1. Anymeta training
Editors Module
Evelyn Grooten & Nick Verstand
28th of April 2011
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2. Block 3
The admin
- How to get there
- The four tabs
- The advanced search
- Creating things
- Assignment 1
- Assignment 2
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3. Block 3 – Working in the admin
How to get to the admin
Possible to search on ID
= front
You can do more in the admin
= back
Create navigation, specify kinds with
types, change the owner
Go to /admin and click home
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4. Block 3 – Working in the admin
The four tabs
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5. Block 3 – Working in the admin
The advanced search
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6. Block 3 – Working in the admin
Creating things
Create things by opening the menu
in the left margin
Or scroll all the way down, below
advanced search
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7. Block 3 – Working in the admin
Assignment 1
1. Find a location on Mediamatic.net (and write down the ID)
2. Go to your profile and click Admin
3. Find the role Lives and connect the location to your profile
4. You may delete it again by choosing ‘disconnect’ in the dropdown
5. Don’t forget to save your changes
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8. Block 3 – Introduction into the admin
Assignment 2
1. Make an alternative uri for the content you added earlier. Try if it works.
2. Remove the alternative uri.
3. Make a redirect uri for your content. Try if it works.
4. Remove the redirect uri.
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9. Block 4
Structuring content
- Influencing the right column
- Assignment 1
- Set and Listpublish
- Assignment 2
- Homepage, navigation, symbolic name
- Theme
- Assignment 3
- Merging things
- Delete things
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10. Block 4 – Structuring content
Influencing the right column
The matching column automatically fills itself due to the metadata that is added to the
different contributions, but it ís possible to influence this a bit, with...
- Choose keywords and tags
- About role
only when semantically correct
- Extra context
add your thing to the matching results
- Fixed context
replace matching results with your things
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11. Block 4 – Structuring content
Assignment 1
- Add your profile to your article or event with the role ‘extra content’.
- Check in the frontend what happens
- Disconnect your profile
- Add your profile to your article or event with the role ‘fixed content’
- Check in the frontend what happens
- Disconnect your profile
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12. Block 4 – Structuring content
Set and Listpublish
Two ways of making lists:
- Set
- Listpublish
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13. Block 4 – Structuring content
Set and Listpublish
Two ways of making lists:
- Set
a hand picked selection of things
- Listpublish
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14. Block 4 – Structuring content
Set and Listpublish
Two ways of making lists:
- Set
a hand picked selection of things
- Listpublish
results of an automatic search query
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15. Block 4 – Structuring content
Examples of Sets
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16. Block 4 – Structuring content
Examples of Sets
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17. Block 4 – Structuring content
Listpublish
You can specify...
- the things you want to show
- the order
- how many results per page
Examples: search, calendar, latest comments, list of participants, all pictures taken at an
event
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18. Block 4 – Structuring content
Example of listpublish
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19. Block 4 – Structuring content
Example of listpublish
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20. Block 4 – Structuring content
Set or listpublish?
- I have 1200 pictures that are taken at yesterday’s event
- Overview of 4 specific artists that were involved in the latest exhibition
- I have a growing list of workshops since 2004 that need to be updated weekly
- I want to make a list of job openings that I want to update when the job is filled
- I want to automatically show the latest news items in a list
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21. Block 4 – Structuring content
Assignment 2
- Go to the /admin and create a new set
- Title ‘[your name]’s set’
- Give it a short title
- Add your article, event and profile as setmembers
- Change the order of the set members
- Make it visible to me only
- Publish
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22. Block 4 – Structuring content
Homepage and navigation
The homepage of an Anymeta site has several
lists and sets.
Editors can change the homepage by editing
these lists and sets.
They are determined by their symbolic name.
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23. Block 4 – Structuring content
Theme navigation
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24. Block 4 – Structuring content
Theme navigation
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25. Block 4 – Structuring content
Theme navigation
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26. Block 4 – Structuring content
Assignment 3
In the set you created in assignment 2, please:
- Go to the admin of your set and check the theme ‘Anymeta training’
- Check ‘navigation’ in your set (for a dropdown)
Go to the admin of the pages in your set and check the theme ‘anymeta training’
- Now go to the set ‘Anymeta training navigation set’ (156772) and add your set as a
setmember of this set
- After the assignment is evaluated, uncheck the theme for all users!
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27. Block 4 – Structuring content
Merging things
Sometimes you find double things on the website. You can merge them together.
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28. Block 4 – Structuring content
Merging things
Find them in the /admin.
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29. Block 4 – Structuring content
Merging things
Now alias them. Delete the one without text!
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30. Block 4 – Structuring content
Merging things
Now you get this result:
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31. Block 4 – Structuring content
Deleting things
- Deleting, secure deleting, disconnecting
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32. Block 4 – Structuring content
Deleting things
- Deleting = putting something in the trashcan (link stays)
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33. Block 4 – Structuring content
Deleting things
- Secure deleting -> gone forever. So the link is gone too.
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34. Block 4 – Structuring content
Deleting things
- Disconnecting: both things remain, but the link between them goes away.
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35. Block 4 – Structuring content
Last assignment
- Delete your set
- Go to My contributions
- Go to the /admin of your content
- Make sure all training (test) content is deleted (secure deleted)
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36. End of the Editors Module
Questions?
Congratulations!
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