Engineering Computing Services
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Phone: 785-532-4643
support@engg.ksu.edu
Creating and Editing
Create new content (pages, forms, directory entries, etc):
- From the admin menu bar, choose Content management->create content
Create a new menu item:
- Link to a new internal page: create the new page and give it a "Menu link title" and "Parent Item".
- Link to a PDF (not recommended -- link the PDF in a sidebar instead):
- Hover over the menu area and click on in the top right corner.
- Click to add a new menu item.
- Open the PDF in a separate browser or tab to find its full URL.
- Paste in the URL as the Path. Example: "http://bae.k-state.edu/files/bae/presentation.pdf"
- Link to an external website (not recommended -- put the link in a sidebar instead):
- Hover over the menu area and click on in the top right corner.
- Click to add a new menu item.
- Paste in the URL as the Path. Example: http://www.google.com/
Edit content
- Click the tab at the top of the page you want to edit.
Field explanations (* means required)
- Title*. Shown in ALL CAPS at the top of the page.
- Menu link title. The text used in the menu. Usually matches the Title. Warning: If you leave the menu link title blank, this item will not be in the menu, making it easy to lose if it isn't linked elsewhere on your website.
- Parent Item. Where in the menu to place this item. Select <Primary links> to make this a top-level item.
- Body*. The main text of a page. How to use the editor.
- Highlights. The highlights (stories with pictures) to show in rotator at the top of this page.
- URL path setttings. The path to this page. (defaults to something like node/53)
- Don't put a slash (/) at the front or end of the URL. Use dashes to separate words (not spaces or underscores).
- Create a path hierarchy. For example, this page's parent is using-drupal, so this page's URL should begin with with using-drupal/
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Good example
- using-drupal/create-edit
- using-drupal/create-edit
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Bad examples (don't do this!):
- /using-drupal/create-edit (shouldn't have slash at beginning)
- create-edit (doesn't have parent item's URL as part of its path)
- using_drupal/create edit (uses spaces and underscores instead of dashes)
- UsingDrupal/CreateEdit (runs words together, uses upper-case)
- using-the-drupal-content-management-system/how-to-create-content (too long!)
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