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The Minnesota Assembly has volunteers available to support our website guests.
To best serve you, please use our online contact pages (coming soon) to reach someone for assistance.
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The Minnesota Assembly is reconstructed state government, and is run by the people, for the people, as the will of the people, which results in a sovereign State self-governance that is republican in form. There may be some challenging topics discussed. For that, we ask that you preview certain materials available from our State Coordinator.
Our state, under the heading of 'the last man standing' has now been called to order, by the Federation, and has been "in session" at least twice monthly since May 2022, and the assembly hosts weekly committee meetings over the internet, telephone, video chat and various electronic means.
When you are logged in, with system configuration credentials, you will be able to edit the pages showing the "Edit" button by selecting the Edit button icon. Use caution to save your edits, keep originals, and take notes. Set your Publishing details and input your name as the Author Alias so that you are credited with your works. All will help serve as a guide to successful assembly work. Go through any training or tours that are shown on screen for your education.
When you are logged in to the Assembly Portal, with your 'standard membership' account, you will see significantly more content than a casual browsing guest would see.
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Workflows manage the stages that your participation must navigate within and through while accessing TMA.
For example, until they are published, your status correction documents will have you following a specific workflow to fill in YOUR RED LETTERS and to then save the result for review, then final saving, then recording, downloading and printing your hard copy.
The components to manage workflows is being developed this early summer of 2024 to be enabled by default in all Assembly functional areas.
To see the workflow that we have provided with the sample data, you first need to enable this functionality.
- Access the administration area
- From 'Content' > 'Articles' > 'Options' > 'Integration' tab set 'Enable workflow' to 'Yes'
- Save changes
Now when you access 'Content' again you will see the section 'Workflows'. Now too, as conditional content comes online we will be able to tailor the direction taken from various input.
When you edit an article you will also see the new transitions for articles related to workflows.
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Here are some basic tips for interacting with the topics, via this portal:
- The rules governing this data system allow for a lot of messy code to process relatively clean. However, please do take these early stage suggestions very seriously... and rather than quickly copy webpages or digital content from 'just anyplace' (which actually does work, by golly!) it is best to sanitize the incoming content in several effective ways.
- Simple Ways: 1) ctrl-a, ctrl-c, paste your selected content into notepad, 2) then copy from notepad to word, 3) then copy from word to JCE. 4) then clean the resulting html in the editor, 5) then pop into preview. Once you've removed useless code or formatting, then as a step 6) you can decide if you want to put back any formatting manually.
- TMA has a 'front end' that you are looking at now and an 'Administrator' or 'back end' which is where you do the more advanced work of developing, revising and improving our government such as setting up the menus and deciding what modules to implement and support. We collectively need to login to the administrator separately using the same user name and password that you used to login to this part of TMA.
- One of the first things you will probably want to do is supply the details about you that you are comfortable with having in public, change the site graphics and tag line and to add a logo. To do this select the Template Settings link in the menu which is visible if you log in. To change your site description, browser title, default email and other items, select Site Settings. More advanced configuration options are available in the administrator. The site is largely driven from css files in conjunction with a variable layout template grid.
- To totally change the look of our TMA site we will probably want to clone the template and then set the new version of the template as the default. Go to System, select Install - Extensions from the list and the extension installer will open. There are many free and commercial templates available for TMA.
- As you have already seen, we are fully in control of who can see different parts of the portal site. As we work with topics, categories, modules and articles, setting the Access level to Registered will mean that only logged in users can see them.
- As members create new content, the work can also be saved as Published or Unpublished. If it is Unpublished site visitors will not be able to see it but you will.
- You can learn much more about working with TMA constructs by going and referencing directly from the Joomla! documentation site and get help from other users at the Joomla! forums. In the administrator there are help buttons on every page that provide detailed information about the functions on that page. We are going onto a free platform (in Joomla! 5.1) enjoyed by millions of people worldwide.