2.3. Setting Up Your Folder and Preferences

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After you've logged in, the member bar in the top-right corner will change to represent the options available to you as a member of the site (see Figure 3-6).

Figure 3-6. Your personal choices in the top-right corner have changed.

One of these options is that each member has a folder created for them when they join a site. This folder is set up with particular security so only that member (and administrators) can add and edit the content in that folder. To access your personal folder, click the my folder link in the personal bar in the upper-right corner of the site. In the upper-right corner you'll also see a my preferences link; clicking this will open a list of personalization options. You'll see two choices at the moment; you can change your password, or you can go to the personal preferences and change key preferences in your site.

The change password form allows you to change your password. To complete the form, give your current password and the new password twice. After you've changed your password, the change will be immediate. You don't have to log in again; just remember your new password when you return.

The personal preferences form allows you to set a number of preferences that change how you see the site. These preferences are stored on the server so they're retained between uses of the site (see Figure 3-7).

Figure 3-7. Changing preferences

The options are as follows:

Full name: This is the full name you gave when you registered with the site.

E-mail: This is the e-mail address associated with your membership and is used a number of places in a Plone site. Most important, if you lose or forget your password, this is the address to which the system will send it.

Content editor: When editing complex content, you may want the help of an editor. If your site administrator has made one available, you can select it here. It will then be used when you click the edit tab of an object. If you're unsure, leave this as the default.

Listed status: This property specifies whether your profile will show up on the members tab and when someone searches the members listing.

Editing of Short Names: Objects have an ID or Short Name property that's used for the internal representation of the content object. This also shows up in the item's Web address and the item's Uniform Resource Locator (URL). By default these look something like News_Item.2002-11-16.4102, but you could make it much simpler, such as november_news, by changing the Short Name value.

NOTE When you change an object's name value, anything that references the older name will no longer be valid and will result in the page not being found. It's best not to change the name value after you submit an object for review or link to it from elsewhere. For this reason, I recommend setting this option to No.

Portrait: In larger organizations and in community Web sites, it's useful to see pictures of other members. The Portrait field allows you to upload a picture of yourself. The picture should be 75 by 100 pixels.

Once you've made the desired changes, click the Save button to commit the changes. Now that you've logged in, it's time to start adding and editing content.

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