Wednesday, September 28, 2005
FILE UPLOADS
To Upload New Entry login at http://hawaiimarinelife.com/pm/index.php
Click the “New Entry” (top left side of link bar) and fill with info as Date and Time, Title, Category, Author and Upload file clicking “Arrow” button (top right side of button bar)
New Entry:
The New Entry menu item allows the user to add a new entry to a weblog. Once on the New Entry page, the user will see a number of fields:
The Title field is required; the other fields are optional. If you do not put anything in the More field, pMachine will not create the link to your more page in that particular entry.
You will also have three “custom” fields in addition to the ones above. This gives you a total of six entry fields with which to manage your information.
To access the custom fields, click the Entry Form Prefs link in the Weblog menu. You’ll see some buttons, which allow you to show/hide the various fields.
By default, pMachine is not set up to display information submitted in the custom fields or the Blurb field. The information submitted in any of these fields can be displayed on your pages in a number of ways. You can set up your various templates to include information from your custom fields (by adding the custom field variables), or you can display the information directly with some of the pMachine tags.
Date and Time:
You’ll notice two sets of date/time fields at the top of the entry form. These allow you change the “post” date of your entry as well as assign an expiration date. If you leave the expiration fields blank your entry will not expire. If you make the “post” date sometime in the future, the entry will not appear on your site until that date. This can be useful if, for example, you go on vacation and you want new entries to appear while you’re gone.
The row of buttons along the top of the form lets you add frequently used HTML to your entries. You can store any HTML you use frequently in those buttons. To assign HTML to them, click the Entry Form Prefs link.
Entry Status:
At the time of creation, you can choose whether the entry is “open” or “closed”. Open entries are displayed on your weblog page, while closed entries are not.
Authors:
If you have more than one author (admin) registered, you will see a list of names in the “author” menu.; Only SuperUsers and Semi-SuperUsers can change the author of an entry.
File Uploads:
Images and files and be uploaded and added to your entries by clicking the “Arrow” button (top right side of button bar). Upon clicking it, the link opens a small window, which enables you to upload and manage images and files. There are a number of preferences you can set through the upload page. You can also browse existing images and add them to your entries, or even delete them. If you have multiple authors accessing the control panel you can set access privileges so that they have limited ability to manage uploads.
Categories:
If you use the “categories” feature, you’ll also see a menu that lets you assign your weblog entry to a category. Categories are covered in detail next. Please note that categories can be either “global” or weblog-independent. Based on your category preference, the category menu will dynamically change each time you change the weblog assignment.
Auto br / Feature:
You’ll find a set of checkboxes at the bottom of the form which allow you to turn “on” or “off” the “auto br /” feature. When these boxes are checked, any line breaks (carriage returns) in your weblog entries will be automatically turned into br / tags. This is the most common use. If you prefer to do custom formatting of your entries, you can turn this off.
Auto XHTML:
You can optionally use a feature called “Auto XHTML” instead of the Auto
feature. With Auto XHTML, line breaks in your entries are turned into pairs of tags. In addition, some of the characters (like quotes) will be converted into typographically correct character entities.
Enable Comments:
The Enable Comments checkbox allows you to indicate on a per-entry basis whether comments are permitted or not. In your weblog preferences page you can set a master default for each weblog. The Enable Comments checkbox allows you to override the global setting a per-entry basis.
Once you’ve entered all the information, click “Submit” to add it to the database, or “preview” to preview the entry.
In your preferences you can also specify how HTML submitted in your entries should be handled. For example, pMachine will automatically turn URLs submitted in your entries into clickable links. There are a number of settings defined in your weblog preferences page.
