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Introduction and Documentation for the Admin Interface of BioTech

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Translations

To add translations from the admin interface: make a new article with "translation" as a file type, click on "insert" and then select the original article as "parent". Click save again to finish. For a detailed explanation about translations see BiotechTranslation

Re-generating the site

remember that the site will only be updated every so often, unless you click the "> generate all new" link

how-to-add event topics:

• 2 things..
• 1. you should enter a filename, it should not have spaces..., and be lowercase... like cancun or cancun2003 would be better...
• 2. you should put "event" into the archive url field...
• 3. you should go to the advanced producer page, and then click on navigation.generate and then on synchronization.run

how-to post an article from the admin interface

• click on "new article"
• file in the online-form and click on "insert"
• turn the field "published" on
• you can now also add images etc or attribute a translation to the original article (that's under parent/child)
• click on "save"
• the page is update every half hour, but you can also click on "generate all new" so that it will take place faster

Changing date and time of a posting

• for all articles the date can be changed in the form: type the date in the edit field
• especially older articles taken from other Indymedia sites should have real date, beacuse otherwise the chronology of the newswire doesn't really make sense
• it's also possible to keep an article on top of the middle column by changing the date in this way.

Uploading images etc.

• images etc can only be uploaded from the computer you are actually working on, not from another website

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-- ClarA - 26 Jul 2003
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