Content Management Software
Welcome
- Article Manager!
Article Manager makes it easy for non-technical users
to easily update and manage articles, news stories, headlines,
and editorials. Packed with plenty of features, but yet so
simple and easy to use, Article Manager is the perfect solution
for publishing articles on the web.
After installing Article Manager on your server or your client's
server, you can begin adding articles or setting up user accounts.
Keeping track of which articles need approval and keeping
your website up-to-date has never been easier!
A final note - we are committed to providing you with the
most comprehensive documentation, and we would greatly appreciate
any feedback you could give us. If you find any sections confusing or lacking in information,
please use our Live Support to let us know. We thank you for
your input.
- Getting Started
Congratulations! You should now be logged in to Article Manager.
We've presented this section to go over some typical tasks,
as well as to provide you with a basic understanding of how
to navigate around the program.
- Program Basics
Article Manager's user interface has been designed to be simple
and easy to navigate. At the top of each page, a gray navigation
bar allows you to access the different features of Article
Manager. At any point you may navigate to other sections of
the program, but be cautious to save your work before you
do so. When creating a new record or modifying an already
existing one, no changes are recorded until the "Save"
button is clicked.
If you accidentally go to another page or click "Cancel",
you can usually click the "Back" button on your
web browser, and it will remember what was last entered in
the form. This functionality may or may not be available,
as it is dependant on your web browser, not Article Manager.
- Creating an Article
To create your first article, first click on "Create
Article" in the gray navigation bar at the top of the
interface. You'll be presented with a blank form in the Article
Editor.
Start by filling out the Title field. Enter a short abstract
in the Summary field and type the main body of your article
into the Content field. An article cannot be saved or previewed
without belonging to a Category, so make sure to select a
Category from the drop-down list.
Another field which may be available to you is the Status
field. If you want to be able to preview or publish your article,
make sure to set it to "visible".
If your administrator has made the 'filename' field available,
you'll be able to enter a unique filename for your article.
For example, by typing "calendar", your article
will be published as "calendar.shtml".
Depending on how Article Manager has been set up, you may
see an Article Type field on the page. This field allows you
to specify where the article will link to from pages in which
the article is listed. In most cases, you'll want to leave
this on its default setting of "Full Article".
After you've filled in all the appropriate fields, you can
save your article, preview it, or upload some images to include.
Please see the next section for more information on uploading
images.
- WYSIWYG Textarea
New to version 1.2 is the WYSIWYG text box. With the WYSIWYG
text box enabled for either the summary, content, or spare
article fields you can format text without using HTML tags.
Your options now include bold, italic, underline, align left/center/right,
numbered lists, bulleted lists, indent right/left, text color,
text highlight color, insert horizontal rule, add link, add
image link, and view html source.
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Please note that a WYSIWYG text box will
only function in HTML mode on Windows, and only for Internet
Explorer version 5.5+. All other browsers will use a regular
text box to enter and edit information.
As you enter text, pressing <enter>
starts a new paragraph, which leaves a blank line. For single
line breaks, press <shift> + <enter>.
To enter HTML directly into the WYSIWYG text
box, select the HTML button "<>", paste the
HTML and select the HTML button again to view the results.
The text/html is in the content text box, can also by previewed
by clicking the "Preview without publishing" button.
This will open a new window with the full article publish
preview results.
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Uploading Images
Each article can have up to twenty-five images associated
with it, which can be inserted into the Content, Summary,
and spare fields of the article. To upload images, click the
"Upload Images" button on the article edit page.
You'll see a list of twenty-five upload fields. You can now
select files from your local computer to upload.
After you click "Save" from the
upload page, you'll be sent to the "Manage Images"
page, where you'll be able to see your images and enter in
captions for them. This screen also allows you to erase images
which you no longer require. After you've saved your changes,
you'll be returned to editing the article. Note that any images
you've uploaded will now be listed on this page under "Uploaded
Images".
To erase images or modify captions that you've
already uploaded, click the "Manage Images" button
on the article edit page below the list of uploaded images.
Please note that images do not automatically
get published in your articles. To publish your images, please
read the next section on Image Placeholders.
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Image Placeholders
You can place uploaded images in your articles by
inserting special placeholders into the Content, Summary,
or spare fields. Listed on the edit article page are all of
the images which have been uploaded for an article, as well
as a sample placeholder for each.
To place an image in your article, cut-and-paste
the placeholder for your image into the Content, Summary,
or a spare field. Article Manager will insert your images
and respective captions wherever your placeholders appear.
To make the procedure even easier, you can click the "Preview"
button to get a look at what the page will look like when
published.
Additionally, you can control how your images
are aligned by inserting slightly more advanced image placeholders.
Listed below are the different modifiers:
***image1*** insert image with default alignment
***image1:left*** insert image left aligned
***image1:center*** insert image center aligned
***image1:right*** insert image right aligned
***image1:url*** insert image URL
The "default alignment" is right aligned, however,
this setting may be changed by your administrator in the config.ini
file.
The last modifier ":url" does not
insert an image into your article. Instead, it inserts an
url to the image. This placeholder is intended for use in
HTML. Please see the Tips and Tricks section for an example
of how to use this.
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Article Types
Sometimes, you'll want an article to link somewhere
other than a detail page. By setting the Article Type field
within an article, you can change where the article will link.
This field may or may not be available, depending
on the how your administrator has set up Article Manager.
| Setting |
Description |
| Full Article |
This is the default setting for articles and will link
to an article detail page. |
| Summary Only |
This setting will cause your article to link nowhere
at all. |
| Internet URL |
This setting can be used to direct your visitors to
another url. Often this is used to link to a relevant
page on your own site, or to an article on another site
which you're paraphrasing. |
| Uploaded File |
This setting should be used when you want to provide
the body of your article in another format than HTML.
If you have a .pdf file to use as your article's content,
you'll want to use this setting. |
Browsing Articles
If you've been given access to list articles, you'll see a
button in the gray navigation bar labelled "Article Editor".
From the Article Editor, you can modify and erase articles.
When browsing through articles, you can use
the Keyword Search function to narrow down the number of entries
to search through. You may also elect to only display articles
from a specific Category, or with a specific Status. Article
Manager remembers your last search settings for a while if
you leave the page and return, and it may be confusing at
first to only see one or two records. To show all of your
records again, use the "List All" button, which
resets the Keyword Search.
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Types of Users
Depending on what level of access Article Manager's administrator
has afforded you, you'll be able to do different things with
the program.
To find out what type of user you're logged
in as, look at the lower grey bar in Article Manager's interface.
It will look something like this:
Current User: john (Writer)
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Writer
A Writer is able to submit articles to some categories, but
is not able to make them appear on the website. Also, once
a Writer has submitted an article, it cannot be modified by
anyone other than an Editor.
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Trusted Writer
A Trusted Writer is able to create articles in some categories,
and can make them visible on the website. Also, this user
may see a list of any articles that they've created. Any of
these articles may be modified or erased.
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Editor
An Editor has full control over some of the categories on
the site. This user may modify and delete any articles in
these categories. An Editor may also view articles that have
been submitted by Writers, these articles will have a status
of "pending". By modifying these articles and changing
the status to "visible", the Editor can approve
these articles and make them display on the website.
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Tips and Tricks
Often, there are ways of doing things with a program which
are not immediately apparent, and sometimes, you're able to
use a program to do things that the program wasn't originally
designed for. This section is presented to illustrate some
ways you can use Article Manager to achieve different effects.
Thumbnailing
Having a smaller image link to a larger image is known as
thumbnailing. You can link an image to another image by taking
advantage of Image Placeholders from within an Article's Content
or Summary field. Use the :url modifier of image placeholders
to insert the full url to the uploaded image:
<a href="***image2:url***" target="blank"><img
src="***image1:url***"></a>
This would treat image 1 as a thumbnail, linking it to image
2, the larger image.
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