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HOWTO Document Folder

This folder contains HOWTO web page documents derived from the Portal User Guide. The HOWTOs are designed for print, reference, and follow-along usability.

Page HOWTO: Use Document Versioning and History
Upload, view, and merge multiple versions of a file document. Useful for group collaboration.
Page HOWTO: Understanding Copyright and Fair Use inside the Portal
A summary of U.S. Copyright and Fair Use Law as it applies to content on the portal.
Page HOWTO: Configure Computer to Use The Portal
Description on how to setup your computer to best use the portal
Page HOWTO: Find the RM Portal on the Internet
Web address for the RM Portal
Page HOWTO: Search the Portal for Content
Description of how to search the RM portal to find content: Search, Advanced Search, Browse By, Partner Search
Page HOWTO: Navigate the Portal
Description of the three ways to navigate the RM Portal including information on Tabs, Navigation Menu, and Portlets
Page HOWTO: Find Portal Members
Description on how to use the members tab to search for members of the RM Portal.
Page HOWTO: View Content on the Portal
Description of the Content Action- How To View Content on the portal.
Page HOWTO: Change the Display View
Description on the Content Action - How to choose the format in which to display content on the portal.
Page HOWTO: Using the Action Icons
Description on what the purpose, function of the icons on the Content Action Navigation bar.
Page HOWTO: Email Content
Description of the Email Content Action - How To email content inside the portal.
Page HOWTO: Print Content
Description of the Content Action - how to print portal content.
Page HOWTO: Add to My Favorites
Description of the Content Action - How to add to My Favorites. Favorites are links to content on the portal that you create to mark content that you return to regularly.
Page HOWTO: Toggle Portal to Full Screen View
Description of the Content Action- Toggle portal to full screen mode. You can expand the content area (Body text in the middle of each page) to see the content in a full screen view.
Page HOWTO: View the site and Content in an Alternate Language
Description of the Content Action - View the site and Content in an Alternate Language.
Page HOWTO: Get Portal Help
Description of how to get Help while working inside the RM Portal.
Page HOWTO: Login to the Portal
Information on logging into the portal, including requesting a login, conditions of membership, help if you forget your login or password, the procedure for logging in, privacy policy and netiquette.
Page HOWTO: Set Preferences
Description of Preferences, the personal information that you may or may not wish to provide, that benefit other portal users, and settings that control how the portal behaves for you.
Page HOWTO: What are Role(s)?
Roles are the permissions that allow certain types of actions on the portal by you, a portal user.
Page HOWTO: What is Content?
Content are web pages, documents, digital media and links that can be posted, edited, stored, and deleted on the portal, and indexed for easy search. Content can be Private, Published, or in an intermediate state called Public Draft.
Page HOWTO: Content has a Title and a Description
Description of the Title and Description fields for content on the portal.
Page HOWTO: Content Has A State
Description of the private, public draft, and published 'state' of content on the portal.
Page HOWTO: Add a Folder
Folders are used to store and organize content, like pages, links, files, flash movies, events, news items, and folders.
Page HOWTO: Add a Page
Description of how to create a web page inside the portal.
Page HOWTO: Add a Link
Description of how to add a link to content inside the portal and to content residing outside the portal.
Page HOWTO: Add a File
A file is a digital binary object, like a Microsoft Word document, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, a Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow, or an Adobe Acrobat document.
Page HOWTO: Add an Image
An image is a digital image, in .gif, .jpg, or .png file formats.
Page HOWTO: Add a Flashmovie
A flashmovie is an Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) file. Flash is a program for development and efficiently delivery over the web of presentations, animations, multimedia interfaces, and video. Certain other programs, like Adobe Captivate, may export files into Flash format.
Page HOWTO: Add a Public News Item
Description of how to add a News Item that is for public view. A public news item is an announcement that will show up in the news tab listing and in the news portlet.
Page HOWTO: Add a Private News Folder in a Group
Description: HOWTO add a private news folder inside a group. This involves keeping a separate folder for private group news instead of sending news items to the main portal news tab.
Page HOWTO: Add a News Item to a Private News Folder in a Group
Description of : HOWTO: Add a News Item to a Private Group Folder
Page HOWTO: Add a Published Calendar Event
Published calendar events are happenings that are listed on the main calendar tab and in the calendar portlet.
Page HOWTO: Add a Private Calendar Event
Private events are listed on private Group Calendar's only, and not on the public calendar tab.
Page HOWTO: The Contents Tab
Description of all the content actions of the Contents tab including: list, reorder, rename,cut, copy, paste, change the state, delete, and undo.
Page HOWTO: The Edit Tab
Description of how to use the Content Action tab edit in order to alter your content.
Page HOWTO: The Properties Tab
Description on how to use the Content Action: The Properties Tab
Page HOWTO: The Sharing Tab
Description on how to use the Content Action: The Sharing Tab
Page HOWTO: My Folder Exercise
Exercise on using your personal space on the portal (my folder).
Page HOWTO: Manage Content in a Group
Description of the Portal Group function.
Page HOWTO: Group Folders Excercise
In this exercise you will learn how to work in a private group while linking to content you publish to public space on the portal.
Page HOWTO: Submit Content for Shared Public Areas
Description of Posting to Portal Public Space.
Page HOWTO: Use HTML in Plone
HTML can be used to format Plone text content. Here are some tips for doing so.
Page HOWTO: Translation Guidelines
Rules of thumb for document translation.
Page HOWTO: Translate Content Into Another Language
HOWTO translate content into different languages using Plone internationalization tools.
Page HOWTO: Install and Use Zope External Editor
The Zope External Editor is a useful collaboration tool. It allows you to edit documents that have been uploaded to the portal, then save your changes directly to the portal. This allows you to bypass the steps of saving the document (and changes) to your computer's hard drive then uploading the document again. You can also save your changes to the portal without closing the document you are working on. The Zope External Editor can be used with MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Powerpoint.
Page HOWTO: Use Kupu Web Page Creator/Editor
Kupu lets you create web pages without knowing the HTML web language. Using Kupu, you can easily add text, images, links, tables and more to pages. Kupu uses many of the same commands as typical word processors, such as Microsoft Word.
Page How to Edit an Existing Webpage
 
Page HOWTO: Add and Manage a Newsletter
This tutorial describes how to request a newsletter for your group, add subscribers to the newsletter, manage subscriber status, add and edit newsletters, send a newsletter, batch import subscribers, and use web-page editors like Adobe Dreamweaver to format your newsletters.
Page HOWTO: Request Live Chat Help
 
Page HOWTO: Introduction to Collections
 
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