Authors Tour
To get introduced to the role of CMS author, you will look over the shoulder of Marc, who is a member of the imaginary organization Swatia, an organization of people very interested in music, art and knowledge. We did not imagine an answer to the question whether Swatia is a commercial organization, a hobby organization, or both.
Swatia decided to publish an online newspaper about music, art and knowledge.
Marc will add an article about an upcoming multicultural Bazaar.
Screenshot of the online word-processor of the Hippo CMS. In the screenshots in the guide, you may double click to make it as large as possible and single click to show the relevant part. This is useful if the relevant part is small.
| 1 | Browser | Marc opens the Hippo CMS site of Swatia. He needed to know the site's web address and he got it from the CMS administrator, who got it from the system administrator who installed the Hippo CMS at Swatia. | |
| 2 | Login CMS |
Marc received a username and
password from his CMS administrator, to login to the CMS,
i.e. to get access to the CMS.
To login to the CMS, Marc types his username and password in the appropriate inputfields. His password is supposed to be only known to him, so you do not get to see it. | |
| 3 | Change password |
The CMS administrator told Marc that the password he gave him is not
unique and that Marc should change it to a word nobody else knows.
So Marc Changes his password.
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| 4 | Goto workspace |
Because Marc wants to work on
content,
he goes to the content workspace.
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| 5 | Goto Folder | Marc learned that all articles for Swatia's online newspaper are supposed to go in the 'newspaper' document folder, so he goes to that folder to add his new document in. | |
| 6 | Create document |
For the article about the upcoming multicultural bazaar, Marc creates a
document named 'multibazar2009'.
He gives it the document type 'upcoming',
because that is in Swatia the document type
for upcoming happenings, like the bazaar.
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| 7 | fill date | Marc sees that he is supposed to specify on what date the happening, which in his case is the bazaar, will be. So he looks up the date and specifies it in the document. | |
| 8 | fill string | Marc sees that he is supposed to type a title for the happening, which in his case is the bazaar, and he types 'Multicultural Bazaar 2009' as the title. | |
| 9 | fill boolean | Marc sees that he is supposed to answer the question whether the happening is indoors. Marc knows that the bazaar is not indoors and he adds that information in the document. He also is supposed to answer the question whether the happening is a recurring happening, i.e. a happening that has occurred before. This is the case, so Marc also adds that information to the document. | |
| 10 | fill markuped text | Marc sees that he can also write a description of the happening and he writes an informative text about the upcoming multicultural bazaar. He includes the place where the bazaar will be in this description, because there is no separate field for it and people need to know. | |
| 11 | save document | Marc finished his article about the upcoming multicultural bazaar, so he saves the document. | |
| 12 | request publication | Marc now requests publication of his article. Janine is the editor and she will receive this request and accept or reject it. | |
| 13 | schedule publication | As part of requesting publication of his article, Marc schedules when he thinks his article should be published. | |
| 14 | Logout | Marc quits for today. | |
| 15 | Login CMS | On some other day, Mark logs in again. | |
| 16 | Referring documents | Marc wants to know which documents refer to the panflute document. |