Pagemasters
Passwords
Passwords are assigned by the webmaster and are not directly related to other passwords on the NC State Computer Network. Users can access the website Inline or with the Administrator Access depending on the assigned user role.
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User Roles
User roles are site-wide without regard to section or page. However, each PageMaster will be responsible for keeping a specific section updated. Do not cross into another PageMaster's area of responsibility.
Most PageMasters will be assigned as "Managers". Managers can change articles and edit existing menus. If you want to add a new menu contact the webmaster.
Author
Inline Access Only
Create Articles
Editor
Inline Access Only
Create Articles
Edit Published Articles
Publisher
Inline Access Only
Create and Edit Articles
Publish or Unpublish Articles
Manager
Inline and Administrator Access
Create and Edit Articles
Publish or Unpublish Articles
Add and Edit Sections
Add and Edit Categories
Edit Existing Menus
Upload Images with Media Manager
View Statistics
Administrator
Inline and Administrator Access
Create and Edit Articles
Publish or Unpublish Articles
Add and Edit Sections
Add and Edit Categories
Add and Edit Menus
Upload Images with Media Manager
View Statistics
Install Components, Modules and Plug-ins
Edit Contacts List (Directory)
Edit Users (same level or below)
Super Administrator (Webmaster)
Inline and Administrator Access
Create and Edit Articles
Publish or Unpublish Articles
Add and Edit Sections
Add and Edit Categories
Add and Edit Menus
Upload Images with Media Manager
View Statistics
Install Components, Modules and Plug-ins
Edit Contacts List (Directory)
Edit All Users
Set Global Configuration
Install and Apply Templates
Global Check-in of All Articles
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Inline Access
Faculty & Staff (pull down menu) > PageMasters
Login on the page listed above. Navigate to any page and a little icon shows up on pages you can edit. The icon has a pencil on a piece of paper. Click the icon and the editor opens directly in the web page. Very Cool! Make your changes and save the page.
Please remember to logout by navigating back to the PageMasters page and clicking the logout button. If you forget to logout and leave your computer, another person could edit pages from your computer. The system will log you out automatically after a half hour of inactivity.
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Administrator Access
http://www.ncstatecollege.edu/cms/administrator/index.php
The Administrator Access will give you a better look at the organization of the website. Most of the big buttons are related to creating and organizing articles. The Media Manager button lets you upload images, but please use it sparingly. Also please remember to logout for the same reasons listed above.
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Articles
Each article belongs to a section and a category. Categories are like storage cabinets. Sections are the folders within each cabinet and the articles are in each folder. This organization only matters internally. You could leave articles uncategorized, but that will only make it more difficult to find them later.
Articles are automatically placed in the default template. The header menus and footer are added automatically without any user input.
Each article has a table for the columns. That was just the easiest way for end users to see the format. The table is 5 columns wide with these widths: 180, 20, 380, 20, 260. The two "20"s are for space between the other three columns. You can use the editor template button to set up the table.
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Menus
The Menus are for external organization. The web path to the article is literally the menu structure in lower case. Look at the Admissions menu in the Administrator Access or the A-Z site index page. "Credit by Exam" is a sub menu of "Admissions". The literal web path translated from the menu is "/admissions/credit-by-exam". Notice that hyphens are added to eliminate spaces.
You have to think fairly abstractly to organize articles in the menus. A menu item is an object separate from the article. Under FrontPage the folder structure was the web path. In this system, the menu is similar to folder structure with one exception - the lowest item in the structure is a container, not a file. In the Admissions menu "Credit by Exam" can hold the article "Credit by Exam", but it could also be changed to "hold" an external link, a different article, a wrapper for another web page, a contact list, or an event list. Just because the menu is labeled "Credit by Exam" doesn't mean it is holding that article.
You can use the "test" menu to try things out. The test menu is active even though it doesn't show up on the A-Z page, which means you can add some menu items and then view them in a browser without affecting the rest of the website.
To use the test menu:
In the Administrator Access click the "Menus" then scroll down to "test". The Menu Item Manager will open listing the items in the "test" menu. A few items are already there. The item "test3" literally becomes "/test3" in a browser with "http://www.ncstatecollege.edu" added automatically. The full address would be "http://www.ncstatecollege.edu/test3".
To add a menu item:
Click the "plus" button in the upper right hand corner of the Menu Item Manager. Choose "Articles" and then "Articles Layout". Type in a menu item Title. The system will automatically create the Alias when you save. Under "Parent Item" choose where this menu item should appear in the heirarchy. Under Parameters (Basic) choose the article you want to link to this menu item. Click the save button in the upper right hand corner of the Menu Item Manager.
To delete a menu item:
Check the box to the left of the menu item. Click the trash button in the upper right hand corner of the Menu Item Manager.
Please Note:
Menus can't be changed with Inline access.
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A Few Words About the Page Editor
The save button is only available when the editor is in its collapsed state. You can expand the editor window to fill the browser window, but this also hides the save button. The "Maximize the editor" button looks like a little computer screen. Click that button and the editor window will expand to fill the browser window. The only problem is you have to click it again to minimize the window and get back to the save button. It is not possible to save with the editor window expanded.
The "undo" is a little flaky. Several steps are sometimes undone as a group.
Please note the Style and Format pulldown menus in the editor. The Style menu has some default CSS styles for captions, links, divisions and colors. "link_1" is the style applied to link lists on the left side of pages. In the Format menu, please use the headings listed for creating titles on your pages. These headings already have a default font applied to them. Please don't use the Font or Size pulldowns unless absolutely necessary because you will override the default font that is carried throughout the website.
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Section Templates
Each major section home page has a separate template assigned by the webmaster. The header includes everything between the top green navigation bar and the four tab bars at the bottom. Please contact the webmaster if you want to make changes in a section header.
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Accessing Old Pages
If you need to copy old pages, use this link:
http://www.ncstatecollege.edu/default_old.asp
Old pages will remain intact during the transition period until they are replaced by new ones. FrontPage will still work on the old pages.
You can copy your old information from an old page to a new page with the formatting intact. Open your old page in a browser and select whatever you want to copy. Use the keyboard shortcut to copy (control-C on Windows). Open a blank page in the Administrator Access editor and paste with the keyboard shortcut (control-V). Then, for the webmaster's sanity, erase the formatting and re-apply headings as necessary. There's a Remove Format button in the editor that looks like an old-school block eraser. Select all the text you just copied in and click the Remove Format button. That resets all the text to the default font.
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