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1. The Content Editor allows you a variety of advanced controls for creating and modifying tables These data require a table because for each case listed that is for each year in this lemonade stand s history multiple data points are displayed Neither a list nor a series of normal paragraphs would Suit the structure of the data being presented 10 For example to present an image alongside a paragraph in HTML you should use the CMS s image placement controls described under Embed Images amp Video above rather than a table CAMP CMS User s Guide 36 To insert a table click the Insert Table button You will see a number of options General properties Cols Rows Cellpadding Cellspacing Alignment Not set Border Width Height C Class Not set Table caption The options work as follows Cols number of columns Rows number of rows Cellpadding the amount of space between each cell s content and its borders measured in pixels elementary units of measurement in digital media Cellspacing the distance between cells also measured in pixels Alignment much like image alignment see Embedding Images amp Video above Border thickness of the border around each cell in pixels 0 turns the border off 11 Note that some of these options can be modified after you insert the table only by working in HTML view see Miscellany below I
2. e add or remove templates to different websites powered by the CMS e preview or restore previous versions of published templates Developing Templates The three kinds of templates mentioned above all serve different purposes on the site and use different languages to achieve those ends You may find it most convenient to develop your templates in an external text or code editor and then paste them in using the steps described in Adding Templates below 1 Page Templates Page templates use standard XHTML to determine the overall appearance and layout of the site in a visitor s browser when the visitor requests a page In order for the CMS to know where to display a page s content and other items a variety of template tags and include statements may be used TITLE The CMP TITLE tag will be replaced by the page s title as entered on the PAGE PROPERTIES screen in the CONTENT section of the CMS Typically this tag is used both in the lt title gt tag of a page s lt head gt section and above the primary content area in the lt body gt of the page DESCRIPTION amp KEYWORDS The CMP META_DESCRIPTION and CMP META_KEYWORDS tags return a page s keywords and description as entered on the PAGE PROPERTIES screen in the CONTENT section of the CMS These are used only in the lt title gt tag of a page s lt head gt section 12 Another time saving note for site administrators In order to avoid having to have ser
3. CAMP CMS User s Guide Zap Solutions CAMP CMS User s Guide 2 CAMP CMS User s Guide Table of Contents CMS BasSiCS omiso 5 Getting Started siii 7 Content 10 Mediana 48 NCW S nia 55 EVENTS ria 58 AML aaa 63 Templates inn e a 64 USO See rer err rer etre AAA A 72 WI OFKGLOW oia aca 79 DEIS cnn ads 82 CAMP CMS User s Guide 3 Expanded Table of Contents CMS BasIES ana Whats a EMS a 5 Content Structure amp TEM plates ccccccccccnnneseecceecnnneeeseeeeenneeeeeeeennneeeeeeennannnneness 5 The WebSite US iesetesticrcse iescaeteteesc Oa 6 Getting Started BHRHRBRBRBRBBRBBREBRE BERBER BRR RRR RRR RRP RRR RRR RRR RRR RRR RRR RRR RRR RRR RRR RRR RRR RRR RRR RR eRe eee eee eee 7 REOquIiIFe Lace ee ere ee O rr errr rr errrr err rer err rrr rrr rer errr erent rrr rrr tr rrr 7 LOGOMO Mal 8 Getting AFOUNA m The CMS asia anaa 9 COn p e e ESTE EE 10 Checking Pag s In amp Ol tiuaninni al 10 Previewing Pages cicien oan a a a a 11 Submitting amp Publishing PAGES civic cis 11 Wepsite Struct Ur sans aa a aa a a a a 11 Maii Navigation DEDEN orense an e a a EE Ea a 11 TAE FaMi Mera pn Ol nena E aE a 12 Site Structure in the CMS a i 13 Tne Site Mer a A a e Utena ad dt a o ees 13 Changing SITS trucada 15 Page Propeller 16 Tes Names A ads 18 Metadata Keywords amp DescriptionS cooccccccccccncccccnncnncnn cnn rca rr 20 KEYWORD edo asar pbispt 20 DESCRIP ON A dass 21 Template ASIN M
4. appropriate filename for example gearhardt_headshot jpg rather than Bob s Funny Smile jpg Use only lowercase letters numbers and underscores The filename must also be unique with respect to the other files already uploaded in the CMS which will show you an error if you try to upload a file with a non unique name CAMP CMS User s Guide 50 To upload a file click EXPAND MENU and fill out the fields in the ADD NEW FILE section ADD NEW FILE TITLE pT DESCRIPTION po FOLDER gallery FILE d Browse Add File L Title brief and clear yet also descriptive Title is presented to site visitors who hover their cursors over the file if it s an image 2 Description of course also descriptive Can be a bit longer than the title Can be overridden for images when they re placed on a page in the CONTENT section of the CMS Serves as alt text and will be exposed to visitors for whom the file doesn t load immediately if it s an image those with screen readers for example and those with Slow Internet connections 3 Folder the folder or subfolder into which you want to place your file 4 File location of the file on your hard drive When you re done click the Add File button CAMP CMS User s Guide 51 You can also upload many files at once using the BATCH UPLOAD link that appears below the normal Add New File section Choose a folder from the menu and use the many
5. All EVENT LOCATION All ADD NEW EVENT CAMP CMS User s Guide 61 Working with Events To add an event click the ADD NEW EVENT link below the EVENT TYPE and LOCATION menus and fill in the event properties Event Title Pasta Dinner Event Start Date ma Event Start Time l Event End Date ig Event End Time Event Type General Events Event Location Event Address Event City State Zip Country Pe Event Contact Name ee Event Contact Phone ee e Title appears both in the EVENTS section of the CMS and on the presentation sites e Dates and times allow events to be sorted chronologically both in the CMS and on the presentation sites Also indicate to site visitors when the event will take place e Type for sites with types configured may assist CMS users presentation site visitors or both in navigating events CAMP CMS User s Guide 62 e Location like Category may assist both CMS users and site visitors Particular configuration of Type and Location options varies widely across installations of the CMS e Address amp Contact Information help site visitors know where to go and whom to content for the event e Website on some installations website URL will appear with News item on presentation sites Below these properties a version of the CMS s Content Editor allows you to enter a description for the event just as you might enter content for a page When you re sati
6. When you re satisfied with your changes click Update To send an email to the user with his or her username and password click Send User Information Page Permissions Users with any of the content related roles on which see User Roles below must also have permissions for specific pages or sections of the website Those permissions further can be set for any of the content related roles the user has been assigned For example a user might be a content contributor for one section but a content publisher for another To specify the pages or sections to which a user has permissions in any of his or her roles first click the USER PERMISSIONS tab USERS USER PERMISSIONS PERMISSIONS REPORT CAMP CMS User s Guide 75 Next select the user from the list of users on the left hand side of the page Then use the site map at right to navigate to the section of the site to which you want to grant the user permissions using the site map on the right hand side Home Edit About Us Edit Mission amp Goals Edit Management Edit Services Edit To expand any page with children indicated by a plus sign as in the site map in the CONTENT section of the CMS click that page s name Note that if a user has permissions for any page those pages will show up in bold in the site map Home Edit About Us Edit Mission amp Goals Edit Management Edit Services Edit CAMP CMS User s Guide 76 To assign permissions to
7. Adding Templates To add a template click the ADD NEW tab at the top of the Templates section of the CMS and fill in the template properties EDIT TEMPLATE ADD NEW HISTORY MANAGE TEMPLATE TYPE PAGE QC NAVIGATION INCLUDE NUMBER OF SECTIONS 1 Name should be descriptive and brief like Home Page or Events Page 2 Type specifies the type of template see Developing Templates above Note that the NAVIGATION option should be used for List templates as well as Navigation templates 3 Number of Sections specifies the number of content sections that will be used in the template CAMP CMS User s Guide 68 Below those properties you ll find a plain text area in which to paste your template In most cases you will have developed your template in the code editor of your choice When you re finished click the Update button to create the template Editing Templates When you first visit the Templates section you ll see the EDIT TEMPLATE tab which contains a list of templates PICK A TEMPLATE Event List Full Page Template Header Include Home Page Template Homepage Event List Side Nav Sitemap Staff Page Template test Top Nav PUBLISH ALL TEMPLATES To edit preview publish or delete a template first click its name in the list You will see a screen identical to the ADD NEW tab except for two things an indication of the template type listed below the title as P for page N fo
8. Browse buttons to locate the files you want to upload PA Browse a _ __A FSA Browse Browse Ma l Recs When you re finished choosing files click the Upload Files button It s a good idea to locate each newly uploaded file in the MEDIA section and click the corresponding Edit link to change the Title and Description fields which will have been populated automatically based on the filename Viewing Files amp Editing Metadata To view a file locate it in the appropriate folder and click the hyperlinked name listed in the Name column The preview will open in a new window or tab depending on your browser and the file type The file may instead be saved directly to your desktop for example You can change certain information associated with a file easily by clicking the corresponding Edit link to reveal the File Properties dialogue Title Recruitment Brochure Description Recruitment Brochure Folder assets File recruitmentbrochure pdf Fa i Browse CAMP CMS User s Guide 52 You can change the file s title and description and you can upload a new version of the file effectively changing its filename in the CMS Below the information you can change the CMS also shows you other potentially useful metadata the dates and times of the file s original addition to the CMS and most recent modification the names of the users associated with each step the file si
9. XSLT Source Menu may contain only a single option 3 Title for Advanced use only They may be displayed with XSLT Source if user has advanced experience with XSLT 4 Description for Advanced use only They may be displayed with XSLT Source if user has advanced experience with XSLT When you re satisfied click the Update button CAMP CMS User s Guide 54 To add images to a gallery first click it in the Gallery Menu on the left hand side of the screen Next click the Images tab in the center of the GALLERY screen and click the Add Images link GALLERY Properties Advanced Add Images to this Gallery Use the Folder menu on the Add Images screen to locate the images you want to add Most of the material in the Advanced tab should be left alone but XSLT Source can be edited to render the gallery differently You can use the Preview function there to see how the gallery will look without having to embed it in a page in the CONTENT section of the CMS CAMP CMS User s Guide 55 News In the NEWS tab of the CMS you can e create edit preview publish and delete News items Depending on your site s configuration News items may appear on the presentation site alone or combined with events They may appear on the home page on a News or News amp Events page or both Some sites finally do not use the CMS s News functionality For questions about how News works on your site contact your si
10. amp Publication When a page is submitted for approval in the CONTENT section of the CMS it appears in the REVIEW tab of the Workflow section along with some useful information REVIEW PUBLISH PAGES TO BE REVIEWED SELECT TITLE SUBMITTED BY SUBMITTED DATE VERSION LJ Services Solutions Zap 2 6 2010 4 45 00 PM 1 ADDITIONAL COMMENTS To preview the page click its title The preview does not show the page s current content on the staging site but rather a snapshot of the page taken at the time of submission If the page is approved and published the Snapshot goes live not the version of the page on the staging site This system prevents users from changing a page midway through the publication process If a page is submitted for approval a second time before the first version has been approved only the most recently submitted version will appear in the REVIEW tab However if a page is re submitted after the first version has been approved but before it has been published one version will appear in the REVIEW tab and the other in the PUBLISH tab The two versions must both go through approval and publication In order to allow reviewers to determine where internal links on submitted pages point links from the content areas of the REVIEW and PUBLISH tabs preview pages point to the staging site Be aware however that the pages on the staging site to which these preview links point may contain unpublished content As such
11. changes click the UPDATE button On the web as in the CMS and in word processors paragraph is actually a technical term that s important to understand A paragraph should be thought of as the space between two hard returns A hard return is the special invisible character you actually type every time you use the Enter or Return key in a word processing context Mostly this matters because it means that a single line for example the Paragraph Formatting heading that begins this section can use paragraph formatting This is true even though a heading isn t a paragraph in the sense we may be used to that is a collection of sentences with a cohesive flow The other consequence of defining a paragraph this way is that using your Enter key to begin a new line can have unintended consequences For example by default most websites include a certain amount of padding between paragraphs So let s say you re typing in a mailing address and you want to begin a new line without creating extra space between lines Rather than press then Enter key to insert a hard return you should hold down the Shift key and then press Enter In the CMS as in most word processors this keystroke creates a soft line break which unlike a hard return creates a new line without creating a new paragraph Another example When you re working with a list pressing the Enter key creates a new list item with its own bullet or n
12. click the Unlink button Alternatively you may find it convenient to delete and re type the linked text CAMP CMS User s Guide 32 EMBED MAGES amp VIDEO Besides making links to files that you ve uploaded in the CMS as discussed in Hyperlinks above you can also embed some of them right in the page In particular image files can be placed in the page using the Content Editor s Insert Image button To embed an image place your cursor where you d like the image to appear you ll have a chance to move the image later and click the Insert Image button You ll find a list of files like the one in the MEDIA section of the CMS Refer to the Embed Media and Media sections of this document Choose an image from the list by clicking its name You ll see a list of image properties ID 27 Title 001 jpg Name 001 jpg Alt Size Alignment Clicking the name of the image allows you to preview it in a new browser tab or windows The three properties you can change will each require your attention each time you insert an image e Alt Alt text allows you to provide users with a useful alternative to the image namely a textual description Your alt text should be brief but specific for example James Keaton sunrise over campus or man speaking on telephone If text was entered in the Description field when the image was uploaded in the MEDIA section of the CMS see Med
13. from the list provided Text standard text box Checkbox standard yes no or on off option Radio could be a list of options that a user may choose from Button File Masked password are typically only used by advanced users Submit and Reset buttons added to forms to provide a submit or OK button for user to click when they want to submit the form All forms will have a Submit Button so be sure to add one at the bottom of your form CAMP CMS User s Guide 46 Inserting a form select element I a m Inserts a Form Select Element This option is used to enter a drop down box or multiple selection input This is commonly used if you want the user to select from a specific set of options or values i e Gender When inserting a select element the following option box appears ya J Adwanced General properties Name or ID Value o o a d oc IIS a x i Red Red x 2 Green Green x 3 Blue Blue E A EA value Mutiple selections eo p E Check box if yes TOTS Width Class Not set IMPORTANT All field names must start with the characters cmp_ This lets the CMS know that this field value should be emailed to the recipient We have pre populated all field names with this phrase Use the Name or D Value combinations to add in your various option entries The Name or ID will be the text that appears in the field The Value will be the text that is emailed to the recipient CAMP CMS User
14. if several pages in the same general section of the Web site have all been submitted it is advised that you preview each page from the appropriate tab so as to be sure that you are viewing only what will be published CAMP CMS User s Guide 81 To approve a page select it using the associated checkbox and click Approve Optionally you may enter comments to be emailed to users associated with the page s publication process See Email Notification above Once a page has been approved it will appear in the PUBLISH tab with the same information as in the REVIEW tab plus information about its approval REVIEW PUBLISH PAGES TO BE PUBLISHED SELECT TITLE E SATE E lis TE 2 6 2010 solutions 2 15 2010 4 45 00 PM Zap 5 54 00 PM Services Solutions Zap ADDITIONAL COMMENTS To publish a page select it using the associated checkbox and click Publish Optionally you may enter comments to be emailed to users associated with the page s publication process See Email Notification above Rejection Discarding Sometimes a page may not be ready for approval or publication From either the REVIEW or the PUBLISH tab you can reject or discard a page using the appropriate buttons Rejection will send email notifications to the submitter Discarding will simply remove the page from the workflow table It is strongly encouraged that you enter comments when rejecting a page even if those comments are
15. in this guide that may be unfamiliar appear initially in italics Some section headings appear in italics as well CMS Basics What s a CMS A CMS or content management system allows users without strong technical backgrounds to make certain kinds of changes to a website Like many others CAMP CMS is web based meaning that users don t have to download or install any software to use it Instead you access the CMS from within your web browser Content Structure amp Templates When you use the CMS to work on your website the CMS stores your changes in a database The database contains the copy images and other information that make up the website content It also includes the relative locations of different pages on the site that is the site s structure and other information When a visitor to the site tries to reach a certain page the CMS pulls the relevant information from the database and displays it using templates designed for the website This system ensures the consistency of the website s overall appearance and behavior a huge benefit for visitors while also allowing CMS users to make changes to the site s content without the help of design or technical staff CAMP CMS User s Guide 6 The Website s What if you made a change to the website that had a mistake You d want to be able to change it before any site visitors saw it In order to give you the chance to preview your work safely the CM
16. limitations of HTML and the proprietary formats word processors often use pasting the following kinds of content into the Content Editor doesn t typically work as expected e Formatting using tab characters e Paragraph alignment and justification e Column formatting CAMP CMS User s Guide 25 e Files or images embedded in a word processing document including clip art e Mail merges vector drawings and other advanced or proprietary features CHARACTER FORMATTING BE 7 U ae x x Character formatting may be a misleading term in that it is most often applied to entire words or phrases not just single characters After all who wants to make a single letter bold or italic However what s important is the flexibility you have in applying character formatting as compared to formatting that applies to whole paragraphs at a time Though things like font face and highlight color which we discuss below can also be applied to individual characters words or phrases the phrase character formatting classically refers to the more common examples bold italics underlining strikethrough subscript and superscript To apply character formatting first use your mouse and cursor to select a block of text Then click the appropriate character formatting button To Save your changes click the UPDATE button In general it s a good idea to avoid using the underline feature On the Internet underlining usually sig
17. navigation might include sections called About Us or Services or others targeted towards specific groups of visitors like the alumni of a university You may know first hand that one of the ways that website visitors sometimes understand their position on a site is by thinking about how far they ve travelled since they visited the home page It can be convenient to think about this distance in terms of relative depth on the site To consider one example perhaps click a website s About Us section and then click a link to the Mission amp Goals page in that section If you were working on the content of this hypothetical website you might find it useful to note that Mission amp Goals is deeper on the site than About Us and deeper still than the site s home page About Us Services Mission amp Goals Management The Family Metaphor It s not just depth however that organizes websites In the example above the Mission Goals page is probably at the same depth as a Management page in the About Us section but it s also likely at the same depth as a number of pages in other sections like Services too CAMP CMS User s Guide 13 There are a number of different ways to talk about the special relationship between the Mission amp Goals and Management pages or the ones between each of those and the About Us page In our experience th
18. organization For your convenience the site menu only shows those pages you can modify To Show the entire site click ENTIRE SITE to revert to the default click MY PAGES Note that you can also click COLLAPSE MENU to hide the site menu most useful when you re editing the content of a page Click EXPAND MENU to reveal the site menu again The site menu uses a number of visual cues shown and described below to give you information H a Home 4 About Us Mission amp Goals L a Management y Services e The page in bold represents your current page the one whose properties content and location you re ready to work on e Level of indentation shows depth on the site and parents and children are grouped together e A plus sign indicates a page with children that aren t currently shown CAMP CMS User s Guide 15 e A minus Sign indicates a page with children that are currently shown The CMS shows all children of your current page and of its parents e A dot indicates a page with no children e A check mark indicates a page you ve checked out e A gold lock indicates a page available for checkout Changing Site Structure There are three kinds of changes you can make to the structure of your website Adding deleting and moving pages The buttons at the top of the site menu allow you to do all of these things ADD PAGE DELETE PAGE MOVE PAGE To add a page click the ADD
19. page on the site However we say different kinds of pages because only in very special cases the home page for an entire website being the most common example should individual pages have their own templates Most of the time the site visitor s need for consistency across the entire site trumps the potential value of any single page looking or behaving differently from the rest On the PROPERTIES screen you can choose the template a page should use from the drop down menu labeled PAGE TEMPLATES The menu lists only those templates to which you have been given access Most users have access to just a single template CAMP CMS User s Guide 22 Once you ve chosen a template from the menu click the UPDATE button to save your changes Then you can see how your page looks in its new template by clicking the PREVIEW button at the top of the PROPERTIES screen Before you save your changes you can also preview the template itself by clicking the small PREVIEW link adjacent to the PAGE TEMPLATES menu Template previews use placeholders for example CMP TITLE Mostly you ll want to preview your page with a template applied rather than to preview the empty template itself The template preview can only give you a general sense of what a particular template looks like On the other hand previewing a page after applying a template shows you exactly how the page will look on the production site once the change
20. phrases on separate lines bearing in mind again the perspective of the site visitor You may want to consult with your site administrator when tweaking the search results in this way DESCRIPTION Unlike keywords descriptions are taken into account by external search engines Also descriptions typically appear in internal search results to give visitors some idea of each page s content Each description should be no more than one or two short sentences or fragments describing the page A good description might be Information about admissions and financial aid for prospective students of Example University As you write a description keep in mind the key words and phrases that you think site visitors might search for especially on external search engines The idea is to try to anticipate what search terms might be used by site visitors who would be well served by a visit to the page not to cast as wide a net as possible in other words but to focus on visitors for whom the page s content will be useful or interesting Template Assignment PAGE TEMPLATE PREVIEW You may recall that the CMS uses templates to display a page s content stored in the database for site visitors In fact most sites use more than one template to allow different kinds of pages to look and behave slightly differently from one another At a minimum a site would have at least two templates one for the home page and one for every other
21. template available in the CONTENT section of the CMS click ADD TEMPLATES TO SITE You will see a list of templates not already assigned to the selected site O e e AE CI AI Select a template using or group of templates using the corresponding checkbox es and click the Add to Site button Again making templates available on a site merely allows CMS users to select them in the CONTENT section To apply them to the front end sites you must also publish them by selecting them from the list of templates that are available to the site and clicking the Publish Selected button shown above CAMP CMS User s Guide 72 Users In the Users section of the CMS you can e create and deactivate CMS user accounts e modify roles page permissions and other behaviors for individual users e view per page permissions reports Adding amp Editing Users When you first visit the Users section of the CMS you ll see a list of existing users on the left hand side of the page To edit a user click that user s name To include non active users in the list check the SHOW ALL USERS box above the list To add a user click the ADD NEW USER link in the same location ADD NEW USER SHOW ALL USERS When you select a user to edit or click the ADD NEW USER link several different kinds of user properties will fill the right hand side of the screen For convenience we ve separated this set of properties into two sections which
22. the current user click the Edit link associated with a page to bring up the Permissions settings for that page About Us in this case Home Edit About Us Edit Permissions wi Content Contributor wi Content Editor Content Publisher W Include All Children Cancel Mission amp Goals Edit Management Edit Services Edit As you can see you can assign the user permissions for the page in one or many content related roles You can also opt to include all the page s children in your permissions assignment Note that with the Include All Children box checked the user will receive permissions for any child pages added in the future In our example if a third child were added to the About Us section alongside Mission amp Goals and Management after the permissions Shown had been assigned the user would have permissions for that page identical to the ones shown here Permissions Reports To view a report detailing which users have permissions for a certain page click the PERMISSIONS REPORT tab of the Users section and use the site map to navigate to the page or section you re interested in CAMP CMS User s Guide 77 Clicking the View Users link associated with any page will show you a list of users with permissions to that page and the role or roles in which those permissions have been granted Home View Users fest editor Content Editor Test ContentEditor Content Editor CAMP C
23. type gt lt param name name value value gt lt cmp list gt Note the following parameters corresponding to the items in italics above 13 For more information about navigation and list templates see Navigation List Templates below CAMP CMS User s Guide 66 L template name the name of the list template you want to include as entered in the TEMPLATE NAME field in the EDIT TEMPLATE screen Ze type either news or event according to whether the template pulls News items or events from the database 3 name and value the names and values of a series of optional parameters l start defines the start date for News items events returned for example 2 14 2010 If left blank defaults to the site visitor s current date 2 end end date for News items events returned If left blank defaults to one month from site visitor s current date To return latest news do not include this parameter 3 limit limits the number of News items events returned for example 5 4 location filters by location as entered in the CMS s NEWS section for example Chicago INCLUDE TEMPLATE REFERENCE To include an include template in your page template use the following format lt cmp include name template name gt Note that the template name must appear as entered in the TEMPLATE NAME field in the EDIT TEMPLATE screen Navigation List Templates Navigation and list templa
24. MS User s Guide 78 User Roles The CMS allows you to assign many different roles to each user giving you fine grained control over access to the CMS s many functions Responsible for complete control of the web site CMS user administration approval publishing and so on High level of technical expertise required Extensive knowledge of HTML needed to administer templates and for basic content troubleshooting Knowledge of web architecture and platform highly recommended Responsible for entering and maintaining content on ContentCeatibutor eContent pages No knowledge of HTML required When finished entering content submits changes for approval from content editor Most common user role assigned Administrator e Entire CMS Responsible for the approval of content from e Content ee Content Editor x Warkilow contributors with permissions to the same pages sections of content No knowledge of HTML required Conen Responsible for publishing content approved by Content Publisher content editors typically across entire site Some PALONO knowledge of HTML may be useful Responsible for maintaining list of files available to Media Administrator e Media content contributors editors and publishers for use on their pages No knowledge of HTML required Responsible for updating events which do not pass Events Editor e Events through the standard approval process No publishing privileges Events das Admn tos Responsi
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26. PAGE button A page called New Page will be added as a child of your current page To delete your current page click the DELETE PAGE button After a brief confirmation process the page will be removed You will be returned to the deleted page s parent The page will be removed from the staging site immediately it will continue to appear on the production site until a sibling parent or grand parent of the deleted page has been published If the DELETE PAGE button does not appear it s because your current page has children To delete your current page first delete its children or move them so that they re no longer children or grandchildren etc of your current page Finally to move your current page use the four arrows at the top of the site menu Moving pages works as follows 1 When you move a page up or down it trades places with the sibling immediately above or below it in the site menu Note that unlike other changes you make in the CONTENT section of the CMS adding and removing pages does not require that you check them out first However to move a page you must first check it out CAMP CMS User s Guide 16 2 When you move a page left or outward it becomes a sibling of the page that was its parent In particular it becomes the sibling immediately below that former parent 3 When you move a page right or inward it becomes a child of the page that was the sibling immediately above it I
27. PREVIEW SUBMIT If you like the changes you ve made you check in the page to commit those changes to the database The CMS stores your new version of the page and deletes the temporary backup The UNDO CHECKOUT button allows you to undo all of your changes to the page at once The CMS replaces your new version of the page with the temporary backup Undoing your checkout also checks the page back in The CMS may not allow you to check a page out reporting that it has been checked out by another user If so contact that user or a site administrator directly CAMP CMS User s Guide 11 In this guide we won t remind you again to check out a page before you working with it So Know that if you find yourself unable to make the changes you want to make it might be because you haven t checked the page out yet Previewing Pages The CMS allows site administrators and others to review changes to the website before they re published that is pushed live copied from the Staging site to the production site Whether you ve checked a page out or not or even if another user has the page checked out you can click the PREVIEW button to view the page s current content on the staging site It is important to preview your work often to be sure your changes will appear to front end site visitors exactly as you want them to Note that the staging and production sites versions of that page may differ if a page has unpublished changes t
28. S actually powers two websites not just one In this document we ll refer to the site that appears to site visitors as the live site the production site or the front end site We ll use the term staging site to refer to the site you use for saving and previewing potential changes to the live site We also refer collectively to both sites using the term presentation sites CAMP CMS User s Guide 7 Getting Started Requirements CMS Web Server Client Operating System Operating System Windows Required Windows 2003 Server or above Macintosh Preferred Windows 2008 Server ON IIS 6 0 or above IE 7 or above Required NET Application Framework v 2 0 Firefox 1 5 or above MDAC 2 7 or above IIS 7 0 Preferred NET Application Framework v3 5 Database Server Required SQL Server 2005 Preferred SQL Server 2008 Minimum Hardware Requirements Processor Xeon 2 0 GHz Disk Space 30 40 GB Depending on web site usage user statistics and traffic volumes the web server software and database can reside on the same server Some features of the CMS function on unsupported browsers or operating systems However caution should be exercised when using the system under such circumstances results may be unpredictable CAMP CMS User s Guide 8 Logging In Log in by visiting the CMS URL and entering your username and password You should have received all this information in an email generated automatically b
29. UPDATE in the Content Editor to save your work Users familiar with HTML can click the HTML Source button to view and edit the HTML source for the page As you may recall the Content Editor takes certain steps to ensure that every page on the site looks and behaves the Same for aS many users as possible Practically this means that some of what you enter in the HTML Source editor will be removed when you click the Update button to return to normal view KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS Depending on your browser and operating system some keyboard shortcuts may be available for you to use while working in the content editor A typical set of shortcuts for a computer running Microsoft Windows appears below Finally the following keyboard shortcuts and mouse controls are available in the Content Editor For more information about all of these functions keep reading Control Z Undo Control Y Redo Control X Cut Control C Copy Control V Paste Control A Select all e Control F Find text on page e Control B Bold e Control Italics e Control Space Remove all character formatting CAMP CMS User s Guide 40 e Click and drag using mouse Move selection e Shift Drag Copy selection e Shift Enter Soft line break Versions In some cases you may want to an earlier version of a page whose properties content or advanced characteristics that you have modified in the CONTENT section of the CMS When you click the VERSIONS tab yo
30. aces on the presentation sites including e Typically above a page s primary space for content e Inthe title bar of a visitor s web browser e Any site maps generated by the CMS The navigation title by contrast appears only in the navigation of the website the visually demarcated list of links that visitors use to browse the site The main title should be the title that you want to give the page intuitively The navigation title should be either the same as the page title or if necessary a version shortened to reflect the context a visitor will have in For example if you ran a bank you might have a page with the main title of Personal Checking Accounts Assuming that the page appeared in a section called Personal Banking you might change the navigation title to read just Checking for two reasons e Depending on the design of a site and on a visitor s browser configuration the longer phrase Personal Checking Accounts might be long enough that in the navigation it wraps unattractively onto a second line of text A shorter navigation title like Checking would not do so gt The main navigation you may recall represents the topmost level of a website s navigation CAMP CMS User s Guide 19 e Asa general principle you should tax your visitors brains as little as possible Among other things this means giving visitors as few words to read as you can manage Since everyone wh
31. alidate Action Method Encryption type None Class Not set These values are pre populated and do not need to be changed Click the update button to add your overall form element to the page The important properties are that the Action must be set to form aspx and the Method must be set to POST After inserting the form element make sure your cursor is moved back within the form To insert different form elements use the three form element icons Inserting a form input element ES o E Inserts a Form Input Element This option is used to enter standard text box elements commonly used for basic fields such as Name Email Phone Number etc Additionally this type of field can be used for radio buttons check boxes yes no type fields When inserting an input element the following option box appears CAMP CMS User s Guide 45 INSERT MODIFY FORM General Advanced General properties Value Type Size Width Height masked password submit button Background reset button image Class Not set IMPORTANT All field names must start with the characters cmp_ This lets the CMS know that this field value should be emailed to the recipient We have pre populated all field names with this phrase The field value can be left blank unless you would like to pre populate the value of the textbox with a specific string Typically this is left blank The form type can be chosen
32. as simple as Let s chat about this Otherwise the user who submitted the page may become frustrated at the lack of information about the reason for the page s rejection CAMP CMS User s Guide 82 Utilities The CMS is extensible and provides the ability for you to develop your own NET front end tools and back end applications and be fully integrated into the CMS We provide an integrated framework for these applications and tools For more information contact the site administrator
33. ble for publishing events Responsible for updating News items which do not News Editor e News pass through the standard approval process No publishing privileges News TE Administrator Responsible for publishing News items Template e Templates Responsible for administering and publishing Administrator templates Because of the high level of access to the live website granted with these roles we encourage administrators only to grant these roles to highly trusted users Note that a user can have many combinations of these roles each of which would grant access to different combinations of CMS areas For example a user could be a Content Editor and a Media Administrator allowing him or her access to the Content Workflow and Media sections of the CMS CAMP CMS User s Guide 79 Workflow In the Workflow section of the CMS you can e Review approve publish reject or discard pages that have been submitted to the approval process About the Publication Process To reach publication on the production site a page with modified content usually must go through a tiered approval and publication process Typically a content contributor will submit a page with changes a content editor will review it and approve it and a site administrator or content publisher will give it one last look before pushing it live Along the way the page may also be rejected or discarded The remainder of this section discusses various a
34. ch we discuss below you must fill in certain fields depending on the page type For Data pages you must enter the name of the database you want to use in the Data Source field and the query string that the form should use to populate the database in the Query String field CAMP CMS User s Guide 43 For Form pages the CMS handles standard mailto forms where all form fields entered will be emailed to a specified recipient You must enter an email address in the Form Recipient Email You might also consider advising the recipient to add the From address used by the CMS to his or her spam filter When you re ready to create a form use the version of the Content Editor embedded at the bottom of the Advanced tab to do so You can either create the form by hand using the HTML Source Editor or paste code that you ve created using a third party application into the HTML Source Editor If you want content besides the form to appear on the page you should enter that here too just as you would using the CMS s Content Editor Creating a form and form fields a 2 35 0 LU These five buttons will allow you to create and enter in form fields The first two buttons are used to create and delete a form This is the first step in setting up a form Click the Insert Edit a form icon and the following popup box will appear CAMP CMS User s Guide 44 INSERTIMODIFY FORM General Advanced Hidden Fields General properties Auto v
35. e easiest and most useful way to think about the hierarchical structure that typically organizes a website s pages is in terms of familial relationships 1 The About Us page in our example can be said to be a child of the home page and a parent of the Mission amp Goals and Management pages 2 The Mission amp Goals and Management pages can be referred to as Siblings 3 In very rare cases it may be convenient to think about grandparents and grandchildren aunts or uncles and cousins too In this guide we ll use the family metaphor to discuss the relationships between pages when necessary Site Structure in the CMS Now that you understand how website structure works in general it s time to look at how it comes into play when you re working on your own website The Site Menu When you click the CONTENT tab you ll notice a list of pages on the left hand side COLLAPSE MENU ENTIRE SITE ADD PAGE MOVE PAGE Home l About Us Services CAMP CMS User s Guide 14 This site menu serves three related purposes e to help you see how the site is organized e to allow you to modify that organization by moving adding and deleting pages e to allow you choose the page whose content properties and place in the site structure you want to work on You may only be allowed to work on specific pages on the website typically those most relevant to your role within the
36. e a link to a story created in the CMS s NEWS section click the NEWS ITEM tab and choose a story 8 Depending on the kind of file you re linking to as well as browser configuration files you link to may be saved automatically to a visitor s desktop or opened in a browser window or tab perhaps the visitor s current window or tab CAMP CMS User s Guide 31 If you choose EXTERNAL LINK from the Insert Link menu you will see a different set of options Cancel First choose a protocol http for most web pages https for secure web pages ftp for ftp addresses or mailto for email addresses Then enter the address of the resource you wish to link to Some formatting examples e www example com page2 e intranet example edu e ftp example com e name example edu To make an anchor link use the http or https protocol and enter the name of an anchor at the address you ve specified When making a mailto link it is best to use the email address for both the link text which you highlighted in the Content Editor and the EXTERNAL LINK dialogue s address field This avoids certain situations which may cause confusion When you re done creating your internal or external link click Submit to turn the copy you highlighted into a hyperlink Then click UPDATE in the Content Editor to save your work To remove a link place your cursor somewhere in the underlined area in the Content Editor and
37. e videos To do so click the Embed Media button to reveal the Embedded media dialogue box CAMP CMS User s Guide 34 General General Type Dimensions x Constrain proportions Preview Choose the type of video using Flash for YouTube and most other common video sites Paste a URL into the File URL field In most cases the Content Editor will automatically detect the size of the video but you may adjust this figure If you do so It s a good idea to make sure the Constrain Proportions box is checked When you paste in a URL the Content Editor will also generate a preview of the video in the space below the URL and Dimensions fields If you see no preview your URL may be incorrect or your browser may lack a plug in necessary to view the video When you re done click INSERT to embed the video in the content area of your page CAMP CMS User s Guide 35 The Advanced tab allows expert users to control additional aspects of the embedded video from HTML tags like lt name gt and lt id gt to playback options specific to individual video formats TABLES amp TABLE OPTIONS 4 In HTML tables should not be used for laying out most kinds of content Lists and normal paragraphs work better for many different kinds of information t However certain kinds of content require a tabular layout To take one common example Year Over Year Lemonade Stand Profits Year Revenues Costs Margin
38. es uote nr 64 DESCRIPTION G KEYWORDS aia tias 64 CONTENT SECTION ii NS a a E 65 NAVIGATION LIST TEMPLATE REFERENCES iia te 65 INCLUDE TEMPLATE REFERENCE setas td A AA adas 66 Navigation ELISE Templates inre e E A E a E 66 INCIUGS Templates retrar A a AO AAA 67 AAGING Templates iria aaa Sous tae aaa 67 EGItING Templates icia EERS 68 Template Versi n S oroe coi 70 Templates amp SIGS iii 70 A SOS innato 7 2 Adamo Editing USES O 72 Page PEFMISSIONS sra o ias E 74 Permissions RODO ES aiii ES A E ESAS AA 76 ISSR ROME ceeancnrac ond yacernaee EEA 78 VV OF KTIOW iii 2 O About the Publication ProceSS acicicacn nanca nana asada 79 E Mall NOUTIGAUON usina et da 79 Approval amp PUDIIGCAUIONR ini 80 Rejection amp Discardihg ii os 81 UTES cinn a a OZ CAMP CMS User s Guide 5 Introduction Welcome This user s guide has been designed to serve both as an introduction to the CAMP Content Management System CMS for new users and as a reference that more experienced users can turn to on an ongoing basis Otherwise the guide contains everything you need to know to use the CMS itself However it does not address certain kinds of information specific to your organization for example how your logo may be used online or your organization s unique approval process for website changes For those kinds of questions you may have to contact the appropriate party within your organization For convenience terms
39. events being listed are those for February 19th 2010 To view only a single date s events click that date To view an entire week s events click the greater than symbol gt associated with that week s row in the calendar To view an entire month s events click the double right arrow gt in the top row of the calendar grid To navigate from the current month to other months use the double left and double right arrows in the very top corners of the calendar Note that advanced users can also adjust the date range of events displayed by altering the URL of the EVENTS section http feoms zapsolutions com events_pub aspx s 2 14 2010 e 2 14 20106t X To view a wider range of events than a single month allows simply change the dates listed in the query string the series of characters after the question mark in the URL The date after the s represents the earliest date whose events will be displayed and the date after the e represents the latest Note that typographical mistakes may cause you the CMS to return an error in which case you should use your browser s back button to return to the EVENTS section CAMP CMS User s Guide 60 Depending on your CMS installation each event may have either a type or a location or both To view only those events belonging to a certain type or location select that category from the relevant menu on the left hand side of the screen below the calendar EVENT TYPE
40. f you re not comfortable with HTML you may want to use Microsoft Word to create and modify your tables Then paste them into the Content Editor afterwards using the Paste from Microsoft Word button see Editing Actions above If you take this approach be sure to save your tables in Word documents on your hard drive to save yourself the extra step of copying tables from the CMS into Word them and possibly adjusting the formatting in Word every time you want to change CAMP CMS User s Guide 37 e Width height the width and height of the table not cells Measured in pixels Leaving these blank allows the Content Editor to resize the table automatically based on content you enter in individual rows and columns e Class a special HTML value that can allow you to apply a set of styles and other characteristics to the table by default Use only by direction of the site administrator e Table caption a descriptive title for the table like Year Over Year Lemonade Stand Profits in the example above e Advanced tab allows expert users to set certain other options When you re happy with these options click Insert to place the table in your content at the point of the cursor Once you re tables in place you can use the remaining buttons to modify it as follows e Row properties allows you to set horizontal and vertical alignment of content within cells in the row class row height and placement of t
41. g off another time to turn it back on so that the Content Editor will recognize any changes you ve made since the last time you turned spellchecking on Note that you can select a language for the spellchecker by clicking the small downward pointing triangle to the right of the Toggle Spellcheck button The Insert Gallery button allows you to insert a stylish gallery of images ina lightbox presentation with a dimmed background and special Next Previous and Close controls To insert a lightboxed gallery tailor the options shown below to suit your preference Choose Gallery gallery Choose Display 0 Lightbox Preview CAMP CMS User s Guide 39 First choose a gallery to insert You set up galleries in the Media section of the CMS see Media below for more information Next choose a display option In most cases as in the example above Lightbox will be the only option When you choose a display option the Text and Image Link fields will appear Site visitors must click a hyperlink to view a gallery you can use text or an image to link to the gallery Advanced users can dig into the HTML to use both Images must already have been uploaded in the Media section of the CMS When you re satisfied click Insert to place the lightbox link into the content of your page at the location of the cursor or click Preview to see what the link and gallery will look like When you re finished click
42. hat is changes made in the CMS but not yet submitted for review approved and published Submitting amp Publishing Pages When you re satisfied with the work you ve done on a page initiate a review process by pressing the SUBMIT button When you submit a page certain users responsible for approving and publishing that page receive an email notifying them that the page Is ready for review The page is also checked back in automatically At the same time the CMS takes a snapshot of the page you re working on and sends that snapshot into the review process When a page is published the snapshot gets pushed live Any changes you make after submitting the page must therefore be resubmitted for review Advanced users may also be able to use a special PUBLISH button to push changes to the live site bypassing the approval process Website Structure In order to get around in the CONTENT section of the CMS you ll need to understand a little bit about how different pages on a website relate to each other Main Navigation amp Depth When a visitor reaches a website he or she may first reach the home page Typically the home page will contain a visually prominent list of links to the most important pages or sections on the site CAMP CMS User s Guide 12 We can refer to this list as the site s main navigation since visitors use it as a primary tool in getting around the site Depending on the kind of organization the main
43. he row in the header or footer of the table plus advanced options e Cell properties allows you to set horizontal and vertical alignment of content within the cell cell height and width and class plus cell type scope and other advanced options e Insertion amp deletion buttons allow you to insert rows above or below columns to the left or right or to delete rows or columns e Cell merger buttons allow you to merge or unmerge selected cells To select multiple cells click and drag your cursor Working with tables in HTML a word processor or any other format is often a more complex task than it seems at first If you run into trouble seek help from a more advanced user or someone who knows HTML MISCELLANY These four buttons allow you to access some special options and advanced features of the CMS CAMP CMS User s Guide 38 The Toggle Invisible Elements button allows you to show or hide things like table guidelines for tables with borders set to 0 and anchor icons Use with caution The Toggle Spellcheck button allows you to underline possible spelling errors in your content with familiar red squiggles To see suggestions for any underlined word right click the word or hold down the control key while you click teh SUGGESTIONS THE For best results spellcheck your content after you ve finished editing Otherwise you may Nave to click the Toggle Spellcheck button twice once to turn spellcheckin
44. hting do not LINKS amp ANCHORS Insert Link eh CAMP CMS User s Guide 29 Using the Insert Link menu you can make two kinds of hyperlinks Internal hyperlinks point places managed by the CMS including e Pages e Files and media e News items External hyperlinks point to places not managed by the CMS including e Website with normal or secure connections e FTP sites e Email addresses Note that there s another kind of link that can be either internal or external Because this kind of link points to a named anchor a special kind of HTML element it is called an anchor link Named anchors or just anchors and anchor links typically work together on pages where users want to jump back and forth between different sections of content The most common example is a frequently asked questions page or FAQ with anchor links to each question and many anchor links back to the top of the page We ll discuss making both internal and external anchor links shortly To make a named anchor on a page in the CMS place your cursor where you want the anchor to be typically at the very beginning of a paragraph and click the Anchor button Give the anchor a name that describes the anchor s location like question1 or jamesbio take care not to use spaces or special punctuation The anchor will be represented in the Content Editor but not on the presentation sites with a small anchor symbol enlarged he
45. ia below that text will appear in the Alt field by default CAMP CMS User s Guide 33 e Size The CMS resizes each uploaded image to a variety of sizes designed to work well with your site Most of these are self explanatory but note that the last size on the menu Full typically extends the full width of the content area e Alignment This property specifies how the image will interact with the text around it o None the default setting Places the image in line with the text treating it essentially as one large character This option is ideal for images appearing in their own paragraphs like the screenshots in this guide o Left Center and Right allow text to wrap around the image Each one places the image in the specified part of the content area to the left of text to the right of text or centered between two equal columns of text The best way to figure out which properties you want to use is to experiment When you re satisfied press the Select button to confirm your choice of image to insert Once you ve embedded an image you can click it and drag it repositioning it relative to the copy You can also make an image a hyperlink by clicking it and then choosing an option from the Insert Link menu In general such links should be reserved for linking to larger versions of the same image Besides images the Content Editor allows you to embed video media typically hosted outside the CMS like YouTub
46. is published Page Content Working with the contents of individual pages makes up the majority of the work most users will perform in the CMS That s because on a fundamental level most visitors come to a site with a specific content related need They want to know things like What clients has this company had How can this university help me pay for the cost of my education and so on This emphasis on content why CAMP is called a content management system and why the process of working with page content in the CMS has been made so simple for users without technical expertise In the rest of this section we not only describe the different kinds of content you can edit text images hyperlinks and so on but also provide you with some basic rules and guidelines that will help keep your site easy to use and to access for as many visitors as possible Editing Page Content Your first step in making changes to a page s content is to click the EDIT CONTENT link in the CMS CONTENT MEDIA NEWS EVENTS AML PROPERTIES EDIT CONTENT VERSIONS ADVANCED When you do so the site menu will collapse and you will see the content of the current page rendered in its template all in a frame a special way of embedding one web page within another inside the CONTENT area of the CMS CAMP CMS User s Guide 23 Within that frame you will see a red dashed line around any area whose content you can modify If you move yo
47. ld not likely use Heading 1 Your content s most high level headings should be Heading 2 the next highest Heading 3 and so on This approach too keeps your content as friendly to search engines as possible Note that the appearance of the Format menu s styles while consistent across the presentation sites may differ between those sites and the Content Editor As such you should update and preview your work often to ensure you get the results you expect Finally like the options discussed in Paragraph Formatting above the styles available in the Format menu apply to entire paragraphs at once Recall from that section that you may at times use a soft line break Shift Enter on your keyboard to begin a new line without creating space between lines In other situations you may want two lines with the same style applied and without Space between them These cases too call for soft line breaks COLORS a To change the color of your text or to add highlighting use the Font Color or Highlighting buttons Like the Font Family and Font Size menus these options should very rarely be used and for similar reasons e First the colors of heading styles should be consistent site wide defining the color of a heading on a page by page basis would defeat this goal e Second using bold or italics to emphasize text within the body of a paragraph preserves the visual appeal and usability of the site in a way that font colors and highlig
48. n particular it becomes the lowest child in the list of that former sibling s children 4 If you move a page with children those children also move Note that if one of the arrows is grey instead of green that option is unavailable for logical reasons For example a page with no siblings cannot be moved above or below it s non existent siblings so the up and down arrows will be unavailable Page Properties When you first select a page from the CONTENT section s site menu the right hand side of the screen will show a list of that page s properties CAMP CMS User s Guide 17 TITLE Mission amp Goals NAVIGATION TITLE Mission amp Goals Switch to Html Editor FRIENDLY FILE NAME META KEYWORDS META DESCRIPTION PAGE TEMPLATE PREVIEW CREATED 2 6 2010 2 57 00 PM ZAP SOLUTIONS LAST UPDATED 2 6 2010 2 57 00 PM ZAP SOLUTIONS Besides the editable properties which we ll use the remainder of this section to discuss you can see the date and time a page was created and most recently updated as well as the name of the user associated with both pieces of information CAMP CMS User s Guide 18 Titles amp Names TITLE Mission amp Goals NAVIGATION TITLE Mission amp Goals Switch to Html Editor To make the website easier for site visitors to use each page has both a main title or just title and a navigation title The main title appears in a number of pl
49. n the EVENTS tab of the CMS you can e create edit preview publish and delete events Depending on your site s configuration events may appear on the presentation site alone or combined with News items They may appear on the home page on an Events or News amp Events page or both Some sites finally do not use the CMS s Events functionality For questions about how Events works on your site contact your site administrator Viewing Events When you first click the EVENTS tab you ll see a list of today s Events on the right hand side of the screen EVENTS Edit Open House Publish Delete 2 14 2010 12 00 00 AM 2 14 2010 12 00 00 AM Location Boston Type General Events Added by Solutions ap Edit Pasta Dinner Publish Delete 2 14 2007 12 00 00 AM 2 14 2010 12 00 00 AM Location Washington Type General Events Added by Solutions Zap Published Unlike the NEWS section the EVENTS section differentiates between published and unpublished items by appending the word Published to the metadata listed for appropriate events As is the case with pages and News items unpublished events appear on the staging site as well as the production site CAMP CMS User s Guide 59 The Events Menu includes a calendar that allows you to view events by date FEBRUARY 2010 Bona gt 1190 02 The calendar shows the events being viewed in white text In the example above the
50. nals to visitors that a given phrase has a hyperlink That kind of formatting that happens automatically according to the configuration of the site and the browser a visitor uses Underlining your own text for emphasis almost always confuses your visitors Also you should use the Bold and Italics features only for emphasis or citation within the body of a paragraph For headings use the Format menu described in Font amp Style Options below As a last note when you use the subscript or superscript feature you may also want to reduce the font size of the text you ve changed 6 If you need to format the name of a book movie or other reference type use italics instead of underlining regardless of any citation style you might be using MLA APA etc Better still if you re comfortable with HTML use the lt cite gt tag For shorter works like articles or episodes of TV shows quotation marks are customary CAMP CMS User s Guide 26 PARAGRAPH FORMATTING Wel Unlike character formatting paragraph formatting applies to one or many entire paragraphs at once To apply paragraph formatting first highlight all or part of either one or multiple paragraphs or just place your cursor in the Single paragraph to which you want to apply the formatting Then use one of the paragraph formatting buttons left center or right align justify bulleted or numbered lists or decrease or increase indentation To save your
51. nd to roll the published template back to a previous version To begin working in the HISTORY tab first select a template from the list on the left hand side of the screen On the right hand side you will see a list of that template s previous versions TEMPLATE FULL PAGE TEMPLATE name o f oseo OOO CWC Full Fage Template Solutions Zap 2 7 2010 10 56 00 AM View Restore Full Page Template Solutions Zap 10 6 2009 3 50 00 PM View Restore Full Page Template Solutions Zap 3 26 2009 10 36 00 PM View Restore When you use the View link associated with any version of the template the CMS opens a template preview just like the one described above in Editing Templates To restore a template s previous version click the corresponding Restore link Then click Yes to confirm or No to cancel the operation The template is updated immediately on both presentation sites Templates amp Sites On CMS installations powering multiple front end websites you may want to make some templates available on more than just the main website to which new templates are published by default CAMP CMS User s Guide 71 To begin managing templates and sites click the MANAGE tab in the Templates section of the CMS Next use the CHOOSE A SITE menu to display a list of templates available on that site CHOOSE SITE ADD TEMPLATES TO SITE 3 TEMPLATES o IS IN INN OS p CTC Remove From Site Publish Selected To make a new
52. nships among the Font Family Font Size and Format menus and for example the Bold and Italics buttons can seem complicated at first but with a few simple guidelines in mind you should have little trouble e To keep the site consistent use the Format menu to apply heading styles Do not make your own heading styles by using the Font Family and Font Size menus or the Bold and Italics buttons This approach also helps web browsers and search engines understand how to process the content on your page e Avoid using the Font Family menu at all costs The fonts on your site have been carefully chosen to work well together making changes can disrupt the visual accessibility and overall appeal of your page The Format menu may read Format as in our screenshot above or for example Paragraph the default style for text Heading 2 or something else depending on the style of the text at the cursor s current location CAMP CMS User s Guide 28 e The Font Size menu should be used only in rare cases for example when using subscript or superscript text which typically appears Smaller than normal text A few other guidelines regarding the format menu As a general rule the Heading 1 style is reserved for the page title and in HTML there should be only a single application of the Heading 1 style on any given page though there can be any number of instances of Heading 2 Heading 3 and so on As such you shou
53. o visits the Personal Checking Accounts page will be able to tell they re in the Personal Banking section by looking at the site s breadcrumbs for example or through other contextual cues you can drop the word Personal Likewise since Accounts doesn t help differentiate the Checking page from any of its siblings unless there is also say a Personal Checking Guidelines page in that section you can also remove that word from the navigation title To recap give your page a main title first then adjust the navigation title if you can in order to avoid unattractive wrapping in the navigation and to minimize the burden on your visitors taking into account the context in which the page appears Besides the titles each page also has a friendly file name This name is called friendly because it allows both search engine robots and human visitors to work easily with the URL or address of a given page When you visit a page on either the staging or the production site you ll see a URL like this http www example com About Mission Goals As you can see this address consists of the website s main URL then separated by slashes the friendly file names of each ancestor e g great grandparent grandparent and parent of the current page and finally current page s own friendly file name The resulting address will be easy for visitors to copy and paste for example and eas
54. on your site s needs additional folders can be created within each folder For example you might want to create a subfolder in the gallery folder for each gallery You might also want a subfolder under assets for each top level section of your website Before you create or delete a folder check with your site administrator To create a folder click EXPAND MENU just as you might to reveal the Site Menu in the CONTENT tab Under ADD FOLDER choose a parent folder and give your new folder a name containing only letters numbers and underscores ADD FOLDER PARENT FOLDER FOLDER NAME BoardHeadshots Add Folder When you re satisfied click Add Folder CAMP CMS User s Guide 49 To delete a folder first empty it of files and then click the Delete button that appears in place of the list of files Delete this folder Working with Files The instructions below will help you upload files and work with them in the MEDIA tab Before you begin please note that the CMS is not intended for use as an archiving system For clarity of purpose you should upload only those files that you intend to use on the website Adding Files Files are organized in the CMS by the filename they have when you upload them Perhaps more important site visitors can see those filenames when they download those files or view them in their browsers So before you upload a file find it on your hard drive and make sure it has a clear
55. options The Data page type allows the form to submit to a database which must be configured outside the CMS the Form type directs responses to an email address Both types require additional information to function For more information see Form amp Application Options below Page Appearance Options Three items determine whether the page appears in certain places on the presentation sites the navigation the automatically generated site map and the CMS s built in search results In general these items should all be set to the Yes option One common exception When a page has a large number of children for example a list of majors or programs living below a university s Academics page you might want to hide all those children from the navigation to keep it looking clean In that case you should also make a list of the children in the content of the parent It is very rare to hide a page from either the site map or the search results Since you want visitors to be able to locate any page on the site they could be looking for CAMP CMS User s Guide 42 Page Protection To force site visitors to log in to see a page set the page protection option to Yes Only those with a valid CMS account will have access On some installations of the CMS you may also be able to choose a login page specific to your department or unit Shared Content Using Shared Content you can display the exact same content on one page tha
56. ories configured may assist CMS users presentation site visitors or both in navigating News content e Type like Category may assist both CMS users and site visitors Particular configuration of Category and Type options varies widely across installations of the CMS e Website on some installations website URL will appear with News item on presentation sites CAMP CMS User s Guide 5 7 e Appear on home page for sites with separate home page and news page Below these properties a version of the CMS s Content Editor allows you to enter content for the News item just as you might for a page When you re satisfied or periodically as you work click Update to save your changes and Close to close the window To edit an existing News item use the corresponding Edit link to bring up the same News item window that you use to add a News item When you re finished making changes and saving them using the Update button you can either click Submit Changes to send the News item to an administrator for publication or if you re an administrator simply close the window and publish it yourself To publish a News item click the corresponding Publish link Yes and No links will appear where the Publish link was Click Yes to confirm or No to cancel the operation To delete a News item click the corresponding Delete link The item is removed from both presentation sites immediately CAMP CMS User s Guide 58 Events I
57. r navigation list and for include and the buttons and other information below the text area The buttons appear as follows The Update button allows you to save your changes while the Reset button allows you to revert the template as it appears in the text area to its most recently saved version This allows you to undo accidental changes you may have made in the text area since last clicking Update CAMP CMS User s Guide 69 The Preview button allows you to view page templates on the staging site with placeholders appearing where the template would ordinarily pull in the content of a page Templates of types besides Page can be previewed but depending on their contents the previews may consist only of source code for example the XSLT or XHTML Template previews open in a new window or tab depending on your browser The Publish and Delete buttons take the specified action on the template Shown To publish all templates at once click the PUBLISH ALL TEMPLATES link below the list of templates Note that publishing a template makes it available on the staging and production sites associated with the main site powered by the CMS only To make a template available on other sites see Templates and Sites below Deleting a template by contrast removes it immediately from the staging and presentation versions of all sites powered by the CMS Deleting a template that pages use will yield undesirable results on the presenta
58. re for clarity To find out the name of an anchor you want to link to single click the anchor and look in the Path indicator at the bottom of the Content Editor Path p aftestanchor CAMP CMS User s Guide 30 The name of the anchor is the portion of the path following the pound sign To begin making a hyperlink highlight the text you want to link and choose elther INTERNAL LINK or EXTERNAL LINK depending on where you want the link to point If you choose INTERNAL LINK you can make a link to a page a file or a news item Each kind of link has its own tab at the top of the INTERNAL LINK dialogue box WEB PAGES FMEDEATIMIES At first on the WEB PAGES tab you will see a map of the site that allow you to link to one of its pages Home Create Link About Us Create Link Mission amp Goals Create Link Management Create Link Services Create Link To make a link to any page click the corresponding Create Link link To expand a page revealing its children click the name of the page To make an anchor link enter the name of an anchor on the page you re linking to into the Anchor field To make a link to a file for example a PDF or picture that you ve uploaded see the Media section of this document click the MEDIA FILES tab where you ll find a list of files like the one in the MEDIA section of the CMS Refer to the Media section of this document for more information To mak
59. rsor over any button to reveal its function At the end of this section we list the keyboard shortcuts you can use with the Content Editor EDITING ACTIONS The Content Editor allows you to take familiar actions while you work cutting copying and pasting and using undo and redo functions just as you could in any text editor There are three different ways to paste in your content The main Paste button simply inserts the contents of your computer s clipboard and lets the Content Editor strip out whatever it can t understand This method works well for rich text documents rtf with basic formatting bold and italics and SO on You should use the Paste as Plain Text button when you plan to do your formatting using the content editor This method allows you the most control over how your content looks on the production sites but at the cost of making you redo any formatting work you might already have done ina word processor Finally the Paste from Microsoft Word button works with Word s own methods of formatting content to ensure that as much of your copy s formatting as possible gets translated effectively into HTML At the same time this feature also strips out some of the unnecessary information Word stores behind the scenes You should use this method anytime you paste content in from Word that you ve already formatted To save your changes click the UPDATE button A final note on pasted content Because of the
60. rue deletion model also allows the CMS to continue to display information about a deleted user when necessary e g in the PAGE PROPERTIES screen if a deactivated user was the most recent user to publish CAMP CMS User s Guide 74 1 Email properties as follows For more information on the publication process see Workflow below L Receive submitted emails specifies whether the user should receive emails from the CMS when pages to which he has been assigned permissions are submitted for approval by another user Every user receives email confirmation of his or her own page submissions Typically set only for users with approval or publication privileges Ze Receive review emails specifies whether the user should receive emails from the CMS when pages to which he has been assigned permissions are approved for publication Every user receives email confirmation of his or her own submitted pages being approved Typically set only for users with approval or publication privileges 3 Receive published emails specifies whether the user should receive emails from the CMS when pages to which he has been assigned permissions are published Every user receives email confirmation of his or her own submitted pages being published Typically set only for users with approval or publication privileges 2 Template Permissions determines templates user has permissions to assign to pages in the CONTENT section of the CMS
61. s Guide 47 Inserting a form textarea element I a E Inserts a Form Textarea Element This option is used to enter a larger text box element commonly used for longer responses such as essay questions or explanations When inserting a textarea element the following option box appears INSERTIMODIFY FORM General Advanced General properties Name cmp_ Value Roos Columns a IN image IMPORTANT All field names must start with the characters cmp_ This lets the CMS know that this field value should be emailed to the recipient We have pre populated all field names with this phrase Use the Rows and Columns entries to specify the height and width of the textarea Typical entries for these are 50 for column and 10 for rows CAMP CMS User s Guide 48 Media In the MEDIA tab of the CMS you can e upload view and delete files including PDFs Word documents spreadsheets JPEGs and other types of images and more e create modify and delete media folders which you can use to organize your site s media e create modify and delete galleries for use in the Content Editor see Miscellany above Media Folder Structure The MEDIA tab helps keep media organized Beneath the default top level folder denoted by a slash this structure consists of the following e assets for non image files e gallery for images to be used in image galleries e images for all other image files Depending
62. sfied or periodically as you work click Update to save your changes and Close to close the window To edit an existing event use the corresponding Edit link to bring up the same event window that you use to add an event When you re finished making changes and saving them using the Update button you can either click Submit Changes to send the event to an administrator for publication or if you re an administrator simply close the window and publish it yourself To publish an event click the corresponding Publish link Just as in the NEWS section Yes and No links will appear where the Publish link was Click Yes to confirm or No to cancel the operation To delete an event click the corresponding Delete link The event is removed from both presentation sites immediately CAMP CMS User s Guide 63 XML In the XML section of the CMS you can The XML administrator section provides the ability to edit and maintain XML based files These files are typically used to provide data and graphic information for flash based presentations i e A homepage flash module This allows the administrator to edit and update various dynamic sections of the website Any changes made to the XML files will be visible in both Staging and production CAMP CMS User s Guide 64 Templates In the Templates section of the CMS you can e create edit preview publish and delete different kinds of templates page navigation and include
63. spects of this process in greater detail When reviewing pages for approval or publication the reviewer should inspect not only content but also links images and downloadable files Such as PDFs The approval and publication process only works as well as those CMS users responsible for approving and publishing changes Email Notification At every stage of the approval process the CMS emails users with a variety of useful information about the page moving through the publication process This information includes the page s title and the names dates and times associated with each step in the process submission approval publication rejection or discarding as well as any comments entered by reviewers along the way see Reviewing Pages below The CMS sends these emails to the submitter of the page to any content editors or publishers who have permissions assigned for the page and to all administrators Users with Quick Publish privileges see Users above can bypass the regular process publishing their changes directly from the CONTENT section of the CMS However the Quick Publish feature does not alert other CMS users to the changes being made As such content editors and publishers and site administrators can also submit pages for approval and themselves approve and publish the pages allowing minor changes to be made quickly while still alerting other CMS users CAMP CMS User s Guide 80 Approval
64. t you have on another page This feature which should be used Sparingly can make it convenient to present content in more than one place on the front end site without having to update it in more than one location in the CMS To use shared content click the menu to bring up a site map and select the page whose content you would like to be displayed Note that using the Shared Content feature leaves the content of the current page intact even though it s not displayed on the presentation sites To restore the current page s content to the presentation sites simply select the None option from the beginning of the Shared Content menu Form amp Application Options The External Link field turns a page s link in the navigation into a link that redirects users to a location outside the hierarchy of pages managed by the CMS Note that if a page has a URL in the External link field its content will not appear on the front end sites This approach can cause much confusion in site visitors who expect every link in the navigation to point to a page in the section indicated by the appearance of the link As such it should be used only for certain web applications living outside the CMS and designed to appear as though they were in fact in the location visitors expect As suggested above when you set a page type to Data or Form you need to take further steps to ensure that the form functions properly Besides creating the form itself whi
65. te administrator Viewing News Items When you first click the NEWS tab you ll see a list of News items on the right hand side of the screen NEWS Items with bold title are published to the live site edt tese fest gt e e 2009 Solutions Zap Publish Delete As you can see the list differentiates between published and unpublished News items by showing the titles of published items in bold text As is the case with pages unpublished items appear on the staging site as well as the production site To view only those News items in a certain category select that category from the NEWS CATEGORY menu on the left hand side of the screen NEWS CATEGORY All hd ADD NEWS ITEM To preview a News item use the corresponding Preview link which shows you to the News item on the staging site CAMP CMS User s Guide 56 Working with News Items To add a News item click the ADD NEWS ITEM link below the NEWS CATEGORY menu and fill in the News item properties News Description News Date Category Type Website Appear on home page O e Title appears both in the NEWS section of the CMS and on the presentation sites e Description appears on the presentation sites only atypically Check with your site administrator if you re not sure whether it s in use on your site e Date allows news items to be sorted chronologically both in the CMS and on the presentation sites e Category for sites with categ
66. tes both use XSLT to present certain kinds of information to site visitors XSLT is a stylesheet language that helps transform data structured using XML a markup language more flexible than HTML i Navigation templates transform the hierarchy of pages created in the CMS into several kinds of navigational elements on the presentation sites from breadcrumbs to left hand navigation to site maps and more 14 For more information about include templates see Include Templates below CAMP CMS User s Guide 6 7 2 List templates transform the News items and events entered in the CMS into elegantly designed and formatted lists of those items You can use these templates to filter the lists presented on the site so that for example a visitor to a certain page might see only those events of a certain type see Events above Most likely your CMS installation comes with at least one example of each type of template Include Templates Include templates which use XHTML like page templates allow you to isolate certain parts of a template like a header or footer which may be usefully included within another include or page template In this way include templates eliminate the need to maintain identical template code in multiple locations Include templates can use all the same template tags that page templates can pulling in page titles navigation templates and more See Page Templates above for more information
67. the upper right hand corner and below that a menu allowing you to work with different front end sites if your CMS powers more than one WELCOME ZAP SOLUTIONS LOG OUT 2 20 2010 site new site CAMP CMS User s Guide 10 Content In the CONTENT tab of the CMS you can work with e site structure creating moving and deleting pages e page properties titles templates keywords and advanced features e page content text images hyperlinks and so on as well different versions of pages Before you begin working in the CONTENT section you should understand the content of the following three sections thoroughly how to check pages in and out how to preview and submit your work in the CMS and how to use the site menu to get around Checking Pages In amp Out When you first click the CONTENT tab you may see a set of buttons labeled CHECK OUT and PREVIEW CHECK OUT Jj PREVIEW We ll talk about the PREVIEW button shortly For now it s important to know how and when to use the CHECK OUT button Before you can make changes to site structure page properties or page content you must check out the page you re interested in working with When you click the CHECK OUT button the CMS makes a temporary backup copy of the page you re currently on see Site Structure below You ll then see three new buttons UNDO CHECKOUT CHECK IN and SUBMIT as well as the PREVIEW button UNDO CHECK OUT CHECK IN
68. tion sites To find out whether a template is currently in use and other useful Information scroll down below the row of buttons on the EDIT TEMPLATE tab CREATED 2 20 2009 11 05 00 AM ZAP SOLUTIONS LAST UPDATED 3 26 2009 4 10 00 PM ZAP SOLUTIONS LAST PUBLISHED 10 8 2009 3 50 00 PM ZAP SOLUTIONS Dependents Level Page Template Lar 10 15 2009 3 15 00 PM For templates of all types you will see the dates of the template s creation and most recent updating and publishing as well as the names of the users associated with those events Depending on the template type you will also see a list of pages currently using depending on or including the template for page navigation list and include templates respectively You can use the associated Preview link to get a look at any page or template in the list without having to leave the Templates section of the CMS CAMP CMS User s Guide 70 Clicking any Edit link allows you to edit the associated page or template for example to change a page s template assignment Since this step may take you to another section of the CMS you may find it convenient to open the Edit link into a new browser window or tab When you ve made and saved your changes close the new window or tab and refresh the EDIT TEMPLATE tab to see your changes take effect Template Versions The HISTORY tab of the Templates section allows you to see the publication history of any template a
69. u ll see a list of all the versions of the page PREIVEW VERSION PUBLISHED PUBLISHED BY LAST RESTORED RESTORE Preview 5 3 27 2009 Solutions Zap Restore Preview 4 3 26 2009 Solutions Zap Restore Preview 3 3 12 2009 Solutions Zap Restore As you can see a new version is created each time the page is published not each time it s modified To see how a given version looks click the corresponding Preview link To roll the page back to a previous version click the corresponding Restore link Then click Proceed to confirm you want to restore the page or Cancel to avoid doing so Advanced Content Features The CMS provides certain features allowing expert users to control the appearance behavior and location of a particular page In this section we discuss those features how and when to use them Remember that for any of the changes we discuss below to take effect you must click the Update button at the bottom of the Advanced screen CAMP CMS User s Guide 41 Page Type Content O Data O Form Show in Navigation Menus Yes O No Show in Dynamic Site Map Yes O No Include in Search Yes Ono Is the page protected O Yes No Share Content From Mone Form Content Form Help BRA 7z Uxx rEg Font family Font size Paragraph A W Insert Link db a mz la Page Type In order to allow a page to contain a form choose either Data or Form from the Page Type
70. umber If you want to begin a new line in a list without creating a new paragraph that is without making a new list item with its own bullet or number use a soft line break again Shift Enter instead To make space between two list items use two consecutive soft line breaks CAMP CMS User s Guide 27 SPECIAL INSERTIONS 42 HTML encodes characters and other text elements in a special way that allows them to be viewed the same in as many web browsers as possible Many of the same keystrokes you can use to enter such characters in word processors will also work in the CMS For example on Macintosh computers pressing Option E and then A will enter the a character To insert a special character you don t know the keystroke for use the Insert Special Character button A horizontal rule separates sections of content from one another and appears the same across the entire website and for all visitors regardless of their browser s font settings This is untrue of say a row of underscores Use the Insert Horizontal Rule button for this special HTML entity FONT amp STYLE OPTIONS Font family Font size Format You can use the Font Family Font Size and Format menus to perform tasks that overlap to some extent As you might expect the first two change font and size The third changes different combinations of font character and paragraph formatting all at once in short different styles The relatio
71. ur cursor over that area a piece of text and a small pencil icon will appear at the top of it The piece of text corresponds to the name of that area in the template information useful mostly for developers working on the website Clicking the pencil icon brings up the CONTENT EDITOR which you ll use to make your changes When you re done click the UPDATE button to save your changes Then either submit the changes for review or publish the page yourself as described in Submitting amp Publishing above About the Content Editor To add content to a page you can either use your keyboard to enter your content or you can paste content in from Microsoft Word or other programs as described in Editing Actions below In order to make it as easy as possible to modify the content of a page the CMS includes a content editor with many features To simplify the discussion we ve grouped and labeled those features as follows Font family Font size Format AS abr Insert Link le fy Pa l Editing Actions Character Formatting Paragraph Formatting Special Insertions Font amp Style Options Colors Links amp Anchors Embed Images amp Video Tables amp Table Options Miscellany Some of these options should look familiar to you they ve been designed to be easy to work with for those accustomed to word processors like Microsoft Word We ll discuss each group below you can also hover your cu
72. ver access to make changes to your site s cascading style sheets CSS you can develop them externally and upload them using the CMS s MEDIA section They can then be imported into your page templates using the URL you visit by previewing them in the MEDIA section New versions can be uploaded when you make changes CAMP CMS User s Guide 65 CONTENT SECTION Some page designs include more than one section of content that should be editable by CMS users on a per page basis for example a main content area and a sidebar In such cases the page template can also have more than one content section To Indicate the location of a content section use this format lt cmp content section x gt Note that x indicates a numeral Content sections must be numbered in order beginning with 1 for the first section that appears in the template Note also that when adding the template to the CMS you must choose the number of content sections in the template from the appropriate menu See Adding Templates below NAVIGATION LIST TEMPLATE REFERENCES To include a navigation template in your page template use one of the following two formats lt cmp navigation name template name gt OR lt cmp navigation name template name gt lt param name name value value gt lt cmp navigation gt To include a list template in your page template use the following format lt cmp list name template name type
73. we ll discuss in turn Login Name username Quick Publish O Active wi Privileges Role _ Administrator _ Content Contributor C Content Editor C Content Publisher _ Events Administrator Events Editor Media Administrator WU 0 News Administrator News Editor 1 First last name the real first and last names of the CMS accountholder Z Email the email address at which the accountholder can be reached CAMP CMS User s Guide 73 3 Username a short name for the user containing only lowercase letters 4 Quick publish privileges allows the user to publish pages to the production site without going through the approval process and regardless of user role See User Roles below 5 Active determines whether a user can access the CMS Unchecking this box effectively deletes a user while allowing an easy way to bring the account back if necessary 6 Role specifies roles assigned to the user See User Roles below for more information The user properties continue Email Properties Receive Submitted Emails Receive Review Emails Receive Published LJ Emails Template Permissions Level Page Template Parent Login Template Parent Page Breadcrumb Naw Full Page Template Home Page Template I Level Page Template Update Send User Information 13 Using an activation deactivation model instead of a t
74. y for search engines to index In order to achieve these ends the friendly file name must contain only letters numbers hyphens and underscores To change a page s main or navigation title or its friendly file name type your new title into the desired field then click the UPDATE button at the bottom of the PAGE PROPERTIES screen Click PREVIEW to see how the changes look on the staging site CAMP CMS User s Guide 20 Metadata Keywords amp Descriptions META KEYWORDS META DESCRIPTION The keywords and descriptions you enter on the PAGE PROPERTIES screen may shape the results both of your site s internal search engine typically powered by the CMS itself or by a custom Google search and external search engines like Google Yahoo and Bing that return results the Web as a whole KEYWORDS Most external search engines no longer use keywords to determine a site s ranking As such you should enter keywords only when the internal search results for a certain word or phrase need adjustment You will rarely need to perform this step because internal search engines weigh different page elements content titles incoming hyperlinks descriptions and so on differently in order to return the most relevant possible results to site visitors CAMP CMS User s Guide 21 When entering keywords enter the word or phrase that you think visitors are searching for in order to find your page Or enter multiple words or
75. y the CMS when your account was created LOGIN NAME PASSWORD As you can see if your CMS manages multiple front end websites for example a site for external visitors as well as an intranet you may also be able to select which site you want to manage when you log in You can always select a different site once you re logged in If you can t remember your password enter your username on the FORGOT PASSWORD screen accessed by clicking the corresponding tab LOGIN MiS For security reasons the CMS will log you out automatically if you remain inactive for more than a few minutes Note that the CMS only knows you re still active when you save your work navigate to another section of the system or take certain other actions 3 Importantly just typing in a page s content area is not enough to keep you logged in If you re editing a page s content you should save your work often using the UPDATE button to avoid getting logged out and losing your changes CAMP CMS User s Guide 9 Getting Around in the CMS When you log in to the CMS you ll see the welcome screen and a set of tabs and links that you ll use to get around Each area of the site is described on the welcome screen itself and in more detail in the corresponding sections of this guide Depending on your role in relation to the website not all of the functionality described here may appear when you log in to the CMS Note the logout button in
76. ze and more When you re satisfied click the Update button to save your changes Deleting Files When you delete a file pages that make use of it may appear in unexpected ways for visitors to the presentation sites For example a page using an image that gets deleted will display the alt text that is the description in place of the image Similarly a hyperlink to a PDF will yield a File Not Found error For these reasons it s a good idea to delete files only if you re absolutely sure they re no longer in use or if the content necessitates removal even if the file is in use on the site To delete a file click the corresponding Delete link in the MEDIA section Galleries As discussed in the Content section above the CMS allows you to place image galleries on your pages that site visitors can view with a special lightboxing effect Each Gallery must be configured in the MEDIA section s GALLERY area HOME CONTENT MEDIA NEWS EVENTS AML A COLLAPSE MEN FILES GALLERY GALLERY ADD NEW GALLERY galleryl test Headshots CAMP CMS User s Guide 53 To add a new gallery click the ADD NEW GALLERY link and fill in the properties listed as follows Name Default Type Lightbox Title Description 1 Name appears in the Content Editor s menu allowing users to choose a gallery to insert 2 Default Type presentation style for the gallery Users can override default in the Advanced Tab under

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