Adding Content

Forum Posting
- Posting
You can add discussion topics to the forums by one of two methods:
From the forums pages - navigate to the forum you would like to post a topic to and click on the new topic button. Fill out the form and your topic is added.
From the menu - select "create content" from the left hand menu then click on forum topic. Fill out the form and be sure to select which forum the topic should be created in.

 
- Replies
Replies to forum posts use Drupal's built in commenting system. To reply to a forum topic simply navigate to the topic in question in the forums and click on the reply button.
 
Stories
The story content type is used to post content to the articles pages and can be on whatever topics your heart desires. Anything from a story about your favorite event to a detailed paper on your latest A&S project and anything in between.
 
To create a new story select create content from the left menu. On the next page click on story. Fill out the form and be sure to select whatever category or categories are relevant to your article. Once you submit the story it will be listed on  the articles page under whatever categories you chose.
 
Some of you observant types may have noticed the Organization for Articles select field in the story form. This is primarily used to associate official documents (like meeting minutes) with the barony or canton they go with. It can be safely ignored unless you're posting to the official documents section or sub-sections thereof.
 
Book Pages
Books and book pages are used to create collections of closely related content. The beginners guide and this useage guide are both examples of the type.
 
- Creating new books
To make a new book select the "book pages" content type from the create content page. Fill out the form and then click on the "book outline" link towards the bottom of the page.  Select the Book: dropdown and choose <create a new book>. Whatever you put in the title field will be the name of the new book.


- Adding pages to an existing book
To add a page to an existing book simply create a new book page and select the book you want to add it to in the Book Outline section of the form. The "parent item" select box lets you choose where in the book outline the new page is displayed.
 
- Editing existing pages
Currently only the original owner of the page and content administrators have the right to edit existing book pages.
 
Images & Galleries
Image galleries are now created using the image gallery content type. You will be prompted for a gallery title and description. In addition there are file upload fields which are used to add photos to the gallery. When creating a new gallery there are two file fields displayed by default. You can add additional images by clicking on the "add another item" button, which will give you an additional file field. Please make sure that there are no spaces in the image file name, as those will prevent the image from displaying.
 
Once you have selected an image you need to click on the upload button beneath the file path to send that image to the website. Once the image has been uploaded you will see three fields (description, alt, and title) displayed beneath the image thumbnail. Note only the image title field is currently supported. This field is used to store image captions that are displayed beneath full sized images in the gallery.
 
If you accidentally upload the wrong photo you can remove it and start over again by clicking the remove button. You can edit your galleries (including uploaded photos and captions) at any time to add more images or to change or remove captions or photos.
 
Events & Locations
 For those charged with maintaining the new calendar system here is an overview of how it works:
For meetings, fighter practices and other get togethers that aren't a full blown Event, all you need to do to add an item to the calendar is create a new event and fill out the top fields. The bottom sections (A&S, Martial Activities and Feast) should be ignored.
 
- Repeating events
A recurring event can be scheduled automatically by filling out the "Repeat" section of the form below the start and end dates. For events that repeat on 2nd tuesdays and the like you will need to click on the advanced options and fill out this form to get the event to repeat correctly.
 
- Locations
The location field auto completes so to choose a location for your event just type in the first couple letters of the name and then select the desired location from the list. If the location you want isn't in the list (and this is somewhat likely as we're still adding locations) then you will need to create it before submitting your event. Locations can be created via the create content page. There are fields for the location name, address information, phone number, directions, and a picture of the location can be attached as well.
 
 - RSVP
To enable RSVP for an event select the "invitations" link on the event page and click on create invitation.
The message field is available if you want to append a message to your invitation.
If you want another user to be able to manage this invitation you may add them in the moderator field. This field auto-completes so just type the first few letters in their username then select them from the list.
Currently only authenticated users on the site can view invitation details so select this group under "invitation text - view permissions".
Under guest list options you can control the visibility of your guest list for this invitation and who can see it.
Invitee options lets you control your invitees ability to message each other about this invitation and invite others.
 
Once you have your basic invitation set up the next screen (manage invitees) is where you set up the guest list for your invitation. To invite everyone on the site select authenticated user. You can also add invitees one at a time by entering their email address or user name in the add invitees field.
 
Invitees will be emailed an invitation and will then have the option to RSVP to the event, post messages about the event that other invitees can see, and/or invite others, depending on how you have configured your invitation.
 
Polls
The new website can create and manage online polls. We haven't come across a good use case for this feature yet so it's sort of sitting on the shelf gathering dust. If that changes I'll update this documentation with instructions. Until then I just wanted to let eveyone know that this feature exists.
 
User comments
 The new windmastershill.org is our attempt at a fully featured and fully collaborative web portal. As such user commenting is enabled on most content types to promote discussion and interaction among the populace. Comments and the add a comment links are displayed at the bottom of the page whenever user comments are available (some content types don't support this feature, policy pages and events being notable examples)
 
Tagging content
If you have added content to the site you may have noticed a field labeled "Tags". For those unfamilar with the concept tagging allows you to assign a list of topics or keywords that are associated with your content. For example we'll say you've just finished a blacksmithing project on 14th century forks and you're adding a story about it to the A&S pages. You decide to tag the article with the terms "forks, 14th century, tableware, blacksmithing". These four keyworks are now associated with your story when you save it. So far so good, now for the interesting part:
 
Drupal automatically generates pages that list content that share identical tags. So this means a page is created automatically for "forks" (as well as the rest of your tags) and any content that has been added to the system and tagged with "forks" will be listed on this page.