Scratchpads

Scratchpads are an easy and effective way to present your data online.

Whether you just want to publish on the web, construct a database or assemble a formal manuscript, Scratchpads are able to help!

Contents

First Steps

• Site setup
• Admin menu
• Theming
• Pages

Adding and managing classifications

• Adding a biological classification
• Importing a classification
• Viewing a classification
• Editing classification
• Itis standard fields
• Importing classification from Excel
• Deleting classification
• Integrating external data
• Filtering taxonomic terms

Creating & editing content

• Locations and specimens
• Media gallery
• Images & media
• Taxon descriptions
• Literature
• Blog
• Forums
• Newsletter
• Publishing
• Finding content
• Recent content
• Custom content
• Phylogenetic tree
• Edit content
• Revisions
• Ordering content

Import data

• Import content
• Import specimens
• Import literature
• Import taxon descriptions
• Import locations
• Import users

Export data

• Exporting data
• Create backup

Hosting

• Hosting your own Scratchpad

Users & permissions

• Adding & editing users
• Permissions
• User biographies
• Groups

Blocks and views

• Adding and editing views
• View blocks
• Enabling blocks

Webforms

• Create webform
• Administer webforms

Social

• Managing comments
• Google analytics
• Share this

Advanced features & customisation

• Citing Scratchpads
• Customise front page
• Customise dashboard
• Customise menus
• Customise shortcut menu
• Custom content type on taxon page
• Formatting thumbnails
• Nomenclatural status
• Enable pretty URLs
• Sitemap

Support

• Help and support

Useful links

Scratchpads platform

Find information about Scratchpads, browse through sites and apply for a new Scratchpad site http://scratchpads.eu

Issues queue

Report an issue, ask your questions or find answers or to request a new feature https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/scratchpads2/issues

Sandbox

Experiment with all Scratchpads features through this fully functional test site that resets every 6 hours. http://sandbox.scratchpads.eu

For any other questions or queries, please contact as at scratchpads@nhm.ac.uk.