User's Manual
Version 0.01 5/15/2006
In the upper left-hand corner of the images tab you will see a Sub-folder drop-down list. You
can use this list to select sub-folders underneath the stories folder. In the directory illustration
above you will see there are two folders, called food and fruit. Administrators can create
additional folders and are encouraged to do so to provide some logical structuring to the
images folder.
The next tab in this window is called the Publishing tab. This tab allows the Author to specify
the intended audience, the start and finish dates for publishing and whether the article should
be shown on the front page.
The first field, Access Level, determines who can see the article;
Public The article will be available to the Public area of the web site including
guests that are not registered with the site.
Registered If the author chooses to make the Access Level Registered the content will
only be available to registered users of the web site.
Special ??
The next field, Author Alias allows the Author to publish under an alias rather than the Full
Name that was entered into the site when they registered. Of course, this along with all other
aspects of the article, are subject to editorial review by the Editor or Publisher.
The last fields in the Publishing tab determine when the article will appear and if it will be
displayed on the Front Page. The Start Publishing field allows the author to specify the date
and time that the article will become available on the system and the Finish Publishing field
allows the Author to specify a date and time that the Article will expire.
The format for specifying a time ‘Year-Month-Day Hour:Minutes:Seconds’. As you can see from
the picture above this article was set to start publishing on April 4, 2006 at 8 AM. The Finish
publishing field will accept the same date/time format as the Start Publishing field but also
understands the keyword ‘Never’ allowing the article to become a permanent part of the
website.
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 no show up at the time specified by the author so they should allow enough
lead time for the article to be reviewed and published users with publishing rights!
It’s not necessary to go 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
icon next to either field.