Contents

1. Setting up
2. The global bar and publishing
   
3. Editing text

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#1 Setting Up

The personal bar, which displays your username, is an important tool for navigating the site.



Click on preferences to get started.

On the preference page there are two choices
- Change password, which is well...where you change your password.
- Personal preferences

The most relevant settings you can change on personal preferences page are:

• Full name
• E-mail
• Location
• Language
• Biography: tell us about yourself!
• Home page
• Content editor: Please chose Epoz
• Allow editing of Short Names: clicking yes allows you to chose your own URL instead of an automatically chosen one. For example, you can name your thesis "Demeter's Thesis" instead of the Plone's default "document1ijhkejhreuireu"
• Look: this isn't really enabled yet, so keep it like it already is
• Portrait: allows you to upload your photo
  

#2 The Global Bar

 When you join ASAP, you are automatically get your own folder. Your folder can be accessed anywhere on the site from the personal bar



This is where most people will want to start when adding content.

Once you are in your folder, you should see a global bar



On the green bar

• Actions allows you to cut, copy, paste, and rename
• Display is not used much, but allows you to chose a display template
• Add item allows you to add an item by choosing content type
• State is very important, this tells the current state and allows you to chose whether the document is submitted for publishing, which would make it a public part of the site, or whether to make it private, retract a published document and set other policy controls
• When chose to submit a document, the site tells the managers, who either approve or reject it

On the tabs

• Contents shows the contents of your personal folder

• View allows you to see the current file
• Edit allows you to edit the content
• Properties allows you add features like keywords or discussion
• Sharing allows you to share documents with other users for editing or viewing

#3 Editing Text

Writing text is simple, but often you might want the ability to easily make the text bold or turn it into a link. Our editor makes it easy. For example, to create a link

• you first create the text you want to make into a link
• then you highlight it with your cursor
• finally click on the "link button" on the editor and enter the url
  

The ASAP plone uses Epoz, which allows any user to quickly format content. On many types of content, one field will have a bar like this

• The first six buttons are Basic text formatting, which allow you to make text bold, italic, underlined, slashed out, subscript, and superscript. To use simply highlight text and press the button for the format you want or press before typing. Pressing again on highlighted text can remove the particular format.
  
• The seventh button is for Unformatting, which allows you to remove the formatting from text rather than toggling buttons. For example, you have a sentence that is bold/italic/subscript and you want it to be plain, use this button.
  
• The eighth and ninth buttons add text color and document background color and are used the same way is basic text formatting, except that when you click on them a palette pops up and you can pick a color.
  
• Buttons ten through thirteen are for paragraph alignment, allowing you to center, right-align, or left-align text by highlighting and clicking the button you want.
  
• Fourteen and fifteen allow you to create lists, either numbered or bulleted. To use simply click and start writing. The enter/return key creates a new list item.
• Sixteen and seventeen allow you to indent and outdent 
• Eighteen and nineteen are for easily adding link and anchors, simply highlight the relevant text, click the button, and enter the URL for the link or to enter the anchor name.
• Button twenty is for adding images, simply click and enter the URL of the image you want to add
• Twenty-one adds a line like this
  

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  when clicked
  
• Twenty-two allows you to create tables. When you click it a pop-up will appear where you can enter table specifications.
  
• The twenty-third button brings you to a nifty toolbox, which allows you to browse the site for links and images to add to the page with easy links for adding them.
  
• The final two buttons are undo, for undoing previous actions and redo for redoing actions you previously undid.
  

If you forget any of these actions when working with the site, mouseover the buttons and a title for each one will be displayed.