User's Manual
Version 0.01 5/15/2006
This will bring you to a page that displays the category of links available. Picking one of the
categories will produce a page like the one below where we see our new link is now available
for use.
Check-In My Items
When working in one of the edit windows, such as when an Author is creating new content, you
should always click on the cancel or save icons to exit the page. The reason for this is that
Joomla locks the content while you are editing it, preventing other users such as Editors and
Publishers from accessing the content.
There are times when exiting these edit windows improperly could result in content being
locked to others. Here are just a few cases that could cause this to occur;
• The user may accidentally close their browser window before canceling or saving the
transaction.
• The user may use the browser navigation functions to move away from the site before
canceling or saving the transaction.
• Perhaps a power failure just knocks your PC out at the wrong time.
Whatever the reason, not saving or canceling the transaction properly can lock users from
accessing the article later. If you click on an edit icon, to edit an article and see the following
dialog box display;
It probably means that you didn’t save or cancel an editing session properly. To correct this,
users my use the ‘Check-In My Items’ to release the content item so that it may be edited
again.