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Time | Narration | ||||
00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Article Options in Joomla. | ||||
00:06 | In this tutorial, we will learn about: Status of an article, Publishing Options for an article and
Global Options for Articles | ||||
00:17 | For this tutorial, I will be using:Ubuntu 14.04, Joomla 3.4.1, Apache, MySQL and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.5.19 | ||||
00:34 | To follow this tutorial: Ensure that you know how to create articles in Joomla. If not, check the relevant Joomla tutorials on the Spoken Tutorial website. | ||||
00:46 | Earlier, we learnt to create, edit, copy and delete an article in Joomla. | ||||
00:53 | Now, let’s learn some other options for these articles. | - | 00:57 | Let’s switch to the Joomla Control Panel . | |
01:00 | Click on Article Manager. | ||||
01:03 | Here are our previously created articles: “Benefits of Sodium” and “Vitamin A” | ||||
01:10 | Let us check if they are visible on the homepage. | ||||
01:14 | Click on Digital India at the top right of the page.
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01:22 | You can see “Benefits of Sodium” here but not “Vitamin A”. Why is this so? This is because we had made “Benefits of Sodium” a featured article. | ||||
01:33 | Let us now make the article “Vitamin A” also as featured. | ||||
01:38 | Go back to Article Manager page. | ||||
01:42 | Click the Featured attribute, i.e, the star in the featured column, for the article “Vitamin A”. | ||||
01:49 | Let me undo this change by clicking on the Featured attribute once again. | ||||
01:54 | We can also feature an article by: checking the checkbox in the first column to the left of the article title | ||||
02:01 | And then clicking on Featured button in the top menu. | ||||
02:05 | Notice that the yellow star has appeared in the featured column. | ||||
02:09 | Now, switch to the Digital India homepage tab and press F5 to refresh it. | ||||
02:15 | We can see that both the articles are visible now. | - | 02:19 | Let us get back to the Article Manager page. | |
02:22 | We will now learn a few more Article attributes.
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02:26 | Click on the article “Vitamin A” to reach the Edit Article page. | ||||
02:31 | Here is a field named Status. What does it indicate?31 | ||||
02:36 | Whenever an article is created, the status takes the default value “Published”. | ||||
02:42 | A featured article is displayed on a website because its status is Published. | ||||
02:48 | So are our two articles, as of now. | ||||
02:51 | What happens if the status of an article to Unpublished? | ||||
02:56 | Switch back to the Article Manager page. | ||||
02:59 | We are in the Edit Article of “Vitamin A”. | ||||
03:02 | Let us change the status of our article “Vitamin A” to Unpublished. | ||||
03:07 | Click on the Save & Close button. | ||||
03:10 | Switch to the Digital India web page and refresh the page. | ||||
03:14 | Notice that the article “Vitamin A” is no longer visible here.
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03:19 | Switch to the article manager page again. | ||||
03:23 | Let us learn about the third value of Status, i.e. Archived. | ||||
03:28 | For a change, let's now modify the status of “Benefits of Sodium” to Archived. | ||||
03:34 | Click on the title “Benefits of Sodium”. | ||||
03:38 | Now click on the Status drop-down and set the Status to Archived. | ||||
03:43 | Click on save and close button. | ||||
03:46 | Come back to the Article Manager. | ||||
03:49 | “Benefits of Sodium” has now been removed from the Articles list of Article Manager. | ||||
03:55 | Verify that it is also no longer displayed on the homepage, either. | ||||
04:00 | So where has the article gone? | ||||
04:02 | Come back to the Article Manager. | ||||
04:05 | To view archived articles, we will need to use a filter.
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04:10 | To the right of search box, we can see Search Tools button. | ||||
04:15 | Click on it. It will show a number of search filters. | ||||
04:20 | Click on the Select Status filter. | ||||
04:23 | Let's set the filter to Archived. | ||||
04:26 | Now we can see our article “Benefits of Sodium” listed here. | ||||
04:31 | An article when archived becomes a part of the historical data. | ||||
04:36 | You can re-publish it whenever required. | ||||
04:40 | The status of an archived article can be directly set to Unpublished or Published, as well. | ||||
04:47 | To do so, first hover the mouse over the Status column, as shown. | ||||
04:52 | You can see a small tooltip here, which says “Unpublish Item”. | ||||
04:57 | Click on the left icon in the Status column. | ||||
05:00 | Notice that we cannot see the article now. | ||||
05:00 | This is because the Status filter is still set to Archived.
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05:09 | Let’s remove the filter by clicking on the Clear button next to Search Tools. | ||||
05:15 | We can now see the article “Benefits of Sodium” listed here. | ||||
05:20 | Notice that the status icon has now changed. | ||||
05:24 | The newly acquired status indicates that the article is now ready for publishing. | ||||
05:30 | In a similar manner, you can get the list of Published, Unpublished and Trashed articles. | ||||
05:37 | Let me first change the status of the article “Benefits of Sodium” back to Archived. | ||||
05:43 | Click on the checkbox to the left of the title. | ||||
05:46 | Now click on the Archive button in the toolbar on top. | ||||
05:51 | A misset appears which says the article has been archived | ||||
05:56 | An Archived or Unpublished article can still be viewed and edited in the Article Manager. | ||||
06:03 | Let’s change the status filter back to Archived. | ||||
06:07 | Click on the archived article “Benefits of Sodium”.
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06:11 | Let’s append this sentence at the end of given text. | ||||
06:15 | “The daily consumption of sodium, however, depends on a number of factors.” | ||||
06:21 | I will change the status of this article from Archived to Published. | ||||
06:26 | Then click on Save & Close. | ||||
06:29 | Let us now select All in Select Status filter. | ||||
06:34 | This will show all the articles, irrespective of their status. | ||||
06:39 | Notice the status of all the articles here. | ||||
06:42 | Also notice the article “Sodium” that we had deleted or trashed in the earlier tutorial. | ||||
06:49 | Explore whether you can change its status on your own. | ||||
06:53 | The other available filters here are Category, Levels, Access, Author, Language and Tag. | ||||
07:02 | We will learn about them in later tutorials. Let’s move ahead. | ||||
07:08 | Click on “Vitamin A” from Articles list. | ||||
07:12 | We are in the Edit Article page. | ||||
07:15 | Let’s change the status of the article to Published. | ||||
07:19 | On the right of the Content tab, we can see the tab Publishing. | ||||
07:24 | Click on it. This records the meta-data of the article. | ||||
07:29 | We will look at some of the important ones. | ||||
07:33 | The option Created by, displays the name of the creator. | ||||
07:37 | In our case it is Super User. | ||||
07:40 | We will learn to change it by using Select User button later. | ||||
07:45 | Notice 3 different date fields here- Created Date, Start Publishing, Finish Publishing | ||||
07:53 | Created Date by default, is the date on which the article was created. | ||||
07:58 | Start Publishing is the date on which the article will be published or made visible on the homepage. | ||||
08:05 | That means, the date from which its status will be automatically set to Published. | ||||
08:11 | By default, this date is set to Created Date.
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08:16 | Finish Publishing is the date on which the article will cease to be visible on the homepage. | ||||
08:22 | That means, the date from which its status will be automatically set to Unpublished. | ||||
08:28 | By default, it is set to blank. | ||||
08:31 | It means, an article is available forever, by default. | ||||
07:36 | Notice here, that Created Date and Start Publishing date are the same. | ||||
08:41 | To change these dates, open the calendar by clicking the calendar icon, on the extreme right. | ||||
08:48 | Let me change the Created Date to today’s date: 18 January 2016. | ||||
08:55 | Click on the Save & Close button. | ||||
08:58 | Go to the homepage and refresh it. | ||||
09:01 | The date of creation of the article is now 16 January 2016. | ||||
09:07 | Here are 2 small assignments for you. | ||||
09:10 | Assignment 1 is to open the calendar of Start Publishing date. | ||||
09:15 | Select the date as a future date. Save the changes. | ||||
09:20 | Go to the Homepage and refresh it. | ||||
09:23 | Check the article list and understand what has happened. | ||||
09:28 | Assignment 2. Now come back and change the date to a date prior to the Creation Date. | ||||
09:35 | Once again, save the changes and observe the changes on the Homepage. | ||||
09:40 | Understand what has happened. | ||||
09:43 | Before exploring further, let us learn a few more details regarding an article. | ||||
09:50 | Switch to homepage and refresh it. | ||||
09:54 | All the articles are listed here, along with their details in the header. | ||||
09:58 | What exactly has been shown? | ||||
10:01 | Observe that the Title of an article is clickable. | ||||
10:05 | Let me click on Vitamin A. | ||||
10:08 | Now the article Vitamin A has opened on a full page. | ||||
10:13 | At the bottom, there is a link to the Next article.
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10:17 | Category of this article says it is Uncategorised and this is also a hyperlink. | ||||
10:24 | I will click on Uncategorised. | ||||
10:27 | And now we are re-directed to a page with all the articles belonging to the category Uncategorised. | ||||
10:34 | Here are our articles and they are both Uncategorised, by default. | ||||
10:39 | Let us now see how we can remove this header information from all the articles. | ||||
10:45 | Come back to the Article Manager page. | ||||
10:48 | Here click on the Options button in the toolbar, towards the extreme right. | ||||
10:54 | It will open another page with the title “Article Manager Options”. | ||||
11:00 | On the top left, are the options to Save, Save & Close and Cancel the changes made on this window. | ||||
11:08 | These settings are global options and apply to all articles, unless changed specifically.
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11:15 | Show Title shows the Title of the article. | ||||
11:18 | By default, it is set to Show.
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11:21 | Let's set it to Hide and click on Save. | ||||
11:25 | Go to the Digital India web page and refresh the page. | ||||
11:29 | Notice that the Title is no longer visible. | ||||
11:33 | Go back to the admin panel. | ||||
11:36 | Set Show Title to Show. | ||||
11:39 | Next let’s set Linked Titles as No. | ||||
11:43 | This will remove the Title hyperlink. | ||||
11:46 | We will skip Show Intro text option for now. | ||||
11:50 | Show Category and Link Category. Show the category in the header and also makes it a hyperlink. | ||||
11:58 | Let's chooseNo option for Linked Category. Hide option for Show Category | ||||
12:05 | Save these changes. | ||||
12:07 | Go to the Digital India tab in the browser. Press F5.
Highlight the title.
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12:11 | Observe that the category information is no longer visible. And the Title is no longer a hyperlink. | ||||
12:19 | Go back to the article manager. page | ||||
12:22 | Explore all the other options in the settings on your own and note what happens. | ||||
12:28 | Now scroll down to see the last section of the settings window. | ||||
12:32 | These options enable us to show or hide the print and email icons. | ||||
12:38 | Let’s go to the Digital India web page | ||||
12:42 | On the extreme right side of the article, notice a button with a small wheel and down arrow. | ||||
12:49 | Click on this button. | ||||
12:51 | We can see 2 options: Print, Email. | ||||
12:55 | Click on the print icon. | ||||
12:57 | This will open a new window with only the article and print button on the right. | ||||
13:03 | Clicking on the print button will open the default print dialog box.
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13:08 | The further procedure is the same, as for any print job. | ||||
13:12 | Let's cancel the printing now. | ||||
13:15 | We will learn about the email option in another tutorial, later. | ||||
13:20 | Return to the control panel. | ||||
13:24 | The Show Icons, Show Print Icon and Show Email Icon are all set to Show, by default. | ||||
13:29 | You can change the settings as per your requirement. | ||||
13:33 | Notice, there is an option here to show the number of Hits. | ||||
13:37 | This indicates the number of times the article has been viewed. | ||||
13:41 | We will discuss Show Unauthorised Links and Positioning of the Links in another tutorial. | ||||
13:47 | Let’s save all the settings now by clicking on Save & Close. | ||||
13:52 | Go the web page and refresh the page, to see all the changes that we made. | ||||
13:59 | Let us recap. In this tutorial, we learnt about: Status of an article, Publishing options for an article and Global options for articles. | ||||
14:11 | Here is another assignment for you. | ||||
14:13 | Click on Options in Article Manager. | ||||
14:16 | Make changes to display Create Date and Modify Date. | ||||
14:21 | Save & Close these settings. | ||||
14:23 | Click on the article Benefits of Sodium. | ||||
14:26 | Append the block of text from the assignment-text file provided with this tutorial, at the end of this article. | ||||
14:33 | Save the article. | ||||
14:35 | Do you observe any change in the header information of the article in the homepage? | ||||
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