User's Manual

Chapter 4: Accessing Functions from the Front-end

Joomla! 1.0.11 User Manual 45 Version 1.0.1.

It is not necessary to go and find a calendar to determine the appropriate Start and Finish

Publishing dates. Joomla! includes a handy little drop down calendar widget that appears when

you press the

button next to either field.

This calendar allows you to browse forward or backward by month or year, searching for the

appropriate date. Select a date by double clicking on it. If you single click on a date, the date will

be highlighted and immediately show up in the associated text field. Clicking anywhere on the

page outside the calendar will close the calendar, whatever date you had selected will remain in

the text field.

 Note: When you select a date with the calendar, the time field will disappear, so you will have to

re-enter the time manually if you use the date picker widget to select a calendar day.

Remember, the format is ‘Year-Month-Day Hour:Minutes:Seconds’

MetadataTab

The last Tab in this attributes window is the Metadata Tab and is used to set the Metadata

associated with the article the Author just entered.

Figure 25: Metadata Tab Front-end

The Description and Keywords fields entered here will not be visible in the published document,

Search Engines, and other systems, use them to classify the information contained in the article.

The following HTML code will appear inside the <head></head> tag of the published HTML

document.

and content management system, This article provides simple information

on using the Joomla! CMS." />

Editor

In Joomla!, Authors may edit their own content once it has been published. Additionally, Editors

and Publishers may also edit the content submitted by any Author on the site. Editing is the same

process that I used to submit new content. All of the screens are the same and they perform the

same function. The only slight difference that you need to understand is how to access the article

to be able to edit it.

When logged into the Joomla! system Authors, Editors and Publishers will see a small Edit button

next to the articles that they have been responsible for authoring, editing, or publishing.

Clicking on this button will bring up the content edit window containing the same screens that we

just discussed for authoring content. From here, you may edit the content and save the article

once again.