Midgard content creator instructions, was Fwd: englanninkielinen Midgard-ohje

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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...)
>
> "Picture 1"
>
> 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.
>
> "Picture"
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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.
>
> "Picture"
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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
henri.bergius-ZpG/[email protected]

Midgard CMS
www.midgard-project.org



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