Autonomous Page: New/Edit

This page is shown when you add or edit an autonomous page. On the left side there is an editor where you can add content. On the right side are the Parameters tabs.

 

Toolbar Icons

Preview: Opens a new window that previews the autonomous page 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: Saves the Autonomous Page and returns to previous screen.

Apply: Saves changes and remains to this screen.

Cancel: Cancels changes and returns to previous screen.

Help: This Help Screen

 

Item Details

Title: Type here the title for the Autonomous Page. 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.

Text (required): Type here article's text 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.

 

Parameters Tabs

On the right side, you are seeing the parameters for this content item. Parameters are organized in six tabs:

 

Publishing tab

Parameteres related to publishing info, date, author, language and access level.

State: Shows current publishing state. Non editable

Published: Select "Yes" to make it available to this site. Select "No" to hide it.

Language: Select the language(s) under which this autonomous page 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 autonomous page.

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 page 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 autonomous page to another registered user.

Override Created Date: You can use this parameter to change the date that is reported as the creation date of this autonomous page. Initially, the actual creation date is displayed.

Start Publishing: Select the date and time you want this autonomous page to be published. You can set it on a date in the future. By default, new autonomous pages become immediately available for publishing.

Finish Publishing: If desired, you can set the date this autonomous page will be unpublished. If you want to be always visible (that is the default option), enter the word Never.

Content ID: This is the ID of the autonomous page in the database. It is not editable.

State: This shows the current publishing state. It is not editable.

Hits: Shows the number of times autonomous page was viewed. Click the "Reset Hit Count" button to reset counter back to zero.

Version: Shows the number of edits this autonomous page item has undergone. It is not editable.

Created: This is the real date autonomous page was initially created. It is not editable.

By: This is the real name of the user that created the autonomous page. It is not editable.

Last Modified: Shows that last date this autonomous page was modified. It is not editable.

By: This is the name of the user that last modified this page. It is not editable.

Expires: Shows the date this autonomous page will expire (stop being published). It is not editable.

 

Images tab

These parameters are used only if you have used mosImages for inserting images in this autonomous page. 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.

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.

 

Parameters tab

These parameters control what other info or controls will be displayed arround this autonomous page.

Menu Image: If you want you can show a small image next to the menu item used to display this page. Select this image from the dropdown list. Note: For this image to be visible, the "Show Menu Icons" parameter of the menu module, must also be set to "Yes".

Use only the Menu Image: If you set this parameter to 'Yes', then instead of the menu name the menu item will be drawn only using the menu image.

Show Page Title: If you wish the page title to be visible select "Yes".

Page Class Suffix: Allows you to set customized styles for the page used to display this autonomous page. 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.

Article Suffix: Allows you to set customized styles for displaying this autonomous page. 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:

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.

 

Meta Info

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.

 

Link to Menu

Provides an alternative way to create a new menu item of type "Link - Autonomous Page", that links to this autonomous page.

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 - Autonomous Page" that reference autonomous page.