SME Training

Event Date: November 20, 2013
Time: Noon - 5 p.m.
Location: MTHW 301
Contact Name: Will Sondgerath
Contact Phone: 765-494-1871
Contact Email: wsondgerath@purdue.edu
The first Zope Training session for College of Engineering Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) will cover some basic HTML considerations, the Zope Management Interface (ZMI), adding folders and pages, and how to edit the navigation and sidebar elements built into the engineering "wrap."

Course contents

This is the preliminary outline of what the course will cover.

  1. HTML Primer
    • Basic HTML concepts
    • Headings and subheadings
    • HTML Documents in Zope
    • Resizing photos for web pages
       
  2. Zope Basics
    • Logging in
    • Management screens (using manage_main)
    • Objects summary
    • Filename format
    • Difference between title and id
    • How to add a folder
    • How to add HTML documents
    • Default index_html
    • Adding content
    • Reformatting from MS Word
    • Adding pictures
    • Adding other files and PDF or Word documents
       
  3. Wrap Functionality
    • Sidebars
    • Turning options on and off
       
  4. Resource Database
    • Logging in
    • Navigation
    • Searching to find people
    • Overriding information
    • Updating information
    • Primary groups and sub groups
    • Adding and deleting people and groups
       
  5. Event Manager
    • Event manager basics
    • Where to add things
    • Event Documents
    • Intro and Body
    • Draft/Published/Archived status and dates
    • Newsletters (if there's time)