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Posting Your Library's Location Hours and Phone Number
One of the first changes you should make to your Plinkit site is to post your library’s address, operating hours, and phone number. This information is stored in two locations on your Plinkit site: in the location & hours portlet and on the Contact Us page.
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Note: The location & hours portlet and the Contact Us page will initially contain fake library information, which you should replace as soon as possible with accurate information about your library. |
Updating the Location & Hours Portlet
Behind the scenes, the location & hours portlet actually draws its data from a standard Plinkit page, also called Location & Hours. To replace the dummy location and hours information that appears on this page and in the portlet:
1. Log in to Plinkit.
2. In the search website field in the top right corner, type the word location. As you are typing, a LiveSearch pop-up window displays site contents that are related to your search term. One of these will be the Location & Hours page.
3. In the LiveSearch window, click Location & Hours to open the Location & Hours page in the main content area of your Plinkit window.
4. Click the edit tab that appears above the Location & Hours page.
5. In the Body Text area of the edit tab, replace the fake library information with accurate data about your library. In this example, we will merely replace the street number 255 with the number 123.
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Note: Because the location and hours information will be displayed in a portlet, we recommend that you avoid making any significant modifications to the default narrow, centered layout of the Location & Hours content. |
6. When you have finished editing the page, scroll down to the bottom of the window and click save.
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Note: The Discussion feature is ineffective and should not be used. Do not change the selection in the Allow Discussion on this item section. |
The main content area automatically switches to the view tab so that you can review your edits. The new information is also displayed immediately in the location & hours portlet in the right column of the Plinkit page.
Editing the Contact Us Page
In addition to updating the location & hours portlet, you should also add your library’s contact information to the Contact Us page. Public users can access this page from the About Us section of the navigation portlet, or by clicking the contact link that appears in the top right corner of every Plinkit page.
To update the Contact Us page:
1. Log in to Plinkit.
2. In the top right corner, click the contact link to open the Contact Us page in the main content area of your Plinkit window.
3. Click the edit tab that appears above the Contact Us page.
4. In the Body Text area of the edit tab, add your library’s mailing address, phone number, and any other contact information you want to include.
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Tip: You can use the buttons and tools that appear on the green bar to add basic formatting to your text. These tools, which behave much like the tools and buttons in most word processing programs, are described in Formatting and Editing Content with the Kupu WYSIWYG Editor (version 1.3.9). |
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Note: The e-mail links that appear on the Contact Us page are associated with Web forms that must be configured by a Plinkit Administrator. See Planning Contact Us Web Forms before editing or deleting the e-mail links. |
5. When you have finished editing the body text, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click save.
The main content area automatically switches to the view tab so that you can review your edits.
