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Monday, June 02, 2008

Instructions for 2008 Think Salmon project reporters

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Starting with the April 2008 - March 2009 funding round, proponents are asked to enter a project description, interim progress summary and final results summary on the ThinkSalmon.com website. These will be publicly available on a ThinkSalmon page dedicated to your project that is part of a searchable database of projects.

Please choose a single project team member to be our ThinkSalmon reporter.  She or he will initiate and maintain project pages and calendar entries on ThinkSalmon via a web-based form in ExpressionEngine, the Content Management System (CMS) that underlies ThinkSalmon. She or he will receive any e-mail updates related to this activity.

Here are the steps for a ThinkSalmon reporter to follow:

• Click “login/register” in the upper right corner of the ThinkSalmon.com header
   
• Register as a member
  • Username is entered when logging on
  • Public name will appear in “Posted by” lines generated by the system
     

   

• Please do not enter your project or event information as a story, via the “Share your story” link.  This will not create a project or event page.
  Instead, send e-mail to Tiffany Pither, tpither(at)psf.ca, indicating you are a registered member and wish to be upgraded to a project reporter. Be sure to include the name of the organization(s) for which you will be posting projects and events.
   

 

• Once you receive a reply indicating you are a project reporter, you can access the control panel to create a project or event page. Follow this link, choose the “Publish” tab and select “FSWP Project” or “Event”.  Note that this link to access the control panel is different from the thinksalmon.com front page, so you may want to bookmark it.
  
   

 

• Fill in the form. Skip the field “URL Title”; this is generated automatically. Enter as many fields as you can, but you are free to skip fields that do not fit your entry. If entering a 2008 project, leave the “Interim progress” and “Final results” fields to fill in as the project progresses. Before you navigate away from the page (e.g., hit the back button or go to another site), hit the “Save” button that appears beside the title, or your entry will be lost.
  • By default, the saved entry is posted on Think Salmon immediately.
  • To save the information for future editing without posting it on Think Salmon, choose the “Options” tab above the title, use the drop down menu to change “Status” from “Open” to “Closed” and then hit the “Save” button that appears beside the title
     

 

• For events, the date of the event must be entered TWICE.  First, under the “Publish” tab, enter the event date in the “Start Date/Time” field of the form.  Next, select and copy the event date field, choose the “Date” tab above the title, paste this same event date in place of whatever date is shown as the “Entry date” (i.e. this “Entry date” should match the event date rather than today). If you don’t copy the event date into the “Entry date” field, the item will appear on the wrong calendar day.
   

 

• For projects, enter the project’s program area. Choose the “Category” tab just above the title, and select your main program area from the drop down menu. Projects can be searched by their program area as well as keywords, so don’t miss this step. For projects with significant components in another program area, hold the control key and selecting an additional category.
   

 

• To return to a project or event page you entered earlier, choose the “Edit” tab from the control panel, and select your page from the list.  You can use the filters that appear above the list to see fewer pages in the list.  For example, use the “Filter by section” drop down menu and / or enter keywords from your project title in the “Keywords” box, then hit the “Search” button at the bottom right of the filters.
   

 

• In the upper right corner of the control panel is a link to the User Guide, with a section “Help for project reporters”. This User Guide will be updated in response to questions that may arise.  Project reporters can change the User Guide and, you are encouraged to add questions and notes that others may find helpful.