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==Testing== After applying all the changes above, restart Apache to activate MePrints. ===Homepage=== Log into your repository and should see your MePrints Homepage with default widget layout and profile picture. ====Update profile==== Click the Modify Profile button and add some information to the new MePrints fields (Job Title, Expertise, Biography, Qualifications). Set your Profile Visibility to '''Public'''. Click the Save button to return to your Homepage where the information you entered should now be displayed. ====Upload photo==== Click the Profile Picture button, choose a file and click Upload. You will be returned to your Homepage where your picture will now be displayed. ====MePrints Widgets==== By default your homepage displays several widgets (see user_homepage_defaults setting in cfg/cfg.d/z_meprints.pl). Try adding and removing widgets using the widget controls at the bottom of the screen. You can also rearrange widgets by dragging them up/down or between columns. To reset to the default widget layout click the Reset button in the widget control bar. ===Public Profile=== Enter the following URL to view your public profile page: http://myrepository.com/profile/USERNAME where USERNAME is your EPrints username. The layout of the MePrints widgets on your profile page is controlled by the user_profile_defaults setting in cfg/cfg.d/z_meprints.pl. Go back to your MePrints homepage and click Modify Profile. Change some of your profile information (eg. Job Title, Expertise, Biography, Qualifications) and click Save. Return to your public profile page and check that your profile information has been updated. ===MePrints Views=== Run: bin/generate_views ARCHIVEID --generate menus Check http://myrepository.com/view/ - you should see 2 new views (you may want to link these into your site template). Explore the view pages and check that you are listed. Make sure that you can click through from the browse listing to your public profile page. ===MePrints search=== Go to: http://myrepository.com/cgi/meprints/search Check that you can find your profile using keywords from your user profile information (eg. expertise, qualifications). Make sure that you can click through from the search result list to your public profile page. ===MePrints Embeddable=== If you want to use the default minimal style supplied for MePrints Embeddable then add the following code to the ''<head>'' section of your page: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://myrepository.com/style/meprints_embed.css"/> ====MePrints Embeddable Widgets==== It is possible to embed individual widgets that are viewable on your public profile on your own page. If you go to the public profile page you will see an embed links on the widgets that can be embedded. Click the link and instructions will appear telling you how to embed the widget on your page. ====MePrints Embeddable Profile==== Edit an HTML page and add the following code to the ''<head>'' section of the page: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://myrepository.com/cgi/meprints/embed_js?username=USERNAME"></script> Where ''USERNAME'' is your username on the repository. Then inside the ''<body>'' section of the page you need to add the following code: <div id="meprints_profile"></div> This will be the location where your embeddable profile will go on your page. ===MePrints for admins=== Using an administrator account go to the Admin screen and choose '''Search users'''. Enter a username or other criteria to find at least one user account (not the account you are logged in with). Make sure that you can click through from the results list to the user's homepage. You should be able to modify the user's profile information by clicking Administer Account. The widget layout should reflect the user's own preference, and you should not be able to make changes to their widget layout. ====Hide Profile==== Change the user's profile visibility to '''private'''. Log out, and make sure that: # the profile is no longer visible at /profile/USERNAME # the profile no longer appears in search results # the profile no longer appears in view pages # the embeddable widget no longer displays the profile You can also change the default visibility of MePrints profiles in cfg/cfg.d/z_meprints.pl by default profiles are public unless a user specifically makes there profile private. change $c->{default_profile_behavior} = 1; to $c->{default_profile_behavior} = 0; to make the default private profiles
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