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Submitted by admin on Sat, 2010-01-09 09:55
Create content:
At the top of your personal menu, you'll find a link called "create content". Click this and you'll see a list of the types of content you can create. This list reflects the privileges assigned to your user account or to your "role".
Page:
To dispaly any information in text with or with out images, pages are used.The title and body are pretty self-explanatory.Tags are provided to place the content in the appropriate sections like PVD advances, news etc.
Blog Entry:
If the blog is a diary, you probably want to use the date for the title.If it's a collection of thought, give it a meaningful title.Type in the content of the entry.Your blog will always show the most recent entries on the beginning page when visitors view it.
Event:
User can add the upcoming events using this option.The date choosing option is provided to indicate the duration of the event. This content will be displayed in the home page as the upcoming events.
Group post:
The content to be displayed in a group is created using this option. User can opt the group or groups in which the content has to be displayed.
Image gallery:
Use can add images to the available PVRI galleries. User can provide text contents also for its description.
Forum:
The forum module lets you create threaded discussion forums with functionality similar to other message board systems. Forums are useful because they allow community members to discuss topics with one another while ensuring those conversations are archived for later reference. The forum topic menu item (under Create content on the Navigation menu) creates the initial post of a new threaded discussion, or thread. A threaded discussion occurs as people leave comments on a forum topic (or on other comments within that topic). A forum topic is contained within a forum, which may hold many similar or related forum topics.
Video:
The Video Module is used to create and administrator Video nodes for Drupal. Allow a variety of video formats to be posted as nodes in your site.
Others:
When the user clicks other option, user will find all the permitted types of contents.Other than the above mentioned content types, some others like polls , twitts are available.
Books:
It permits a document to have chapters, sections, subsections, etc. Authors with suitable permissions can add pages to a collaborative book, placing them into the existing document by adding them to a table of contents menu.
How to edit the user profile:
User needs to click the account link in the left side box. At the top of My account page user will find the option of "Edit”. Once hitting edit, user will initially find the account information (the first Tab "account").Here the user can change his or her email id , password etc. The second Tab is "Disclosure" will have the corresponding field to fill up. The Third Tab is the "Personal information" fields with personal details. Fourth Tab is "My newsletters" related to news letter subscription and the Fifth Tab is the Twitter accounts. Note: The changes in the user profile will be reflected only after clicking "save".