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Step-by-step instructions.

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How to use this resource: A brief description of how you use and contribute to the Help Center.

Public users

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What is Landcare?: Landcare is a joint effort between the community, government and business to protect and repair our environment.
Get Involved In Landcare: Why join Landcare? People get involved for many different reasons

Use the Gateway

How to join a Gateway: How to join a Gateway Website as a registered user, to enable access to load group information, join discussions or make comments.
Get your password: If you can't remember your password then you can use the 'lost password' tool to reset it.
How you can participate.: There are many ways that people can participate, either online via the Gateway, or on the ground.
Send a message to content authors: Gateway website users can send an email message to the authors of content on the site, without authors needing to make their email address public.
Making use of maps: How to add map coordinates to your content and make use of the Gateway's build in mapping features.
Distribute or use content: Most content on the Landcare Gateway is licensed to allow others to share, copy and use in other ways. This explains some conditions and process for doing this.

Add or Manage Content

Sharing and granting editing rights: How to grant editing rights to another gateway user.
Making use of maps: How to add map coordinates to your content and make use of the Gateway's build in mapping features.
Distribute or use content: Most content on the Landcare Gateway is licensed to allow others to share, copy and use in other ways. This explains some conditions and process for doing this.

Registered Users

Use the Gateway

Get your password: If you can't remember your password then you can use the 'lost password' tool to reset it.
Change personal settings: How to change personal settings such as password and email address.
How to Subscribe: Users who have joined a Gateway site, and logged in, are able to subscribe to email notices of new content on the site, and manage their subscriptions.
Send a message to content authors: Gateway website users can send an email message to the authors of content on the site, without authors needing to make their email address public.
How to Unsubscribe: If you have subscribed to the Landcare Gateway, but now wish to unsubscribe so that you no longer receive email notices, it is a simple process to unsubscribe.
Copyright options: What is the Creative Commons copyright used on the Gateway content, and what does this mean for users and content managers?
Distribute or use content: Most content on the Landcare Gateway is licensed to allow others to share, copy and use in other ways. This explains some conditions and process for doing this.

Add or Manage Content

Get rights to manage a group website: How community representatives can get permission to add information where there is a section already created on a Gateway site for a Landcare or related group.
Sharing and granting editing rights: How to grant editing rights to another gateway user.
Copyright options: What is the Creative Commons copyright used on the Gateway content, and what does this mean for users and content managers?
Distribute or use content: Most content on the Landcare Gateway is licensed to allow others to share, copy and use in other ways. This explains some conditions and process for doing this.
Keep Group Contacts Safe: The Gateway system enables the contact details for groups to be listed on group pages, events and volunteer activities, with a system to hide and protect email addresses.

Content Managers

Use the Gateway

Change personal settings: How to change personal settings such as password and email address.
Copyright options: What is the Creative Commons copyright used on the Gateway content, and what does this mean for users and content managers?

Add or Manage Content

Get rights to manage a group website: How community representatives can get permission to add information where there is a section already created on a Gateway site for a Landcare or related group.
Tour of Editing Options: An introduction to the major options for controlling your content.
Create a Group website: How to create a section for a Landcare or related organisation that will show in the Organisations list.
Adding Content: This document covers the basics of adding new content to your site.
Create folders: How to create folders for various content in a group area.
Get a news item listed: How groups can have their news listed on the News page of a Gateway.
Get an event listed: How groups can have their events listed on the Events calendar of a Gateway.
Create a web page: How to create a web page on a Gateway site.
Make content visible: All content can have a range of states of visibility. This how-to outlines what the various types of states are, and how to publish content.
Using the Visual Editor: How to use the Kupu rich text editor to edit and style text.
Alternatives to HTML and the Visual Editor: If you can't (or don't want to) use the visual editor, there are several good alternatives for entering body text.
Set effective and expiration dates: Almost all content created on a Gateway site can have times and dates set for when these become publicly visible, or hidden.
Get a What's New page: Groups or networks who have plenty of information or folders in their site can have a page that displays the latest changes to their area. This will allow other users to quickly see a list of information added for them to browse.
Create a photo album: The gateway has the ability to create photo albums, or collections of photos, which display as thumbnails, but can show full size.
Sharing and granting editing rights: How to grant editing rights to another gateway user.
Copyright options: What is the Creative Commons copyright used on the Gateway content, and what does this mean for users and content managers?
Keep Group Contacts Safe: The Gateway system enables the contact details for groups to be listed on group pages, events and volunteer activities, with a system to hide and protect email addresses.
Add a Recurrent Event: The Event content item in the Landcare Gateway has recently been updated to enable either once-off or recurrent events. If you have an event which repeats, this outlines how to make an event recurrent.
Reorder Folders: The Gateway has a standard approach to ordering contents in a folder or section, with most recent items going to the bottom of the contents listing. If you wish, there are two options to reorder folder contents.