G·IPRs Help Center

G•IPRs is a website based on Drupal, a open source software. The website is more like an intellectual property knowledge database created and maintained by all the authenticated users. G•IPRs help center lists out some basic conceptions and common questions. You can submit new questions to us through “Contact Us” or visit Drupal handbooks for more information.

Almost all the contents on G•IPRs are stored as “nodes”. When we talk about a node, a piece of content on G•IPRs is referred to such as a piece of Legal Text, Blog, Forum or Comment and so forth (these are the types of contents reflecting though nodes).

Taxonomy means various systems of classification used to categorize contents. The software “Drupal” G•IPRs uses to build the website defines its system of classification by this word and we respectively manage and show the contents of our website by classification. On G•IPRs, taxonomy refers to the congregation of many classifications, while the vocabulary of classification is “Term”.

The default language of G•IPRs is English and the system is equipped with multi-lingual system which can be extended at any time. Recently, we have two language versions of Chinese and English. We will add new languages if necessary. The multi-lingual system of G•IPRs mainly applys to nodes (i.e. contents of articles), not including other contents like menu, button and taxonomy and so forth. Translations consist of contribution of authenticated users or the official texts of legislative, administrative or judicial files which is out of the protection of copyright law.

After clicking the “Translate” button on the text page of articles on the website (under the title of the article), you can check the translation status of the article; if there is no translation, you can add one to your articles or others’ after log-in.

G•IPRs adopts Google Custom Search Engine through which you can search articles of the website with key words. The newly-posted articles might not be collected immediately by Google so that your search result may not include such articles. But it will be convenient for you to see the latest articles on Home Page, Blog, Forum and the classification page of Category on the left side.

After clicking "My account" on the top of the website, there is a “Tracker” button under the user name. The articles you have posted and the content type, title, author’s name, number of comments and the time of latest update will be shown by clicking the button which not only helps you on the management of your articles but also enables the readers who pay attention to you to find your previously posted articles.

If you want to keep your E-mail addresses private, the “Contact” tab allows other users to contact you by E-mail according to your personal contact form, which can efficiently control the harassment of spam. You may enable or disable the “Contact” tab by choosing or cancelling the personal contact form option through editing “My account” page, which will not affect the recipient of E-mail from administrator of the website.

Users of G•IPRs can be classified into: anonymous user (unregistered users who can browse the website and add comments), authenticated user (registered users who can submit and edit their articles), Editor and Administrator.

You can click “Register” on the top of the website to create a G•IPRs account. To keep the professional character of the website, we need to verify your registration application. After you finish registration, you will firstly receive an E-mail automatically sent by the system. After clicking the link contained in the E-mail, the verification of your E-mail is done; after formal examination of your registration information, we will activate your account in time.

In the information you submit to G•IPRs during the process of registration, information in “Profile” is available to the public and the contents of “Profile” shall be filled by yourself. G•IPRs will held various kinds of off-line activities. So we hope you fill all your real information.

Blog of G•IPRs is more than a custom blog. It is a collection of your personal works and your fruits of creation will be focused.

If you anticipate more members to discuss your articles or perspective, you can post it on the Forum of G•IPRs. There is no limitation to the word count like submitting works in Blog when posting topics on the Forum, which exploits the posting of a perspective or issue needed to be discussed.

Laws, regulations, and resolution, decision, orders of state organs, other documents of a legislative, administrative, judicial nature and their official translations, which are out of the protection of copyright law are anticipated to be posted in the form of Official Text; i.e. Official Text is just a label which facilitates us to recognize the works in public domain. But the translations of legal texts by the authenticated users themselves do not belong to works in the public domain but shall be protected by copyright law.

Both anonymous users and authenticated users can add comments to the articles on the website, but the comments of anonymous users will be shown on the website after verification.

The Aggregator function of Drupal provides us with powerful syndicator and news reader, which automatically gathers relevant contents from any news or other websites designated and then they will be aggregatively shown on our website. It also provides OPML files of Feed which facilitates you to export the contents to other software or news reader. By Aggregator, we subscribe some professional intellectual property (IP) or other legal website information so as to make it convenient for you to keep in pace with the IP legal developments. You can also recommend us more websites with RSS function focusing on IP.

No matter whether you have logged in or not, you can view articles conveniently through Category on the left side of the website and Blog, Forum, Search and etc. After you log in the website, click “Your User Name” in the top menu bar which enables you view all your articles in Blog; after click “My account” in the menu bar on top of the website, there is a “Track” button under the user name and the articles you post will be shown after you click the button.

After you log in the website, find the term appropriate to your aticle in Category on the left side of the website and then you can choose the content type of this article after entering the first page of this classification. Click “Create” button and make sure the “Language” tab is switched to the language you want and then you can post an article in classification. (Note: Legal Text only can be posted by the default classification. The website uses code of UTF8. You can post an article or reply in versions of multi-lingual at the same time with no unrecognizable code.)

After you log in the website, click “Blog” in the menu bar on the top of the website. Then click "Create new blog entry" under the title of “Blogs”, and keep the default setting under the Vocabularies on this page (the default setting is “Non Selected”). After you make sure that the setting of “Language” tab is the language you want, you can post a Blog with no classification.

After you log in the website, click “Forum” in the menu bar on top of the website, then click "Post new Forum topic" under the title of “Blogs”, and keep the default setting under the Vocabularies tab of this page (the default setting is “Non Selected”). After you make sure that the setting of “Language” tab is the language you want, you can post Forum with no classification.

You can click “Add new comment” under the article or the abstract of the article to submit comments and anonymous users' comments need to be verified before show on the website.

The image module is used to create and administer images for your site. Each image is stored as a post, with thumbnails of the original generated automatically. There are two default thumbnail sizes, thumbnail and preview. The thumbnail size is shown as the preview for image posts and when browsing image galleries. The preview is the default size when first displaying an image node.

Content Type and Taxonomy are totally two different conceptions on the website. Different “Content Types” equal to the classifications of “Node” template. Except for Blog, Forum, Legal Text and Comment authenticated users often use, Page and Faq, these two Content Types will be used by members of G•IPRs management group. While “Taxonomy" is the classification of contents of articles. The treed-structure classification in Category on the left side of the website is “Term” under the “Taxonomy”. There is no need for authenticated users to focus on “Content Types” (already set in the system) when submitting an article. But you need to choose the most proper “Term” to classify your article.

No matter whether you log in or not, you can choose a language to exploit your posting article and reply or view the translation of the article through: (a) the language link on the upper right corner of the website; (b) in the classification page, choose language bottom on the lower left corner of the article's abstract (if any); (c) in the text page of the article, choose language bottom on the left corner of the article (if any). If the article you are reading has been translated, you can view translation through switching language bottom on the page being read.

Generally speaking, it is caused by choosing the option of “Language neutral” in “Language” tab by chance. The website default setting of the multi-lingual system is only for showing one language on one page (i.e. English or Chinese). If the language attribute of the article is “Language neutral”, it can not be displayed on the website. But we can find it in the backstage. You can submit the question via “Contact Us” and your article can be viewed on the website after our setting adjustment.

If you forget your password, you can click the link of "Request new password". After clicking the link, a page will pop out and requires you to enter the E-mail address when you register. After you submit it, an E-mail will be sent to this address in a period of time telling you how to reset your password. For that the password is stored in the encryption, we are unable to send your original password to you. This function will create a new password for your log-in and after log-in, you can change the password by yourself. The E-mail you use for registration must be valid so as to receive E-mails. If you have not received any E-mail in a few minutes, you should check the spam files.