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SiteScape Summit - A Short "How To" Guide
1. How to Login
Login names and passwords ARE case sensitive. I suggest using either all upper or all lower case. After registering enter your login name and password in the appropriate boxes and click on OK (or press Enter).
2. How to Change your Password or enter personal information
Click on your name (it is displayed between the WaterWeb title line and the Discussion and Document Forums section). This will display your user profile with an option at the top to "Modify". Clicking the modify button will display an edit screen allowing you to change your personal information. Once complete click the "OK" button at the bottom.
3. How to View Documents
Enter a Forum by clicking on its name (Water Information Summit III). Discussion topics, documents or links will then be displayed. Clicking on the document title will bring up a document summary (if the entry is a discussion topic the text of the message will be displayed). From the summary page clicking on the document title will present a download message. After responding to the message the document will be opened or saved to your local computer.
NOTE - you must have the appropriate program to open the posted document. If the document is posted in MS Word format (.doc file) you will need MS Word installed to open it. .RTF documents are compatible with different word processors. The use of .RTF format is recommended.
4. How to Reply to Messages and Documents
After reading a document or discussion topic you can reply to that entry by selecting Reply from the Entry Tools Menu (pull down menu at the top of the document page). After selecting Reply a form oriented entry screen will be displayed. You may enter a Title and the Text of your reply. You may cut and paste text from another program into the reply boxes. An Add Attachments option appears at the bottom of the form. If you have composed a reply (or have other supporting documents) in a word processing program you may choose to attach that document to the reply. Selecting the Add Attachment option will display a dialog box when you save the Reply (click the OK button). This will allow you to navigate to the document and then select it (similar to attaching a document to an e-mail message). Replying to messages will maintain a numbered tracking system for replies and keep the discussion organized.
5. Adding Documents or Discussion Topics
There are two primary ways to post information on the Summit, via Discussion Topics or Documents. Discussion Topics are used when you want to post a brief message and will compose the text within the confines of the Summit (the message will be typed in the Text box). Typically you would not add a longer "attachment" to the discussion topic posting. Document Postings are used when you want to post a file that has been created off-line in another program (word processing, spreadsheets, graphics, etc.).
The procedure is the same in both cases. Select the desired option from the Entry Tools Menu, the form screen will be displayed, fill in the appropriate boxes and click OK to save your entry. The Add Document screen will include an entry to specify the file to upload from your computer. You may type in the file path and name or use the Browse button to locate and select the desired document.
CAUTION - viewing documents requires the program the document was originally created with. The safest and most common formats to use are .RTF (rich text format), .PDF (Adobe Acrobat), and .TXT (text). If you choose to use a different format please note the program that created the document in the Title or Abstract sections.
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1. SiteScape Summit - A Short "How To" Guide