My account / Changing personal data, password or email
After logging in, a new section will appear at the bottom of the left-hand column titled My account. Under the different sections, you can modify your personal data, including email and password, customise the website and see some personal statistics (see image My account). Change the necessary fields in any of the sections (except in My personal card, these are the statistics) and click Modify. Note fields marked with an asterisk need to be filled in.
Personal data
Change the necessary fields and click Modify at the bottom. Note fields marked with an asterisk need to be filled in. Do not forget to indicate if you want to remain anonymous, or want to hide your email address to other users (see image Changing personal data, encircled).
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Email and password
Change your email address or password as necessary.
It is important to keep an updated email address as this is how administrators will contact you regarding confusing records. By default your email address will be visible both to administrators and registered users unless you decided to submit your observations as "anonymous". If you want to keep your name visible but not your email address, go to wiki section Web interface > My account > Personal data to change parameters. When done, click Modify at the bottom of the page.
We advise you to change the password you received by email to log in the first time (or after requesting a new one). Use a combination of letters and numbers that is more memorable for you, if possible combining lower and upper case characters.
Website customisation
This section allows you to choose how you want to visualize certain parameters on the interface when you are logged in.
Customise the way sightings are displayed on the home page
This subsection refers to the latest observations displayed on the right hand column on the main interface (see image Example of main interface as shown in Faune-France portal). Choose which region you want to see the records from, and which ones regarding how common or rare they are (ex. Ticking common and unusual, as well as Ain will only show those observations catalogued common or unusual in the region of Ain). To see the codes used to mark the rarity level, go to Web interace > Codes and symbols or to image Symbols for rarity level in Fauna-France. Use select/unselect to choose between all regions or none (see image How to display data).
Customize the way sightings are displayed in lists
This subsection is as in Customise the way sightings are displayed on the home page (see image How to display data) but refers to the lists obtained from the left hand column (see section Web interface > Browsing records > as a registered user).
Cartography
You can visualise maps in different formats. Click on the name to open an expandable menu with all available options (see image Customise website. Cartography). You can also choose if you want to be able to zoom in the map or not by ticking/unticking the field (see image Customise website. Cartography, encircled). You will see maps when Web interface > Submitting records and Web interface > Browsing records.
To learn how to navigate maps, go to Web interface > Navigating the map.
Recording language
For each taxa, choose from the expandable menu which language you would like the name of the species displayed. To see options, click on the arrow at the right of each species panel (see image Customise website. Recording language). You can choose between Latin/Scientific name, or any of the languages the web site is offered to. By default (Automatic) species will appear in the language you selected for the site on the right hand corner at the top of the page (see image Example of main interface as shown in Faune-France portal).
My personal card
It returns a summary of the user's activity.
Note: images and examples are drawn from the French portal Faune-France. The design and position of some tools may vary slightly from portal to portal. To see a list of portals go to wiki section Local portals and partners. |