Salsa Commons Debuts
Submitted Wed May 21 2008 17:54:25 GMT-0400 (EDT)-
A massive update from the previous manual available, which had become dated in several key areas;
An easily updatable wiki that will serve as a living document we can update and add to as we build;
The kernel of a much larger project to build in other kinds of documentation, peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, and a panoply of other resources.
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Why are my pages not secure? (Un)locking the mystery.
Submitted Mon May 12 2008 10:49:35 GMT-0400 (EDT)1. Find out which template your nonsecure-soon-to-be-secure page is using. You can do this by looking at the number after the /t/ in the page's URL - this is the template key - or checking which template is highlighted on Step 1 of your page creation workflow. If no template is highlighted or there is no /t/ in your URL, you're using your site's default template. To see a list of your templates, go to dashboard -> manage templates.
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E-xemplar: Customizing a DIA Dashboard
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E-xemplar: YouTube-DIA Campaign Mashup
Submitted Thu Feb 01 2007 14:56:28 GMT-0500 (EST)When embedding YouTube in DIA, the thing to look out for is the WYSIWYG ["What You See Is What You Get" -- the word processor-like HTML editor used in e-mail blasts and on some user-facing pages. -ed.] editor. It has a tendency to mangle code, so I would suggest disabling it when adding the HTML provided by YouTube.
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Be a DIA Guru: Imports
Submitted Thu Oct 12 2006 20:00:00 GMT-0400 (EDT)(Disclaimer: We try to keep this blog, for the most part, of general interest as opposed to focused on particulars of using the DIA software. This post is an exception.)
Want to store donations information with your DIA supporter record?
Want to import petition signers?
Want to create Group membership -- or the Groups themselves -- during an import?
When we set up new users on DemocracyInAction, we usually handle or assist imports of migrating data. Plenty of DIA users never touch the importer after that, but it's actually one of the most potent features in our system.
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E-xemplar (Shameless Self-Promotion Class): Codepink's Fasting Directory
Submitted Fri Jul 14 2006 18:00:00 GMT-0400 (EDT)Directories are one of our newer tools, and not that widely understood or adopted. In a nutshell, they allow you to offer your site visitors the ability to query parts of your database for certain types of information. (You control who they search for and how.)
So we were thrilled to see our resident lightning rods Codepink use it to support their now-ongoing TroopsHomeFast.
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