Hints and Tips for Using the Site | |
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Table of contents | |
You can set up the site to meet your needs. The home page tries to provide links to information you need for your organization. The footer may best show the hierarchy or tree of the site. It now incorporates current information for the Otsego-Schoharie District at
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For example
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O-S District E-mail Group | |
To Send Messages and Event Information to the group you must be a member of the group. Then just send an e-mail to o-sfreemasons at googlegroups.com To join the O-S Freemasons E-mail group have your lodge secretary send a request to oneontamasonry at gmail.com |
Contributing | |
This site is designed for you to contribute information about past and future events. The primary vehicle for this is to submit an Article and upload photos and files to the galleries. If you want to do so, please ask for an account and assistance if you need that. |
OSDMasons.org Account | |
This website requires a different account from the Google e-mail group. An account here will allow you to upload files and pictures, submit articles, and manage your organizations webpages here. Every lodge, chapter, etc should have a webmaster to do this, |
Site Structure | |
This website uses tiki features to build a set of pages for each Masonic Group using
Each group has a Group Header page that is included using the custom group module depending on the category group's theme assignment. Wiki plugins |
Calendar/Events | |
The O-S Freemasons Calendar is the same except that Oneonta Lodge events have been moved to the oneonta466 at gmail.com calendar. Both appear at
Thus far "area" calendars include
You may deselect from view any of the calendars. Use the triangle next to "Agenda". You may include any of these calendars on your Google calendar. Google has help for that. Each lodge/organization can (should) have their own gmail account/calendar that they can manage and have included here. |
Viewing | |
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Using the Wiki | |
The Wiki is an environment where users can edit pages as they want adding information, links, lists and images that they find useful, you can use a Wiki as a feature of a users community, a club, a fan site, etc. The most important elements in the Wiki are the Wiki pages. The Wiki is the most important feature in intranets or collaboration webs. |
Creating and Editing Pages | |
If you have the appropiate permissions you will see a menu at the bottom of pages with several options and one of them will be “edit”, when you click “edit” you are able to edit the page that you are watching, you can try editing a page and writing some text on it. Use the “preview” feature as many times as you need it before clicking “save”. If create new pages, prefix names with your organization number then use alias to better describe to browsers. In order to create a new Wiki you should first generate a “reference” to the page from an existing page, Wiki automatically generates a reference when you write a word using Capitalized words smashed together, for example ThisIsMyPage or TennisResults or VisitLondon, when Tiki first sees a reference the page will display the name followed by a “?”, let’s see an example. We’ll edit the home page.Access the home page and click “edit” at the bottom of the page. The number of options and boxes when editing a page depends on the features enabled when configuring the Wiki. Write some text making sure you use the word MyFirstPage, save the page using “save”. Use the preview button if you want to preview how the page will look like once edited. As you can see there’s a “?” question mark following MyFirstPage, this indicates that MyFirstPage is referenced from this page but has no content (it was never edited) so the “?” question mark is a link to “edit” the page. Click the question mark and edit the page. Save the page using the save button and you will see: Click the “home” option in the menu to return to the HomePage. As you can see MyFirstPage is now displayed as a link, if you click on it you will access MyFirstPage viewing the content you just edited. This is how new pages are created and edited and how the Wiki is navigated, as you can see creating pages is really easy and that’s why Wiki’s are populated at a very high speed rate by their users adding pages and content as they need. If you want to know what kind of features you can use when you edit a page visit the Wiki Tag System section where you will learn how to use titles, lists, images etc. |
Viewing a Page | |
When browsing a wiki page a lot of information is displayed, the number of icons buttons and information depend on the options enabled for the Wiki. In this section we’ll explain all the buttons and icons that can be used when browsing a Wiki page. Understanding what each button does:
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Editing pages and the Wiki markup syntax | |
Editing pages is the most important feature of the Wiki. The edit screen allows you to edit a page, preview the page as many times as you want and then save it. To edit pages you use a special syntax common to many Wiki systems that is called “The Wiki Tag System”, this will allow you to use bold text, italics, images and many other things in your pages. If you have the permission you may also use regular HTML code in your Wiki pages thus permitting a page to be anything you want to be. IF you have permission to use HTML you should be able to see a checkbox labeled “Allow HTML” at the bottom of the page. The checkbox is enabled by default, if you uncheck it then HTML tags will be removed when saving the page. |
Articles | |
When logged in, "Home" menu shows more actions, e.g. Add Article. When adding article, classify it as with organization number. If event can also set start & end for display. |