Creating pages for new meetings or officers

  • Click content on the top of the page
  • Click add content
  • Click on the desired page to create

Creating gallery pages and linking them to other pages

  • Create a new basic page using the instructions above
  • Move all desired photos into a folder on your computer
  • Create a new Compressed (zipped) folder and copy all photos from the regular folder to the zipped folder
  • On the IAAPT website head to content
  • Click on Files
  • Click Add file
  • Click on Archive
  • Choose the zipped folder, click upload, and then submit. This is still buggy so there could be errors when trying this; keep trying until the files are submitted through.
    • If you get an error like this after clicking submit : 
       just click the back button and try again.
    • If you get an error after clicking upload just try uploading again until it works.
  • Open up the command prompt. To do this either: click the windows and r and the same time and type in "cmd" or click the start menu and type in cmd
  • Inside the command prompt type "cd" and then the location of your regular folder with all of the images.
    • To get the location of your folder open it up and on the top bar with it's name right click it and then select copy address as text
    •     To paste to the command prompt, press ctrl and v at the same time.
  • Press enter and now the command prompt should be in the location of your folder
  • Type in "dir /b > names.txt" and press enter
  • In your folder should now be a .txt file called names. The text file contains the name of all file names inside the folder.
  • Going back to the page you created click on the upload media browser button
  • Click on library
  • Using the text file called names, copy a line from the file and paste it into the text area under File name and click apply
  • Double click the image and click submit. Repeat this process for each photo
  • After each photo is done being uploaded head back to content
  • Search for the page you want to link the gallery to and click it.
  • Once on the page click edit
  • Type in the text you want to link the gallery to. Highlight it and click the link button
  • for Link Type, Internal path should be selected. On the Link textbox type in the gallery page created and click it
  • Scroll to the bottom of the page and click save

Archiving events on the event page

  • Head to the page you want to archive and select edit.
  • Look at the address bar on the top of the page and take note of the number after node/.
  • Click Back to site and head to events
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  • Select Customize this page at the bottom of the page
  • Scroll down until you see Custom: Events Archive. Click on the two gears
  • Click on source
  • Scroll to where you want the event to be and add a new line.
  • Copy another meeting already present. After the "node/" text add in the number you got from earlier and change the text to match what you want it to be.
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  • Scroll to the bottom and click finish. Then click save.
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Updating officers page

  • Create new page using the instructions on the top of the page and head to the officers page
  • Click edit
  • Scroll to the bottom of the body text area and add a new bullet point with the year to be added. Highlight the text and click on the link button
  • For Link Type select internal path and in Link type the name of the page you created earlier
  • Scroll to the bottom of the page and click save
  • If the text you just added doesn't match the font of the rest of the page head source in the edit page
  • Scroll to the bottom of body and find the text you want to match
  • In the texts above it find the brackets < >  that are missing from your text and add them in the same position