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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I take up the offer of a free walk?

You will need to register with the site. Once your account has been approved you can signup for you free walk.

Firstly you will need to login to the site

Use the events tab on the top right of the screen

You will be presented with current month view use the Next and Prev links to change months or select a different view either day / week / month / year.

Once you have found the day select the link.

Once you have selected you event you will be taken to the event description page

Select the 'Sign up for...' tab and the following drop down will appear

When you select the "Sign up for ... " link it will show a drop down that will contain your registered email address if you change the email address you will be asked to confirm the change as it will update your profile. The signup drop down will have your site login please replace this with your actual name. Please provide a contact number so we can advise of any changes. You will be sent an email confirming your sign up and giving instuctions on how to cancel your sign up if you cannot make the event.

If after signing you cannot attend you can use' cancel sign up' option just navigate to your account - signup or to through the event, then select cancel sign up.

NB : If you need to cancel after the Thursday before the walk you will need to call the number listed on the confirmation email.

What is the difference between a Register users and Site Member

There are a number of site user types.

If you come across the site for the first time you will not be logged in and you will have the user type of unregistered. An unregistered user can access the site, the event calendar and but to sign-up to an event you will need to register.

Once you register for the site you become a registered user. This allows you to sign up for walks. Allows you access to The POIFriend.com group to download the POI’s for the walks and Pickup points. Your have access to our section of service.

As a registered user your first walk with us is free however for insurance purposes you will be required to a pay a £3.50 charge for each additional walk you do with us until you become a subscribing member.

There are various Subscribing member types. The membership fee in either a one of annual fee or a quarterly subscription. The following payment methods are accepted. Cash, PayPal, PayPal quick pay (i.e. charged to you debit / credit card) and Standing order.

The PayPal service is currently being automated , but until the functionality is fully tested we will manually create a payment request on completion of the membership application form.

Membership costs include cover under the clubs public liability insurance.

Membership also gives you access to other service including discount equipment and map hire with other benefits being arranged

Do you offer any navigation / map reading training?

We as a club can help you improve your navigation and map reading skills with a selection of training tools

We have a basic navigation course which we will run twice a year.
“let you take the map” - allows you brush up your skills whilst out on the hills
A night walk in the summer to improve you night navigation skills can be added to the program
GPS navigation and Mapping Software skills – using maps and mapping software to create new routes for the club and yourselves.

When I create content and copy it into form when published it has a lot of code at the top how do I stop this ?

The FCKEditor used in this site has a number of functions to help with this issue.

They are the copying tools

although you can copy text created in a text editor, like notepad via [Ctrl]+[c].

1. If you document was created in MS Word Copy your text in the normal way

2. Move to the content creation from and select the

icon

3. A text box will open like the one below move the cursor to the ext box press [Ctrl] + [v] keys

4. Make sure the Ignore Font Face definitions checkbox is ticked

5. If you have no bullet points include you can check the Remove Style definitions check box.

6. Click ok

7. All font and formatting data copied from the work document is now striped out of the text.
NB. If there are any images to be added they will need to be uploaded to the server if not already done so. See FAQ adding pictures to content for help with this.

8. Now preview the document and you will see your content without all the additional code.

There is another way you could just copy and paste. Preview and the use the “ switch to plain text “ this will switch the editor view and you can manually remove the unwanted data – Beware this is not for the feint hearted and it’s better to use the method out lined above

How to I add pictures to the site.

There are three ways you can add photos to the site they are

1. Adding multiple photos to a Gallery

2. Adding a single photo to a Gallery.

3. Adding a photo or picture to report or other document from the gallery or to upload an image from your machine.

We will answer each of these in a different FAQ post. click on the appropriate link yo to that faq

1. Adding Multiple Photos to a Picture Gallery

To add multiple photos to a Gallery you need to select from the Create Content menu Image.

The following screen is loaded

Select the Multiple Upload Page link and you may see this popup box ( you will need java installed on your machine)

Select the always trust content from this publisher check box and select run ( this is for Firefox)Internet explorer and Google Chrome will produce slightly different warning screens for java content but just confirm and the java application will load you will then see the screen below

Now find the images you want to upload to the site, select them and drop them into the white area or use the add button. Your screen will look something like this.

Click the upload button and the progress bar will move across. Once completed you will see a screen like this:

If you now goto to photos from the navigation bar and select Library you will see you uploaded pictures in the gallery

2. Adding a single photo to a Gallery.

If you are uploading a single image you will see this page.

However if you have selected an image from a gallery the details will already be filled. So for now lets have a look at what can be added and on saving the image will either be uploaded or moved the selected gallery.

You may find the Body area text entry box as a plain text area rather than a wysiwig (what you see is what you get) editor this can be changed.

If you have selected a previously uploaded image from a gallery you will need to select the edit tab to change details. If there is no edit tab and you are logged in to the site, you did not upload this image and do not have rights to change it.

Select a galley if no gallery is present use this link to get a gallery created ( this may take up 24 hours to be completed)

If you wish to add or replace an image select browse and navigate to the image

Click preview to see what the image will look like if you are happy the click save

Your image will be upload \ moved to the gallery and the text you added will appear below.

The default image upload will allow the picture to be automatically added to the slide show for that gallery. If you wish the images to show in a particular order the prefix each title with a number. See any of the 2009 galleries for an example.

To move a large number of images can be time consuming but is fun and rewarding when it all works.

3. Adding a photo or picture to report

The creation of this document will illustrate what you need to do

Select the content you which to create from the create content side bar ( remember to be logged in to the site to see this option)

Remember if you are creating content in a word processor prior to uploading to copy using the copy word tool in the rich text edit

When you copy and paste with images the place holders are kept but you then have to link the placeholder to the image either upload it from your computer or find in the gallery image area on the site.

http://thehikingclub.co.uk/sites/default/files/images/image%20placeholder.PNG

Select an image place holder and either right click or select the image button from the tool bar to access the image properties

Select the Browse Server button and a popup will open or you will be asked to allow popups from this site. Once the popup is open navigate to the images directory