Help - registering an article

Once inside the Private Area, you will be able to register and manage your articles to be published on the website. To do this, enter from the central menu or from the user menu in the black strip below the header to the link of articles .

On the page , you will get a list of the articles that you have registered, and you will have a filter when you start the list to quickly find if there are many.

To register an article, simply click on the New button found in the top right of the list.

You will get a form where first, you must choose in which section of the website the article will be displayed

  1. Which section does it belong to: Commlab, Culture of Peace, Integral Ecology, etc.

Then and depending on the section, the system will present you with the fields to complete since they are not the same data that each one handles:

  1. A representative photo . Does not matter the size. Our system will adapt it so that it looks correctly both in the list and in the item detail.
  2. A file to download. For example, for the Digital Manuals section. The file can be a doc or a pdf for example.
  3. Your title .
  4. Summary (or pompadour). This is text that is displayed in item listings. It tells briefly and in no more than 3 lines, what the article is about so that the visitor has a brief overview of what they will find in the detail.
  5. Description . The full text of the article that will be displayed when the visitor accesses the detail.
  6. Region to which it belongs.
  7. Country where it was carried out.
  8. Countries : that participated in the production of the film.
  9. Referrer URL : copy and paste the web address if you want to take the visitor to a page with the original content.
  10. Film director
  11. Movie critic
  12. Theme: Write the themes that occupies the article. It can be a single keyword or a small phrase . For example Ecology, Institutional violence,
  13. Type of content : Choose the type of content that the article refers to. If you cannot find the one you need in the list, you can register it through the button to the right of the drop-down menu.
  14. Year
  15. Duration .
  16. Author / s
  17. Logo. It allows to indicate the article with the Signis logo and in order to reference the content with an original production.
  18. Multimedia Gallery . And here, you will upload your video and if you want, a gallery of images.

 

NOTE : it is important that you save the initial information of the form in order to load the multimedia gallery.

Once you complete these fields, click Submit to save the information to the database.

 

Video upload

To be able to upload the video mainly, it is necessary to send the form with the complete information uploaded, since this will register the production in the database and allow the video to be related.

To upload the video, you have to edit the production you just uploaded. The steps are:

  1. Click the edit icon located to the left of the record or in the production title to enter the edit form.
  2. Click on the Multimedia Galleries tab.
  3. Click the button that says New in Add Media File. A window will open where you can complete the video information.
    1. Select as File type : video.
    2. Your title .
    3. Thumbnail : it is necessary to upload a frame of the video and then it will work as a link to see it. You will have 2 options. Upload a capture from the Thumbnail field or if you complete the field with a YouTube URL, our system will offer you the photos that YouTube captures from the video. Select the "Medium quality" option.
    4. Fill in the YouTube / Vimeo / Facebook URL field precisely with the Web address (URL) of the video in question.
    5. Video width and height . By default the measurement is 1280 x 720.
    6. The rest of the parameters, you do not need to modify them.

 

Add a photo gallery

It is also possible to add a photo gallery. Each photo in the gallery consists of a thumbnail and its enlarged photo (best quality). To upload photos of your production, it is also done from the Multimedia Galleries tab and the steps are:

  1. click the Browse ... button for Automatic Image Upload .
  2. In the pop-up window, locate the images to upload on your disk and select one or more files at the same time.
  3. The system will automatically upload all the images by processing the size of both the thumbnail and the enlargement.

Any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at Medu.DESK@signis.net .