Joomla/C2/Creating-Articles-in-Joomla/English

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Show Slide 1 Creating Articles in Joomla	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Creating Articles in Joomla.
Show Slide 2: Learning Objectives:	In this tutorial, we will learn: About *Article Manager We will also learn to Create a new article Edit an existing article and Delete an article
Show Slide 3 Versions and OS	For this tutorial, we will be using: Ubuntu 14.04 Joomla 2.5.22 Apache, MySQL and PHP obtained through XAMPP 1.8.2
Show Slide 4 Prerequisites	To follow this tutorial, you need to have Joomla 2.5.22 installed on your system.
Switch to the browser Type http://localhost/joomla/administrator	Lets open our Joomla administrative panel first. So go to the browser and type http://localhost/joomla/administrator
Type login id as admin and password as admin123.	Enter your login id and password and press on Login button. I will enter my login id as admin and password as admin123.
	We are now on the Joomla control panel.
Show Slide 5: Article Manager	We will now learn about the Article Manager. Article Manager is a view in Joomla administrative panel. We can view articles and manage them through the Article Manager.
Show Slide 6: Reaching the Article Manager	We can reach the Article Manager from the Control Panel by doing 2 actions: a. Click on the Article Manager in the first row in the Control Panel or b. Click on the Content in the top menu and then click on Article Manager.
Switch to the browser	Let's go to the administrative page again.
Point to the column headers one by one	Let's understand the Article Manager a little more. In the Article Manager, you can see the that the column headers are all clickable. It means you can sort the articles using any of these columns. By default, articles are sorted by the title.
Show the filters as per the narration	Article Manager has filters to make your search faster if there are many articles. The search in the Article Manager works on the title or the alias of the article. There are other filters based on the category, access, status of the article, author and language of the articles.
Point or click & display as per narration.	Status shows the published status of the article. An article can have 4 possible status: *published - meaning it could be displayed on the front-end *unpublished – meaning it cannot be displayed *archived – meaning it is removed from the article manager by default and put in historical records or *trashed – meaning it has been deleted from the system.
Missing visual cue	Featured: Featured articles are the ones which are displayed on the homepage of your website.
Missing visual cue	Category: Shows the category to which the article belongs.
Missing visual cue	Ordering: Is the order in which to display the articles. For example, if there are 3 featured articles, ordering would decide which article would be shown first.
Missing visual cue	You can change the order by clicking on the header and then either- manually changing the order number or by clicking the up and down arrow.
Missing visual cue	You can save the new order by clicking on the Save order icon.
Missing visual cue	Access: Shows the user group that has access to the article.
Missing visual cue	Created by, Date, Hits and Language are obvious.
Missing visual cue	ID: ID is the unique identification number for this item in Joomla. It is automatically assigned by the system and cannot be changed.
Move cursor to top right toolbar	On the top right is the toolbar for taking action on the articles. We see one new action named Check-In. When we open an article, the article is locked for other admins so they cannot open it for editing.
Point or display the various options as per narration	We can close the article by selecting Save, Save & Close, Save and New, Save as Copy or Close.
Missing visual cue	If we forget to close the article by either going back in the browser navigation or by closing the browser window, it will remain locked. Notice a lock icon to the left of the title here. No-one else can edit this article.
Missing visual cue	The admin who opened the article will need to select check-in, in order to give access to other admins to open it.
Missing visual cue	There is also an Options icon here. These are the global options for all articles.
Missing visual cue	In case it is ON, we can turn it OFF by editing php.ini in the apache installation.
Missing visual cue	We will now come to creation of articles.
Show Slide 7:	There are three ways to reach the article creation page in Joomla: a. Click on the Add New Article icon in the Control Panel. b. Click on the New icon in the options at the top in Article Manager. c. Click on Content in the top menu, then Article Manager and then the submenu Add New Article
Switch to the browser	Lets go to the administrative panel and create a new article.
In Control Panel >> click on Add New Article	I will click on Add New Article in the Control Panel. This will open a new article creation page.
Missing visual cue	Article creation page has some fields that have to be filled up and some icons on the top right. Title, Category and Article Text are mandatory fields. This means you cannot create an article without entering values in these fields. Default value of Category field is Uncategorized.
Missing visual cue	Let's create an article. We put the title as Sodium. I have already created a category called Minerals and here I chose the category as Minerals.
Missing visual cue	Let's put some sample text in the Article Text. I will copy some text that I have in my Gedit text editor and paste it in the article text.
Missing visual cue	The article can now be saved without entering any more fields. On the top right, we can see the icon to save. The Save icon will only save the article, and load the page with Edit Article mentioned here. Save & Close will save the article and take you back to the Article Manager. Save & New will save the article and load another Add New Article page. Cancel icon would cancel article creation and go back to the Article Manager.
Missing visual cue	If you want to edit an existing article, find that article in the Article Manager and click on the title of the article.
Missing visual cue	Clicking on the title of the article will open a page similar to the add new article page, but with Save as Copy icon on the top right. You can make the required changes to edit the article and save it.
Missing visual cue	If you click on Save as Copy, a new article, which is a copy of this article would be created. This copied article will have a different title and alias than the original one.
Missing visual cue	We will now see how to delete an article in Joomla.
Missing visual cue	Go to the Article Manager and look for the article that you want to delete.
Missing visual cue	Click on the check box on the left of the article title.
Missing visual cue	On the top right of the Article Manager, you can see the option to unpublish the article or trash it.
Missing visual cue	If you are sure you will not need the article later, you can click on trash icon. This will remove the article from the system.
Missing visual cue	Otherwise, unpublish the article.
Show Slide 8: (Summary)	Let us summarize. In this tutorial, we learnt about Article Manager. We also learnt to- Create a new article Edit an existing article and Delete an article.
Switch to Slide 9:	Let's come to the assignment now. You need to create 3 articles.
Missing visual cue	For the first article, give the title as Vitamin A. Select Uncategorized as the category. Copy the article text from the assignment sheet of this tutorial and paste it as Article Text. Click on Save and New icon.
Switch to Slide 10:	For the second article, give the title as Sodium. Select Uncategorized as the category. Copy the article text from the assignment sheet of this tutorial and paste it as Article Text. Click on Save and Close icon.
Switch to Slide 11:	For the third article, give the title as Iron. Select Uncategorized as the category. Copy the article text from the assignment sheet of this tutorial and paste it as Article Text. Click on Cancel icon.
Switch to Slide 12:	How many articles do you see in the Article Manager now? Why are there only 2 articles in your Article Manager? Think about it.
Show Slide 13: (About Spoken Tutorial Project)	The video at this link, summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
Show Slide 14: (About Spoken Tutorial Project)	The Spoken Tutorial Project Team conducts workshops using spoken tutorials and gives certificates on passing online tests. For more details, please write to us.
Show Slide 15: (Acknowledgement)	Spoken Tutorial Project is supported by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India.
	This is Priyanka signing off. Thank you for joining.

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