Updating with Contribute

The Edit Menu

Navigate to the first farm field record page you want to edit.

Click on Edit Page button near the top left of the Contribute window.
(If the Edit Page button does not appear click on the Retry Connection button)

You will now see a menu layout that is very similar to that of Microsoft Word, with some familiar editing options.

And you will see that your page looks quite different, with much of the content split up into cells. Your page is now ready to be edited.

(You can close the left hand menu by clicking on its arrow tab )

Adding New Farm Field Records

If you are creating the first record of a page simply type date & task into the existing empty shaded line.

To add to existing records:

Click on the begining of the last record at the top of the list.
Click the 'return' key on your key pad to create a new line above the previous record. (Best to have the latest task at the top?)
Click on the new line and type in the date and latest task.

NOTE FROM SNOWGOOSE:
Would recommend that the latest task always be at the TOP of the page.
After a few years of records this will avoid you having to scroll down the page to see the latest record for each field.

If you make any mistakes you can use the Edit/Undu facility (in top menu) to go back any number of steps.

If you make a complete hash of everything you can click on Cancel

to cancel everything and start again!

WARNING - Never close down Contribute whilst you are in EDIT mode.

You can also edit:

Field SIZE - Simply type over existing numbers to change (no need to type in 'ha').
Field CLASS - Type in the CLASS box.

Publishing Your Updated Page

When you are finished editing and are happy with your changes to the page you are ready for the new page to go online.

Click on Publish button near top left of screen.

It really is as simple as that! You are now back to your web site where you will see the page as it now looks on the web and you can navigate to another page to edit if you wish.