Your profile
Every user of this system has a set of web pages collectively called the "user profile." These pages allow you to personalize your experience of the website by changing settings such as your notification and contact form preferences. The profile also allows you to identify yourself to others on the site and provide biographical information.
In addition, when viewing or editing your profile, you will see a section in the left sidebar with the title "<Your name>'s pages." Below this section, there is a "Profile" link as well as links that let you add your curriculum vitae (CV), a project overview, and other documents. When you add these, they will be visible to other users who are viewing your profile page, thus allowing you to share details of your work.
The external profile link
When you first register, you will see a hyperlink field in your profile with the label "External profile." This link is automatically generated, and points to your user page on the previous CS site.
If you wish to override the address for this link, edit your profile and scroll down to the "External profile" field, which is a text field that by default will either be empty or have the text value 'default' in it.
Set this value to a fully qualified URL, and when you save your profile and view it, it will use your value for the hyperlink. If you wish to disable the hyperlink, fill in the value 'none' for this field.
Your profile documents
When you register on the site for the first time, you will see several menu entries under your profile link when you navigate to the "My account" page:
These links, "Add your CV", "Add a project" and "Add a document", may be used to create new content for your profile. The CV, or curriculum vitae, is your résumé on the site, while the other two links allow you to add a project overview and one or more documents, respectively.
The "Add a page" link allows you to add an unclassified page to this list. Such a page may include whatever content you want to present as part of your profile.
Note that if any of these have not been created, the link will not be visible to other users. For example, if you have not created a CV, users will not see the "CV" link under your profile. Once you have created a CV, project overview, document, or page, the link will become visible and will look like this to other users:
CV
One of the first things you will want to do once you have registered on the site is create your curriculum vitae ("CV"). As described in the help page Your profile documents, you will see the link labeled "Add your CV." Click that link and you will see a form allowing you to add this to the site. See Creating new content for information on how to use this form.
Once you've added your CV, the link title changes to "CV", and others will now be able to use this link to view your new CV.
Research and Projects
When you click the link "Add a Project" for your profile, you will be taken to a form which allows you to create a new project that becomes associated with your profile. See Creating new content for more information on adding content to the site. A "project" is a special content type in the system that has several features:
- Membership
Other users may join your project, meaning that they may post content that is added to the project, including documents, blog entries, and comments. You can control how users join your project by designating whether the project is open (accepts new members automatically), moderated (you must approve new members), invite-only (only users you invite may join) and closed (no-one may join OR leave the project).
- Document ownership
A project may "own" documents. That is, content created under the auspices of a project will be associated with that project and will be listed when users navigate to the project. A project therefore resembles a mini-website. Content created for a project may be marked as public (viewable by everyone) or private (viewable only by project members).
The project you add will be added to a list that other users may browse. Once at least one project has been added, your link title in the "User pages" block changes to "Research and Projects", and becomes visible to other users.
To add more projects to this list, click the link labeled "Add another project" above the list.
Having added a project to your profile, you may want to add a research summary. In the screenshot above, please note the link labeled "Create your research summary." Clicking this link will allow you to add a summary which will be displayed above the list of your projects, as shown below:
Publications
You may use the profile link labeled "Add a document" to add your first publication. When you click that link, you will be taken to a form allowing you to add the content, as described in Creating new content. There are several important fields on this form that allow you to upload files, set the document type, and so on.
Special document fields
The ID field lets you set an alphanumeric document identifier. Please contact the site administrator if you are not sure what value to supply here.
"CS Author(s)" allows you to specify one or more co-authors of this document. The name or names you choose will be auto-completed if you pause while typing the value:
Supply one author per field. If you need to add more authors, click the "Add another item" button to create a blank field:
"Other author(s)" is similar, but allows you to specify authors who do not have CS accounts. This field should not be used for CS users. This is because when other users view your document, only authors who have been supplied in the "CS Author(s)" field will have hyperlinks to their account in the body of the document:
"Publication year" is also a required field, and defaults to the current year.
The "Document types" drop-down list allows you to select from the following choices:
Use the optional "Abstract" field to supply a description of this document that will show up in document listings.
The "Document" field group allows you to upload a file to the server. Click the "Browse" button to find your document on your own computer:
Click the "Upload" button. A progress bar will appear, and then your document will be attached.
You must still click "Save" at the bottom of the page to save your new document.
The "External link title" and "External link URL" fields allow you to specify the location of a document that exists elsewhere on the web. Of course, follow applicable copyright law if you use this feature.
Finally, the "Project" drop-down list allows you to select a project with which to associate this document. You will see your own project(s), both those you created and those you have joined, as well as other public projects which allow non-member CS users to upload content to them.
Click "Save" to save your document, and you will see it in the list. You may add more documents by clicking "Add another publication" at the top of your list.