This page tells you how to:

1. Sign up
2. To add and edit a page
3. To add and edit a blog entry
4. Add an event/milestone
5. To insert an image, a link or attach a document
6. To insert a video
7. To restore earlier versions of a page
8. To "watch" pages
9. To "watch" the whole space
10. Notation guide

For user access, sign in and send Idunn your username at idunn.sem@intermedia.uio.no by Friday 2nd of November. For support throughout the project, contact Dina Dalaaker dina.dalaaker@gmail.com

SEE SKETCH OF TRANSACTION WEB PLAN NOV-DEC. 07

h3. 1. To sign up

- Press "Sign up" button in left side bar, and sign up.
- In order to contribute and edit the TransActions space, send your username in a mail (Subject: "Transactions-access") to idunnsem@intermedia.uio.no. All participants should do this as soon as possible. External participants will have to do the same.

PS! In order to get directly back to TransActions after you have logged in, you will have to define this in your user settings:
Select

• "view"
• "account"
• "preferences; name"
• "edit profile"
• "general"
• scroll down "Site Homepage" and select "transactions" .
  

2. To add and edit a page

To add a wiki page within the TransAction space, select

• "edit"
• "new"
• "page".
  Add title, text and labels inside the edit-page that appears, and press "save".

A page is now created that will appear in the URL and in the site map as a "child" of the page you were browsing. Typically this is the page you would like to create a link from to the new page (e.g. from people to individual people-pages). It is important in other words to be aware of the page you are browsing when you create a new page, as hierarchic parent-child relations between pages are important  in order to create a good site map.

To edit a page, brows to the page you want to edit, go to "edit" in the menu, and select  "edit this page" in the drop down menu. Press "save".

You are working in one of three different optional modes when editing: Rich Text, Wiki Markup, Preview (buttons under title cell). Rich Text resembles a simple text editor in e.g. Word, is recommended and the default mode (if you use FireFox or recent versions of IE). Wiki Markup (resembles html) can however be helpful if you experience problems with formatting in Rich Text.

3. To add and edit a blog entry

Contrary to pages, blog entries can be created regardless of the page you are browsing. Go to "edit", select "new" in the dropdown menu and further "news" (news is the confluence wiki term for what we in TransActions use as Blog functionality). Add title, text and labels inside the edit-page that appears, and press "save".IN PROGESS and not yet to be transacted by participants: In addition to the meta-labels or "tags" you give your blog entry, do also make sure you give the project label you have been given as soon as all projects are gathered e.g. "prosjekt2". This will never be visible for others, but enable us to filter and display your blog entries onto your project page.

4. To add an event or milestone

When adding a calendar entry, make sure you separate shared events (of optional title) from a milestone when you enter "Summary". If your event is what we have termed milestone (e.g. a milestone in your project work such as conference paper), then add the URL of your TransAction project page in the "Target" cell. This will (when implemented!) make the Flash object on the front page that monitors the activity display the milestone with your visual representation and link directly to your project page.

You MUST give the event or MILESTONE a time! If you choose "all day", this will hide all events.

5. To insert an image, a link or attach a document

You have to save your new news-entry/page before attaching image to it. When saved, re-enter into edit mode and set the marker where you want the image to appear. Press the "insert/edit image" symbol (icon of a picture in the editor). Browse to your image and press "Attach". Press the icon of your image that now is available and choose whether you want the image to appear as a thumbnail or not, whether the image should be aligned or not so the text can float around it. Press "ok".

You can alter the image size by activating the image and resizing it while holding shift on your keyboard to keep the proportions.  

..... link
Mark the words you want to turn into a link, and press the "insert/edit link" symbol (icon of a globe and chain in the editor). Paste the URL in the dialogue box that now appears, or search for the TransAction entry/page you want to link to.

..... labels
In order to generate useful links between related content, please do label your (and others) pages and blog entries. Simply press the "edit" button next to "Labels" on the page/blog entry and either select from the displayed labels or add new ones.

..... attach a document
Select "attach" under "edit" and brows/attach your document. Enter into edit mode ("edit this page"), and swap from "Rich Text" to "Wiki Markup" and write [^dokumentnavn.pdf] where you want the attached document to appear as a link.

6. To insert a video

If you have recorded a video using your phone, its size might be small enough so that you can attach it directly to the page. If so, attach your video and write the file name with a question mark (!) before, and after, in "Wiki Markup" mode where you want the video to appear (same notation as images).

If the video is long and would take long for the user to open the page you would have attached it to, upload your video to YouTube. Copy the object tag that YouTube allows you to embed (look for "embed" on the page presenting the video). When editing your TransActions page, switch to "Wiki markup" mode and paste the object tag where you want the video to appear on your page. Add the macro

"

"
before, and after, the object tag.

 

7. To restore earlier versions of a page

To restore earlier versions of a page you need to view page history and select the version you would like to go back to. Select

• "view"
• "this page" in the dropdown menu
• "page information".
  On the bottom of the right side column you will find the "view page history" link. Press this link and you will be able to view different versions, and select the version you want to restore.
   

8. To "watch" pages

To "watch" or monitor a TransAction page by incoming e-mails, go to "view", select "this page" from the drop down menu, and further "watch this page".

9. To "watch" the whole space

To "watch" or monitor the whole TransAction space by incoming e-mails, select

• "view"
• "other pages" from the drop down menu
• "space activity".

When on the page displaying "page activity" you are now allowed to select

• "view"
• "this page" from the drop down menu
• "watch this space".

10. Notation guide

In "Wiki markup" mode, elementary notation help appears in the right side column. For more help, press the link "full notation guide" in this column.

The TransActions site is not only a tool for the research group, but an object of research interest in itself. We approach this as research rhetoric. The site offers functionalities that are exploratory and customized add-ons to the functionalities given by the underlying wiki.