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Project Portal - User Documentation

Welcome to the user guide for the APEx Project Portal, a powerful tool designed to support your project communication.

In this user guide, you will find essential information and resources tailored to help you navigate the portal efficiently. For a more general overview, we encourage you to explore the documentation available for the APEx Project Portal and its use cases, where you will discover how you can effectively use it within your project.

This user manual is designed for web managers and editors responsible for setting up, editing, and maintaining their project website. It provides you with a list of tutorials that focus on the most common tasks you may encounter while using the APEx Project Portal. Whether you are a newcomer or an experienced user, these tutorials will empower you to utilize the tool to its fullest potential.

Furthermore, as the portal is built on the Drupal framework, we recommend checking the public resources for any advanced features.

Tutorials

Login to the Project Portal and the Drupal content overview
As soon as your web portal has been set up, you will receive an email from the APEx team containing the URL that allows you to access the website and manage its content.

Manage web pages or add a new page
To add a new web page, you navigate to content in the navigation toolbar (menu). You have 2 options. You can click on the menu content which leads you to an overview of all…

Edit web pages via paragraphs
To add content and visuals on a web page, you must add paragraphs. The web portal template provides different options to share your type of content.

Add content and/or visuals
To add text and visuals, you can use the following paragraphs:

Add a Call-To-Action (CTA)
You can use the Call to action paragraph to highlight content, visuals, links and downloads.

Add news items and an overview of the latest or all news
The project portal allows you to add news items and an overview of all news items. The overview can be implemented via a separate web page or you can also add a news paragrap…

Add an event and an overview of the latest or all events
You can easily add an event by adding a basic page.

Add a web form
You can add a web form via the web portal form settings or by adding an embed code (if you use another application to build web forms e.g. MailChimp).

Edit the menu navigation
To edit the menu navigation of your web portal, you need to navigate to structure > menus > main navigation via the administration toolbar (menu).

Edit the footer
The footer is a basic element of your web portal and will be available for you to edit. The footer will already contain the required elements such as project acronym, full…
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