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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.
00:40	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.
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 webpage 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.
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?
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02:51	What happens if the status of an article to Unpublished?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03:02	Let us change the status of our article “Vitamin A” to Unpublished.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.
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	We are 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.
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.
05:04	This is because the Status filter is still set to Archived.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
11:15	Show Title shows the Title of the article.
11:18	By default, it is set to Show.
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 Article Manager page.
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 choose No option for Linked Category. Hide option for Show Category
12:05	Save these changes.
12:07	Go to the Digital India webpage and refresh the page.
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.
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.
13:58	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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