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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 web-page 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02:51 | What happens if the status of an article is changed to Unpublished?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 message 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 to 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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