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posted on 20:28 - 30 June 2009 | posted by Lev
last modified on 19:19 - 28 August 2009 | last modified by Lev
The terms of use module works by loading up a regular item on your site. So first, you need to create the item.
You create the item in the same way you create any item in Theia (such as a gallery image, blog or forum thread). All items need to belong to a section. If you don't want the section displayed like any other section and want to merely use it for site related purposes like this you can just create a section (let's call it "policies") and change its setting so that it does not appear in the section menu.
After the item has been created, look on the tools page for, under "system configuration", for "configure site policies" (admin tool 135). This page contains two fields related to the terms of use.
The first option allows you to force users to re-agree to the terms of use, whenever you update it. This is incredibly helpful if you want to ensure that all your active members are constantly aware of any changes to your site's rules.
The second field is where you enter the terms of use ID (numerical).
If you are using friendly URLs with textual IDs, you can still get an item's ID by hovering the modify or delete buttons and links for that respective item.
The third field here is only used if you also have a privacy policy which you would like to use on your site. This too, must be a normal item and associated by using its numeric ID.
That's all there is to it!
You create the item in the same way you create any item in Theia (such as a gallery image, blog or forum thread). All items need to belong to a section. If you don't want the section displayed like any other section and want to merely use it for site related purposes like this you can just create a section (let's call it "policies") and change its setting so that it does not appear in the section menu.
After the item has been created, look on the tools page for, under "system configuration", for "configure site policies" (admin tool 135). This page contains two fields related to the terms of use.
The first option allows you to force users to re-agree to the terms of use, whenever you update it. This is incredibly helpful if you want to ensure that all your active members are constantly aware of any changes to your site's rules.
The second field is where you enter the terms of use ID (numerical).
If you are using friendly URLs with textual IDs, you can still get an item's ID by hovering the modify or delete buttons and links for that respective item.
The third field here is only used if you also have a privacy policy which you would like to use on your site. This too, must be a normal item and associated by using its numeric ID.
That's all there is to it!
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