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Article Options in Joomla

Learning Objectives

• Status of an article.
• Publishing options in article
• Global options in articles.

• Status of an article
• Publishing Options for an article and
• Global Options for Articles

Versions and OS

• Ubuntu 14.04
• Joomla 3.4.1
• Apache, MySQL and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.5.19

Prerequisites

• Ensure that you know how to create articles in Joomla
• If not, check the relevant Joomla tutorials on the Spoken Tutorial website.

Prior Knowledge

Now, let’s learn some other options for these articles.

Here are our previously created articles: *“Benefits of Sodium” and *“Vitamin A”

Why is this so? This is because we had made “Benefits of Sodium” a featured article.

Go back to Article Manager admin page.

• checking the checkbox in the first column to the left of the article title
• and then clicking on Featured button in the top menu.

We can see that both the articles are visible now.

We will now learn a few more Article attributes.

So are our two articles, as of now.

Switch back to the Article Manager admin page. We are in the Edit Article of “Vitamin A”.

Notice that the article “Vitamin A” is no longer visible here. <PAUSE>

So where has the article gone?

Click on it. It will show a number of search filters.

Point to “Benefits of Sodium”

Now we can see our article “Benefits of Sodium” listed here.

You can re-publish it whenever required.

You can see a small tooltip here, which says “Unpublish Item”.

Now click on the Archive button in the toolbar on top.

Let’s append this sentence at the end of given text. “The daily consumption of sodium, however, depends on a number of factors.”

Then click on Save & Close.

Also notice the article “Sodium” that we had deleted or trashed in the earlier tutorial.

Explore whether you can change its status on your own.

We will learn about them in later tutorials.

Point to Publishing tab.

Let’s change the status of the article to Published.

On the right of the Content tab, we can see the tab Publishing.

This records the meta-data of the article. We will look at some of the important ones.

In our case it is Super User. We will learn to change it by using Select User button later.

1. Created Date
2. Start Publishing
3. Finish Publishing

That means, the date from which its status will be automatically set to Published.

By default, this date is set to Created Date.

That means, the date from which its status will be automatically set to Unpublished.

It means, an article is available forever, by default.

Click on the Save & Close button.

The date of creation of the article is now 07 April 2015.

Assignment 1

1. Open the calendar of Start Publishing date.
2. Select the date as a future date.
3. Save the changes.
4. Go to the Homepage and refresh it.
5. Click the article list and understand what has happened.

Assignment 2

1. Now come back and change the date to a date prior to the Creation Date.
2. Once again, save the changes and observe the changes on the Homepage.
3. Understand what has happened.

Highlight the header information.

All the articles are listed here, along with their details in the header.

Let me click on Vitamin A.

Now the article Vitamin A has opened on a full page.

I will click on Uncategorised.

Here click on the Options button in the toolbar, towards the extreme right.

Let's set it to Hide and click on Save.

This will remove the Title hyperlink.

Highlight Link Category.

• show the category in the header
• and also makes it a hyperlink.

Select button No for Link Category. Click on Save.

• No option for Linked Category.
• Hide option for Show Category

Save these settings.

Highlight the title.

Observe that the category information is no longer visible.

And the Title is no longer a hyperlink.

Explore all the other options in the settings on your own and note what happens.

These options enable us to show or hide the print and email icons.

Point to the button on the right. Click on the button. Point to Print and Email.

On the extreme right side of the article, notice a button with a small wheel and down arrow.

Click on this button.

We can see 2 options:

• Print
• Email.

Click on the print icon in the new window.

This will open a new window with only the article and print button on the right.

Clicking on the print button will open the default print dialog box.

The further procedure is the same, as for any print job.

You can change the settings as per your requirement.

This indicates the number of times the article has been viewed.

(Summary)

In this tutorial, we learnt about:

• Status of an article.
• Publishing options for an article and
• Global options for articles.

1. Click on Options in Article Manager.
2. Make changes to display Create Date and Modify Date.
3. Save & Close these settings.
4. Click on the article Benefits of Sodium.
5. Append the block of text from the assignment-text file provided with this tutorial, at the end of this article.
6. Save the article.
7. Do you observe any change in the header information of the article in the homepage?

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