User's Manual
Chapter 4: Accessing Functions from the Front-end
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PublishingTab
The next Tab in this window is the Publishing Tab. This allows the Author to specify:
Theintendedviewingaudience
Theproposedstartandfinishdatesforpublishing
WhetherthearticleistobeshownontheFrontPageofthewebsite.
Figure 24: Publishing Tab Front-end
The first field, Access Level, determines who can see the article:
Field Name Details/Options
Access Level: There are thee levels of access:
Public:
The article will be available to every user in the Public area of the web
site including guests.
Registered:
If the Author chooses to make the Access Level Registered, the
content will only be available to Registered users.
Special:
Determines that the article will only be available to users with
Manager, Administrator, or Super Administrator permissions.
Author Alias:
The Author can create a new article under an alias rather than the Username that
they use to login to the web site. Of course, this along with all other aspects of the
article, are subject to editorial review by an Editor or Publisher.
Ordering:
Any new article is, by default, added to the top of the list of articles. Ultimately, the
Editor or Publisher will determine their position. The item must be saved first though.
Start Publishing:
The last fields in the Publishing Tab determine when the article will appear and if it
will be displayed on the Front Page. The field allows the author to specify the date
and time that the article will become available on the web site.
The format for specifying a time is ‘Year-Month-Day’. As you can see from the
picture above this article was set to start publishing on October 14, 2006.
Finish Publishing:
The Finish publishing field will accept the same date format as the Start Publishing
field but also understands the keyword Never allowing the article to become a
permanent part of the web site.
Note: Content submitted by Authors will not appear on the web site until a Publisher or
Administrator publishes it. If this does not happen prior to the Start Publishing date and time
the article will not show up at the time specified by the author so they should allow enough
lead time for the article to be reviewed and published.