Dashboard basics

Sign in, pick a server and find your way around Element's dashboard, and learn which Discord permissions open which pages.

  • About 3 minutes
  • On the dashboard
  • 6 steps

Before you start

  • A Discord account
  • The Manage Server permission in the server you want to manage

Sign in with Discord

Go to elementbot.app and click Dashboard in the top corner, then Continue with Discord.

Discord asks to share your profile, email and server list. The server list is how the dashboard knows which servers you manage. Your email is only used if you ask for a copy or deletion of your data.

elementbot.app/auth/signin

Sign in to Element

Connect your Discord account to access the dashboard.

Continue with Discord

Discord will ask to share your profile, email and server list.

Pick a server

The dashboard lists every server where you have Manage Server:

  • Your servers already have Element. Click Manage to open one.
  • Add Element to a server lists the rest, with a button to invite Element there.
elementbot.app/dashboard

Welcome back, Rayyan

Select a server to manage Element.

Your servers

Rayyan's Lounge
1,284 members
Manage

Add Element to a server

Copper's Study Hall
Element isn't in this server
Add

Know what you can change

Manage Server opens the dashboard and most pages. A few need Administrator, and some need the Basic or Premium plan too. The server owner and Administrators can open every page.

PageYou need
OverviewYour server and how Element is set up in it.Manage Server
WelcomeGreet new members with a message, embed, image and greet button.Manage Server
Role panelsLet members pick their own roles with buttons or a menu.Administrator
Status roleGive members a role while their custom status matches one you choose.Administrator
Auto responsesReply, react or change roles when a message says something you choose.Manage Server
StickyKeep a message at the bottom of a channel, and give roles back to members who rejoin.Administrator
StarboardHighlight popular messages in a channel of your choice.Manage Server
ApplicationsLet members apply for staff roles in Discord or on the website, and review what they send.Manage Server
DonationsTrack donations to your server and the roles they earn.Manage Server
GiveawaysSave presets with the rules you use most, and design how giveaway messages look.Manage Server
TicketsGive members a button that opens a private thread with your staff.Administrator
GamesSet up Bingo, Imposter and Card Clash, with your own patterns, word cards and rulesets.Manage Server
MessagesSaved messages to post, and to use in tickets, sticky messages, role panels and welcome.Administrator
GeneralPrefixes, message snipe and the roles that /createreach counts.Administrator
SecurityProtect the server from raids, nukes and spam, and choose who Security trusts.Manage Server
AppearanceGive Element its own avatar and banner in this server.AdministratorAnd the Premium plan
ConfigurationChoose who can use which commands, and where.Administrator

Pages you can't open don't show in your sidebar. Element also checks your permissions again every time you save, so a page can't be used to get around them.

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See plans
  • More on a paid plan
  • BasicPremium
With Manage Server only, the pages that need Administrator stay hidden.

Find your way around

The box at the top of the sidebar switches servers, and keeps you on the same page in the new server. On phones, the pages sit in a strip you can scroll sideways.

Each server opens on its Overview. Its Element in this server card shows Element's highest role, how many roles it can give out, and any permissions its features are missing, with a link to grant them through Discord.

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Element in this server

Highest role
Element, 4th of 9

Element can give out the 5 roles below it, but not the 3 above it. Drag its role higher in Server Settings › Roles to change that.

Permissions
Missing 2 permissions its features use
  • Manage Roles
  • Manage Webhooks

Grant them through Discord

Save your changes

Nothing changes in your server while you edit. A bar rises from the bottom with the number of unsaved changes, Reset to undo them and Save changes to apply them.

If a setting can't be saved, the bar says why and the field is marked in red. Role pickers grey out roles that Element can't give out, or that are above your own highest role.

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Welcome image

A banner with the new member's avatar, name and member number.

1 unsaved change

ResetSave changes

If a page won't open

A server page tells you when it can't open, and what to do about it:

  • Element isn't in this server: add Element with the button on the page. If you just added it, give it a few seconds.
  • You don't have access to this: a server admin can give you the permission the page needs.
  • Needs Basic or Needs Premium: the page needs that plan in this server. See plans shows what each plan includes and how to get it.
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Element isn't in this server

Add Element to the server to manage it here. If you just added it, give it a few seconds.

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