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Brushtail Administrator's Guide

Navigation menu

Introduction

Only the administrator user can make changes to the intranet preferences.

You can create, rename or delete modules in the main navigation menu.
A module will be listed in the main menu if a user has permissions for that module.

Click on the link "Intranet Administration".





Click on "Navigation menu".





The Navigation menu page has a form at the top for adding menu items, below that is a list of menu items that can be edited.







Navigation menu ordering

The up and down arrows allow you to customize the sequence in which modules are listed in the main navigation menu.

Editing a module


The edit page allows you to rename modules.

Input format
By default content or noticeboard content can only be formatted using custom formatting tags. The html or wysiwyg options allow html input. Note: this is a potential security risk as html allows javascript. Only trusted users should be given access to the wysiwyg.

Page navigation
Should the navigation menu for a content module be horizontal or vertical.

Intranet front page
This place module on front page of the intranet.

Display in navigation menu
Modules can be hidden from teh main menu.

Menu parent
This module will be appear as a submenu in the main menu. The main navigation allows nesting of submenus. Warning: This feature uses CSS that requires modern web browsers (at least FF2 or IE7). There must be at least one "menu parent" module created to be able to do this.

Add to main menu



The Add to main menu form allows you to add modules to the main menu.



Calendar
this module is a calendar that can be used for bookings.
Content
this module is for creating pages of textual content, uploaded documents and images and noticeboards that staff can post to.
Custom html/php module
You can add your custom php script to Brushtail. Place it in the "main" folder.
Direct link
You can add links to the main menu to other web sites.
Email form
This is used to create a form that will submit the message by email.
Document box
This module if uplpoading documents to be keyword searched rather than browsed.
Enquiry statistics
This is a module that creates a html "clicker" for counting enquiries etc. Provides monthly statistics.
Inventory
Simple module for listing equipment by location.
Link Manager
Module for displaying reference links.
Noticeboard
Module for noticeboard postings.
Email newsletter
Creates a html newsletter that can be emailed. Does require mailing list software to do the mailing. Not thoroughly tested.
PC Bookings
Used for managing public computer bookings.
Request tracking
To staff with read only privileges this will appear as a request form. Staff with "power user" privileges will see an keyword searchable archive of current and completed jobs.
Resource bookings
A Room or equipment booking module.
Staff calendar
This module is a calendar for displaying staff availability.
Menu parent
This module will be appear as a submenu parent in the main menu. The main navigation allows nesting of submenus. Warning: This feature uses CSS that requires modern web browsers (at least FF2 or IE7).
Wiki
This module is for creating content pages. It allows for a more free form navigation structure than a content module.



Permissions

For a module to appear in the navigation menu for an intranet user, that user must have at least have read permissions for that module.



Sidebar content



You can now add html and php content to the left and right sidebars.








Sidebar content may consist of:
  1. A mini calendar that links to an existing intranet events calendar.
  2. A php script. This script needs to exist in the main/custom directory.
  3. Snippets of html.


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