nitrc:User Guide - Personalize
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Registered users have a My NITRC menu link that allows them to access user functions. Observers (users who are not logged in) cannot access these user functions.
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My Personal Page
Your personal page is your customized view of NITRC. This page appears when you first log in and when you click the My NITRC main menu link or the My Personal Page sub-menu link. On this page you will see:
- My Assigned Items: This list shows the Tracker items assigned to you. Only currently open items are listed with the most recently entered item shown first. Click on the item name to get more details.
- My Submitted Items: This list shows the Tracker items you submitted. Only currently open items are listed with the most recently entered item shown first. Click on the item name to get more details.
- Subscribed Forums: This list shows the Forums you are subscribed to. Forums are discussion groups about specific tools/resources. If you choose to subscribe to a forum, every time there is a new post to the forum you will be sent an e-mail with the direct link to the new message. To search or post to a forum, click on its name. To unsubscribe from a forum, click on the trash can icon to the left of the forum name.
- Monitored Files: You can monitor file packages to receive e-mail when new releases are issued. This section lists the file packages you are monitoring. Click on the package name to get more details on the package. To stop monitoring the package, click on the trash can icon to the left of the package name.
- My Tasks: This list shows the Task items assigned to you. Only currently open items are listed. Click on the item name to get more details.
- My Bookmarks: This list shows your bookmarked pages. When you click on a bookmark, you’ll go directly to the page you bookmarked. When you click the "Edit" link to the right of the bookmark, you can edit your bookmark title and the URL. Click on the trash can to the left of the bookmark to delete it.
- My Tools/Resources: This list shows the active tools/resources in which you are a member. When you click on a tool/resource name, you will go to the Summary page for that tool/resource. If you no longer want to be a member of the tool/resource, click on the trash can to the left of the tool/resource name to remove yourself from that group. (If you are a tool/resource administrator, the trash can icon has a red X over it; you must drop your administrator status before you can remove yourself from this tool/resource. This can be done by clicking the "Admin" menu link in your tool/resource menu. In the Group Members box on the Tool/Resource Administration page, you may update your role from Admin to another role that does not have administrator privileges.)
Bookmark This Page
This feature allows you to bookmark the page you are currently viewing. Click the "Bookmark This Page" sub-menu link under the "My NITRC" main menu link to bookmark a page. Your bookmarks are displayed on your personal page. There your bookmarks can be edited or deleted.
Diary and Notes
This feature allows you to keep notes on the NITRC site. Click the "Diary & Notes" sub-menu link under the "My NITRC" main menu link to access the Diary and Notes page. You may make a note public, or keep it private. If you make it public, those who are monitoring your notes will receive notification any time you add a public note. To edit an existing note, click on the summary name in your list of notes, make your changes, and submit. Notes cannot be deleted.
Monitoring a Diary
Other users may monitory your diary entries, and you may monitor other users' diary entries. Navigate to the user's User Profile page. Click the "Monitor this Diary" link to start monitoring.
Account Maintenance
The Account Maintenance page allows you to change your personal information and your preferences. This information is initially set when you register with NITRC. Click the Account Maintenance sub-menu link under the "My NITRC" main menu to access the Account Maintenance page.
Personal Information
You may change all your personal information except the registration date, user ID (which is created by the system), and your login name. If you change the e-mail address NITRC has on file for you, you will have to confirm the new e-mail address by responding to an e-mail message sent to this new address. In addition to modifying the information you set during registration, you may also add an OpenID identity. Click the Google image to register your Google account with NITRC. This will allow you to log in to NITRC using your Google user account.
Preferences
- Receive email about NITRC website updates: Check this box to periodically receive information about the NITRC site, including code updates and security notices. The traffic is very low; we recommend that you activate this option.
- Receive NITRC Community mailings: Check this box to receive notices of interest to the NITRC community. The traffic is low.
- Subscribe to the Community Forum: Check this box to be subscribed to the NITRC Community open discussion forum. You will receive an e-mail notice whenever a new message is posted to the forum.
- Receive email when you have current and outstanding tasks: Check this box to receive notices of your current and outstanding tasks if your tool/resource uses the NITRC system to assign tasks to its members. You will receive an e-mail notice each weekday that you have current or outstanding open tasks.
- Receive weekly follow-up email related to tools/resources that you have downloaded: Check this box to receive a follow-up e-mail reminding you to review any tools/resources that you had downloaded the previous week. You will receive an e-mail notice only once in the week following a week in which you downloaded files.
- Do not send me forum, task, or tracker email notices generated by my actions: Check this box if you do not want to receive notifications when you perform an action to items in forums, trackers, or tasks. You receive e-mail notifications whenever items are added to or modified within forums and trackers that you are subscribed to. You also receive an e-mail notification whenever a task is modified and you submitted that task or are assigned to that task. Checking this box will ensure that you do not receive notifications when you are the one making the changes. You will still receive notifications when other users make changes. Your responses will always be shown in digest versions of a forum.
- Participate in peer ratings: Check this box to rate other NITRC users and allow yourself to be rated.
- Unsubscribe from all site mailings and notifications: Click this link to unsubscribe from all e-mail notifications that you are currently subscribed to. This opens a page that allows you to confirm this action. Select "Yes, please unsubscribe me from all NITRC mailings and notifications." to continue clearing your subscriptions. Select "No, please leave my current subscriptions." to cancel the action and leave all your current subscriptions. Your current subscriptions may include any of the following:
- NITRC Website Updates Notification (set preference above)
- NITRC Community Mailings (set preference above)
- NITRC Community Forum Messages (set preference above or on the NITRC Community Forum page)
- Current and Outstanding Tasks Notification (set preference above)
- Download Follow-up Review Request Notification (set preference above)
- User Diary Update Notification (set monitoring on user's User Profile page)
- New File Release Notification (set monitoring on tool/resource's Downloads page)
- Forum Messages (set subscription on tool/resource's Forum page)
- New News Notification (set monitoring on tool/resources's Browse News page)
- News Comments Messages (set subscription on tool/resource's News Bulletin page)
- Tracker Update Notification (set monitoring on tool/resource's Tracker page or the specific Tracker Artifact page)
User Profile
You may access your user profile by clicking the "View My User Profile" link toward the top of the Account Maintenance page.
Your user profile is what other users will see when they want information about you. The profile information is taken from the account data you provided through the Account Maintenance page. Your profile includes a link to your skills and experience profile. (Skills and experience information is only displayed to other users if you have made it available to the public. More information about your skills and experience profile is provided in the next section.) If a user wishes to send you an e-mail message, he may click on the e-mail address displayed to get a form for sending a message.
Monitoring a Diary
The User Profile is also where other users may view and request to monitor your public diary entries. Users view your public diary entries by clicking the "View Diary & Notes" link in the Diary and Notes section of the page. Users request to monitor your public diary entries by clicking the "Monitor this Diary" link in the same section. To stop monitoring a diary, the user must click "Monitor this Diary" again.
Skills and Experience Profile
You may access your skills and experience profile by clicking the "Edit My Skills and Experience Profile" link toward the top of the Account Maintenance page. In this section you may enter your skills, most recent investigations, training, projects, proposals, or other relevant experience. You can set your skills and experience profile to public, so everyone may see it, or to private, so that only you can view it.
When you add a skill, you must enter:
- A name (title) for the skill, such as "PHP coding," "Oracle DBA," "Technical writing," "QA testing," etc.
- A description of the skill up to 255 characters.
- The period in which you gained the skill (month/year to month/year).
- The type of skill—project, training, proposal, or investigation.
Any skills you enter may be edited or deleted at any time from this same page.
