I have been tasked with trying to take over the administrative duties of our intranet site for our organization. The site has not been updated in several years, so I am helping to get the content updated, but with my account ( Administrator ) there are a few pages that I can't edit, such as the Terms of Use and Privacy Statements that are on the footer of the page.
For the first issue, I can edit the page that the documents are on, but not the documents themselves. I can click on these elements, but they do not highlight and/or change to let me update. I have looked through the documents area and do not see them listed there as well. I would have assumed as a site administrator I would be able to access this information. Looking through all of the users, there does seem to be a SuperUser account, that nobody that currently works here has access to, nor do we know who registered it in the past ( it will not show that data ). Is there a way to upgrade my account, or find the settings for the SuperUser to try to trace who this was, so we can try to get access? Nobody in our building knows who it was, or has any additional information, so I am 'the guy' for us at this point...feeling helpless!! I am happy to provide any additional information, if it helps to clear things up.
The Terms and Privacy "pages" in DNN are actually special controls. On any page in DNN you can add to the URL, "?ctl=terms" and that will override the current page output and only display the Terms module (user control).
Which means the content is somewhat hidden (unintuitively nowadays).
Below is my quick summary. But I also blogged about this and you can find the long form explanation with screenshots here: DNN Deetails 003: Editing DNN Emails, Privacy/Terms, and UI Labels.
If you are on an old version of DNN (e.g. v8.x), I am not sure how you get there. In v9 and v10 its in Site Settings/Languages. Click the Language Editor icon (the last icon/pencil tool on the right). Then they are in GlobalResources.resx, Global Resources/GlobalResources. The use the search on "privacy" or "terms". The edit pencil to the right of the resource row gives you a small WYSIWYG popup. Edit and save the localized value.
This is useful if you have multiple languages. If not, you can bypass the feature completely by making new pages for Terms and Privacy and adding the HTML module and editing as needed. But then figuring out the navigation (in your Theme/Skin) so that you link to these new pages is another little adventure.
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