I have attached a picture of the Draft folder in the Writer folder. The red rectangle shows where the "Add new " is located.
--Dan On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 23:37 +0000, John Smith wrote: > Hi, thanks for replies guys. > > In the green menu bar, having clicked on 'Writer > To be updated to LO > 3.4', in the Navigation pane on the left side, I have three menu items; > "Contents", "View", and "Sharing". > "View" is selected by default. To the right on the green bar I have > "Translate into...", "Actions", and "State:Internal draft". > Each of the latter three items have dropdown submenus, none of which are > relevant to uploading. > In the "Contents" view, each file has a checkbox available to it, but > the menu items on the right side of the green bar then reduce to > "Translate into ..." on its own. > > Clicking a file while in the "View" setting to the left of the green > bar, happily adds "Checkout" to the "Actions" menu dropdown list. I'm > happy with that part. > > I just don't seem to have this "Add new..." on the green menu bar > > Not a problem with permissions or suchlike I hope. > > John > On 18/01/2012 22:42, Dan Lewis wrote: > > Correction to #1 below it. > > > > On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 23:22 +0100, Sigrid Carrera wrote: > >> Hi John, > >> > >> On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:53:02 +0000 > >> John Smith<[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> HI. > >>> Can I have a little help please?. I'm still new and taking baby steps. > >>> > >>> 1. How do I upload files to ODFAuthors? Jean set up my account and > >>> I've had a look around but can't see how it's done :-[ . > >>> With Alfresco still down, I want to upload the chapter which I'd put > >>> on there, but which obviously now is somewhere in the ether. > >> Do you want to upload a completely new document? Go to the > >> corresponding folder (e. g. Writer> To Be Updated to LO3.4). In the > >> green bar above the list with the files there is a menu entry called > >> "Add new..." with a arrow pointing downwards on its right side. Click > >> on this entry and chose then "Document". Give a name, enter a short > >> description, browse to the correct file on your computer and when > >> everything is filled in to your satisfaction click on "Save". That's > >> all. > > Click "Add new ..." and in its menu select "File". Follow the rest > > of the direction above. The menu no longer has "Document" as one of the > > choices. > > Additional if you have not already done this, your file should be > > named as follows NameOfTheChapter_INITIALS_date_.odt. The date format is > > YYYYDDMM. (e.g., uploads today should have 20120118) Also, if you are > > reviewing someone else's chapter, you would put your initials after the > > author's initials with underlining before and after your initials. > > (ChapterName_JS_DEL_20120118.odt says that you wrote "Chapter Name", I > > reviewed it, and it was uploaded today. > > > > --Dan > > > >>> 2. On the ODFAuthors site, how does one mark the file as being worked > >>> on. I can't make out the 'Change State' functionality. I'm looking at > >>> the Writer folders here BTW. > >> You go into the folder, click on the document name that you want to > >> edit. In the green menu bar above there is a menu entry called > >> "Actions". Click here and select "Check out". This will automatically > >> create a "working copy" (and you will see a double entry for this > >> chapter!) The original entry gets an extra banner, saying that XYZ has > >> created a working copy on this date... > >> > >> Don't forget to download the chapter. :) > >> > >>> I had marked the chapter (Ch11 Writer) on the wiki as updated, so > >>> I've got how to do that ok. > >>> > >>> Sorry if this is a nuisance :-[ . > >> No, it's not. People asking how to do things gives us the chance to > >> improve our descriptions. :) > >> I hope my instructions are clear. > >> > >> Sigrid > >> > > > > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
