This page allows to create or edit a Content Item. On the left side there are two editors where you can add content for the Intro and Main text areas. On the right side are the Parameters tabs.
Intro is the text that is displayed in blog view. When you have a long article to publish, you may split it in two parts using the Main text area. In this case, Elxis will display the Intro text, followed by a "Read more" link. Clicking the link you will see the whole article (Intro + Main text).
Preview: Opens a new window that previews the content as it you will be presented in the Front-End of this site.
Upload: Opens a new popup window which lets you upload a file or an image from your computer to /media folder.
Save: Save the Content Item and return to previous screen.
Apply: Save changes and remain to this screen.
Cancel: Cancel changes and return to previous screen.
Help: This Help Screen
Section: Select the section this content item will belong to.
Category: Select the category this content item will belong to. List shows the categories of the selected section.
Title: Type here the title for the content item. Title will appear in this web site as the header of the article.
SEO title: Type here a Search Engines and Human-Friendly page title. Use only latin characters. Instead of spaces use '-' or '_' characters. It will be used only if SEO Pro is enabled, but it is a good habit to always fill it.
Intro Text (required): Type here article's intro text, using the WYSIWYG editor. This is the part of the article displayed in Blog view.
Main Text (optional): This is article's main text. It is shown together with intro text, when you are viewing the article in full view. Edit using the using the WYSIWYG editor.
Bellow WYSIWYG editors, there are a number of special buttons. By default there are 'Image', 'Page Break' and 'Flash Video'. These are shortcuts for inserting Bots code. For example, clicking the 'Page Break' button, will insert '{mospagebreak}'. Alternatively, you can insert by hand Bots code. Effect is the same.
You can install and use more Bots.
On the right side, you are seeing the parameters for this content item. Parameters are organized in six tabs:
Parameteres related to publishing info, date, author, language and access level.
Show on Frontpage: Select if you want this content item to be shown on Frontpage.
Published: Select "Yes" to make it available to this site. Select "No" to hide it.
Language: Select the language(s) under which this content item will be available. If you select "All", it will be available and viewable, under all languages.
Access Level: Select the user group a user must belong, in order to view this content item.
Author Alias: You can publish the article's author name. If you leave this blank then the real name of the author is displayed. If you want to show that this item was written by someone else then enter his name here. You may use a name although he is not a registered user.
Change Creator: This allows you to change the ownership of this content item to another registered user.
Ordering: Select the order in which this content item is listed, relative to other content items in this Category. This parameter will be available only after saving or applying changes for the first time.
Override Created Date: You can use this parameter to change the date that is reported as the creation date of this content item. Initially, the actual creation date is displayed.
Start Publishing: Select the date and time you want this content item to be published. You can set it on a date in the future. By default, new content items become immediately available for publishing.
Finish Publishing: If desired, you can set the date this content item will be unpublished. If you want to be always visible (that is the default option), enter the word Never.
Content: This is the ID of the content item in the database. It is not editable.
State: This shows the current publishing state. It is not editable.
Hits: Shows the number of times content item was viewed. Click the "Reset Hit Count" button to reset counter back to zero.
Revised: Shows the number of edits this content item has undergone. It is not editable.
Created: This is the real date content item was initially created. It is not editable.
By: This is the real name of the user that created the content item. It is not editable.
Last Modified: Shows that last date this content item was modified. It is not editable.
By: This is the name of the user that last modified this item. It is not editable.
Comments: This field is only visible when you are editing a submitted content. Shows the comments made from article's author. Not visible to public.
These parameters are used only if you have used mosImages for inserting images in this content item. MosImages are inserted using the {mosimage} bot. If you haven't then you can safely ignore them.
Sub-folder: Choose here the sub-folder you want to get images from. By default are used the images that are in /images/stories folder.
Gallery Images: Lists the available images in the specific sub-folder. Highlight one or more images (holding CTRL) and click the 'Add' button. Added images will be displayed in the Content Images list.
Content Images: Lists all selected images. The "up" and "down" buttons determine the order of images if there are more than one on this page. Order is important, because each used {mosimage} will be replaced by listed images, in the order they appear. The first {mosimage} will use the first listed image, the second {mosimage} the second, etc.
To remove an image, select it and press the "remove" button.
Edit the image selected: Use these controls to modify parameters for the selected image. You have to click 'Apply' to save changes.
When you select an image in "Content Images", these controls are activated.
Source: Displays the default name of the image highlighted. You may edit that name.
Image Align: Select image alignment. Available options are: None, Left, Center, or Right.
Alt Text: Lets you choose an Alt Text for the image.
Border: Type here the number of pixels you want the border to be around the image. 0 for no border.
Caption: Type here a caption for the image.
Caption Align: Lets you choose between None, Left, Center, or Right.
Width: Type here a number in pixels to override the width of the image.
Apply: Click on this button to apply all the parameters defined for this image.
These parameters control what other info or controls will be displayed arround this content item, when is viewed in full view mode.
Page Class Suffix: Allows you to set customized styles for the page used to display this content item in full view. The suffix you type here is automatically added to the CSS classes for this page, and will have to be defined in your template's CSS stylesheet. I.e. if you enter "-test" (without the quotes), you will have to define two extra classes: "contentpaneopen-test" and "contentheading-test".
Article Suffix: Allows you to set customized styles for displaying this content item in blog view. The suffix you type here is automatically added to the CSS classes used to display blogs, and will have to be defined in your template's CSS stylesheet.
Back Button: Controls whether the "Back" text link is shown or not at the bottom of the page. Clicking the "Back" link users are returned to the previous page. The dropdown list has 3 options:
Show Page Title: Select if you want to show article's title or not.
Linked Titles: Article's title in blog view, can also act as a link to the full article. Select if you want this behaviour.
Intro Text: If set it to Yes, then when the article is shown in full view, the Intro text will not be displayed. Only the Main text.
Section Name: Hides or shows the name of the Section this item belongs to. If this option is turned on, when in full view, section name will be shown under item's title.
Section Name Linkable: If enabled, Section name will also act as a link to section's articles. Applies only when the 'Section Name' option is enabled.
Category Name: Hides or shows the name of the Category this item belongs to. If this option is turned on, when in full view, category name will be shown under item's title.
Category Name Linkable: If enabled, Category name will also act as a link to category's articles. Applies only when the 'Section Name' option is enabled.
For each of the following eight parameters, you can use the option selected in the Global Configuration settings (Site -> Global Configuration) by selecting "Use Global" or you can override it by selecting either "Show" or "Hide".
Item Rating: Displays or not, article's ratings.
Author Names: Displays or not author's name.
Created Date and Time: Displays or not article's creation date and time.
Modified Date and Time: Displays or not article's modification date and time.
PDF Icon: Displays or not, convert to PDF document button.
RTF Icon: Displays or not, convert to RTF document button.
Print Icon: Displays or not, the print article button.
Email Icon: Displays or not, the send article as mail button.
Key Reference: A text key that can be used to reference this article. It has to be unique. Used mainly when implementing external help servers.
Enter here article's META information. META information "describe" article's contents and are used by search engines.
Description: Text entered here, will be used as article's META description. Provide a short text that describes what this article is about.
Keywords: Keywords entered here play two roles. Separate keywords with commas.
Add Sect/Cat/Title: Clicking this button will add Section title, Category title and Content Item title as keywords.
Provides an alternative way to create a new menu item of type "Link - Content Item", that links to this content item.
Select a Menu: Select the menu that you want the menu item to be created in.
Menu Item Name: Type the name of the menu item.
Link to Menu: Click this button to create the new menu item.
Existing Menu Links: Displays a list of all menu items of type "Link - Content Item" that reference this article.
You can add a number of links (up to 5) at the bottom of the article, to other information that is related with this article. Links can be external (leading to another website), or internal (linking to other article or contnet).
Title 1-5: Type the text that will be act as link. For example, 'For more info visit GO UP Inc.'.
Link 1-5: Type link's URL. To create external links, please add 'http://' in front of them (i.e. http://www.elxis.org). To create internal links, do not use 'http://' (i.e. index.php).