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Navigating SASSA Wiki
All links in SASSA Wiki are shown in blue. Clicking on one of these will take you to another page or website. Occassionally you might find a piece of text highlighted in red. These are links where the linking page hasn't yet been created. If you are logged in you may create the new page by clicking on the link and adding relevant content. Please follow and read the following links Editing SASSA Wiki and Creating new pages first.

To find your way around SASSA Wiki use your browser back and forward buttons or one of the navigation tools provided:


 * The SASSA Navigation Sidebar on the left had side of the screen.
 * The Toolbox on the lower left hand side of the screen, and
 * The Crumb Trails within the page content.

On each page there are also:
 * The User Login in the top right hand corner of the page.
 * Page Tabs at the top of the page content.
 * External Links to other relevant websites.
 * Copyright and Access Policies along the bottom of the page.
 * Text links within the page content.

SASSA Navigation Sidebar
The SASSA Navigation sidebar gives access to the main components of SASSA, these include the:
 * SASSA Fieldtool - Separate system providing help with interpreting and describing soils in the field,
 * Individual 'chapters' or Namespaces in SASSA Wiki,
 * Search facility,
 * SASSA and Conference News,
 * Contact details,
 * Help,
 * Recent changes - lists pages in SASSA Wiki that have been recently created or edited.

Clicking on any of these links will take you to the relevant section.

Toolbox
The tool box, in the bottom left hand corner of the screen, is only visible if you are logged in. The tool box provides links to useful Wiki tools:
 * What links here
 * Related Changes
 * Upload file
 * Special pages

Crumb Trails
The wiki software imposes no structure on the pages it contains. SASSA Wiki does this by using different namespaces and crumbtrails at the top and bottom of the content of each page.

Along the top of the content section, the crumbtrail provides an indication of where that page sits within the heirarchy of this chapter (namespace), and links to pages higher up within the heirarchy leading back to the SASSA Home Page. At the bottom of each pages content are back and / or forward buttons depending on which chapter (namespace) you are in. these are designed to allow you to navigate through the pages in a logical and structured way akin to a tutorial type approach.

Note The crumb trails may not take you back to the page that you came from, rather they show where this particular page sits within the structure of this namespace (section). To navigate between pages you have previously visited you should use the back and forward browser buttons.

User Login
The top right hand corner of the screen contains the user login and create account links. You must be logged in to edit pages, however, your rights will depend on your level of account. Contact [mailto:c.a.wilson@stir.ac.uk SASSA] to discuss your registration if you'd like to play a more active part in the development of the site.

One you are logged in you will also be give links to:
 * Your personal SASSA page: here you can add information about yourself.
 * My Talk: the discussion page accompanying your personal page.
 * My Preferences: allows you to change passwords, and to alter the way you view and use SASSA.
 * My Watchlist: Shows all pages that you are watching.
 * My Contributions: Show all pages you have contributed too.
 * Log out

Page Tabs
The tabs along the top of the content section allow you to view the page content and an discussion points made about it, review the history of the page, who has edited what, and if registered to edit the content of the content and discussion page. The page tabs include from left to right:
 * Page Content
 * Discussion page
 * Edit
 * History

Depending on the level of your registration you may also have:
 * Protect
 * Delete
 * Move
 * Watch

External Resources
This box provides links to external websites that are relevant to SASSA.

Copyright and Access Policies
SASSA is covered by the Creative Commons Share-Alike 2.5 licence. Please read the copyright and access policies before adding or using any content from SASSA.

Text Links
Most pages contain links embedded within the text that link either to the SASSA Glossary, other SASSA pages, or to external web sites. In order to help the user anticipate where a link will take the them the following system is used and should be adhered to when creating new pages.


 * External links: All external links are denoted by the following icon
 * Links to the SASSA Field Tool Login: are denoted by the following icon [[image:FTlogo.png|15px]]
 * Links to the SASSA Glossary are coloured blue and are embedded within the body of the text as follows: The Munsell&reg; Colour system describes soil colour by Hue, Value and Chroma.
 * Links to other pages within SASSA are also coloured blue, but are only ever used within bulleted lists, subtitled links sections, or are described explicitly. For example: For more information on how to record soil colour click here.

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