GENERAL:

Open Plans is a wiki where Icarus posts organizational notes, meeting minutes, budgets, and other behind-the-scenes information. This is a no-frills guide to get you going using it. If you figure out how to add images or make tables other stuff, edit this document!

TO GET TO OUR OPEN PLANS SITE:

go to www.openplans.org/projects/icarusproject

HOW TO LOOK AT CONTENT IN OPEN PLANS:

browse the different categories by following the links on each page or using search. Links to other pages are underlined and have a page icon. Note that pages have links to other pages inside them, just like a regular website.

HOW TO DOWNLOAD FILES:

Some pages have file attachments. Right-click of control-click and Save As. Open your word processor program and then sue File-> Open to find the file and open it.

Note: if the formatting is funky you may be looking at a raw text file. Just open MSWord or Open Office and then open the file with that and the formatting should be ok.

HOW TO ADD AND CONTRIBUTE TO OUR OPEN PLANS SITE:

• If you have something that should be on the Open Plans site, email admin(at)theicarusproject(dot)net and we will either add it for you or give you editing privileges so you can do it yourself.
• Organizers, volunteers, collaborators and other ongoing Icarus co-conspirators can become contributors. Register on OpenPlans with the button on the upper right hand corner, then email your username to us so we can give you the permissions for editing privileges.
  

HOW TO ADD PAGES TO THE OPEN PLANS SITE:

• Go to the page where you want your page to be linked from. I.e. if your page is a top-level category, put it on the home page, otherwise put it as a sub-category of whatever category page it fits under.
• Click the Edit tab. If you don't see an Edit tab you need editing privileges, read the above.
• In the BODY section, type in the name of your new page where you want the link to appear ENCLOSED BY DOUBLE PARENTHESIS ON BOTH SIDES. So it looks like this: [[My New Page]] except use the curvy parentheses, not the brackets.
• click Save
• Now you should see the page with your link added. It is red with a plus, meaning it's a link to a new empty page.
• Double click the link youi just created.
• Now add your page content in the BODY section (not the Description).
• Click save and check your changes. Go back to Project Home and follow all the links to find the link to the page you created.
  

NOTE: if you need to, change the name of the page on the page itself, not the double-parenthesis link, which creates a new page.

NOTES ON LINKING

Our linking works this way:  when you enclose a word or phrase in double parentheses+ , our wiki software looks to see if a page with that name exists.  If it does, it will link to that page.  If not, it will create a new page.  So, to move or add links on multiple pages, just type the same page name in double parentheses+ .

To rename a page, you can either edit your wiki and then click on "rename," located to the right of the page title, or you can visit the "Contents" section of your project.  There, you'll find a list of all the pages in your project.  To the far left of the page name is an option to rename a page.  However, this will just rename the page title.  The URL and all link titles will remain the same.

Also, good call on documentation.  We're slowly rolling that out, and will hopefully have it in the near future.

Please let me know if you have any other questions, or if you have any feature requests.

Cheers,
Bryan

 

HOW TO ADD FILES TO THE OPEN PLANS SITE:

• go to the page where you want to upload the file.
• click Edit
• make sure 'display attachments' is checked
• Click 'manage attachments'
• browse, upload, save, then order your files.

HOW TO EDIT TABLES:

hile editing the page, highlight the table you want to alter and then click on the table icon on the toolbar. A window will appear with several options; by changing the style from plain to listing you'll get borders (and headers).

Note: make sure your files alwayshave date created and detailed name. For example, 'support manual draft' is not a good name for a file, but "7-27-06-Support_Man_draftMyNameEdit' is a better name. This will really make things a ton easier 3 months from now when people are trying to find a file or figure out what is in a file.