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Setting up your folder preferences
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Setting up your folder and preferences
Each person with an account on Plone has their own folder. Your content will be stored there, and you can create other sub-folders to organize your data.
Plone personal bar
- To access your folder, click the my folder link on the personal toolbar.
- To edit your preferences, click the preferences link on the personal bar
- If you click Personal Preferences you will be taken to a page where you can set individual values for your folder. These are stored on the Plone server, and will be available regardless of the machine that you use to login.
- For example, at the bottom of the page you can choose the photo to appear on your profile page. Just click the browse button, and select the correct image file.
- Click the Save button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.
You can set your preferences for all of the items listed below:
Metadata | Description |
Full Name | This is automatically filled in by Plone based on your login |
Same as above | |
Location | Not required, but is useful information |
Language | By default Plone is language neutral |
Biography | A short description of who you are |
Home page | The url for an external home page |
Content editor | The default is the Plone content editor |
Enable external editing | Allow editing of pages with external web editor, you must check with the Plone Admin to see if this is enabled |
Listed in searches | Defaults to checked so that your name will appear in member searches of Plone |
Portrait | Allows you to upload a picture of yourself, ideally the photo should be 75 x 100 pixels (between 5-7 cm), the system will resize the image to make it fit |
Delete portrait | Allows you to delete the photo used in Portrait |
