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Article Administration

The Articles Module is used to showcase articles. The individual "articles" can be linked to other areas of your website as well as to other important reference areas.  You can:

• Display articles
• Archive articles
• Accept articles from the public
• Moderate and edit articles submitted by the public before posting them on the site
• Create topics for articles, allowing you to organize content into subcategories
• List topics for articles
• Have images supported by articles (e.g. "click-able" images)

By clicking on "Article Administration" in "Admin Suite" you will be directed to the window shown below.

Administrate Article Categories

In this window you will be creating a "Category" for your articles.

You should type the name for your category in the "Name" text box on the right side of the window and then you can set a description for your category. If you do not want to have a description, you can use the "space bar" once in the description text field.

The next field is Parent Category, which by default is set to "None". You should leave this option as is, unless the category you are creating is a sub category of one that already exists. If this is the case, you choose the name of the existing category in the dropdown list and your new category will exist as a sub category of the one you have selected.

Do not forget to click on "Create Category"!!!!!!

To ensure a good understanding of this part of the module, we made a demo category called "amazing". If you like, you can make a category for yourself to follow the rest of this module’s documentation.

After creating your category, you have the option to approve or reject your category by choosing the appropriate option on the right of your screen. This is shown below.

Right now our category, which is called "amazing", is rejected. (as shown by the darkened checkmark and bright red x-mark)

If you would like to make any changes in your category, you can do so by clicking on "Edit".  You can delete it by clicking the "Delete" button.

As you can see, there is a button called "Settings", we are going to explain this button in great detail.

Settings

By clicking on this button you will be directed to the window below. In this window you can change the configuration of your article.

The settings of a new category will always use the default configuration. The default configuration will display all 6 columns (Article, Submitter, Date, Hits, Comments and Images) at their natural column widths.

If you wish to change the default formatting, you can do so by clicking the option button "Use Custom Configuration" in the middle-left of the window.

The Custom Configuration allows you to rename or resize the column header, and to choose which columns to display .

If you don’t wish to resize the widths, you can leave them and they will be resized for you automatically.

Do not forget to click "Submit"!!!!!!

If you would like to make another category, you can click on "Admin Article Categories" in the top or bottom left corner.  If not, you can click on "Article Gallery". By now, you are able to make a category, why don’t you?

Submit and Upload Articles

By clicking on this option you will be directed to another window. In this window you will be able to create an article for your category.

You need to enter your e-mail and your password in this window. If this is your first time using this module, please click on the link above the e-mail text box that reads "Create Account".

A new window will appear. Enter your Name, Email address and your password; don’t forget that these fields are case sensitive (i.e. pAsswOrd and password are different entries).

The next step is to type in the article "Title" and different information as you can see below: For now we are going to make an article for our category called "test".

Second option is "Topic". You choose from any of the categories that you already made in the dropdown list. In this case we are going to select "amazing".

For "Description" and "Content" you need to type some information related to your article. If you would like to leave either blank, you can use (Space Bar) to indicate so.

Next is the "Allow HTML" option button, if you choose "YES" you are responsible for the spacing of the article and you will need to use HTML code.

If you choose "NO" all HTML tags will be removed, line breaks are automatically converted into HTML line breaks for proper display. For now, we are choosing "NO".

"Uploading Media" is the last option and again gives you a "YES" or "NO" choice. What is Media? Media may be any format (images, documents, zip files, etc.)

If you choose "NO" you are not allow to upload any Media, if you choose "YES" you will be directed to another window shown below: For now we choose "YES".

In this window, you may use the following form to upload media to be displayed with your article:

Note: you will be given the opportunity to upload additional media after each submission.

To upload your media you can click on "Browse" and choose a file from you hard drive.

Note: For Image files, only GIF and JPG are accepted. All media files smaller than 10 megabytes are accepted.

The last option is "Caption" and is for a little note that appears under the image. Again, if you would like to leave this blank, you can use (Space Bar).

To upload more media after this file, click "Upload" and if this is the last file, click on "No More Media".

After clicking on "No More Media", you will be directed to another window that is the "Final Confirmation" window show below.

Here, you may look over your article before final submission. Shown above is the article that we created along with the rest of the information related to this article.

If you wish to upload more media files, you can click on the "return to the media uploading form" link.

If you made any changes in "Article Details" please click on "Update Article" or if you wish to cancel your submission, please click "Abandon Submission" to cancel your entire upload.

Finally when you are ready to finish your article submission, please click on "Final Confirmation".

After your Final Confirmation, you will see the window below.

This is a thank you window. You have 3 links in this window. The first link will take you to your article, if you wish to make another article you can do so by clicking on this link.

The second link, will take you to the Article Gallery Homepage in the front of your site and third link will take you to the admin suite.

Moderate and Edit Articles

In this window you can edit, delete and view an article. You can approve, reject or even set to pending an article if you wish to.

= approved    = rejected    = pending

Note: If you wish to have your article accessible on your site, you need to approve it.

The Moderate and Edit Articles window is shown below

If you want to see all your articles, you can do so by clicking on the "Status" drop down list. Choose "All" from the list box. In the above window you can see the article that we called "test" and its status is pending .

If you wish to sort your articles by category, you can click on the "Category" drop down list and choose your article category from list box.

You can filter your articles by expiry date with the "Expiry Date Filter" dropdown list and choose your article based on expiry date from list box.

When you are finished, you can click on "Article Gallery" or "Admin Suite" in the top left corner of the window to go back to one of these pages.

Administrate Article Display Settings

In this window you can configure miscellaneous display settings for the Articles section. We will go through each section one by one.

You can see the Article Display Settings page below.

You have two columns in this window, "Value" and "Description".

The rows 1 to 5 refer to the "Show Newest Articles" article homepage as you can see below.

The rows 1 to 5 refer to the "Show Newest Articles" article homepage as you can see below:

In the first row in your Article Display Settings, you have the value (10) and a Description that reads: The default number of recent articles to display on the article section default page

Row 1

Here you can change the default number in the value section in Article Display Settings. This is pointing to the Show Newest Articlespage as you can see above and the user can choose how many articles that he wants to see from dropdown list. If you wish to check the front of your site you can do so by clicking on "Your Site" in the top right corner and you can see the Article home page.

The first row is referring to the text, dropdown list and submit button on your page as show below.

Articles to Display: 5 10 15 20 25

Once the default value has been specified, the user can change this value for their specific display by using the drop down menu field starting at 5 and going up in increments of 5.

The second and third row as you can see below:

Row 2&3

These sections are referring to the singular and plural words to be used in each instance of the article home page. If you have just one article and you want singular instead of plural you need to type "Article" instead of "Articles" and it will change on each page. If you do not want to have the "Article" word at all you can do so by deleting it and using the (Space Bar) instead, but do not forget to "submit" your changes and "refresh" your page in your browser every time.

The third and fourth row as you can see below

Row 4&5

These rows have the same explanation as above, but in a different page. These rows are referring to Show Article Categories page.

If you prefer, you can delete the "categories" text and replace it with a <space bar> or if you can have it singular or plural based on the number of articles.

By clicking on the second link on your Article home page, you will be directed to the page below:

  This is the "Show Article Categories" page

Row 6 to 10

These rows all are referring to the above page.

The 6^th row "an" is for when the article terms start with a vowel, this should be "an"; otherwise, it should be "a".

For the 7^th & 8^th & 9^th rows you can delete these headers and replace them with a <space bar>.

The 10^th row you can type "YES" or "NO".

If you decide to type "YES", it will show the article topic description in the topic listing on the Show Article Categories page, if not, it will display the article topic description as shown below:

Without article topic description

With article topic description

In the 11^th row you can type "YES" or "NO". This is for showing the article topic "Description" in the actual topic.

In the 12^th  & 13^th row you can type "YES" or "NO".

If you decide to type "YES" for the 12th row, it will show the current topic header in the Show Article Categories page, if not, it will display the topic header as shown below:

Without topic header

With topic header

If you decide to type "YES" for the 13^th row , it will display the "Number of Posts" column in the article topic listings in the Show Article Categories page, if not, it will display the topic header as shown below:

With "Number of Post" header:

Without "Number of Post" header:

In the 14^th row, you can type "YES" or "NO".

If you decide to type "YES" for the 14^th row, it will display the "Last Posts" column in the article topic listings on the "Show Article Categories" page, if not, it will take the topic header as shown below:

With "Last Post" topic header

Without "Last Post" topic header

In the 15^th row you can type "YES" or "NO".

If you decide to type "YES" for the 15^th row, it will display the "Courtesy Of" field in the individual article display, if not, it will show the field as you can see below:

With " Courtesy of" field

Without " Courtesy of" field

In the 16^th row you can type "YES" or "NO".

If you decide to type "YES" for the 16^th row, it will display the "Time Submitted" field in the individual article display, if not, it will display the field as shown below:

With "Time submitted" field

Without "Time submitted" field

In the 17^th row you can type "YES" or "NO".

If you decide to type "YES" for the 17^th row, it will display the "No. Clicked (hits)" field in the individual article display, if not, it will take the field as shown below:

With "No. Clicked (hits)" field

Without "No. Clicked (hits)" field

In the 18^th row you can type "YES" or "NO".

If you decide to type "YES" for the 18^th row, it will display the "Topic" field in the individual article display, if not, it will take the field as shown below:

With "Topic" field

Without "Topic" field

In the 19^th row you can type "YES" or "NO".

If you decide to type "YES" for the 19^th row, it will display the "Results Per Page" select field in the article listings page navigation form, if not, it will take the field as you can see below:

With "Result per page" select field

Modular Based Demo Site -- Article List

Submit to amazing.

Without "Result per page" select field

Modular Based Demo Site -- Article List

Submit to amazing.

In the 20^th row you can type "YES" or "NO".

If you decide to type "YES" for the 20^th row, it will display the "Jump to" select field in the article listings page navigation form, if not, it will take the field as you can see below:

With "Jump to" select field

Modular Based Demo Site -- Article List

Submit to amazing.