Enen Help

The purpose of this website is to provide information about the ENEN project. The website stimulates the collaboration and exchange of information between all project participants, by allowing project coordinators to publish information on the site.

Website organization

The menu on the left side of the screen is composed of 2 parts: the public information and the restricted area.

The public information can be found in the following website sections:

Project Summary: general information like network summary, objectives,...
Contracters: information about the project participants and related partners.
Objectives: Describes the goal of this project
Work Plan: information about the project work plan and work packages.
Deliverables: showing the list of deliverables. Completed deliverables can be uploaded and downloaded.
Project Management: How the follow-up of the project is organized practically.
Links: lists of useful hyperlinks, organized by topics.

Via the [Members Login] function project members get access to the area with restricted information.

The restricted area contains the following sections:

News: announcements of general interest. A message can include a hyperlink or an uploaded file.
Deliverables: showing the list of deliverables. Completed deliverables can be uploaded and downloaded.
Documents: placeholder for all kinds of documents related to the project, organized by topic.
Events: published information about events like meetings, workshops, visits,…
Calendar: monthly view of a calendar showing the published events.

Detailed description of the sections

Project Summary
This provides general information about the project. Typically this data comes from the project proposal and includes such things like Project Description, Objectives, Participants, Consortium, Project Management, Description of Work, Project planning, Abbreviations,… The webmaster creates and maintains this static page.

contracters
This contains administrative information about the participants like Name, Address, Contact Person, E-mail, Telephone. It also lists partners and organizations that are of interest for the ENEN projects. The webmaster creates and maintains these static pages.

Project work plan
This includes details about the project work plan like the planning and timetable, the project components and the relation to the work packages and deliverables. The webmaster creates and maintains this static page.

Deliverables
At the start of a project the list of deliverables is specified and a deliverable table can be shown on the website with information like due date, nature and dissemination level. As soon as a deliverable becomes available the responsible contractors can publish it on the website. A deliverable can be composed of 1 or more items. A deliverable item contains a title, author, description and a hyperlink or an uploaded document. Every project of a thematic network has its own list of deliverables. The website administrator can configure who can see the list of deliverables and who can upload or download individual deliverables.

Documents
Here the participant authors can upload all kinds of files related to the project like drafts, discussion papers, administrative forms,... A document item contains a title, author, description and a hyperlink or an uploaded document. Documents can be organized by topic. Topics and documents are shown in alphabetical order. The website administrator can configure who can create and who can view all documents. Authors can only edit their own documents.

News
Here the participant authors can publish news and announcements. A news item contains a title, author, description and a hyperlink or an uploaded document. The most recent news items are shown first. The website administrator can configure who can create and who can view all news items. Authors can only edit their own messages.

Events
Participant authors can publish information about events like meetings, workshops, visits,… The information related to an event can be composed of multiple items such as invitations, agenda, minutes, presentations. An event item contains a title, author, description and a hyperlink or an uploaded document. The most recent events are shown first. The most recent documents of an event are shown first. The events can also be shown on a calendar. The website administrator can configure who can create and who can view all event documents. Authors can only edit their own event information.

Calendar
A monthly view of the calendar shows an overview of the published events.

Links
Participants can maintain lists of useful hyperlinks that may be related to the projects. A link is specified by a title, author, description and a hyperlink. Links are organized by topic. Topics and links are shown in alphabetical order. The website administrator can configure who can create and who can view all links. Authors can only edit their own links.

Publishing information

The website is made up of static and dynamic pages. Static pages can only be modified by the webmaster. The content of the dynamic pages is based on the information that is published by the project members.

The public information part of the website consists of static pages (except the Links section). These static pages can only be edited by the webmaster. Please inform the webmaster if updates are necessary.

Logged-in project members with the proper author permissions can add and modify information items in the restricted area of the website. The [Edit/View Mode] function enables the edit mode.

In edit mode, Edit buttons show up on the right-hand side of the screen. Authors can add information wherever there is an Edit button. Authors can only modify their own contributions.

Most editable items include a Link/File field. This can be used to specify a file to be uploaded, or it can be used to enter a hyperlink starting with http://.

When uploading a file that exists already on the website a new filename is automatically assigned so existing documents do not get overwritten.

Website security

The website consist of a public and a restricted area. Sections of the restricted area can only be accessed with a proper login account. Optionally the website administrator can make certain sections of the restricted area publicly available to anonymous visitors.

Login accounts are provided to the project coordinators and members by the website administrator and the network coordinator.

The website includes a complete role-based access control. This allows the website administrator to configure who can view and publish information in the various sections. Access rights can be configured for anonymous visitors and for authenticated users. Users (typically the project members) can be assigned a reader or author role. Participants can have more than 1 login account, possibly with different roles. Authors can edit only their own content.

Access permissions can be specified per section. For the lists of deliverables the access level can be specified for the whole list, and for every individual deliverable.

It is up to the coordinators to agree on the level of access to every section, for anonymous visitors, cluster and project members. They have to decide whether project members get access to the information of other projects and clusters. Coordinators have to specify who gets author permissions in the various sections. Only the website administrator can configure the access permissions.

If this information leaves you with some questions, please do not hesitate to contact the WebMaster.

Last updated on: 2004-Sep-17 08:49
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