User's Manual

Version 0.01 5/15/2006
may also choose no WYSIWYG editor if you wish to input your content without the use of the
WYSIWYG editor.
Submitting news, Web Links and Check In Items are dealt with in more detail in the next
Chapter.
Chapter 4 - Accessing functions from the Frontend
As you saw in the last chapter, once you have registered with a Joomla! web site you are
presented with a special ‘User Menu’ when you log in.
Regardless of your specific role, e.g. Registered, Author, Editor, Publisher; you will see the
same User Menu. However, the functionality available from the menu will vary depending on
the privileges you have been granted by the system or the Super Administrators.
Managing content
In general, content management generally includes the following three operations;
1. Submission of new content to the system.
2. Editing of that content if necessary.
3. Publication of the content
In a Joomla! scheme of things, authors are generally responsible for submitting content, editors
are responsible for editing content and publishers are responsible for publishing content.
However, both editors and publishers may submit content 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 users maybe assigns different roles in a Joomla! system. By default
users are assigned the role of a registered user and are therefore not allowed to submit
content.
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.
When an Author clicks on the Submit News menu link in their User Menu they will be presented
with a dialog entitled ‘The News / Add Content’.
This window has three main areas. The top area contains an area where the Author can Title
the new article, select an appropriate category and save, apply or submit the article.
Note: Save will save the data and close out the window, apply will save the data while leaving
the Add Content screen open.
The second major area of the screen contains the WYSIWYG editor where the author enters the
content. The WYSIWYG editor that is included in the Joomla! installation by default is known
as TinyMCE and contains many of the features available in a typical HTML editing program.