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Helpful tips and FAQs
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ADDING AND EDITING INFORMATION EDITING AN INDICATOR OR A SOURCE OF INDICATOR ADDING IMAGES TO THE GALLERIES _________________________________________________ Simply click on ‘create a new account’ from the left sidebar menu to register. After you register, confirmation will be sent to you by email. Your registration must be approved by the webmaster. This is only a technicality to help us avoid spam. It may take up to one day to process your approval. We apologize for the inconvenience. Use the log-in form on the left side bar to log-in and access your personal menu. If you forget your password, please click "request new password" and a password will be sent to the email address you have provided us. If you have forgotten your username and password, please email the webmaster using the 'contact' button at the bottom of the page and request that your username and a new password be emailed to you. If the log-in is unsuccessful but your username and password are correct, try clearing your cookies from your web browser and attempting to log in again. ADDING AND EDITING INFORMATION HELPFUL TIP FOR ADDING AND EDITING INFORMATION: For easier formatting, you can click on ‘enable rich text’ at the bottom of the field. This will allow you to do some simple formatting. To make sure that your formatting matches the final version, please ensure that the input format is set to ‘full html’. To do this, click on ‘input format’ directly under ‘enable rich text’ and click the button next to ‘full html’. You will have to repeat this for each field that you fill in. To add a new indicator, click on ‘My Indicators’ from your personalized menu. Directly under the page title, you can click on ‘submit indicator’ to reach the indicator submission form. Any field that you leave blank in the form will not appear on the finished version. Any fields with a red astrix must be filled in. For example, the field “title”, which is where to add the name of the indicator, must be completed. Helpful tip: By typing up the information in word and then copying and pasting it in, you can avoid losing any text as you are navigating through the form. Helpful tip: By previewing your indicator before you submit, you can check to see if there are any errors in the text and correct them right away. The first field in the indicator submission form is the source of the indicator. If the source of the indicator is not in the drop down menu provided, then you may add it by clicking on “create a new source of indicator”. The drop menu will disappear and the form for adding a new source will appear (to see the drop down menu again, simply click on ‘select’ from the source of indicator instructions). When you submit or preview your indicator, the information will be saved to the knowledge base. If you would like to add your indicator sources separately, click on ‘My Sources’ from your personalized menu and then click on ‘submit and indicator source’ to view the submission form. Once you have completed the form (only fields that you fill in will appear on the final version) you can click on submit to save it. When adding or editing indicators, this source will appear in the drop down menu on the indicator submission form. EDITING AN INDICATOR OR A SOURCE OF INDICATOR Unless you have asked for and received editorial privileges on the site, you can only edit your own indicators and indicator sources. To access your indicators, click on ‘My Indicators’ from your personalized menu. A table containing all your indicators will come up and you will be able to edit any of them by clicking on ‘edit’ on the right hand side. The indicator submission form will open up and you may make any changes you see fit. To edit a source of indicator, simply click on ‘My Sources’ from your personalized menu and select the source you wish to edit. ‘My Tracker’ allows you to view all your recent posts for the indicators and sources as well as blogs, forums, and photo galleries. You can edit any of these posts from the tracker, making it a convenient way to navigate your contributions to the site. You can access your blog from your personalized menu. All your most recent posts will show up. To add a blog to the list, click on ‘post a new entry’. Photos, links, and file attachments can be added to your blogs. To add photos, click on ‘attached images’ and browse for an image from the gallery or upload an image from file. To attach a file, click on ‘file attachments’ and upload a new file. Other users can view and comment on your blogs, and you can comment as well. Helpful tip: You cannot enable rich text in the blog field. However, all email addresses and website addresses will turn into links automatically when you submit the entry. Remember, you can edit your entries at any time! The forum is a great way to get a discussion going or to raise issues that you would like to air. It is divided into a hierarchy of forum ‘buckets’, forums, and forum topics (or threads). To access the forum, click on ‘communicate’ on the menu bar and select ‘forum’. To add a new forum, you can click on ‘post new forum topic’. Remember to classify your forum topic in one of the forums (and not just into a forum bucket). If your topic doesn’t suite any of the forums available, then put it under ‘General Discussion’. Commmenting on a forum topic: To comment on a forum topic, click on the forum and then on the thread (topic) that you are interested in. The final comment in the forum thread will have a ‘reply’ button that will take you to a comment forum. Starting a new forum: To start a new forum thread, please post a new forum topic to the ‘General Discussion’ forum and state that you would like the web master to make this into a new forum. Forum moderator: The forums are moderated by the webmaster for content and language. You can access your profile by clicking on ‘My Profile’ on your personalized menu. By clicking on the ‘edit’ tab, you will be able to change your account settings, input information and add details about your work. Remember, by enabling rich text (click on ‘enable rich text’) in a field, you can format the text in that field. ADDING IMAGES TO THE GALLERIES To add images, click on ‘My Photos’ from your personalized menu. If you haven’t added photos before, the table will be blank. Click on ‘submit a photo’ to add a photo to the galleries. You will have to select a gallery to file the photo into. If none of the categories suite your photo, please file it under ‘other’. You may also contact us and ask us to create a new category. Helpful tip: To give others a good idea of your photo, give you photo a title that includes the location and country it was taken in. To upload a file and insert it into your text, you must first go to 'file attachments' at the bottom of the page you are editing. The 'file attachements' button is only at the bottom of pages when they are open for editing. If you do not have access to the editable version of a page, you are either not logged in or do not have permission to edit that page. Click on 'file attachments' to open the menu where you can browse your computer and attach a new file. Once a file has been attached, it will come up in a list with options to delete or edit it. Directly below the file name is the url of the file on the site. Copy this url. When pasting the file into your page, type the title of file in the field, highlight it, and then click on the link button (denoted by 3 links of chain) in your rich-text menu (the formatting menu at the bottom of your field). A window will open where you can paste in the link to the document in under "link URL". Also, ensure that the document will open in another window by selecting that option from the "target" drop down menu. Hit 'insert' to complete the process. |
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