using the CMS

Please click on the actions to get help: 

Joining and logging in the ISR site
Setting the user preferences
Adding articles
Adding events
Adding news
Adding files
Adding opportunities
Add post to forums
What should I do if my content submissions are rejected by ISR editors?
Searching the site

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Joining and logging in the ISR site

Joining the ISR site gives you the right as a Member to add content, such as articles, events, news, files, to participate in discussion groups, to download files and to post and view opportunities.

You can have other extra rights (reviewing contents, manage forums, etc.) if the ISR site managers assign to you particular privileges.

To join the ISR site, select the join link in the top right hand corner of the home page.

This opens the join form for you to complete. If this is the first Plone form you have encountered, you will note a few things: a red square next to the label of an input field means the field is required. When you select a field, help text will pop up to the left. You may navigate through the form fields by clicking on them.

Once you have completed this form, click join to submit your information. Then, click log in to access the site immediately.

Logging in

If you already have a username and password, you can log in to the site by typing them into the log in box in the lefthand column and clicking the log in link. Cookies must be enabled for you to log in to the site.

Forgotten password

If you forget your password it can be sent to the email address you provided when you registered. You can request that your password be mailed to you by clicking on the Forgot your password? link located in the left-hand column of the website. If you did not specify a valid email address when you registered, you will need to contact your site administrator.

Logging out

Once you are logged in to the Plone site, in the upper right hand corner you will see a link to log out. It is good practice to log out of Plone when you are finished using it.

Setting user preferences

In the upper right hand corner there is also a my preferences link that opens the Personalize form. This form allows you to set a number of preferences that change how you interact with the site.

• E-Mail - This is the email address associated with your membership and is used a number of places in a Plone site. Most importantly, if you lose or forget your password, this is the address the system will send it to.
• Form Help - Each form field has an associated pop-up box that provides context-sensitive help. This is very useful for newcomers to the system as they will be notified of the usage of a particular form field when they are filling it out. Users who don't want help can turn this off by selecting no. Default: Yes
• Subscribed newsletters - You can select from here the newsletters you want to be subscribed to.
  

Once you have made the desired changes to your preferences, click save to commit them.

Forum preferences

You will also find a link to My forum preferences.
The form allows you to configure special personal preferences for forums usage (Forum preferences, Your signatures, Instant Messaging accounts,  etc.).

Once logged in, you can add content items directly from the sections. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by ISR editors. The content items, once created, will be automatically in review state.

adding an article

Once logged in, access the section.
Now you have a new link: "Click here to add article to this section". Click it!



Edit your new article, inserting:

• Short title: This identifier will become part of the document's web address. It should be short, descriptive and contain no underscores or mixed case. For example, "audit-report-2003". If you do not provide a name, Plone will create one for you.
• Long title: This item will be shown at the top of the page, in the breadcrumbs, in the search interface, in the title of the browser and so on. This field is required.
• Description: This is a short lead in to the document - usually no more than 20 words - to introduce the document and provide a teaser for the remainder of the document.
• Body Text: This field contains the body of the document.
  You will edit contents using the What You See Is What You Get Editor that works with Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Netscape.
  You wil be able to select portions of text and add a style (Bold, Italic, etc.), a link, colors, etc, clicking on editors' buttons.
  

Add  images to the article

Click on the tab images.



Upload images (GIF or JPEG)

Select the images to upload from your PC with Browse,  add a title to the image, click on Save.
Click on thumbnail image to see the image with real dimensions.




Upload attachments

From Attachments tab button, you can also attach files to the article.


You can see the final result of your work clicking on View tab button.



The article is submitted automatically to editors for peer-review.
From My Items box on the right column, you can see that the article is in review phase, clicking on the
In review phase link.

This box contains the following links:
- your content items in review phase;
- your content items rejected by editors to correct;
- your published content items.

Adding events

Once logged in, enter events section.




You will find a link: Click here to add an event to this section.
Fill out the form.
Remember that Long title, event location, start and end date are mandatory fields.

Adding news

Once logged in, enter events section.
Select the geographical area.



You will find a link: Click here to add a News Item to this section.
Fill out the form.
Remember that Long title is a mandatory field.



You can also subscribe the RSS channels with ISR news from various geographical areas.



RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.

RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them

Adding files

Once logged in, enter Downloads area.


You will find a link: Click here to add a News Item to this section.
Fill out the form.
Remember that Title is a mandatory field and that you must upload a file.

Adding opportunities

Once logged in, enter Opportunities area.



You will find a link: Click here to add Post and Ask for an Opportunity.
Fill out the form.
Remember that most of the fields are mandatory fields (the ones with a red square).

ADD POST TO FORUMS

Inside Forums you can exchange your opinions within the ISR community.

Once logged in, enter Forum section. You will find a table with available forum.  To enter one forum click on its title.

Now you can see a list of topics: they are discussion themes proposed by ISR menbers. If you want to read about the topic click on its title.

Now you can read all the topic and the replies (if present). You can reply the topic using the quick reply form in the bottom of the page.

You can also click reply button in order to obtain a WYSIWYG form to reply. One you have written your reply, you can click the preview button to check the spell and the format of the massage. Then click save button to publish your reply.

If you wish to be constantly updated upon the discussions in a forum, you can click the subscribe button. The server will automatically send you an email (at the e-mail adress you have set in your preferences) that alerts you on new topics or replies. You can always unsubscribr.

WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MY ITEMS ARE REJECTED BY ISR EDITORS?

In case your items are rejected, please go the box My Items and click on Rejected.



Click on one of the rejected items.


Click on State tab button.



Check the comments of the ISR editors highlighted in red, correct your content item accordingly from the Edit tab button, go back in the State form and select Submit. The item wll be re-submitted to ISR editors for peer-reviewing.

Searching content

There are two ways to search for content in Plone. At the top of your Plone site there is a search box that provides an easy way to do simple keyword searches. You can narrow down the search results by using the Advanced search functionality. This is accessible by clicking on the search tab at the top of page.

In the Advanced search form you are able to query content by a number of attributes including: title, keywords, description, review state, creation date, content type and even author.

In this chapter we have covered some of the basic elements such as adding and publishing content, searching and altering your Plone instance to suit your needs. Although each Plone site is different, each will have these basic elements.