Help for website editors

This section has help topics for users who have been given accounts that allow them to edit and classify the content on this site.

Working with categories

Drupal has a powerful system for classifying all content on the site. Editors are allowed to administer these categories. You can do so at by going to Administer -> Content management -> Categories from the navigation menu on the left (you must be logged in).

Once there, you'll see a table with three columns, "Name", "Type" and "Operations."

Name
This is the name of the category, also known as a vocabulary. Vocabularies will generally be handled by site administrators and as an editor you will usually not need to worry about these.

Type
This column tells you which kinds of content the vocabulary will apply to. For example, a vocabulary may apply to videos but not to stories. Or, it could apply to both videos and stories.

Operations
These are the links you can click to administer the site's categories. The "list terms" and "add terms" links are what most editors will be using.

 

How to add a term

  1. Go to Administer -> Content management -> Categories
  2. Click on the "add terms" link next to the vocabulary that contains the terms you want to change or delete.
  3. If you'd like your term to be a subcategory of another term, select the category you'd like the term to fall under with the "Parent" drop down menu
  4. Type in the name of the term in the "Term name" field
  5. Ignore the other fields
  6. Hit "Submit"

How to modify or delete existing terms

  1. Go to Administer -> Content management -> Categories
  2. Click on the "list terms" link next to the vocabulary that contains the terms you want to change or delete.
  3. Click the "edit" link for the term you want to change or delete.
  4. Change the term's name and hit submit, or, to delete the term, hit "Delete"