User's Manual

Chapter 4: Accessing Functions from the Front-end
Joomla! 1.0.11 User Manual 38 Version 1.0.1.
Chapter4:AccessingFunctionsfromtheFront‐end
Introduction
As you saw in the last chapter, once you have registered with a Joomla! web site you will see a
distinct User Menu when you log in.
Regardless of your specific role, i.e. Registered, Author, Editor, or Publisher, you will see the
same User Menu. However, the functions available from the menu will vary depending on the
access permissions you have.
In this chapter, we will look at:
ManagingContent
SubmittingWebLinks
CheckinItems
ManageContent
In general, content management consists of the following three operations:
Submissionofnewcontenttothesystem(ContentItem).
Proofreadingandeditingofthatcontentifnecessary.
Publicationofthecontent.
In the Joomla! scheme of things, Authors are generally responsible for submitting content,
Editors for proof reading and/or editing content, and Publishers for publishing content. However,
both Editors and Publishers may submit content and a Publisher can edit as well.
For the purposes of this chapter, we will assume that Authors are creating the content, Editors
are editing the content, and Publishers are publishing the content.
Author
As we said earlier, different roles can be assigned to users on a Joomla! web site. By default, this
is that of a Registered user. This type of user cannot submit Content Items.
 Note: In order to follow along with these examples you must either have system administration
privileges to edit the role of the user or request that your system administrator set you up
with users that have the specific roles covered in these examples. Otherwise, you can
simply read along and try the examples out at some point in the future.
SubmitNewsviatheFront‐end
² Access: Select User Menu>Submit News
When an Author clicks on the Submit News menu link, in their User Menu, they will be presented
with a dialogue entitled The News / Add Content.