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News:

1.Q: When Posting and Previewing my content, if I go back to edit, why do I lose my content?
1.A: In most cases, you have two browsers open. You will see this message by default Warning: Page has Expired.
It would be better to keep one browser open while previewing your post.
This will ensure that the content can be previewed and edited while going back and forth.
If you lose your content, view the source and your will see your content. Copy it and paste back in the original section.

1.Q.: When I post a news item in HTML I get an error message that reads:
"We had a problem processing your entry:
For security reasons we only accept the submission of HTML containing the following tags:
B I P A U LI OL UL EM BR TT STRONG BLOCKQUOTE CODE PRE FIRST_NAMES LAST_NAME EMAIL GROUP_NAME "
1.A:You may have illegal HTML tags in your news submission. The system will let you know which tags are illegal.
They will be presented to you one by one. Please back up using your browser, correct it, and resubmit your entry.

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Event Calendar:

1.Q: When Posting and Previewing my content, if I go back to edit, why do I lose my content?
1.A: In most cases, you have two browsers open. You will see this message by default Warning: Page has Expired.
It would be better to keep one browser open while previewing your post.
This will ensure that the content can be previewed and edited while going back and forth.
If you lose your content, view the source and your will see your content. Copy it and paste back in the original section.

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Epa Discussions:

1.Q: When Posting and Previewing my content, if I go back to edit, why do I lose my content?
1.A: In most cases, you have two browsers open. You will see this message by default Warning: Page has Expired.
It would be better to keep one browser open while previewing your post.
This will ensure that the content can be previewed and edited while going back and forth.
If you lose your content, view the source and your will see your content. Copy it and paste back in the original section.

2.Q: When I click the preview button on my posting I get this message?
Problem with Your Input to EPA.net
We had a problem processing your entry:
For security reasons we only accept the submission of HTML containing the following tags:
B I U P A LI OL UL EM BR TT STRONG BLOCKQUOTE CODE PRE FIRST_NAMES LAST_NAME EMAIL GROUP_NAME.
back up using your browser, correct it, and resubmit your entry. Thank you.

What is the problem?

2.A: You have submitted and Illegal tag that is not recognized by the system. You need to back up and remove the illegal tag,
repost again with the acceptable html tags. The system will let you know what tag is illegal.

1.Q: In a moderated bulleting board posting I submitted a response.
Why can't I make a revision on a moderated bulletin board posting, that I have submitted?
2.A: Unapproved postings in a moderated forum cannot be edited prior to approval.
The post can be edited after it is approved, by the moderator.

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Community Voices:

1.Q:I posted an item. Why is it not in the system automatically?
1.A: It is in the system, but the content is waiting on the approval of the the site administrator. Your content will be reviewed and approved soon.

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File Storage:

1.Q:When I delete my content from File-Storage, why is the system so slow?
1.A:This may be because you clicked the delete link twice. If you go back to the original file, you will see that your content has been deleted.

2. Q: I get the following error message in File-Storage when trying to upload a revision?

Problem with Your Input
We had a problem processing your entry:
Either there is already a file with the name
>> "xxxx.doc"
>>Or you clicked on the button more than once. You can use the Back button to return and
>> choose a new name, or return to the directory
>> listing to see if your file is there.
>> Please back up using your browser, correct it, and
>> resubmit your entry. >> Thank you.

What is happening?

2. A: Essentially the most common problem is that the user wishes to upload a revision, Or has forgotten that they are uploading a file with the same name.
You must go back to the original folder and see if you are uploading the same document twice. If you are then re-name the file correctly and submit it again.
If you would like to submit a revision of the document with the same name, go back to the original directory listing, Click the name of the
file, of which you wish to upload a revision, then click the link Upload a new version. This will enable you to upload a new version of the same file.

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Classifieds:

1.Q:Why is it that some people have pictures in the classified ads and I do not?
1.A: You can post pictures there, but you must put in the img src html tag and reference it from a website.
For help with html, please visit our help files here: Html Instructions

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Photoalbum:

1.Q: Does my photoalbum have to be in a folder?
1.A: When creating a photo-album it must be inside a folder according to the desired name you choose.
There is an alphabetical structure placed already. It will be deleted if it is out side the folder structure.

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My Workspace :

1.Q: I entered into my workspace this afternoon and wanted to update some of my personal information, I updated my personal information and I get a bunch of errors on my screen?
1.A: Do not worry, just hit the back button, and re-submit your personal information with less characters.
In most cases you may have uploaded too many characters.

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.pdf files :

1. Q: What is a .pdf file?
1: A: PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format that has captured all the elements of a printed document as an electronic image that you can view, navigate, print,
or forward to someone else. PDF files are created using Adobe Acrobat, or similar products.
To view and use the files, you need the free Acrobat Reader, which you can easily download.
Once you've downloaded the Reader, it will start automatically whenever you want to look at a PDF file.

2. Q: How do I link a .pdf file to epa.net?
2: A: To link a file, the .pdf document it must be stored locally on the epa.net system.
You can store any file or document in our file storage system.
Firt you must create a .pdf locally and then store a document in file storage.
Once the document is saved and stored in the our file storage system,
you can reference a link to this document using a simple html tag
called the A HREF html tag.

Note: A link has two ends -- called anchors -- and a direction.
The link starts at the "source" anchor and points to the "destination" anchor,
which may be any web resource.

Here is an example of an html link using the
a href tag to link a .pdf from our file storage system.

<a href="http://www.epa.net/launch/epafls/download/dennisparker/Nov%202002.pdf?version_id=386744">November Calendar </a>
---------------------------------------------------source -------------------------------------------------------------------------destination------------

To view the source of a document under file storage, click the document once stored entirely until it appears in your browser.
Copy the url and paste it in the a href tag as seen above.
You must paste the url between the start quote and end quote.

The destination can be any name you choose. Make sure you close the a href tag with this symbol </a>.
Then submit the posting as html.