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.

HOWTO: Use Document Versioning and History: Upload, view, and merge multiple versions of a file document. Useful for group collaboration.
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.
HOWTO: Configure Computer to Use The Portal: Description on how to setup your computer to best use the portal
HOWTO: Find the RM Portal on the Internet: Web address for the RM Portal
HOWTO: Search the Portal for Content: Description of how to search the RM portal to find content: Search, Advanced Search, Browse By, Partner Search
HOWTO: Navigate the Portal: Description of the three ways to navigate the RM Portal including information on Tabs, Navigation Menu, and Portlets
HOWTO: Find Portal Members: Description on how to use the members tab to search for members of the RM Portal.
HOWTO: View Content on the Portal: Description of the Content Action- How To View Content on the portal.
HOWTO: Change the Display View: Description on the Content Action - How to choose the format in which to display content on the portal.
HOWTO: Using the Action Icons: Description on what the purpose, function of the icons on the Content Action Navigation bar.
HOWTO: Email Content: Description of the Email Content Action - How To email content inside the portal.
HOWTO: Print Content: Description of the Content Action - how to print portal content.
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.
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.
HOWTO: View the site and Content in an Alternate Language: Description of the Content Action - View the site and Content in an Alternate Language.
HOWTO: Get Portal Help: Description of how to get Help while working inside the RM Portal.
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.
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.
HOWTO: What are Role(s)?: Roles are the permissions that allow certain types of actions on the portal by you, a portal user.
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.
HOWTO: Content has a Title and a Description: Description of the Title and Description fields for content on the portal.
HOWTO: Content Has A State: Description of the private, public draft, and published 'state' of content on the portal.
HOWTO: Add a Folder: Folders are used to store and organize content, like pages, links, files, flash movies, events, news items, and folders.
HOWTO: Add a Page: Description of how to create a web page inside the portal.
HOWTO: Add a Link: Description of how to add a link to content inside the portal and to content residing outside the portal.
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.
HOWTO: Add an Image: An image is a digital image, in .gif, .jpg, or .png file formats.
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.
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.
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.
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
HOWTO: Add a Published Calendar Event: Published calendar events are happenings that are listed on the main calendar tab and in the calendar portlet.
HOWTO: Add a Private Calendar Event: Private events are listed on private Group Calendar's only, and not on the public calendar tab.
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.
HOWTO: The Edit Tab: Description of how to use the Content Action tab edit in order to alter your content.
HOWTO: The Properties Tab: Description on how to use the Content Action: The Properties Tab
HOWTO: The Sharing Tab: Description on how to use the Content Action: The Sharing Tab
HOWTO: My Folder Exercise: Exercise on using your personal space on the portal (my folder).
HOWTO: Manage Content in a Group: Description of the Portal Group function.
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.
HOWTO: Submit Content for Shared Public Areas: Description of Posting to Portal Public Space.
HOWTO: Use HTML in Plone: HTML can be used to format Plone text content. Here are some tips for doing so.
HOWTO: Translation Guidelines: Rules of thumb for document translation.
HOWTO: Translate Content Into Another Language: HOWTO translate content into different languages using Plone internationalization tools.
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.
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.
How to Edit an Existing Webpage
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.
HOWTO: Request Live Chat Help
HOWTO: Introduction to Collections
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