Help Topics:

• Submitting headline events for CJC's front page
• Submitting calendar events for CJC's Community Calendar
• Entering/editing calendar events on CJC's Community Calendar
• Exporting and emailing calendar events to CJC
• Exports from CJC's Community Calendar
• Questions/comments about the website
• Web site support

Submitting headline events for CJC's front page

There are 2 types of community event headlines:

1. Headlines with additional descriptive text - clicking the headline toggles whether the text is shown
2. Headlines linked to a web page - clicking the headline jumps to the designated page

Please follow the CJC guidelines for submission, including the specified subject line. Headlines should include the date on which the event begins, a BRIEF headline about the event, and may include additional text or a link.


Submitting calendar events for CJC's Community Calendar

Please follow the CJC guidelines for submission of Calendar events, including the specified subject line. Calendar events may also include a link to another site for additional details about the event. In order to add or edit events in the CJC Community Calendar you need to have Javascript and cookies enabled (for www.c-j-c.org). Please refer to the sections:

• Entering/editing calendar events on CJC's Community Calendar, and then
• Exporting and emailing calendar events to CJC

Entering/editing calendar events on CJC's Community Calendar

To enter events:

• On a calendar page, navigate to the month of the event using either the central drop-down box, or the top-left or top-right tiny month displays.
• Click on the group name at the bottom of the calendar. Note: just click on the name, not the checkboxes; the checkboxes are used to toggle which groups of events are shown.
• The windows status bar (at the bottom of the browser window) indicates which group has been selected. As you mouse over the calendar, the status bar will show the group and date.
• To add a new event:
  • Click on a date (or an empty area within that date box) and follow the onscreen prompts:
  • Enter a brief description of the event.
  • If desired, also enter the optional link. The link must start with www.
  • Click on Save, Cancel, Delete or Exit as desired. Cancel or Exit do NOT add the event.
• To edit an existing event:
  • Click on the event and follow the onscreen prompts:
  • Edit the description and/or URL link.
  • Click on Save, Cancel, Delete or Exit as desired. Cancel or Exit do NOT change the event.
• To delete an event: click on 'Delete'.
• To create personal events such as Weddings/Birthdays/Reminders etc., select group Mine on the bottom bar. (Personal events are not shareable, they are for personal use only.)

The above steps create events on your local computer, stored in cookies. These events are only visible in that user profile in that browser on that specific computer. To share these events, please refer to Exporting and emailing calendar events to CJC


Exporting and emailing calendar events to CJC

To export your events and email them to CJC:

• Enter the event(s) for your group. You can enter a number of events, in a number of months. (The limit varies with your browser, but you should have space for at least a normal double-spaced typewritten page!)
• Click on the 'help' drop-down box, and select the 'Exports' option. This will open the exports box at the top of the browser window.
• Click on 'Email-to-CJC events'.
• Follow the onscreen prompts: Select All of the text, press Control-C to copy it, paste it into the body of an email to CJC web support, and send it! You may want to keep a copy for backup.
• After sending (and saving) the events, clear them from your cookies:
  • Open the exports box (from the 'Help' drop-down box),
  • Click on 'Clear Emailed / CJC-web events', and
  • Confirm that you want to clear the events.

Clearing the cookies is important - if you do not clear the cookies, you may accidently re-send the same event(s). Also, once the events have been posted onto the web site, you would see the events listed twice. If you DO see the events twice, and if clearing cookies (and refreshing the screen) does not remove the second copy, please contact web support in case the events have been posted twice. (You can also clear cookies via your browser.)


Exports from CJC's Community Calendar

Events listed on the Calendar can be exported in several formats:

• As comma-separated lists, which can then be imported into other applications such as Excell, Access etc.
  • The month list includes only the month shown, and only the groups shown. You can toggle which groups are shown via the checkboxes on the bar at the bottom of the calendar - simply check the groups you wish to show, and click the 'Show' button.
  • The future list is like the month list, but includes ALL events from the current month forward.
• As a special calendar file of personal events. This file can be used to store personal events; once stored in a file the events can be removed from cookies. NOTE: this file will only work with certain browsers, such as MS Internet Explorer. Other browsers may not process the file. Make sure that your intended browser does process the file before clearing your personal events from cookies!
  This file differs from showing only group Mine and exporting a comma-separated list - the format differs, and the file includes only events from the month shown and forward in time.
• The email-to-CJC format, as referred to in the section on submitting events to CJC. This export does NOT include group Mine (personal events).
• The CJC web file, which is used to support the website. This file does NOT include group Mine.
• The remaining options are used to clear events from cookies.

Questions/comments about the website

Regular web support such as front page headlines and calendar events is handled by CJC - please contact web support.
If you have questions or comments about the web site, or if you are looking for someone to work on a web site, please contact bernhyr (at yahoo.com).

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Web site support
Some support tasks are outlined below:

• Initial setup of the support image
• How to update the web site (www.c-j-c.org)
• How to add emailed events to the calendar
• Entering/editing calendar events
• Adding Jewish Holidays and Secular Holidays
• Adding Newsletters to the Newsletter page
• How to add headlines, text and links to the front page
• How to enable cookies for the CJC web site. (Cookies are only used for the calendar .)

Initial setup of the support image

Set up a test area so you can preview changes before uploading them for the world to see. You should re-do this periodically to make sure that your image is current. Also set up a backup area to save your work.

• Create the following folders on your C: hard drive:
  • c:/cjc          this is the test area and will hold ALL files, including those to be uploaded
  • c:/cjcbak       this will hold old versions of files uploaded
  (You can do this via Windows explorer.)
• Open MS Internet Explorer 6 and go to the www.c-j-c.org web site.
• In the address bar, enter the following (changing UserName and PassWord!):
      ftp://UserName:PassWord@c-j-c.org
  (Must be in EXACTLY this format.)
• Highlight all of the files in the browser window. (Please be careful, you are on the live website!) Right-click the highlighted files and COPY them into the c:/cjc folder. Make sure you select COPY, don't delete or move or rename! After the copy is completed, close the browser.

How to update the web site (www.c-j-c.org)

This method uses MS Internet Explorer 6; it is used to update the front page headlines and calendar events.

• Open an explorer window and navigate to c:/cjc.
• Open IE6 and enter the following into the address bar (note: replace username and password per instructions):
      ftp://username:password@c-j-c.org/
• Using your mouse, drag and drop the updated file(s) from c:/cjc onto the browser window, thereby copying the files to the web site.
• In the address bar of the browser, enter http://www.c-j-c.org and confirm your work.

How to add emailed events to the calendar

The new short procedure is to copy and paste the events directly into cjcevents.js, check it and upload it:

• In notepad, open file c:/cjc/cjcevents.js
• In your email application, highlight and copy the emailed events (Control-C or Edit:Copy).
• In notepad, paste the copied events (Control-V or Edit:Paste).
• Edit any obvious problems (be careful re preserving the format).
• Close notepad, saving the updated file.
• In windows explorer, navigate to c:/cjc and double-click index.html. This will open the local support copy of the web site.
• Check the events; if necessary you can edit c:/cjc/cjcevents.js (or you can edit events via the calendar as described in Entering/editing calendar events on CJC's Community Calendar).
• When you are satisfied with your work, upload c:/cjc/cjcevents.js to the website as described above in How to update the web site (www.c-j-c.org)

Entering/editing calendar events

To add, edit or delete events in the calendar directly (ie not copy/paste from email):

• Add, edit or delete events normally, as described in Entering/editing calendar events on CJC's Community Calendar
• Export the full CJC web site file:
  • Click on the 'help' drop-down box, and select the 'Exports' option. This will open the exports box at the top of the browser window.
  • Click on 'CJC-web:all events'.
  • Follow the onscreen prompts: Select All of the text, and press Control-C to copy it.
  • In notepad, open file c:/cjc/cjcevents.js
  • Still in notepad, press Control-A to select all of the events, and then paste the copied events (Control-V or Edit:Paste). This will replace the original version of the events with the full new version.
  • Close notepad, saving the updated file.
• Clear the events from cookies. (Otherwise you will see them twice, and might accidently export and upload them.):
  • Click on the 'help' drop-down box, and select the 'Exports' option. This will open the exports box at the top of the browser window.
  • Click on 'Clear Emailed / CJC-web events'.
  • Confirm that you want to clear the events. (You can also clear cookies via the browser.)
• In windows explorer, navigate to c:/cjc and double-click index.html. This will open the local support copy of the web site.
• Check the events; again, if necessary you can edit c:/cjc/cjcevents.js, or you can edit events via the calendar and again export.
• When you are satisfied with your work, upload c:/cjc/cjcevents.js to the website as described in How to update the web site (www.c-j-c.org)

Adding Jewish Holidays and Secular Holidays

There are 2 holiday files, containing holidays in the format which is used for 'Email-to-CJC events'.

1. Jewish holidays for 2004--2014 are stored in hyjhol.js. This file is stored on the website (and thus in c:/cjc/hyjhol.js).
2. Secular holidays for 2004--2014 are stored in holiday.js; this file is also on the website and in c:/cjc/holiday.js.

Periodically (e.g. each year) simply copy and paste selected upcoming holidays from these files into cjcevents.js. The procedure is exactly the same as adding emailed events (per How to add emailed events to the calendar). The only difference is that you are copying from files opened in notepad, rather than from an email message. In detail:

• Open c:/cjc/hyjhol.js in Notepad,
• With your mouse, select the range of holidays desired (for example, all of 2004 holidays) - you will see that the holidays are sorted in date order, and are grouped in demarcated sections by year.
• Press Control-C (or Edit:Copy) to copy the holiday events.
• Open c:/cjc/cjcevents.js in notepad.
• Paste the holidays into c:/cjc/cjcevents.js anywhere but at the top of the file - the events do not need to be sorted.
• Do the same with c:/cjc/holidays.js - copy and paste selected events into c:/cjc/cjcevents.js.
• Follow the standard procedure to check your work, then upload c:/cjc/cjcevents.js per How to update the web site (www.c-j-c.org)

Adding Newsletters to the Newsletter page

Simply edit newsletters.html to add a link to the new .PDF newsletter file, and then upload both the updated web page and .PDF file to the website. In detail:

• (If needed, refresh c:/cjc)
• Open c:/cjc/newsletters.html in Notepad,
• Scroll down 2-thirds of the file until you reach the newsletters links section, which should look similiar to the following:
  1. <!-- - - - - - Insert new newsletter links after this line - - - - - -->
     
  2. <a href="south_sub_news_summer04.pdf">Summer 2004</a>
• Copy and insert a line like #2 above, after line #1, and edit the inserted line to refer to the new newsletter. For example, if the new newsletter were for Fall 2004, and the file name was 'fall_2004_news.pdf', after inserting and editing the line, the result would look like this:
  1. <!-- - - - - - Insert new newsletter links after this line - - - - - -->
     
  2. <a href="fall_2004_news.pdf">Fall 2004</a>
  3. <a href="south_sub_news_summer04.pdf">Summer 2004</a>
• Save the file (newsletters.html) from Notepad, and then
• Upload newsletters.html and the .pdf file to the website per How to update the web site (www.c-j-c.org).

How to add headlines, text and links to the front page

The basic procedure is to type (and/or copy and paste) the text into the edit box, save the updated text into a special file and upload it to the web site. The new short procedure is:

• Open MS Internet Explorer 6 and go to www.c-j-c.org
  (Or to use a current local copy, just open c:/cjc/index.html.)
• Right-click (or Middle-click) on the 'CJC Home' link. This will open the editing box.
  (The normal Left-click won't open the editing box!)
• Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and add/edit the headlines.
  (Remember that each event must have the 3 lines: date|, link| and text| ).
  You can copy the text and work in a simple NotePad editor and then paste it back.
• When done editing, click 'Preview', scroll up and see how it looks.
  All of the events+text will be shown 'opened'. To close one, click it twice.
• When you are satisfied, click 'Select All' and then press Control-C to copy the odd-looking HBlocks form.
• In Notepad, open file c:/cjc/frontpage.js
• Still in Notepad, press Control-A to select all of the text, and then press Control-V (or edit:paste) to replace the old version with the updated version.
• Close Notepad, saving the updated file.
• In windows explorer, navigate to c:/cjc and double-click index.html. This will open the local support copy of the web site.
• Check the front page headlines; again, if necessary you can edit them and re-export etc..
• When you are satisfied with your work, upload c:/cjc/frontpage.js to the website as described in How to update the web site (www.c-j-c.org)

How to enable cookies for the CJC web site. (Cookies are only used for the calendar .)

To enable cookies:
Open the browser and surf to:	http://www.c-j-c.org/
On the browser menu click on:    (this is the menu File Edit View Favorites Tools)	Tools
The next steps depend on the browser:
Internet Explorer 6:
on the Tools menu click on:	Internet Options
on the Internet Options menu, click on the tab named:	Privacy
near the bottom of this tab, click on:	Edit
in the box marked 'Address of Web site' type in:	http://www.c-j-c.org/
click on the button marked:	Allow
then click Ok on each box until you are back to the website.
Mozilla FireFox/Firebird:
on the Tools menu click on:	Options
on the Options menu, click on the tab named:	Privacy
on the Privacy tab, click on:	Exceptions
in the box marked 'Address of website' type in:	http://www.c-j-c.org/
click on the button marked:	Allow
then click Ok on each box until you are back to the website.
Mozilla :
on the Tools menu click on:	Cookie Manager
on the Cookie Manager menu, click on:	Unblock Cookies from this site
MyIE2:
Click on 'Options' rather than 'Tools', then follow the instructions under Internet Explorer 6.

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