Sign up to manage your own resources on the Portal

How it works

Option 1. Anyone can request new information be posted on the Portal by sending an e-mail to hostmaster@bie.berkeley.edu.

Option 2. Faculty, Staff and Student Groups can manage their own content.

All UC Berkeley faculty, staff and student groups may create and manage their own content on the Portal. All postings will be immediate without administrative approval.

Step 1. Sign up. You can sign up for a new account at the bottom of any page on the Portal (http://enviro.berkeley.edu). Portal administrators will assign you a role as either faculty, staff or student, based on your Calnet Directory (https://calnet.berkeley.edu/directory/) information. Only users with updated Calnet information will be authenticated. If you are the leader of a student group, please contact Portal administrators (support@bie.berkeley.edu) so we can assign you to this role. Students who are not leaders of student groups may sign up for the Portal in order to be included on our mailing list, but will not be assigned administrative priveleges.

Step 2. You will receive an email, usually within 24 hours, providing a temporary one time password. Use this to login and change your password (future versions of the Portal will allow for login with Calnet ID and Passphrase).

Step 3. Create your own Content. Depending on your status as student group staff or faculty, you will be able to create the following content by simply filling out online forms (no html experience required).

Information that can be managed by Faculty, Staff, and Student Groups

Example: Creating a Student Environmental Org

1. At the bottom of any page click “Create Content”

2. Click “Student Environmental Orgs”

3. Fill out the following form

Title: * (Enter the name of your organization)
Issue Area: * ( Select at least one of the topical issues areas)
Name of Organization: (Enter the name of your organization)
Purpose: (Summary of the purpose of your organizations)
Meetings: (Enter regular meeting times)
URL Title: (Name of your organization- provides title for hyperlink)
URL URL: (URL of your organization)
Projects: (If you have entered a Project on the Portal, create a hyperlink here like: <a href'"http://enviro.berkeley.edu/yourprojecthere>Name of Project</a>).

Input format
Filtered HTML: (Select this option if you are entering only text, or the HTML tags indicated)
Copied HTML: (select this option if you are using an HTML editor, such as Dreamweaver. Note, additional images must be sent to support@bie.berkeley.edu for posting)
Picture: (Upload a photo of your organization)
Log message: (Please ignore these settings)
Menu settings: (Please ignore these settings)
Signup settings: (Please ignore these settings)
URL path settings: (The the name of your organizations, without spaces.The unique URL for your organization will be http://enviro.berkeley.edu/yourname)
Publishing options: (Please ignore these settings)
BE SURE TO CLICK “SUBMIT”

Step 4. Manage your own Content.
If you are logged in, every time you visit a page you have created you will see a “View” and “Edit” tab. Only the person who created the entry and Portal administrators will see this. Simply click on “edit” to change you data.

Step 5. Create customized web pages. If you would like to create your own customized content or web pages for your organization, please contact Portal administrators at support@bie.berkeley.edu

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Step 6. Report problems. If you have problems or questions about this website, or if you are aware of any inappropriate content, please contact Portal administrators at support@bie.berkeley.edu.

About the Portal Database

The Portal is built on the open-source Drupal (http://drupal.org) content management system. The Portal is located on the Nature server, operated by the College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley. We are very grateful to CNR for their support of this project.