Introduction

This page is only useful if you've got an account (see Joining the website for details).

When you join the site, you have a folder which can hold any number of pages, images, and so forth. To get to get to your home folder, click on the blue my folder in the upper-right blue list of choices for logged in users.

The rest of this page explains how to add documents to this folder. If you have permissions in other folders, these steps will work there as well.

Adding a Document

There are two views of a folder in the Redwall MUCK site. The first view shows you the folder in "Contents view" and the second in "Item View." To tell what view you are in, look at the navigation display on the left column. It tells you to switch to the other view. So if it says Switch to Contents view you are in Item View.

To add new documents (or images) to a folder, you want to be in Contents view. So, if your navigation display shows Switch to Contents view then click that. You will then be in contents view.

In contents view, you see your folder as having a list of items, with a check box before each item. You can check the box, and click delete from the buttons below to remove content. To add content, you use the drop-down box on the upper right.

In the select box on the right, drop-down and choose Document. Then click the add new item button. This will bring up an "Edit Document" display.

The name is what the URL will be. For instance, if you want a page on "combat in the middle ages" you might decide the URL should be combat_middle_ages. Notice I didn't bother with an extension, like ".html" because this system isn't making files, it's making documents. Feed in whatever name you like. No spaces or special symbols is best.

Next, it asks for "Title". This is what the user will see on the page top and in the selection window. This is where you put your human-friendly title, such as "Combat in the Middle Ages".

Next is "Description". This is where a short description of what the page is about should go. A single sentence or so. Nothing fancy. This should be human readable.

Finally, the body text. Fill this in with normal readable text. Put headings as simple lines, and indent the content below them. Play with this. It takes a lot of work to get the effect you want.

For a quick how-to on the use of the structured text that makes this possible, see Using Structured Text - A Cheat Sheet at the official Plone site for details.

When done, the bottom of the page has a save button. Click it, and your new page is live.

If you want to enable BBS-like discussions on it, click the properties tab on the new page, and choose enable in the Discussion radio-button set at the top of the property page.