The following instructions will guide you in managing the content of the Crisis Management Portlet.

1. Open a PUBLISH instance of the Portal

Neither the Public Portal or the Protected Portal will allow you to get access to WIND. You will need to go the a specifically dedicated URL:

https://www.nm.eurocontrol.int/PUBLISH/gateway/spec/index.html

Enter your credentials (UserName and Passcode) on the Login Page:

A new screen appears, prompting you to select the Role and Domain values to be used:

Select the appropriate values and click on the Go button. This will open the NOP:

2. Launch WIND

Click on the WIND Button in the Header:

This action opens the WIND Editor:

3. Prepare and upload the file imports (if relevant)

The obvious initial step will be to have the desired file(s) ready for import prior to engage in the upload process.

Click on the File resources tree button (the third one featured in the left navigation column) and locate the desired folder - probably the Crisis_documents folder:

With the target folder selected (highlighted), right-click and select the Add a file resource command:

This will open a new dialog prompting you to specify the file details:

• The Directory field is set by default to the folder from which you invoked the command
• The Type field allows you to select from one of the following file types:
  
  

1. PORTLET_IMAGE
   Usage: Illustration in all portlets - main view
   Size: image size must be 75x75 pixels
2. NEWS_THUMB_IMAGE
   Usage: Illustration in CFMU News (main view) and HEADLINE NEWS (detached view)
   Size: Image will automatically be resized to 52x52 pixels
3. SCENARIO_IMAGE
   Usage: Illustration in SCENARIOS (detached view)
   Size: Image will, if too big, be resized to 720x540 pixels
4. FREESIZE_IMAGE
   Usage: Illustration in all documents where images can be embedded
   Size: Image size must be at least 90x90 pixels
5. OTHER
   Usage: for all documents other than images (text documents, powepoint, pdf, etc.)

• The File field prompts you to browse the files present on your local file system (from your computer hard disk or any network drive to which you have access) - confirm your choice by clicking on the Select button
  

  Allowed File Types

  WIND only accepts the upload of the files in the following formats:

  • Text (txt, doc, rtf)
  • Html (htm, html)
  • Image (gif, jpeg, png)
  • Powerpoint (ppt)
  • Excel (xlc, xll, xlm, xls, xlw)
  • Pdf

   

  Due to potential browser configuration issues, the pdf format is currently recommended as preferred one...

  Note that any other format will cause WIND to generate an error message.

• Once you have confirmed the target folder, set the file type and selected the file to add to the WIND resources:
  
  
  
  Then simply click on the Ok button to initiate the upload process. See the example below with a sample 141201_test_document_upload.txt file:
  
  

Repeat this routine until all the necessary files are successfully uploaded.

4. Edit the CRISIS_SUPPORT_PC entity

The content of the Crisis Management Portlet is in effect managed by means of the CRISIS_SUPPORT_PC entity.

Click on the Typed tree button (the first one featured in the left navigation column), locate and open the PC folder, and scroll until you locate the CRISIS_SUPPORT_PC icon:

This opens a windows looking like this:

Notice the 4 tabs, namely Common, Main View, Detached Views and Details.

The first three are not to be used on a daily basis and are typically reserved to administrators.

We only address the last one, Details, in this section. Please refer to the relevant sections of the WIND Online Help for additional information.

A. Access the Details Tab

As you open the Details tab, another series of sub-tabs is revealed:

• Top Links
• Body Links
• Intro / Concl
• Bottom Link

B. Edit in the Intro / Concl tab

For the time being, the whole content of the Crisis Management Portlet, as it is displayed on the NOP, is managed in this single tab - more precisely in the first Introduction pane:

As a result, you will only have to edit one text area to add, modify or suppress text or links - using a simplified text editor: the WIND Text Editor.

WIND Text Editor

This is the Tagged Text Editor toolbar:

The term 'Tagged Text' refers to the editor inserting specific formatting code instructions within the text - these small pieces of code are named Tags.

Note that this component is not a WYSIWYG editor - it will only show some code, and does not render it as it would be when seen from the NOP.

As for most simple text editors, many of the commands are quite straightforward to understand. This is certainly the case for these:

Undo / Redo: undo (or redo) the last entered changes.

Carriage Return: Inserts a line break each time you click on it, forcing a carriage return.

Bold / Italic / Underline

Simply highlight with the mouse the text you want to edit, then click on the desired button. Should you wish to apply a second style on the same text string, please make sure to only reselect the original text - excluding all tags (tags are HTML commands placed between < > brackets).

Create a List

Clicking on the Create a list button opens a palette where you can enter the following parameters: 

• First choose between a Numbered list or a Bulleted list by means of the drop-down list.
• The next step is to select the desired number of items, with the Length up and down arrows.
• You will then need to individually edit each of the rows of the table to enter the text - simply click and type...
  

Insert Link

Clicking on the Insert Link button opens the palette below:

Note that it is set by default to Link to a file resource. The Type field allows you to opt for an External link:

First choose between the External link or the Link to a file resource type of link.

Both types work in the same way:

• First select the desired Type.
• Check the Open in a new window box if you want the target page to be opened in a new browser window instead of in the current one.
• In case you did not yet select the text to which apply the change, the next step is to type in the text which will be the label for the hyperlink . If you did so (by first selecting a text string then clicking on the Link button), then the selected text will already appear in the Text field.
• Indicate the path to the target file, in the form of an URL in the case of an external link, or drag and drop an element already available in the File Resources folders. If necessary, follow the instructions provided in Step 4 (upload files).

Example for an external link

This is, highlighted in a red border, the corresponding code:

And this is how the code is rendered in the NOP:

Example for an internal link

Drag and drop the file to the File Resource field:

Check that it has been correctly linked (see that we also have filled the mandatory Text field with the word 'MAP'):

This is, highlighted in a red border, the corresponding code:

And this is how the code is rendered in the NOP:

Insert Date

This feature is not used in the context of the Crisis Management Portlet.

Insert Image

Clicking on the Insert Image button opens the Select the image properties palette. 

• To add an image to your text, simply drag it from the File resources tree.
• Next choose the type of alignment among the following:
  • Left
  • Right
  • Top
  • Bottom
  • Middle
• You may optionally specify the display pixel dimensions of the image (Height and Width) - use this feature when your image is too big to fit (WIND will not automatically resize oversized images).

5. Save your work

The Apply button at the bottom of the Edit window will save the changes made to the document being edited - the OK button does the same, and in addition closes the Edit window.

Should you forget to save your changes, you will be prompted to do so when you close the Edit window.

6. Check your data against the system

Go to the View menu and select the Validate and align command. This will run a technical check to validate the changes you made and result in a "0 errors found" messages if everything is OK - or some other message indicating the type of error encountered.

7. Verify your changes

Before publishing, you may also wish to make sure that the changes you are about to have copied to the live server are indeed what you intended to display, by means of a visual check.

Simply return to the header of the Portal and click on the View button - and select in a drop-down list from which of your views (there may be just one item listed there if you have created only one view) you wish to have the content displayed.

Please refer to the WIND > The Wind Editor > The View Concept section of the WIND Help / User Manual for additional information on managing Views.

8. Publish

As no errors were encountered during the Validate and Align check, you can now safely click on the Publish command located in the View menu to publish your data in the NOP. As a result, the view used for making the changes is terminated, and removed from the list of available views. Should you wish to make another set of changes, you will have to either open an existing view, or create a new one.