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- | ======Switching to the New (4.0) My Account Home Page====== | + | ======Switching to the My Account Home Page Introduced in v4====== |
- | As of version 4.0.0RC11, the My Account Home page (formerly the User Management Home Page) has been completely re-done. Clean installs of RC11 and later will use the new page by default, but those upgrading from older versions will need to manually switch over, if they desire to do so. | + | As of version 4.0.0RC11, the My Account Home page (formerly the User Management Home Page) has been completely re-done. Clean installs of 4.0RC11 |
This page of the manual will attempt to elucidate on the new functions and explain how to go about switching to the new My Account Home page. | This page of the manual will attempt to elucidate on the new functions and explain how to go about switching to the new My Account Home page. | ||
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- | Before beginning, one thing to mention for those upgrading to RC11 from previous versions: during the upgrade process, you will be asked to assign a template to the new My Account Page, but at that point in the process, the new module and template mentioned below have not yet been created by the upgrade script. Simply assign any other template to that page and continue with the upgrade, then follow these instructions to enable the new features. (This is may change in a future version of the upgrade) | ||
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=====Overview===== | =====Overview===== | ||
- | There are three elements to the new My Account page, all added by the upgrade to RC11: | + | There are three elements to the new My Account page, all added after the final 4.0 release: |
- | *A new module | + | *A new module |
*A new template (Basic Page Template with My Account Links) | *A new template (Basic Page Template with My Account Links) | ||
*A new page (My Account Page) | *A new page (My Account Page) | ||
In short, instructions for using the new features are: | In short, instructions for using the new features are: | ||
- | *Switch the My Account Home Type setting to "My Account Page" | + | *Switch the My Account Home Type setting to "My Account Page". Look to the following new admin tool page and look for the following switch: |
- | *Add the (!MY_ACCOUNT_LINKS!) tag to a template, or use the new template | + | * SITE SETUP > USER ACCOUNT SETTINGS > MY ACCOUNT HOME TYPE |
- | *Attach | + | *There should already be a user_management_page.tpl template within your system now. If changing |
+ | *Make sure the template created for the user management home page is attached to the following page in the admin tool. | ||
+ | * PAGES MANAGEMENT > USER MANAGEMENT > MY ACCOUNT HOME PAGE | ||
If that doesn' | If that doesn' | ||
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- | =====(!MY_ACCOUNT_LINKS!)===== | + | =====My Account Module Details===== |
- | {{: | + | {{: |
This is a module that contains, in list format, all the links from the old User Management Home Page. It can be embedded on any page, but is intended for use primarily on the pages it links to (pages dealing with a user's account). It has a few special features: | This is a module that contains, in list format, all the links from the old User Management Home Page. It can be embedded on any page, but is intended for use primarily on the pages it links to (pages dealing with a user's account). It has a few special features: | ||
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- | =====Basic Page Template with My Account | + | =====My Account |
- | All sites will receive this additional template when upgrading | + | This page presents a number of informative statistics |
+ | There is a switch in the Admin that selects between the old and new pages. It may be found at **Site Setup > User Account Settings > My Account Home Type**. Based on that switch, the " | ||
- | \\ | + | **Design Information (Advanced)**: |
- | =====My Account Home Page===== | + | Layout |
- | This page presents a number | + | |
- | There is a switch in the Admin that selects between the old and new pages. It may be found at **Site Setup > Browsing Settings > Miscellaneous Settings > My Account Home Type**. Based on that switch, the " | + | **Developer Information (Advanced)**: |
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- | Layout of the page is controlled by the SMARTY template file at **geo_templates/ | + | |
- | DEVELOPERS: | + | The page has [[developers: |