Document Actions
1.5.
Setting Your Preferences
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After logging in, your full name will be posted on the right side of the header strip. Click your name to go to your personal area, called the dashboard:
You will see the dashboard panel:
When you log in for the first time, your dashboard will be empty, as the Info message explains. Portlets are specific "views" of different types of content. You can choose which ones you want in your dashboard by clicking the Edit tab, but we'll get to that in a second. First, let's look at the Profile and Personal Preferences links at top right. Clicking the Profile link brings up a panel that shows your personal profile photograph, if you have uploaded one:
After you have created content on the web site, you can come back here to see it nicely listed. The Edit tab for the profile, or the Personal Preferences link discussed above, will bring up the personal preferences panel:
Date entry fields include:
- Full Name - If your name is common, include your middle initial or middle name.
- E-mail address - REQUIRED - You may receive emails from the web site system, or from a message board, if installed, etc. When an item is required, a little red square will show alongside the item.
- Location text box - This is the name of your city, town, state, province, or whatever you wish to provide.
- Language preference selection menu - Plone excels at offering multilingual support.
- Biography text box - Enter a short description of yourself here, about a paragraph or so in length.
- Home Page web address - If you have your own web site or an area at a photo-sharing web site, for instance, enter the web address here, if you wish, so people can find out more about you.
- Content Editor selection menu - You have the choice of using Kupu, which lets you edit web pages with a nice graphical interface, or using a basic editing panel, which is good if you are accustomed to writing web pages using HTML (the basic "code" of web pages). The default setting is to use Kupu, and is assumed in this user manual.
- Enable External Editing checkbox - This is for switching on and off an "external" editor, if one has been installed by the web site administrator. Use of an "external" editor is mainly for web designers and
programmers who do more editing of actual code, but it could be useful
for volume page creation using specialized text mark-up languages. (Don't worry about this setting if you haven't heard anything about it from your web site administrator).
- Listed in Searches checkbox - Uncheck this box if you do not want to be listed in searches. Normally you would want to keep this checked, because having open communications is an important goal of most Plone web sites.
- Portrait photograph upload - The portrait photograph will appear as a small image or thumbnail-size image, so it is best to use a head shot or upper-torso shot for this.
You can change your preferences whenever you wish.
