Howto - icons

Interface icons HOWTO

This is a general reference explaining the different icons that appear within the eLanguages system. If you are not sure what a particular icon signifies, you should look it up within this guide or position your mouse over the icon to see a short description or 'tool tip' explaining its purpose.

Navigation icons

Navigation icons are interface buttons that help you navigate through the system

Help system and HOWTOs.: This icon, represented by a question mark, gives access to the system HOWTOs, similar to this page. The HOWTOs cover all aspects of using the system. HOWTOs display in a separate window to allow users of windowing system to view the help topic information in conjunction with the system page to which it refers.
Print: Reformats the page to remove unnecessary display elements and make printing easier.
Email: Send a reference to this page via email to a friend, or yourself as a reminder.
Watch: Set up a watch (email notification) on this page. You will be emailed whenever changes are made to the content of the page.
RSS: Displays the page as a RSS web feed.
Open thread in forum: Appears in a forum and allows you to open a thread of messages.
Close thread in forum: Appears in a forum and allows you to close a thread of messages.

Editing icons

You use the editing icons to add, edit or delete any content you add to a project, your hello page or any other page you can edit. You have edit rights to a page if the edit icon appears in the top right corner of a page.

Edit a page or resource.: This icon appears when you are in normal mode for a page and have editing privileges on a page. When applied to a page "edit" mode might include the ability to add, change or delete existing content or change the name and layout of the page itself. Select this icon to enter editing mode. When applied to a resource, edit mode allows you to change the properties of that resource such as its name, description and content.
Return to normal mode: This icon appears when you are in editing mode. Clicking it returns you to the view of the page normally seen by users who do not have editing privileges on the page.
Properties: Indicates that you can change the properties of a page. This privilege allows the user to change the page title, metatext, layout and stylesheet that applies to the page.
Add: Indicates where you can add resources such as text, images, picture galleries etc.
Cut: Allows you to "cut" content from the page into a temporary storage area referred to as the clipboard.
Copy: Indicates that you can copy this resource for use elsewhere in the system. Items which are copied are stored in the clipboard until they are pasted into another location.
Paste: Indicates that you can paste items from your clipboard at this location.
Delete: Appears when you have the ability to delete the resource.
Permissions - World readable: Appears when you have administrative privileges over a resource and provides access to the permissions list for the object. This icon signifies that the object to which it is connected is world readable.
Permissions - Restricted Access: Appears when you have administrative privileges over a resource and provides access to the permissions list for the object. This icon signifies that the object to which it is attatched has restricted access.
Translate: Add or edit the translation for a resource.
Enlarge: Enlarge the display size of an image by 2O%
Reduce: Reduce the display size of an image by 20%

Resource type icons

These icons represent the resources available on the system.

Forum: Indicates a discussion forum for exchanging a series of ideas.
Folder: A container for organising other resources.
Page: A webpage.
News: A scrollable news browser to display headlines and short news items.
Image: An embedded image.
Gallery: A gallery browser to display a series of linked images
Information: Page and project information showing the names of page contributors.
Text: Textual elements such as section headings and paragraphs of text.
File: Generic icon to represent an uploaded file.
Link: A hypertext link to an internal or external webpage.
Poll: A simple polling utility.

File types

These icons represent the file types supported by the system.

Microsoft Word file: A document in the Microsoft Word file format.
Microsoft Excel file: A speadsheet in the Microsoft Excel file format.
Microsoft Power Point file: A presentation in the Microsoft PowerPoint file format.
PDF: A document in the cross-platform Portable Document Format from Adobe.
JPEG image: An image in the widely supported JPEG format.
GIF image: An image in the widely supported GIF format.
Video file: A generic icon for different video file types.
Sound: A generic icon for different sound file formats