Subject Guides

The SubjectGuides function is available for use through the RefTracker client interface Subject Guides entry in the header bar, or as standalone information pages that can be linked into your web pages, if your System administrator chooses to make this function available.  System administrators can click here for information about how to set up these guides.

The content that your organisation provides through these pages is up to your imagination, for example, descriptive text and links to useful information about a particular subject, or internal documentation if your system is only used internally. 

You can simply link the RefTracker client interface Subject Guides through to an already existing SubjectGuide or informational page in your web pages, or you can use the built in RefTracker web page editor to create some new informational pages. Pages created by the built in RefTracker web page editing function are not indexed by Search engines so the tool is best suited to internal documentation.

How to use the internal RefTracker web page editing functions with SubjectGuides

The RefTracker web page editor creates pages entirely within RefTracker without IT assistance, using a very simple to user word processing like editor.

A two level Table of contents is automatically maintained and displayed as a left hand column, and content that you provide is displayed on the right.  Click a Table of contents topic to see that information, or to see sub-topics. The Table of contents can be expanded or contracted using the “Expand all” and “Collapse all” links at the bottom of the Table of contents. 

There is also a Search function that Searches the content of all your Subject Guide pages. 

Here is an example Subject Guide.  The editor provides all the tools that you would expect for formatting informational pages – such as hyperlinks image, tables for column formatted layouts, dot points, and more.

And here’s what it looks like on a mobile phone:

System administrators can click here for information about how to set up these guides inside RefTracker, or here (parameters 6.15 and 16) for more information about how to link in your own web pages to the RefTracker client interface Subject Guide link.