Topics & Content
The Minnesota Assembly
Established 1858
Reconstructed May 2020
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- Written by: Volunteers
- Parent Category: General Assembly Standing Pillar
Our all-new Minnesota Assembly Portal site has some commonly used modules already preconfigured. These include:
- Image (type: Custom), which holds the image beneath the menu. This is a Custom module that you can edit to change the image.
- Popular Tags (type: Tags - Popular), which will appear if you use tagging on your articles. Enter a tag in the Tags field when editing.
- Older Posts (type: Articles - Category), which lists out articles by categories.
- Ongoing Topics (type: Articles - Category), which lists out articles by the single category of your choice.
- Syndication (type: Syndication Feeds), which allows your readers to read your posts in a news reader.
- Login Form (type: Login), which allows your users to access restricted areas of the website.
- Integrated Meeting Rooms (committee, public, education, issues, general assembly).
- Off-site Links to your social media platforms and shared calendars.
- Conditional Content to help guide readers to the next item when they are up to speed.
Each of these modules has many options which you can experiment with in the Module Manager in our System Console. When you are logged in you can also select the edit icon in the top right corner which will take you to an edit screen for that module. Always be sure to save and close any module you edit.
The Minnesota Assembly v1.0 also includes many other modules we can incorporate in our platform systems. As we develop our site we may want to add more modules that we can find at the Joomla Extensions Directory.
Our all-new TMA Portal site has some commonly known categories already preconfigured. These include the extensive listing (below) but first...
One of the first phases of this work involved obtaining a listing of these pages to render as a new modules and categories in the new system. This following list is the SiteMap for the current website. These links will open browser tabs to the current Minnesota Assembly website. Soon we will have all of this content migrated into our new platform.
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- Written by: Volunteers
- Parent Category: General Assembly Standing Pillar
One powerful Template controls the look and feel of our portal website; together with css files and overrides made unique for this effort.
This content system is installed with the Cassiopeia template made for Joomla 4.x or higher. Jim Homyak has installed overriding code for portions of said template to become what we all see now today.
Call Jim Homyak at 507-323-4646 (during the daytime) with questions, comments or to get involved with the development of this new website for everyone.
You can apply for tech committee membership to volunteer in system administration, where some of your tasks include editing options on our Site using Template Settings link in the menu which is visible when you log in with given permission levels.
For example you can change the site background color, highlights color, site title, site description and title font used.
More options are available in the site administrator. You may also install a new template using the extension manager.
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- Written by: Volunteers
- Parent Category: General Assembly Standing Pillar
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