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October 15, 2005

You don't always have to solve things yourself!

I need to open a new community for a class; and elgg is indeed an interesting way of getting to know what blogging can be used for. when framed by education needs.

But where oh where can I find simple help. I know I could send mail for Ben or Dave, and I will once I have tracked their emails; there is a feature for "contact this guy", but I am asked to open a file of a sort that my browser does not know (will have to reproduce this bug to explain in detail). And as I was looking for how to start a new community, it did not work for me. Anne said I shoud open mu Owned communities, and start a new one from there, but that apparently does not work for me either. I seem to want to be in some edit mode, from somewhere...

And I found a FAQ, but that appears to be just a dummy, to be continued. I am too busy to solve this now. Gee - this is learning by doing...

Keywords: community

Posted by Sus Nyrop

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Well, I did it on my own. Found four buttons on top of my right side menu, where it says, Your Profile, Your Blog, Your Files, Your Network. Clicked on Your Network, and found the Owned communities. Et voila. I could create yet another one, this is called nabosprog We'll see where this takes me.

Susanne Nyrop on Saturday, 15 October 2005, 19:28 CEST # |

This is something we are working with various people to produce - detailed documentation and help.

For now, each main category: profile, blog etc has a 'page help' menu option. Selecting this will give some basic instructions.

For Communities, help is under 'Your Network' - 'Page Help'
http://elgg.net/help/network_help.php

Dave Tosh on Saturday, 15 October 2005, 19:32 CEST # |

Thanks Dave for you fast feedback; I did solve this problem after a while so that the new community could be used for a RSS feed on another page that Anne has created for our project.

And, I know that documentation is not just made in a snap. We love what you're doing, and day for day we need it more and more :-)

Susanne Nyrop on Saturday, 15 October 2005, 23:23 CEST # |