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You may place other websites' syndicated news on your site by using the RSS blocks. These blocks support both Atom and RSS feeds.
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Use Custom Comcode to quickly build Comcode pages that follow a common pattern.
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The calendar is useful for much more than just group scheduling – the e-mail reminder system is particularly useful and allows it to be used as a secure substitute for a diary (as the Internet becomes available just about anywhere, the advantage to storing information on the Internet becomes more significant).
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Located in
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The language editor is not just useful for translating the original ocPortal British English to another language – it is also useful for stylistic customisation of language.
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Located in
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If you need to place some Comcode within Comcode, written in literal form (i.e. not parsed), either place it within a Comcode <tt>code</tt> tag, or put <tt>\</tt> symbols before the <tt>[</tt> symbols.
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If you are using Firefox, try the Firebug extension. It is a fantastic aid to themeing your website because it will allow you to quickly find how the CSS ties into the XHTML, and also let you interactively test changes. Firebug isn't a permanent editor though, so you'll need to manually copy any of your changes back into ocPortal's CSS and save them.
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If you have error e-mails enabled, ocPortal will send out e-mails whenever it parses Comcode with broken links in it: this will help you make sure your website stays stable. If you clear your Comcode cache, then ocPortal will have to reparse all Comcode, and hence will pick up any newly broken links.
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The calendar can be used as a scheduling system for system commands. If you're a real ocPortal Pro, you'll be able to write scripts in OcCLE to execute at regular intervals of your chosing.
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Located in
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If you have a lot of experience with ocPortal, you may want to consider getting yourself professionally qualified. It's free, easy (it's done online) and you may be able to get listed in our directory of experts, giving you the opportunity to be paid doing freelance ocPortal customisations for others.
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When editing templates, use Tempcode if you need to perform simple or even advanced calculations; for example, the IF_NON_EMPTY Tempcode directive is very useful when wrapping extra HTML around a template parameter that may sometimes be blank (we use IF_NON_EMPTY to only apply the extra HTML in the case where it is surrounding something actually there).
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