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Use Notetab Light to open the page for editing: F/subjectguides/[Folder Name]
See /wiki/spaces/library/pages/28054306 for information on accessing the F drive.
See the /wiki/spaces/library/pages/28054164 page for more information on installing and using NoteTab Light.

Several reference librarians have started creating Course Guides in their personal Confluence spaces. It is strongly suggested that you include links to these Course Guides in the appropriate Subject Guide.

  1. open the contactinfo.txt file
  2. edit name, email and phone number
  3. edit feedback information by changing the value of the subject (if necessary)
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    <input type='hidden' name='subject' value='New Subject' />
  4. add or edit Course Guides links
    • if you want to include links to course guides, make sure the following code is included immediately after the feedback form:
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      <hr/>
      <strong>Course Guides</strong>
      <ul style='margin-top:5px; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:10px; padding-left:10px;'>
      <li><a href='URL OF COURSE GUIDE'>NAME OF COURSE GUIDE</a></li>
      </ul>
    • add more list items to include more course guides

Add/Delete/Edit a menu with ID numbers:

Add a new menu:

  • Make sure 'PHP' is selected from the row at the bottom of the screen.
  • In the left column, select Add Menued Resource.
  • Databases/Web Resources and their corresponding ID's can be found here: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/reference/DBIDs.php
  • Go to the webpage above and find the database and its corresponding ID.
  • Enter list of DBIDs.
  • Enter Menu Header (heading to display before list of resources).
  • Enter Description (optional).

Edit existing menu

  • Find DBIDs as above
  • Add or remove the corresponding number from the code (see example below). If you wish to remove the entire list, remove all coding shown below.

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  • To add a "passive tag" that appears in blacks with yellow text (like Websites in the picture above), add a new list item similar to the code above for Websites.
  • If you are adding the new tab to the new page and need it to appear as the "active tab" (in yellow with black text like Article Databases) add a line of code similar to the code for Article Databases.
    • If you were to copy and paste the list from another page within the same subject guide, you would need to change the list item with the <span> tag to a "passive tab". To do this, remove the 'span' element and replace it with a 'a href' element. The span element is what allows the tab to be displayed as yellow with black text.

Creating a new subject guide

  1. in the subjectguides directory, create a new folder for your subject guide (name the folder with the academic subject area abbreviation)
  2. copy the contents from an existing guide and paste into the new folder
  3. edit the content of the pages - if you change the name of a tab be sure that you make the same change on all pages.
  4. delete any pages that you don't need - if you delete a page make sure to delete the corresponding tab from all other pages.