “Do I want this website to be allowed for this user only or for everyone who has a profile?” To add a site to a particular profile use the top pane of the Sites Allowed screen. To add a site to every profile use the bottom pane of the Sites Allowed screen.
4. Click the Add button by the relevant pane.
5. Enter the Web address of the website that you want to allow into the dialog that follows.
6. Click OK.
   The address of the website appears in the Sites Allowed screen with a green icon beside it to show that it is an Allowed website.
7. Click Save.
8. Click the Up Menu button once, then click the Web Categories button.
   You will now see the Web Categories screen.
9. Choose Use your own Yes List from the Select List drop down list.
10. Click Save.
    Anyone using a profile that this Yes List has been applied to will now only be able to visit those sites that you have added to the Yes List.

Example Yes List - Allow Disney website

The following instructions show how to set up a Yes List for Disney.com:

1. From the Options Menu, click Customize Filter Settings, Web, Cattegories.
2. In the screen that follows click the Customize button alongside Web Filtering.
3. Click Select Web Categories.
4. Click the arrow on the Select List field and choose Use your own Web Yes List from the drop-down list.
5. Click Up Menu, then click My Allowed Sites.
6. Click the Add button alongside the pane corresponding to who you want the Yes List to apply to: - just this profile (User Profile websites) or everyone's profile (All User Profiles).
7. Enter the website address: www.disney.com
   
   On some websites the Web address changes as you navigate to or through the website (it redirects to a different site server). Disney is a good example of this so you need to add more than one website address as an Allowed site. Generally you can just add a Keyword to be allowed rather than a website. For example, you can add .disney as an Allowed Keyword.
   
   It is recommended that you identify exactly which web addresses need to be added as Sites Allowed in order to be extremely accurate. The Real-Time Activity Monitor helps make this an easy task to complete. For morei nformation, see Using the Real-Time Activity Monitor to add URLs, presented later in this chapter.
   
   
8. Click OK then Save.