Quickstart
Community Directory
If you have never used PCO before, the best way to start is to join any of the many communities PCO is hosting. Browse the community directory and click on ‘Join’ button to join any of the listed communities.
Joining a Community
When you click on a ‘join’ button to join a community, fill out the registration form. The most important field to enter is your email address – please make sure you get ti right, as this will be your login name, and all communication from and to PCO will depend on this email address. Fill in any other fields marked as mandatory.
Once you submit your registration form, PCO will send a notification to community leaders for preview and approval. Once your request is approved, you will receive an email confirmation message to the email address you specified in your registration form. Click on the link in that message to complete your registration by defining the password you will use to log in into PCO.
Once you complete the registration, you can log in into PCO every time via the login page. Use your email address as the user name.
Logging In
To log in to PCO web site type your email address as a user name and your password and click on the ‘login’ button.
Tick Remember Me box to have your browser remember your user name and password and log you in automatically every time you visit PCO web pages.
If you forgot your password, click on forgot password? and enter your email address and you will shortly receive an email with a link thorugh which you can set a new password. If you do not receive the email within a few minutes, try a few more times. If your email does not arrive even after multiple attempts, please contact support.
Remember Me will only work on the computer and the browser you used when you ticked the checkbox. You will have to repeat this on every computer you are using if you wish to avoid loggin in every time.
WARNING: Do NOT tick this checkbox if you are using someone else’s computer or are working from a public work station, such as an internet caffe. If you accidentally ticked this box, click on Logout button once you are in the application.
Your Homepage
Your homepage shows you the list of communities you are actvely participating in. If you are a leader of at least one community, you will also see a link administration leading you to a list of all communities you can administer, but are not currently actively participating in.
You can sort communities alphabetically by their title or a short name (the name used in the community URL or in email subjects). You can also organized the list of communities hierarchically, reflecting relationships among communities.
Click on a community title to visit the community homepage. Click on remove to remove yourself from a community.
If you are a community leader, you will also have the link admin leading you to a community administration page.