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Introduction

• Introduction to OnRamp

Content Management

• Introduction to Content Management

• Adding Content
  • Choosing a Location
    • Where am I allowed to create records?
    • Browsing to a Collection
  • A Word About States
  • Creating a Record
    • Selecting the Document Type
    • Entering Required Metadata and Saving
    • Where's my new record?
    • Editing a Saved Record
    • Entering Metadata and Saving
  • Content Beyond Metadata
    • Adding Related Links
    • Viewing and Editing a Saved Record
    • Uploading Files
  • Giving Feedback
  • Getting Feedback
  • Modifying Content
    • Removing Uploaded Files
    • Modifying Metadata
    • Modifying Related Links
    • Modifying Uploaded Files
  • Publishing a Record
  • Viewing a Record

• Locked Records
  • What to do if a record is locked?
  • How to release a record?

• Common Problems
  • Lost Edits with Purge
  • HTML in the Title or Abstract/Summary
• Deleting a Record

Advanced Content Management

• Creating a Place for Content
  • Creating a Community
  • Creating a Collection
  • Creating a Sub-Collection

• Advanced Editing Content
  • Moving Content to a Different Collection

• Introduction to Security
  • Who can set security?
  • What can have security settings?
  • How do I set security?

Distribution System

• Introduction to Distributing Content
  • Types of Destination

• Managing Destinations
  • Creating a Destination
  • Configuring a Destination
  • Ranges

Lesson: Glossary

Content Management

Content Management is the set of processes and technologies that support the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. In recent times this information is typically referred to as content or, to be precise, digital content. Digital content may take the form of text, such as documents, multimedia files, such as audio or video files, or any other file type which follows a content lifecycle which requires management. (from wikipedia)

Distribution System

A Distribution System facilitates the dissemination of content to the outside world. The distribution process can disseminate content as it is stored or combined with other content to produce a new result.

Community

A Community is the lowest level of the hierarchy for organizing records. Communities can contain Collections only. Records are not located directly in a Community.

Collection

A Collection is part of the hierarchy for organizing records. Collections can contain sub-Collections and/or Records.

Sub-Collection

A Collection is referred to as a Sub-Collection when it lives inside a Collection instead of a Community. Sub-Collections are often referred to simply as Collection.

Record

A Record is the object in the Content Management Subsystem that holds metadata and content as text, related links, and uploaded files.

Metadata

Metadata is data about data. Metadata is generally stored in the pre-defined fields of a record. It describes the primary content of the record, which can be an uploaded file, related link, or content stored in a field in the record. Because OnRamp is used as a Content Management System, it is not uncommon for pre-defined fields to hold content instead of metadata.

Content

Content is digitally stored information. Digital content may take the form of text (ex. text or html encoded text stored in fields or uploaded files), proprietary text formats (ex. PDF files, Word Documents), structured text (ex. RSS Feeds, XML), multimedia files (ex. images, audio, video), links to resources (ex. complex content as displayed in a webpage or a series of webpages), or any other file type.

Uploaded File

Uploading a file is the process of copying a file from one file system (your computer) to another (the OnRamp server). A copy of the uploaded file is stored in the record where it was uploaded along with a description of the file. Changes to the original source file do not affect the uploaded (copied) version of the file. Records allow uploading of multiple files.

Related Link

A Related Link is an URL along with a description. Establishing a related link is the process of storing an URL in a Related Link field in a record. Records allow multiple related links to be identified.

Published

A status of a record is set to Published when the Publish button is used to save the record through the Create or Edit screens or is published through My OnRamp. A Published record is considered complete and is visible for viewing, typically by any person with internet access. See security for more information on who can view records.

Unpublished

The status of a record is set to Unpublished when the Submit for Approval button is used to save the record through the Create or Edit screens. A state of Unpublished tells the publisher users that the record is ready for their review. Unpublished records are available through My OnRamp only and require the user to be logged in inorder to view or edit.

Saved

The status of a record is set to Saved when the Save button is used to save the record through the Create or Edit screens. A state of Saved tells the other users that the record is not yet ready for their review. Saved records are available through My OnRamp only and require the user to be logged in inorder to view or edit. Any user with editing previleges can modify and even Publish a saved record. The Saved state is a suggestion that the record isn't yet ready for being published.

Workflow

A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. The sequence defines the minimum work and various paths required to complete a task, like editing a record or creating a collection. In OnRamp, a workflow will guide you through these steps.