Typo3 Editing Guide
Introduction
This guide is a short tutorial on adding and editing content on the RHESSI Website. In order to edit the site you must have a username and password. If you have these, you can login here:
The images used were taken from the Typo3 Wiki. A longer guide to editing content in Typo3 can be found here. An even more extensive guide in PDF form can be found here.
The Backend Tree
Once you have logged in to the site, click on View on the upper left of the page. The page should now appear similar to the screen shot below.
The part labeled (1) is task menu. From this list you can select any tasks you are authorized to perform, depending on your user privileges. The next part, labeled (2), shows the page tree. This is the hierarchical listing of all pages on the current site. The top page is the home page, all pages branch for here and are shown in their position below the page they are spawned from in the tree. The section labeled (3) is the work area. The area labeled (4) shows the details for the user logged in. You should see your username along with details on the workspace you are using, any shortcuts you've added to pages you are working on, and the search function. Keep in mind that you should create all your pages in the Draft Workspace. If you are in the Draft Workspace, a banner will appear above section (2) saying Draft Workspace.
The basic tree for the new site has been created. Right Clicking on any page will cause the menu in the image below to appear.
Briefly, starting at the top and working our way down, each option in the menu does the following:
- Show - Displays the web page as it will appear when published
- Edit - Allows the user to edit the title and metadata on a page
- New - Allows the user to create a new page, a new content element, or change system records
- Info - Displays all page information, such as last date edited and URL
- Copy - Copies the page
- Cut - Cuts content from the page
- Versioning - Shows information on the editing history of the page
- Send to Review/Pub - Send finished page to be reviewed and published on the live website
- More Options ...
- Hide - Hides the web page or content element so it is not displayed on the live website
- Visibility Settings - Allows the user to set controls for displaying and hiding a webpage or content element
- Edit Page Properties - edits metadata on the page
- Delete - Deletes the page or content element
- History/Undo - Allows the user to look at editing history of page and revert it to a previous version
Creating a New Page
Selecting the option to create a new page will give the user options on the location of the page and the metadata for the page (title, direct URL, etc.) Once these have been selected content elements for the page can be created. The menu of different possible content elements is shown below, along with the selection for the location of the element on the page.
The content elements are described in the text below the radio buttons which allow the user to select an element to add.Any available content element can be added to the page. The location of the content element on the page can be selected at the bottom of the page. Due to the template we are using for our site all content elements should be added to the normal column.
Adding Rich Text Elements to the Content Field
If you choose to add the text element, the following interface will displayed when you select the option to edit the element:
Once at the editor text can be added just as in a graphical Wiki environment or any other text document. The buttons at the top of the text field allow the user to format the text, including adding links to internal and external sources. A brief summary of the numbered buttons is below.
- 1.Bold and Italic Text
- 2.Super and Sub Script
- 3.Numbered and unordered lists
- 4.Indent a paragraph
- 5.Insert a special character
- 6.Create a hyperlink for highlighted text
- 7.Insert Table
- 8.Search and Replace
- 9.Show HTML Source code (not always available, page dependent)
- 10.Remove Formatting from cut and paste items (Does not always succeed, depends on source material)
- 11.Undo / Redo editing
- 12.Toggle Borders of Tables
These buttons should accomplish most of your basic formatting needs while creating a text page.
Using modules with Image elements
Adding Image content elements can be done using the interface below. This can be used for images only or text with images.
The buttons on the page that allow formatting of an image element are circled above. Each button does the following:
- 1. The list of current images on the page
- 2. Select an image from the available list and reorder it's position on the page
- 3. Select an image from the current list to remove
- 4. Add an image from the filelist on the server to add to the page (Currently not available)
- 5. Directly upload an image for use only in this content element
- 6. Place the images relative to text on the page
- 7. Set a specific height/width for all images on the page
- 8. Turn images into links
- 9. Make the fullscreen image available
- 10. Set image quality
- 11. Create image captions, one per line for each image, in order of image list
These buttons will allow formatting of all images on pages. The filelist module is being installed, currently button four is not available.
