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Greetings!
Below is a rough translation of Protie's Midgard usage instructions
for content producers. The plan
is to tweak these next week, and then add them to the Midgard Wiki
together with screenshots.
However, before that it would be great to get feedback.
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Content producing for websites with MidGARD
Introduction
This is an operating instruction for content producers on MidGARD-
publication system.
The most of this instruction is also compatible with previous and
upcoming versions,
but absolute compatibility cannot be guaranteed. The screen
captures used in this instruction give only
the right directions, because every website has its own appearance,
schema and also component
settings and styles.
The most important part of this instruction for content producers
is, "focus on following the instructions offered
by the interface and read atleast the namefields before filling in".
Midgard-website and components
Midgard-websites are very strongly content stressed, which still
does not mean that it cannot look good.
Content stressed means here that the content guides the site
appearance and behaviour.
1. Content producing on website
In the publication system websites consist of folders and articles.
When folders and articles are created
the website navigation menu is been created automatically by the
system.
The target of this instruction is to give a comprehensive view on
making and deleting folders and articles (sites) in MidGARD.
1.1 Logging to the system
On the website you find Login-link at where it has been placed. By
clicking it with the mouse
the browser will move to the login page of the system.
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Write in the Username- and Password-fields the given user
identifier for publication system
and click Log in-button.
After signing in to the system you will find links at the bottom of
the page (or from the agreed place).
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2. Editing view
Move to edit site by clicking Edit.
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Edit-link opens an article (recent page) in the editing view.
Editing view is called AIS.
ATTENTION! Now you are editing an article, NOT FOLDER, but an
article inside the folder!
You find toolbars for editing folders and articles in the editing
view. Folder toolbar you may find
at the top of the page and article toolbar under that.
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2.1. Navigation in editing view
The navigation row tells you the position on the site, which folder
you are in and what you are editing.
In picture one the user is at the Palvelut-folder, where new
article (page)can be created.
like there has been created (Koulutus, Lähituki, Palvelut...)
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In picture two has been moved to edit article “Koulutus” and you
can see it clearly on the navigation row.
Bold text has changed in the article “Koulutus” and that tells the
location we are editing.
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3. Folders and articles
Publication system manages all the pages as an article and the
pages are preserved in the folders.
(cf. documents - folders). Folders order the shape of articles
inside the folder. If folder type
is a news folder, then all the articles inside the concerned folder
are news articles.
Inside the news folder can be lower folders containing static
pages, which include only static pages (normal content pages).
News folder
news 1 (article)
news 2 (article)
.....
Static lower folder
normal content page (article)
.....
3.1. Folder control toolbar
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1. create default static content
- create article inside the managed folder, type of static content
2. Create lower folder
- create lower folder inside the managed folder
3. Edit folder
- edit the managed folder properties
4. Edit topic order
-edit article order inside the managed folder
5. Delete folder
-deletes folder and all the elements inside it
ATTENTION! Deleting removes all the articles and lower folders and
its articles and attachments.
6. Folder attachments
-file bank in possession of folders and articles
7. Component settings
-component settings in possession of managed articles can be
changed
3.2. Article control toolbar
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1. Edit
-edit managed article
2. Delete
-delete managed article
3. Approve
-approve article for publishing. If site has approving method in
use,
with needed permissions user can approve articles to be published.
Articles that has not been approved wont be shown in the public
web (Internet).
4. Return to page
-after editing click Return to page-link to see how the managed
page, look like in the public web (Internet).
3.3. Creating new folder
Click “create lower” folder-link on the folder control toolbar to
create new lower folder.
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3.4. Editing folder
Click “edit folder”-link on the folder control toolbar to change
managed folder settings.
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3.5. Deleting folder
Click folder from the index structure to be deleted. Then click in
the folder control toolbar
Delete folder-link and accept deleting by clicking delete-button.
(You must be careful
and check that the folder is the right one to be deleted, because
deleting folder remove all elements
inside the folder.
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3.6. Creating new article
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3.6.1. Define article information
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3.7. Deleting article/page
Click the article from index structure to be deleted. Then click
from the article control toolbar
Delete-link and accept deleting by clicking the Delete-button. (You
must be careful
and check that the folder is the right one to be deleted.)
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4. Edit topic order
It is easy to change the menu order of articles and folders by
clicking Edit topic order-button on the Folder control toolbar.
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If there are articles under the folder you can order them too.
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5. HTML-area, text-editor
5.1. Text editing and setting tools
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5.2. Making hyperlink
Select the text or the object in which you want to create the link
by painting it
and after that click the hyperlink-button.
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Then open the window where you set up the link target. The link can
be inside the site or outside
in a different site. For example, inside the site the target url
could be: /fi/services/teaching.html.
The link target can be chosen from the Target, the alternatives
are: none (default), new window, same frame,
top frame or other.
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5.3. Add image
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After you have clicked the “add image”-button a new window opens.
Now you can upload an image in to the image gallery
where you can add it to the page.
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5.3.1. Changing image size
It is recommended that an image is reduced to a desired size before
adding it to a page. It is easier
to handle the image when the size and the loading times stay low.
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You can open image properties by clicking the right mouse button on
an image. You can set borders for image, page location and margin
settings in
image properties (only black.
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5.4. Using tables
Create a table by clicking the table-button.
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In the new opening window you can define the size of the table.
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Click OK and the table is added to the page.
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Then lets check the table functions.
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By clicking the “properties”-button you can change filling color,
border color, size and set up.
Here is an example on table properties (there are also row and cell
properties buttons.)
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You find row, column and cell adding-buttons from these places
(watch the picture).
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Rows, columns and cell deleting-buttons can be found from these
places (watch the picture), also you can
find buttons for rows, columns and cells merging and splitting.
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5.5. Folder attachments
System collects automatically files from different folders (images,
documents) in the folder attachments.
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6. Problem situations
If there seems to be problem with a browser window when adding a
table, hyperlink or image and you cannot
feed data to the fields, you should activate the concerned window
from the taskbar. This a known problem.
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Instruction made by:
Jukka Asiala / Protie Oy
Henri Bergius
Consultant Partner, Nemein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Midgard CMS
www.midgard-project.org
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