Site personalisation (Mypage) HOWTO

Chapter Index

Introduction to Mypages
Activity tab
Hello Page tab
Clipboard tab
Watch tab
Change system password

An introduction to Mypages

The topics contained in this HOWTO relate to the Mypage section of the site. The Mypage section of the site is a personalised interface to the system. Mypages gathers together functions that relate directly to an individual user and links to their content allowing easy access to parts of the site that they are working on. The Mypage link will only appear for users who are currently logged-in.

The Mypages section is subdivided into a number of tabbed pages covering different aspects of site as it relates to the individual

Activity: The activity tab contains details of different parts of the site which the user is contributing to.
Hello Page: The public face of the user. This tab allows the user to change some of the details associated with their account, to modify their personal details and to restrict which aspects of their profile are displayed to other users. Users may also use this page to add an image or other resources to their hello page.
Clipboard: A listing of resources owned by the user that are not currently allocated to a page
Watch: A listing of pages that the user wishes to be informed about when changes are made to the contents of the page.
Administration: Personal and systems administration functions to which the user has access

Activity tab

The purpose of the activity tab is to act as a personal site navigation tool for the user. It gathers together links in one place links to different areas of the site on which the user is working to make it easier for the user to navigate the site. Three categories of information are listed:

Projects: A listing of all the projects in which the user is a member with a link to the homepage of each project.
Discussion Forums: Links to all the forums the user has contributed. This section also list the number of unread messages within each forum.
Last 5 updated resources: A listing of the last 5 system resources the user updated.

Mypage clipboard

Items in you personal clipboard. These are resources that are not currently allocated to a page.

select an item to edit its properties

Mypage watch

This tab is used to administer resource "watches", periodic notifications of changes to page which you have requested.

Click the resource icon or resource name to edit the frequency or remove a page watch from the list.

Follow the history link to view the change history for this page.

Hello Page

Personal profile page for this user account.

Users can choose to restrict the information that displays on this page.

Change system password

The password changing mechanism is designed to ensure that only the user themselves or an administrator can change a user's password.

There are three fields on the change password form:

old password: This field is intended to ensure that only the account holder can change their password and this operation can't be performed by a third-party who shares the same computer.
new password: The user should enter a new password value that conforms to any rules about password length and construction.
confirm new: The system does not display passwords in plain-text as they are enter. Instead it represents the characters pressed as a series of asterisks. The confirmation field is required to ensure that the user did not inadvertently miss-key their attempt in the previous field.

You must enter values in all three fields to change the password. On screen prompts will advise on any errors in the input. A confirmation message will appear when the password has been successfully changed.

Rules for password Construction

The system imposes minimum and maximum password lengths. The minimum length for a password is 6 characters, the maximum is 16. Any combination of keys is permitted, you are not restricted to just the alphanumeric keys but may also include punctuation and other symbols from the keyboard.