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Publishing your School Annual Report/latest newsletter in Joomla

NOTE: This tutorial assumes that you are working with a PDF document. If you are using a different document, substitute its extension (such as.doc for Microsoft Word documents) wherever you see.pdf.

If you are not using Joomla, see the tutorial for non-Joomla sites.

Uploading the School Annual Report

Locate a copy of the School Annual Report for uploading. If necessary, rename your school annual report to sar.pdf on your local machine.
Log into Joomla as an administrator by going to http://yourschool.eq.edu.au/wcmss/administrator or by clicking on the Administrator link in your menu.
Click on Media Manager.
Click on the Browse button and locate the file on your computer. Click OK, and then click on the Upload button in Media Manager to upload it.
Click on the file in Media Manager, and a URL will be created in the Image/URL code section. Highlight the text starting with http and ending with.pdf - what you copy will look something like http://yourschool.eq.edu.au/images/sar.pdf. Hit Ctrl+C to copy this URL.

Creating the menu link to the file

Go to Menu >> mainmenu
Click on New to create a new menu link
Select menu type Link - URL
Enter "Annual Report" in the "Name" section, and paste the URL you copied previously into the "Link" field. Click Save.

Clicking on this link in your menu will open your document.

Updating the file for next time

Log into Joomla as administrator and go to Media Manager.
Delete last year's School Annual Report by clicking on the trash can icon on the file.
Upload the new file with the same filename following the instructions above. No further modification is necessary, your menu item will now link to your new file.

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