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Guide on the functioning of the Interactive application developed

within the „National State Aid Network”

The interactive software application runs independently from the Competition Council’s

webpage: www.consiliulconcurentei.ro. It represents an annex to the webpage of the National

State aid network: www.renascc.eu and provides for an interactive working environment, in

real time, to the experts in the State aid field from the Competition Council as well as from

the institutions granting State aid in Romania.

Access rights

The access rights are granted to the users based on cooperation protocols signed between the

Competition Council and the institutions granting State aid in Romania.

Signing in

To sign in, a user has to write its user name and password in the autentification window.

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Chat

The implicitly way for a user to access it after singing in is “CHAT”. It represents a function

of the application offering a communication path in real time by submitting text messages

between the users connected to the application. The window to be opened only gives the

function CHAT and it is divided in distinct sections as follows:

- Utilizatori conectati: the area where all the users on line are being displayed;

- Chat: the area where the messeges submitted via chat are being displayed and written.

Log in button

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The buttons from within the window have editing functions and shall be explained in the

section on document editing:

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At the same time, in the window can be seen the functional buttons:

close document/exit the application

open SANI II software application page

display a list with the documents accessible to the user

enter the CHAT module

The texts to be send via chat are typed in the area esspecially designated for their editing

(Image 4) and then are being submitted by pressing the tape Enter.

Writing area

Displaying area

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The submitted messages shall be displayed in the displaying area, the application using

different colours for each user. The colours ar ethe same with those used for representing the

users in the “Utilizatori conectaţi” area.

The CHAT mode facilitates the access to a chat area common for all the users signed in, as

well as the access to private chat areas, esspecially created for the cooperation on a document.

For this, it is necessary to create a new document and to grant the contributor attribute to the

wanted debate partners or to access an already created document having as contributors the

same persons as the wanted debate partners.

Creating a document

To access a document’s editing module press the button Listă documente . In the

displayed window shall be chosen the folder wher the new shall be created. As a rule, the

documets are created in a folder from the partner institution where the user is. This

convention allows organizing the information crammed on the server and allows the users’

swifter access to the created documents.

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Partners’ folders

Document’s name

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In the displayed window one shall type in the field “Document nou:” the name of the new

document, than press the button “Aplică”. The aplication shall automatically open the new

document in order to edit it. In the first stage, only the user that created the document/the

author shall have access to the document.

In order to allow another user/contributor to participate to the document’s editing, an

invitation should be submitted. The invitation may be submitted by the author or, in a second

stage, by any user previously invited to participate to a document’s editing.

The invitation is generated from the window with the list of documents of the invited

author/contributor that wants to allow access to the document to other users aswell, by

selecting the partner institution/institutions and their name from the list of the approved users

and by pressing the button “Trimite invitaţie”.

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The application shall generate an e-mail which will be submitted by e-mail to the invited user

(Image 7). The invited user will be able to access the document imediately. In order to turn

back to the document list shall be pressed the button „ Înapoi”.

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Users’ names

Document’s name

Send invitation

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Opening a document

In order to open a document already created, it is chosen the folder where it is saved and the

document’s name. The list encloses all the documents to which the user is author or

contributor. In order to open the document, click its name (Image 9). The document shall be

opened in an editing module.

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Editing documents

The text can be introduced directly or can be copied using the “Copy/Paste” options from a

document previously created in a .doc or .docx. format.

The name of the opened document is edited in the right – up box in the editing window.

In the area Contributori are being edited all the offline partners which cooperated at the

document’s elaboration.

The text can be formatted using the following buttons:

bold align left

italic center

underline aligne right

text crossed with a line justify

decrease indent insert numbering

Documents’ names

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increase indent insert bullet

inside horizontal border formatting document

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The formatting styles accessible to the user are presented in Image 10.

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To the left of the editing window is activated a chat allowig the share of text messages

between the partners to that specific document. The application allows the concomitant

modification of the document by all the connected users. The modifications shall be

highlighted within the text with the same colour used for the users in the CHAT area.

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Using the SANI II application

In order to conned yourself to the interactive SANI II (State Aid Notifications Interactive) it is

used the button “deschidere pagină aplicaţie informatică SANI II”.

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The SANI II software application runs independently from the ReNAS software application

and it is managed by the European Commission’s services. In order to use SANI II a

independent signing in is needed. While using SANI II, the CHAT module is permanent

available to the users. The debates between SANI II users can be carried out on the general

CHAT or a separate debate can be opened, participating only the users choosen by

creating/opening a document.

Exit

The document’s edit module is closed by logging off. The button which makes possible

closing the collaborative working application is “Închidere document”.