Webteam Task Trip Reports

Add trip reports from Tararua Tramper - monthly

The Tararua Tramper is received as a Word document (or PDF), by email, from the Tramper editor, generally in the last week of the previous month. If you have not received it by the end of the first week of the month then feel free to request it from the Tramper editor.

1. open the page Trip Reports.HomePage
2. open the tramper document Word (or Libre Office Write) (or the PDF with Acrobat reader or Word etc)
3. select each trip write up in turn and copy to the clipboard
4. save all images in the article to your computer
   • give the photo a meaningful name, e.g. "Photographer name - A file day on the Tararua tops.jpg" and the website will generate a caption for the photo

For each trip report

Create the page

1. on your browser use the top right box to enter a trip report page name in the format yyyy-mm-dd-Place-Place
   • keep the trip name short by being selective about which places you use so the page name is not too long (see other trip report page names for examples).
   • use hyphens to separate the date and to separate the places
2. click on the create new trip report button (don't worry if you change your mind about the page name, it can be changed later)
3. a new page will open with a template already entered
   • keep and use the template markup

Add content to the page

1. position cursor after the !! and paste your text in,
2. add the tramper issue details to the top line
3. add an extra blank line between all paragraphs
4. retain the ":" (colons) around the words Party members
5. add !categories
6. drap and drop the saved images into the box labelled "Drop files to upload:" at the top of the page bing edited

Save and edit the page

1. click on the Save button at the bottom of the page
2. click on the ⚙, then Edit if you want to change the page
3. look at how other pages are laid out for hints (open the page then click edit)

Afterwards

• Update the Trip Reports Home Page to show which published trips are available.

Renaming a trip report page

To rename a page use the ⚙ "Copy/Move" link at the top right of the page.

• select "rename" or move
• enter the new page name
• also select "Also include the upload directory"
• click "Go"

Back issues update

The following trampers (yyyy-mm) have been allocated for updating the website.

Please update the trip reports page and remove them from this list as you complete them

Tramper articles on the website

• Includes trips published in Tararua Tramper from 2005 March up to and including 2024 October
• the Archive contains a list of all electronic copies of the tramper that we have

Trip reports template

This is the template used each time a new page is created. Images display automatically after being uploaded. Update when necessary.

Rename Page

Create A New Trip Report

This article was first published in the Tararua Tramper in month 2025

Article Title

Brief trip summary here

Trip Date

Map Reference

trip report text here

Party members

(leader and scribe).

Category

Trip type Trip location