Finding and Bookmarking your favorite Postings is a powerful feature of Prepping Communities. It allows you to find information you might be interested in, and then save that information into your favorites. You can build up your own library of Postings classified under your own Categories.
Find a Posting
There are several ways to find Postings on Prepping Communities as shown below.
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Find Postings by Keyword (Search Box)
The quickest way to find a Posting is using the Search Box at the top right corner beside the Login/Logout menu item. Enter a value in the search box area and click on the blue Find Postings button. A list of Postings matching your keywords will be displayed in the Search Results.
The search value will be highlighted in Green to show how the Posting matched your keyword search. In the page above, we used the keyword ‘Wood’. Notice the list of Categories displayed on the right? We will cover the below in the Find Postings By Category.
Find Postings From The Main Menu
You can also find Postings using the main menu. Select the Find Postings menu item from the Postings dropdown menu. You will be taken to the following page.
To find Postings, enter a value in the search box on the left and click the blue Find Postings button on the right. Alternatively, you can also click on one of the categories on the right to show all Postings in that category.
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Search Results
The search results page below will be displayed for all searches, regardless of what type of search you performed. From here, you can click on a Posting to see the details of that Posting, you can enter a new search criteria or or you can click on other categories to find Postings in those categories.
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Bookmark Your Favorite Postings
There are two ways to Bookmark your favorite Postings. The first is by clicking on the Bookmark button from the Search Results page. All Postings in the search results page will have a Bookmarked button. In the list below, the first Posting was already Bookmarked and the second Posting was not.
To Bookmark or Un-Bookmark the Posting, click on the BookMarked icon (or ). The icon means the Posting has HAS NOT been Bookmarked, while the means the Posting HAS been Bookmarked.
To Bookmark a Posting, click on the icon. A drop down category menu will appear as shown below. ..
Click the Checkbox to the left of the My Favorite category. You will see a Successfully Added to Category message in the blue area above to let you know the bookmark was successful. Click on the X in the top right to return to the detail Posting.
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