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Saturday, August 03, 2002

A lot of Radio Documentation assumes the reader already knows the A B C's of working with this software, answers questions how to do H K Q on the learning curve and has flawed links directing people back to the neccessary A B C's.  Today I learned how to enable categories.  I am sure thousands of other users already know how to do this and think it is so obvious that it need not be documented, but it can be a bit of a struggle to deduce.  Here is a mini-tutorial of what I learned today, that did not seem to be explicitly spelled out in documentation I recently encountered.

  1. We all need to know the A B C's of a lot of Basic Radio topics.  I have not yet listed what all falls into the Basics, since I still struggling with many myself.
  2. Make sure your Radio Application is running because some links on Radio Userland Documentation, to tell you how to do stuff, are broken if all you are using is your Browser to study the material, and your Radio application is currently inactive.
  3. Using your Radio Desktop (the window with Home / News / Stories / etc.) drill down to Prefs -> Weblogs -> Categories.
  4. Check the Box to Enable Categories then push the Submit button.
  5. Return to your Radio Desktop (if you had another window open there, do F5 refresh screen).
  6. Notice that we now have check boxes to select where to post our notes.
  7. Re-read the documentation that assumed we knew the A B C's because now I can appreciate the answers to my D E F's.

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