User's Manual

Chapter 7: Accessing Functions from the Back-end – Administrator
Joomla! 1.0.11 User Manual 132 Version 1.0.1.
All Modules have the following Details and Page/Items options:
Field Name Details/Options
Title: This is the title of the Module as you wish it to appear in its header.
Show title: Select whether you wish the Module title to appear or not.
Position: Select the Module position in which you wish it to appear.
Module Order: Select the order you wish the Module to appear.
Access Level:
Select the Access Level: Public, Registered, or Special, which is able to view the
Module.
Published:
Yes or No
ID: The ID for this Module.
Description: A description of the functionality of the Module.
Menu Item Link(s): Select the Page(s) or Items that the Module should be displayed.
If you are creating a new module, additional fields are listed as follows:
Module Class Suffix:
Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module, e.g. moduletable_online. In this
example, -online is the suffix. This suffix class must currently be in the template
CSS Style file. This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain
Modules independent of the site’s default Template CSS classes.
Module Cache: Select whether to cache the contents of the module.
RSS URL: Enter the URL of the RSS feed.
Feed Title: Display News Feed title.
Feed Description: Show the description of the News Feed.
Feed Image: Show the image for the News Feed.
Items: Enter the number of RSS items to be displayed.
Item Description: Show the description or Intro Text for the item.
Word Count:
Allows you to limit the number of description or Intro Text words displayed. 0 will
show all the text.
RSS Cache time: Set the time, in seconds, for this RSS feed.
Custom Output: This can include plain text and images, HTML and JavaScript.
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