Joomla/C2/Categories-in-Joomla/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:01	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Categories in Joomla.
00:06	In this tutorial, we will learn about: Category Manager in Joomla, creating and editing categories and creating sub-categories.
00:16	We will also learn how to: assign articles to categories, move or copy articles to a different category and delete or unpublish a category.
00:27	This tutorial is recorded using: Ubuntu Linux OS 14.04, Joomla 3.4.1, Apache, MySQL and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.5.19
00:43	Learner of this tutorial should know how to create an article in Joomla.
00:48	If not, please refer to the relevant Joomla tutorials on the Spoken Tutorial website.
00:55	Let’s switch to the Joomla control panel.
00:58	Click on Article Manager in the left menu.
01:01	We currently have 2 articles - Vitamin A and Benefits of Sodium.
01:08	In order to understand categories in Joomla, let’s create a few more articles.
01:14	Pause this tutorial and do this assignment.
01:17	Open the assignment-text file provided with this tutorial.
01:21	Follow the instructions to create 4 new articles- Vitamin B:, Benefits of Nutrients:, Fish: and Green Vegetables:.
01:31	We now have 6 articles in Article Manager- Vitamin A, Vitamin B, Benefits of Sodium, Benefits of Nutrients , Fish and Green Vegetables.
01:43	The 2 articles on Vitamins are similar in content.
01:47	So, we should group them together.
01:50	Categories in Joomla help to organize the articles in a logical order.
01:55	Click on Categories in the left menu.
01:59	Alternately, click on Content Menu at the top and then on Category Manager.
02:06	Notice that the Category Manager has a similar layout as that of the Article Manager.
02:11	It has a Search box and Search Tools button to filter the Categories.
02:17	By default, we have one category called Uncategorized.
02:21	Recollect that all our articles appeared as Uncategorized.
02:26	To create a new category, click on the New button on the top left.
02:31	The only mandatory field to create a category is the Category Title.
02:36	I will write Vitamin as the title in the title textbox.
02:40	Click on Save and Close
02:43	You can see that the new category has now been created.
02:47	To edit or rename a category, click on the title of the category.
02:52	I will rename the title to Vitamins.
02:56	This time let’s click on Save and New button.
03:00	We are prompted to add a new category.
03:03	Let’s type Minerals as the title.
03:06	Then click on Save and Close.
03:09	Now, Minerals and Vitamins are nutrients that our bodies need.
03:13	Let us put them in a broader category Nutrients.
03:17	Click on New and type Nutrients as the title.
03:23	Then click on Save and Close.
03:26	Let us put Vitamins and Minerals under the category Nutrients.
03:31	A category under another category is called subcategory.
03:36	Select the two categories by clicking the check-box to the left of the status column.
03:42	We can batch process these 2 categories.
03:45	Batch processing means working on things in groups.
03:48	Click on Batch button in the toolbar at the top.
03:52	A new window with the title Batch Process the Selected Categories opens.
03:58	It has many options.
04:00	For now, we are only going to change the parent category of these categories.
04:05	So, select Nutrients in the Select Category for Move/ Copy drop-down.
04:11	There are 2 radio buttons below the drop-down, namely: Copy, Move.
04:17	Copy will make a copy of the selected categories, in the selected category.
04:22	Move will move the category from their previous category, to the selected category.
04:27	Let's select Move and then click on Process.
04:31	Notice a hyphen in front of Vitamins and Minerals categories.
04:35	This indicates that they are subcategories of the main category Nutrients.
04:41	Pause the tutorial here and do this assignment.
04:44	Create a new category Carbohydrates, click on Parent drop-down on the right and select Nutrients. Click on Save and Close.
04:54	Notice that this is another way to assign categories and subcategories to a parent category.
05:01	Now, we have a Category tree.
05:03	There are 2 main categories: Uncategorized and Nutrients.
05:09	Under Nutrients, we have 3 sub-categories: Vitamins, Minerals and Carbohydrates.
05:16	Now, let us learn how to organize various articles under different categories.
05:22	From Category Manager, click on Articles in the left menu.
05:27	Select the two vitamin articles by clicking the check-box to the left of the Status column.
05:34	Click on Batch button in the toolbar on top.
05:38	A new window with the title Batch Process the Selected Articles opens.
05:44	Select Vitamins in Select Category for Move/ Copy drop-down.
05:49	Let's select Move and then click on Process button.
05:53	Notice that the category for our articles Vitamin A and Vitamin B has changed.
06:00	Let us change the category of Benefits of Sodium to Minerals.
06:05	Click on the title Benefits of Sodium.
06:09	In the Category drop-down on the right, select Minerals. Then click on Save and Close.
06:17	Note that the category of Benefits of Sodium has been changed to Minerals.
06:23	Pause the tutorial here and do this assignment. Click on Benefits of Nutrients article. Change the category to Nutrients. Click on Save and Close.
06:35	Now it’s time to check all these changes on the Digital India webpage.
06:40	Before that, ensure that Show Category is set to Show for the articles.
06:45	Click on Options button in the toolbar at the top right corner.
06:50	Set Show Category to Show and Link Category to Yes.
06:57	Click on Save and Close.
07:00	Now, click on the Digital India link at the top right.
07:05	Notice that the articles have different Category names in their header.
07:10	Click on the Category Nutrients in the article header of Benefits of Nutrients.
07:16	Observe that it lists one article and 2 subcategories – Vitamins and Minerals.
07:23	This is how we had organized the categories.
07:27	Note that the category Carbohydrates is not visible here.
07:31	A category having neither articles nor subcategories is an empty Category. And hence it is not visible on the web-page.
07:40	Can we relax this restriction?
07:42	Let us see how to change the settings to get the empty categories displayed.
07:48	Switch to the Article Manager web-page.
07:51	Click on the Categories in the left menu to go to the Category Manager.
07:56	Click on Options button in the toolbar on right.
08:00	Note that the Category Manager Options page is the same as Article Manager Options.
08:06	Even the title says Article Manager Options.
08:10	There are tabs in this page to control the settings of articles, categories, menus etc.
08:17	Click on the tab Category.
08:20	The tab will show the settings of the page which shows all articles under a particular category.
08:26	Scroll down to see the option Empty Categories.
08:30	Set this as Show.
08:32	Click on Save and Close
08:35	Switch to the ‘Digital India’ web-page and refresh it.
08:40	Look, the Carbohydrates subcategory is now visible.
08:44	Go back to the Category Manager web-page.
08:47	The subcategory Carbohydrates does not have any articles under it.
08:52	We can either: Unpublish it or delete it.
08:57	Let’s understand the difference between the two options.
09:01	When we unpublish a category, no new article can be assigned to that category.
09:07	All its subcategories are automatically unpublished and articles under the category are no longer visible on the website, even if they are published.
09:18	When we delete a category, it is moved to Trash, along with all the articles under it.
09:24	A deleted category can be restored again or the same could be trashed permanently.
09:31	Come back to the Category Manager web-page.
09:34	Since we are not using the category Carbohydrates, let's unpublish it for now.
09:40	Locate the category Carbohydrates from the Categories Manager page.
09:45	Now, select it by clicking the check-box to the left of the Status column.
09:50	Click on the Unpublish button in the toolbar on top.
09:54	Immediately, a success message appears.
09:58	Observe that the status of the category Carbohydrates has changed to Unpublished.
10:04	Let us go back to the Digital India webpage and verify this.
10:08	Switch to the Digital India webpage and refresh it.
10:12	Notice that the category Carbohydrates is no longer visible.
10:16	This is because it has been unpublished.
10:20	Let us summarize.
10:22	In this tutorial, we learnt about: Category Manager in Joomla, creating and editing categories and creating sub-categories.
10:32	We also learnt how to: assign articles to categories, move or copy articles to a different category and delete or unpublish a category.
10:43	Here is an assignment for you: create a new category Food Sources.
10:48	Create 2 subcategories, Veg Sources and Non-veg Sources, under the category Food Sources.
10:55	Assign the article Fish to Non-Veg sources.
10:59	Assign the article Green Vegetables to Veg Sources.
11:03	Refresh the Homepage.
11:05	Observe the changes and understand what has happened.
11:09	Delete the category Veg Sources.
11:11	Try to restore it back.
11:14	Hint is, to use the filter to see Trashed categories.
11:18	Edit the category Vitamins to add a description.
11:22	Change the settings to show the description and number of articles in a category.
11:27	Refresh the Homepage. Observe the changes and understand what has happened.
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