Instructions for posting into website:

If you are a Member of the Austria DA group, you can input items into the website under your own name into the central panel of the page, the so called "stream", below the yellow welcome message by following these steps:

1.  Select "Create group post" from the items in the left panel of the page.

2.  Input the title of the post

3.  Upload an image if you want (browse to the location of the image file, select it, then click on upload).  This image will be resized according to some predefined limitation.

4.  Input your text into the box labelled "Body:"  The formatting of the text is extremely limited (bold, italic and a couple of list options).  Just experiment and see what works. 

5.  If there are links in the text you are entering, highlight the link (e.g., http://change.gov), make it bold by clicking on the "B" icon under the Body box, copy the link into your clipboard and then click on the link icon (it looks like a chain - or two ovals connected), then paste the link into the box that appears and in the second field, select "Open link in a new window",  If you get it wrong, you can break the link by selecting the chain icon to the right of the one to create a link, and just try again.

6.  Click on the blue "Groups" link and make sure that both Austria and Public are selected.  Austria should be selected by default, but you must always select Public.  This lets everyone see what you're posting, even people who are not yet members of Austria.

7.  Make sure that "publish this node" is selected in the "Publishing options" box.  It should be selected by default.

8.  You can select "make sticky at top of lists" to make your post the first one even when someone posts something at a later date, but don't be offended if I were to change this setting at some point depending on what the most important info is for the DAA site in general. 

9.  Click on the blue "Comment settings".  If you want people to respond to your post - i.e., you want to start a public discussion, leave it at the default Read/Write.  If you don't want any comments, click on Diasbled or Read only.

10.  If you have some files to attach, click on the blue "File attachments" link, Browse to the file on your computer and select it, then click on the "Attach" button.  Repeat this for however many files you want to upload.

11.  Click the Preview button to see how it will all look once you've posted it and page down to make any changes.  Preview again and edit again, until it all looks like what you want.

12.  When you're happy with how it looks, click the Submit button.

If you get into trouble, contact DAA WebAdmin for assistance.