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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Instructions for 2009 Think Salmon project reporters

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For the April 2009 - March 2010 funding round, we have posted a project page based on each proposal being funded. Specifically, the overview, outcome and method sections of the proposal are used to describe the project.

These pages are publicly available on ThinkSalmon as part of a searchable database of projects. To view your project page, go to the Projects section on ThinkSalmon.com. In the “Search by keywords” box, enter some words from your Project title. Then hit the “search” button a few lines below.

Proponents are welcome to edit their project page at any time during the year, including the initial project description, interim progress summary and final results summary. Proponents are also invited to submit calendar entries for any event related to watershed and salmon conservation that is open to the public.

Here are the steps for editing your project page on ThinkSalmon:

• If you are already logged in as a ThinkSalmon user other than proponent09 (FSWP 2009 project reporter), then log out.
   
• Go to the control panel. If you are not already logged in, you will be asked to do so. Enter the Username and password given in the Contract checklist that accompanied your FSWP Service Agreement. 
  Do NOT change the password or screen name.
   
• After logging in, you will be directed to the control panel.  Select the “Edit” tab. Select your project from the list of 54 2009 projects. To shorten the list, you can enter some words from your project title into the “Keywords” box and hit the “Search” button to the right.
  • Note: You may want to bookmark the control panel at www.thinksalmon.com/contentzsystem for future reference, as this does not automatically come up when you log in from the front page of ThinkSalmon.
  
  
• Edit the text in the form.  Of particular interest will be the “Description” field and, later in the year, “Interim progress” and “Results” fields. You must push the “Save” button in the green box to the right of the “Title” field to enter your changes.
   
• Note that the “Contact information” field is for internal use only.  This information does not display with the project page and is not available to the public. If you would like to make contact information available to the public, you can add this information somewhere in the “Description” field.
   
• You can add pictures to your project page, either by linking to pictures already on the web or by uploading them to ThinkSalmon. To link to pictures already posted on Flickr or anywhere else on the web, follow steps 1 to 7 below. For your convenience, the basic instructions are repeated on the Edit form above the “Image” field.
  1. First, paste this code into the “Image” field on your project page, and fill in the items marked with parentheses ():
     
     <div class="photoboxleft" style="width: 260px;">
     <img src="(Your image location link goes here; retain quotes)" width="240" >
     <p>(Your photo caption goes here)<br>
     <i>Photo: (Your photo credit goes here. Delete this entire line to omit the credit.)</i>
     </p> </div>
      
  2. Next, find the picture on the web and right click (control-click) on the image and choose “Copy image location.” Paste this location into the 2nd line of code above, replacing (Your image location link goes her; retain quotes).  Be sure to leave the quotation marks in place.  Here is an example of what this line of code looks like when it links to a photo on Flickr:
     
     <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/116/428670219_518dfcde37.jpg" width="240" >
     
     
  3. Then replace (Your photo caption goes here) with your caption.
  4. Either replace (Your photo credit goes here. Delete this entire line to omit the credit.) with your photo credit, or delete the entire line to omit a credit.
  5. To omit the photo box and caption, use just the 2nd line of code above (<img src= ...>)
  6. By default, your picture will appear at the bottom left of your project page. To move the photo box to the right side of the page, replace "photoboxleft" in the first line of code above with "photobox"
  7. To move the photo up from the bottom of the page, cut the entire contents from the "Image" field and paste it into the "Description" field by the text where you want it to appear.  Placement will be approximate.
  
   
• To upload a picture and put it on your ThinkSalmon project page, follow these steps
  • Click on “Upload file”, which appears directly below the “Save” button in the green box to the right of the “Title” field. A “File upload | EE” pop up window with two boxes will appear.
  • In the “File upload” box at top, use the drop down menu to select the destination directory “Images and files from project reporters.”
  • Then hit the “Browse” button above that menu to find the image file that you want to upload.
  • Hit the “Upload” button just below the drop down menu.
  • Finally, follow steps 1 to 7 above, except substitute for step 2:

    
    

    2. Replace (Your image location link goes her; retain quotes) in the 2nd line of code with
    

             {filedir_6}(Your image file name goes here, eg, fswppix.jpg)
    

    Fill in the name of the image file you just uploaded. Be sure to leave the quotation marks in place. Here is an example of what this line of code might look like:
    

             <img src="{filedir_6}fswppix.jpg" width="240" >

To add an event to the Think Salmon calendar:

• Go to the control panel. If you are not already logged in, you will be asked to do so. Enter the Username and password given in the Contract checklist that accompanied your FSWP Service Agreement. 
  Do NOT change the password or screen name.
   
• After logging in, you will be directed to the control panel. Choose the “Publish” tab.
   
• Select “Event” from the drop down menu.
   
• 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.
  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.
  
  
• 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.
  

To return to a project or event page you saved earlier,

• Go to the control panel.
   
• choose the “Edit” tab.
   
• 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, enter a couple of words from your project or event title in the “Keywords” box, then hit the “Search” button at the bottom right of the filters.