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1. G k 2al Global Configuration configuration php is Writeable C Make unwriteable after saving Site Locale Content Database Server Metadata Mar Cache Statistics SEO Mailer PHP mail function Mail From customerservice websdezined com From Name Joomla User Manual 1 0 x Documentation Sendmail Path ust sbin sendmail SMTP Auth No O Yes SMTP User SMTP Pass SMTP Hast localhost Figure 125 Global Configuration screen Mail Tab Field Name Details Options Mailer Choose which mailer you wish to use PHP mail function Sendmail or SMTP Server Mail From Choose which e mail address will show as the sender From Name Choose what name will show as the sender Sendmail Path This is the directory of the Mail server SMTP Auth Choose Yes if your host requires SMTP Authentication SMTP User If authentication is required and set above type your username SMTP Pass If SMTP authentication is required and set above type your password SMTP Host This is usually set as localhost but you may need to check this with your host Cache Tab g ast Global Configuration configuration php is Writeable C Make unwriteable after saving Site Locale Content Database Server Metadata Mail Lache Statistics SEO Caching no O Yes Cache Folder home content m a n manualadmin html cache Cache Time 900 seconds Figure 126 Global Configuration screen Cache Tab Field Name Details O
2. Show or Hide the Order Select drop down Show or Hide the Display Select drop down The number of items to be displayed by default Show or Hide the filter function The field to which the filter is applied Show or Hide the listing of the other Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 172 Appendix C Menu Item Parameters Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Category Version 1 0 1 Empty Categories Category Items Category Description Category List Sectio
3. Site Templates Super Administrator Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 179 Appendix D Glossary reside on the server and may produce HTML output that downloads to the web browser Alternatively PHP can be embedded within HTML pages that are then saved with a php file extension See also HTML JavaScript patTemplate is a system within Joomla to help create Joomla site templates Parameters can be used to alter the presentation of specific items menus or modules A core Joomla component that allows a poll to be displayed on your Joomla web site You can define the Poll title the time delay in seconds Lag between votes up to 12 vote options and on which page s it should be displayed The Preview button enables a popup window for you to see from the Back end that your Content Item would look like in the Front end of your site Projects can be components modules templates Mambots and scripts that are freely set up and managed by their authors at http developer joomla org See Back end See Front end This defines the state of various parts of your Joomla installation For example installed elements will only display on your web site if they are published Content Items can be managed with a start and end date of publishing See also Unpublish ed A user level within Joomla Publisher users only have access to Front end functions See also Author Editor and Registered A database record is a description of a
4. The first and more common method of installing is to upload a zipped package file that will be automatically installed to your server Click Browse to go to the location of the Module zip file on your local computer Select the file and click Open This adds the name and location of the file to the uploader Then click the Upload File amp Install button Install from Directory The second method is to unpack the archive locally and upload the files to your host s server Type the location of these files it must be the absolute location then click the Install button Uninstall a Module Select the radio button next to the Module you want to uninstall and then click the Delete button A JavaScript alert will show Are you sure you want to delete selected items Click OK The page will reload displaying the word Success Site Module Screen This option covers both amending existing modules and creating your own module amp Access Click on the Module Name Access Check the box to the left of the Module Name and click the Edit button Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 131 Version 1 0 1 Field Name Title Show title Position Module Order Access Level Published ID Description Menu Item Link s Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator All Modules have the following Details and Page Items options Details Options This is the title of the Module as you wish it to appear in its header
5. Weblink Items Weblink Categories Figure 36 Administrator Modules Components This displays a list of Components installed Click a Component s title to access that Component Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 56 Version 1 0 1 Popular Tab Logged _ Components Popular Latest Items Menu Stats Most Popular Items Example FAQ Item 1 Example FAQ bern 2 Joomla License Guidelines Example News Item 4 Example News Item 1 Example News Item 2 Newsflash 3 Example News Item 3 Newsflash 2 Newsflash 1 Figure 37 Administrator Modules Popular Chapter 5 Introduction to Accessing Functions from the Back end Created 2004 05 12 11 54 06 2004 05 12 11 54 06 2004 08 19 20 11 07 2004 07 07 11 54 06 2004 07 07 11 54 06 2004 07 07 11 54 06 2004 08 09 08 30 34 2004 04 12 11 54 06 2004 08 09 08 30 34 2004 05 09 06 30 34 Click this Tab to access the screen that lists in order the most popular Content Items on your site Included are the dates the Content Items were created and the number of hits or views Click the Content Item name to edit that item Latest Items Tab r Logged Components Popular Latest Items Menu Stats Most Recently Added Content Joomla License Guidelines Newsflash 1 Newsflash 2 Newsflash 3 Example News Item 1 Example News Item 4 Example News Item 2 Welcome to Joornla Example FAQ Item 1 Example FAG Item 2 004 08 19 20 11
6. Chapter 3 oomla Users Chapter 3 Joomla Users Introduction This Chapter deals with Ei The different types of Joomla Users Hi User Registration Hi Recovering a lost password Ei Logging in to the Front end EE User s Account Details Types of Users and Access Permissions Users of Joomla web sites can be broken down into two broad categories Ei Guests Ei Registered Users Guests are simply visitors to your Joomla web site Depending on how the Super Administrator has configured the site some content can only be viewed by Registered users while visitors can only browse a limited amount of it or all the content can be accessible Registered Users have registered with your site to obtain a username and password This username and password allows Registered Users to log into your site receiving special privileges not available to guests Registered Users are broken down into two groups Ei Front end Users Ei Back end Users Front end Users Front end Users get additional rights over guests which may include the ability to create and publish content on the web site We will generally refer to these users as content providers since their primary goal is to provide content on the web site not to administer the site or alter its design Content providers may provide new content through the web interface using an embedded WYSIWG What You See Is What You Get editor without any knowledge of HTML coding Within the Front
7. Edit New Publish Unpublish Move Copy Trash Edit New Version 1 0 1 Content Content by Section All Content Items Static Content Manager Section Manager Category Manager Frontpage Manager Archive Manager Page Impressions Components Banners Contacts Mass Mail News Feeds Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual News News Items News Archives News Categories Newsflashes Newsflashes Items Newsflashes Archives Newsflashes Categories FAQ s Newsflashes Items Newsflashes Archives Newsflashes Categories Manage Banners Manage Clients Manage Contacts Contact Categories Manage News Feeds Manage Categories 182 Appendix D Glossary Archive Publish Unpublish Move Copy Trash Edit New Archive Publish Unpublish Move Copy Trash Edit New Archive Publish Unpublish Move Copy Trash Edit New Archive Publish Unpublish Move Copy Trash Edit New Publish Unpublish Trash Edit New Publish Unpublish Copy Delete Edit New Publish Unpublish Move Copy Delete Edit New Archive Publish Unpublish Remove Unarchive Trash Upload Publish Unpublish Delete Edit New Delete Edit New Publish Unpublish Delete Edit New Publish Unpublish Delete Edit New Send Mail Cancel Publish Unpublish Delete Edit New Publish Unpublish Delete Edit New Version 1 0 1 Modules Mambots Installers Messages S
8. Figure 51 Move Menu Items screen Click the menu to which you wish to move the menu item s Click the Move button You return to the Menu Manager screen Copy a Menu Item Toolbar Buttons Copy or Cancel are available This function allows you to copy menu item s to other menus In the Menu Manager select the menu item s you wish to copy by selecting the check box to the left side of the item s Click the Copy button The Copy Menu Items screen displays Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 69 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager A Copy Menu Items Copy to Menu Menu tems being copied mainmenu othermenu 1 News a 2 MyJSAS LEME Figure 52 Copy Menu Items screen Select the menu to which you wish to copy the menu item s to Click the Copy button You return to the Menu Manager screen Note The legend Number of items Menu Items Copied to Wenu Name at the top of the screen Delete a Menu Item Toolbar Buttons Trash This function allows you to delete menu item s In the Menu Manager select the menu item s you wish to delete by checking the check box to the left side of the item s Click the Trash button Note The legend Number of items Item s sent to the Trash at the top of the screen Note The Trash Manager allows you to restore deleted menu item s Further Information Chapter 7 Trash Manager Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 70 Versi
9. Usage Use the pre tag and add the programming language you want to use for highlighting purposes as a parameter Example sore Lang xl youn eode Neren a 1 pre The Mambot version of the GeSHi highlight code comes with the following highlighters for the most common renders installed ready to be used CSS gt use lang css HIMEA Strrce use lang HIMitscerice JavaseGrkipk gt use Vang qaveseruor PHP gt use lang php Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 143 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator PHP Brief gt use lang php brief SQL gt use lang sql XML gt use lang xml Should you need additional languages you may download the full package from the developer site http gbnz com highlighter which includes over 30 languages You should then upload the required newLanguage php from the package into your Vambots content geshi geshi folder Load Module Positions This Mambot using the tag loadmoduleposition modulepositionname allows a Module s content to be displayed in a Content Item MOS Pagination This Mambot breaks Content Items into pages and assembles an Article Index Note By default the Index is labelled Item title Page 2 Page 3 etc To add a title to Page 2 3 use the following tag parameter mospagebreak title pagedescription pagedescription will replace the Page 2 convention Search Mambots Search Mambots add the ability
10. CID Details Options 1 26 6 9 Max Levels 10 v Filter Ktemid Type Comp Link Link Table Blog You cannot delete this menu as it is required for the proper operation of Joomla The 1st Published item in this menu mainmenu is the default Homepage for the site onent FrontPage Static Content Static Content Content Section Content Section Component Web Links Comp Comp Com po Table onent Contacts onent Search nent Nev s Feeds Content Category Wrapper This is the name given to the menu item and is displayed on the menu on the Front end This indicates whether the menu item is published or not published Clicking on the button will switch the state of that menu item between Published and Unpublished You can use the Up or Down arrows to alter the order in which the menu items are displayed You can enter the order in which you want the menu items displayed Use the Save button to save the changes This indicates what type of user has access to the menu item By clicking on the title you can toggle between Public Registered and Special This shows the ID identification code for this specific Menu Item used in the database This indicates the type of link used for this menu item If it is a Link Content Item or a Link Static Content you may directly edit the content by clicking the type of menu item Th
11. Figure 54 Three Column Display with one column hidden Note After all that about having to have Sections and Categories there is a way to create a Content Item that is not in a Section or Category This is a Static Content Item This does not mean static as in static vs dynamic it just means that it is not assigned to a Section or Category So think about how your site will be organised and whether you want different parts of the site to have different looks In Managing Content we will be looking at E Sections Ei Categories Ei Content Items EX Static Content Items Manage Sections Access Select Content gt Section Manager Access Click the Section Manager button from the Home page The Section Manager The Section Manager screen will now be displayed o Section Manager Section Hame Published Reorder Order Access Section ID Categories Active Trash 1 C The News News v 1 Public 2 Frequently Asked Questions FAQs a F 2 Public 3 oO Newsflashes Newsflashes A tA 2 Public lt lt Start Previous 1 Next gt End gt gt Display 50 Results 1 3of3 Figure 55 Section Manager screen The following information is displayed Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 73 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Column Name Details Options Section Name The title of the Section Published The published or not published status of a Sec
12. This screen has all the functionality of the Content Items New screen except you cannot Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 91 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Ei Assign a Section or Category Ei Split the text between Intro and Main Ei Publish to Front Page Publish Unpublish Delete and Edit are handled in the same way as a Content Item Frontpage Manager Introduction First we will explain the concept of Home page and the Front Page Component in Joomla as many people easily confuse these two concepts When a visitor types in the URL of your site http www yourdomainname com or when they navigate from another site the Home page is usually the first page they visit The Home page itself is the first published item located in the mainmenu section of the Menu Manager Note Setting the first published item in the mainmenu to something other than Home e g Web Links will display the Web Links page on the homepage of your web site Even if the mainmenu Module is NOT published your Home page will still be displayed as the first or home page of your web site The Frontpage Component publishes content to your homepage as long as the Frontpage Component is the first Menu Item in your Main Menu You can assign any Content Item to the Home page by checking the parameter Show on Frontpage The default configuration sets the link to the Frontpage Component to the first published item in
13. Unpublish Delete Edit and New are available The following information is displayed Column Name Details Options Category Name Click the Category name to edit the Category parameters Published Click the button to change the publish status of the Category Order If you wish to change the order of the categories in this back end Table then type in i the new order number and click the Save Order button in the heading of this column A Click the Public Registered or Special text link to change the user Access ccess Level Category ID This column displays the ID for each Category as defined in the database Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 126 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Create a New Web Links Categor Click the New button The Category New Weblinks screen will be displayed Toolbar Buttons Upload Save Apply and Cancel are available Category New Weblinks Category Details Category Tithe Category Mame Section MA Ordering Mew items default to the last place Ordering can be changed after this tem is saved mage Select Image Image Postion Access Level Published Description Styles 4 Format Lb F 7 HTML Len a4 ae a D r QO ss 5 EEEF Figure 111 Category New Web Links screen Complete the following fields Field Name Details Options Category Title Type the name of the Category to be displayed
14. eel eel OPF ir fike glean Oa iy daai Av comeetalubly eitan Piate check the Deia Joona Gerse Secunty post tor more mfonmahon Figure 42 Control Panel Manager You will notice that the menus are limited to Home Site Menu Content and Help Within these there is a sub set of the full menu options Further Information Appendix B Back end Menu Options Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 59 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Media Manager Access Select Site gt Media Manager The Media Manager screen will be displayed t Joomial Administrator My S ie Com Meda S Media Manager Directory j i gt gt a ss M_images bartes milies 3 3 sos 2 Figure 43 Media Manager screen This screen displays the entire images folder i e www yourdomainname com images This is useful to remember as you need to select the correct sub folder to upload images which will be available to your Content Items Normally you will see the following sub folders M_images banners smilies and stories used to store images for Content Items In addition you will see a number of images in the images folder itself Some third party Components e g Zoom Gallery may create sub folders in the images folder Access Click on a folder button or use the Directory drop down box to access a sub folder Use the Up directory button ET to move up in the folder sub folder hierarc
15. marching Access Level Published Description Styles Format be FJ Om A ga ar P 9 r aA Figure 56 Section New screen Complete the following fields Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 74 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Field Name Details Options Enter a short name for the new Section to appear in menus Title Gaetan Name Enter a long name for the new Section to be displayed in headings fields image Select an image to be displayed for this Section a oe preview will be displayed of the image Select which level of user can see the Section ACCESS LEVEI Public Registered or Special Click the Save button Note You will be returned to the Section Manager screen which now displays the new Section Name you have created Copy a Section Select the Section you wish to copy using the check box to the left of the title Click the Copy button The Copy Section screen will be displayed o Copy Section Copy to Section Categories being copied Content Items being copied This will copy the Categories listed and all the tems within the category also listed 1 Newsflash 1 Marching Tigers to the new Section created 2 PHS Band Excellence Figure 57 Copy Section screen Enter a new Section Name in the Copy to Section field Click the Save button This will copy the Categories listed and all the items within the Category also listed
16. mod_mainmenu Select what will be shown of Guests Members Member Names or Both Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable_online In this example online is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes Displays the othermenu Parameters See Main Menu Login Form Type mod_login This Module displays a Username and Password login form It also displays a link to retrieve a forgotten password If user registration is enabled See Global Configuration then another link will be shown to invite users to self register Parameters Module Class Suffix Pre text Post text Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable_online In this example _online is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes Optionally type in this text box to display text or HTML that will appear above the login form Optionally type in this text box to display text or HTML that will appear below the login form 135 Version 1 0 1 Login Redirection URL Logout Redirection URL Login Message Logout Message Greeting Name Username Synd
17. select the appropriate Parent Item By default the menu item is available to Public access If you wish to restrict access Access Level to it select the appropriate Access Level Public Registered or Special Published Select No or Yes By default it is Yes Click the Save button Some menu items have further parameters which may be visible when you first set up the menu item or become visible after saving it e g Blog Content Category has further parameters to control the way content displays Further Information Appendix C Menu Item Parameters contains a complete list Publish and Unpublish a Menu Item Publish and Unpublish a menu item is easy to do You have two choices EX Click the Published icon to un publish or click the not Published icon to publish or ER Select the radio button to the left side of the menu item and click the Publish or Unpublish buttons as appropriate Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 68 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Move a Menu Item Toolbar Buttons Move or Cancel are available This function allows you to move menu item s between menus Select the menu item s you wish to move by checking the check box to the left side of the item s Click the Move button The Move Menu Items screen will be displayed i Move Menu items Move to Menu Menu items being moved mainmenu Pa oT othermentu Joomla License topmentu USETMENL
18. to the new Section created Delete a Section Note Ensure that all Content Items and Categories within the Section to be deleted are either moved or deleted Select the Section you wish to delete by using the check box on the left hand side of the Section s name Click the Delete button The Are you Sure dialogue will appear Click OK The Section will now be removed from the list and database Manage Categories The Category Manager Access Select Content gt Category Manager Access Click the Category Manager button from the Home page The Category Manager Content All screen will now be displayed Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 15 Version 1 0 1 ra Category Manager Content All Select Section x Category Hame Latest News Latest Newsflash Newsflash Pep Band Pep Band Jazz Band Jazz Band Concert Band Concert Band General Information General Information oO d d 3 Marching Tigers Band Marching Tigers Band d ad O O Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Published Order a Access Section Category ID Active Trash 0 Public News Public Newsflashes Public Marching Tigers Band Public Jazz Band Public Concert Band a 8 cf th Oo Ok p 0 1 1 Public Pep Band 1 1 1 Public General Information lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt gt Display 30 v Results 1 7 of 7 Figure 58 Category Manager screen
19. we will look at Ei Managing Content Ei Submitting Web Links B Checkin Items Manage Content In general content management consists of the following three operations B Submission of new content to the system Content Item B Proof reading and editing of that content if necessary BZ Publication of the content In the Joomla scheme of things Authors are generally responsible for submitting content Editors for proof reading and or editing content and Publishers for publishing content However both Editors and Publishers may submit content and a Publisher can edit 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 roles can be assigned to users on a Joomla web site By default this is that of a Registered user This type of user cannot submit Content Items Note 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 Submit News via the Front end Access Select User Menu gt Submit News When an Author clicks on the Submit News menu link in their User Menu they will be presented
20. 07 2004 03 09 08 30 34 2004 03 09 08 30 34 2004 03 09 08 30 34 2004 07 07 11 54 06 z004 07 07 11 54 06 2004 07 07 11 54 06 2004 06 12 11 54 06 2004 05 12 11 54 06 004 05 12 11 54 06 Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Web Master Administrator Web master Figure 38 Administrator Modules Latest Items Click this Tab to access a screen that lists the most recently added Content Items This includes the creation date and the author Click the Content Item name to edit that item Menu Stats Tab f Logged Components L Popular Latest Items Menu mainment othermenu bopmenu WSerment Figure 39 Administrator Modules Menu Stats Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 57 Items J 4 4 a Version 1 0 1 Chapter 5 Introduction to Accessing Functions from the Back end Click this Tab to access the screen that lists all menus and the number of item links in each menu The number of links is the total created not the total published Click the name of a menu to access the screen that lists the items for that menu Check for Newer Version On the Home Page the following button is available to check for a newer version of Joomla This will take you to http www joomla org content blogcategory 32 66 with details of the latest version Your version of Joomla 1 0 11 Stable is 93 days old Check for new
21. 1 0 1 Filter Create a User Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator You may enter text in the Filter box to refine the list based on whether the text is found in the name Type in any text and press the Tab key Group You may also limit the list to a particular group You may also limit the list by the log status by selecting one or more Log Status combinations from the drop down boxes To create a New User click the New Button This will display the User Add screen Figure 81 User Add screen Field Name Name Username E mail address New Password Verify Password Group Block User AR User Add User Details Mame Uzername Email Mew Password Verify Passyyord Grop Public Frontend Registered Author Editor Publisher Public Backend Manager Administrator Super Administrator Block User Mo Yeg Details Options The real name of the user The name by which they will be identified when logged on to the site A valid e mail address Validation can be utilised by requiring a confirmatory e mail to be sent and a special activation link followed back to the site by the user A password ideally a mixture of numbers letters and symbols The re typing of the password to ensure accuracy Select the Group to which the User is to be assigned from the stated options Options Yes or No Allows the administrator the chance to
22. 1 0 1 Primary Order Pagination Pagination Results MOSImages Description Description Image Category Name Title Alphabetic Title Reverse Alphabetic Ordering Order the Items will be displayed in Default Oldest first Most recent first Title Alphabetic Title Reverse Alphabetic Author Alphabetic Author Reverse Alphabetic Most Hits Least hits Ordering Show or Hide Pagination Support Auto Hide Show Show or Hide Pagination results Info e g 1 4 of 4 Display mosimage Show or Hide Show or Hide the Category Section Description Show or Hide the Category Image Show or Hide the Category name Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 170 Appendix C Menu Item Parameters Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Table Content Section Blog Content Cate
23. A PNG file is not intended to replace the JPEG format which is lossy but lets the creator make a trade off between file size and image quality when the image Is compressed 9 Typically an image in a PNG file can be 10 to 30 more compressed than in a GIF format An image of around 19 5K in size will take approximately 3 5 seconds to download at 56Kbps Although broadband access to the Internet is becoming increasingly common do not forget to design your site for the lowest common denominator Dial up access still represents a significant number of Internet users 5 10 Image Dimensions Refer to the dimensions of your template to avoid adding a large image that will stretch the width of your template particularly if you are using a fixed width Table For example if have a fixed width Table of 760 pixels and a block on the left hand side of 150 pixels for the menu this leaves me 610 pixels to play with for the main body of the site If insert a 500 pixel width image and want to wrap my text around it this leaves me just 110 pixels width for text This might be too narrow Using the Image Url Code The image url code allows you to insert the lt img gt tag with its correct pathname into a Content ltem without using the mosimage tag Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 62 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager From the Media Manager screen click on the Edit button to generate the code in th
24. Buttons O Add Mew Content Content tems Manager is Category Manager g Language Manager Section Manager Menu Manager Figure 34 Quick Links on Control Panel Chapter 5 Introduction to Accessing Functions from the Back end Frontpage Manager Static Content Manager Media Manager User Manager Global Configuration These quick link buttons provide access to a number of common tasks with one click Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 52 Version 1 0 1 Control Panel Table 7 Control Panel buttons Toolbar Button Image PSSTHRAT x GE Function s Add New Content Content Items Manager Static Content Manager Frontpage Manager Section Manager Category Manager Media Manager Trash Manager Menu Manager Language Manager User Manager Global Configuration Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Chapter 5 Introduction to Accessing Functions from the Back end Description Displays the Content Item New screen Displays the Content Items Manager Section All screen Displays the Static Content Manager screen Displays the Frontpage Manager screen Displays the Section Manager screen Displays the Category Manager Content All screen Displays the Media Manager screen Displays the Trash Manager screen Displays the Menu Manager screen Displays the Language Manager Site screen Displays the User Manager screen This displays the Glo
25. Marching Tigers Figure 69 Move Items screen Select the Section Category combination to which this Content Item will be moved Click the Save button Note You will be returned to the Content Items Manager with the legend Number Item s successfully moved to Section Section Name Category Category Name displayed towards the top of the screen Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 89 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Copy a Content Item Select the Content Item s you wish to copy by using the check box to the left hand side of the Title Click the Copy button The Copy Content Items screen will be displayed ES Copy Content Items Copy to Section Category tems being copied Band Parents Association 77 Copy of Latest News Band Parents Association 7 Newsflash 1 PHS Band Excellence Concert Band 2 Concert Band General Information f General Information Jazz Band Jazz Band Marching Tigers Band Marching Tigers Band Pep Band 7 Pep Band The News A Latest Neves Figure 70 Copy Items screen Select the Section Category combination to which this Content Item will be copied Click the Save button 5 Note You will be returned to the Content Item Manager screen with the legend Number ltem s successfully copied to Section Section Name Category Category Name at the top of the display Delete a Content Item Select the Content Item s you wish to
26. Object Appendix D Glossary the next level and is a container for the third level Articles See also Article and Section The long name to be displayed in headings e g Contact Our Corporate Headquarters in Virginia The short name to appear in menus e g Contact Us When a user edits a file they check it out This prevents other users from being able to edit the item at the same time thus preventing loss of data upon saving This function available from the Site Front end for Registered users with editing privileges allows a user to make the items they were working on previously locked and un editable available again See also Global Check in Class of computer programming on the web which is executed client side by the user s web browser instead of server side on the web server This type of computer programming is an important part of the Dynamic HTML DHTML concept enabling web pages to be scripted that is to have different and changing content depending on user input environmental conditions such as the time of day or other variables See also Server side Scripting Acronym for Components Modules and Templates Acronym for Components Modules Templates and Plugins Content elements or applications that are usually displayed in the centre of the main content area of a template This depends on the design of the template in use Components are core elements of Joomla s functionality These core elem
27. Select whether you wish the Module title to appear or not Select the Module position in which you wish it to appear Select the order you wish the Module to appear Select the Access Level Public Registered or Special which is able to view the Module Yes or No The ID for this Module A description of the functionality of the Module Select the Page s or Items that the Module should be displayed If you are creating a new module additional fields are listed as follows Module Class Suffix Module Cache RSS URL Feed Title Feed Description Feed Image Items Item Description Word Count RSS Cache time Custom Output Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable_online In this example online is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes Select whether to cache the contents of the module Enter the URL of the RSS feed Display News Feed title Show the description of the News Feed Show the image for the News Feed Enter the number of RSS items to be displayed Show the description or Intro Text for the item Allows you to limit the number of description or Intro Text words displayed 0 will show all the text Set the time in seconds for this RSS feed This can include plain tex
28. The Template Manager Site screen will be displayed a Template Manager Site Preview Template Hame Default Assigned Author Version Date Author URL 1 js_thinking_jsas Joomlasolutions Team 1 0 27 09 2005 www Joomlasolutions com lakeridge y Steve White Websdezined com 1 0 itty eww wvebsdezined com madeyouryeb Marc Hinse es 15 09 2005 a yyy madeyourweb com rhuk_solarflare_ii rhuk PAF 10 20 05 itty shew rockettheme com lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt gt Figure 132 Template Manager screen Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 156 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator The following information is displayed Column Name Field Name Name The name of the template as defined in the templateDetails xml file Default Assigns this default template to all Menu Items pages Opens a page where you can assign this template to specific Menu Items pages This Assigned will override the default template for the pages chosen If you choose None it will act the same way as the Default parameter Author The name of the template s author as defined in the templateDetails xml file Version The version of the template as defined in the templateDetails xml file Date The date of the template as defined in the templateDetails xml file Author URL The URL link to the template s author as defined in the templateDetails xml file 5 Note Both the assigned and the defa
29. The field allows the author to specify the date Start Publishing and time that the article will become available on the web site The format for specifying a time is Year Month Day As you can see from the picture above this article was set to start publishing on October 14 2006 The Finish publishing field will accept the same date format as the Start Publishing Finish Publishing _ field but also understands the keyword Never allowing the article to become a permanent part of the web site 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 not show up at the time specified by the author so they should allow enough lead time for the article to be reviewed and published Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 44 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 4 Accessing Functions from the Front end 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 th
30. as in Create New Menu is displayed It will also state the name of the Menu being copied and a list of the Menu Items associated to the menu being copied Fill in the fields as in the create New Menu screen Enter a new Menu Name and Module Name This will duplicate the menu You may copy any of your menus Copying will create a new Menu Name containing the same Menu Items as the menu copied associated to a new Menu Module Delete a Menu Select the radio button next to the Menu Name you want to delete Then click the Delete button in the toolbar The Delete Menu menuname screen will be displayed RK Delete Menu usermenu Module s being Deleted Menu tems being Deleted This wil Delete this Menu ALL tte Menu tems and the Modulefs associated with it 1 User Menu 1 Check In My tems 2 Logout 3 Submit Mews 4 Submit YvebLink 5 Your Details Figure 86 Delete Menu screen It shows the Module s to be deleted the mod_mainmenu Modules associated to this Menu and the Menu Items to be deleted Click the Delete button surrounded by a dotted line This will delete this Menu all of its Menu Items and all of the Modules associated with it A JavaScript alert popup box gives you the choice to OK or to Cancel this action Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 103 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Edit a Menu Select the radio button next to the Menu Name you want to edit Click t
31. be changed after this tem is saved ACCESS Published no ves Description _ Styles Format L Ey Om Ay cao p Figure 59 Category New screen Complete the following fields Field Name Details Options Category Title Enter a short name to appear in menus Category Name Enter a long name to be displayed in the headings fields Section Select the appropriate Section from the drop down menu If desired select an image to be displayed for this Category a preview will be Image displayed of the image Image Position Select whether the image appears to the Right or Left of the text Ordering Initially this field is unavailable until the Category is saved It can be edited afterwards Access Level Select who can see the new Category Public Registered or Special Description Enter a description of the Category in the editor window Click the Save button Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 77 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Move a Categor Select the Category that you wish to move Click the Move button The Move Category screen will be displayed woe Move Category Move to Section Band Parents Association Concert Band 1 Newsflash 1 Marching Tiger 2 PHS Band Exc Categories being moved Content Items being moved This will move the Categories listed and all the tems within the category also listed gt to the selected Section General In
32. block this user and prevent logging in Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 99 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Parameters User Editor Select Editor vw Contact Information Mo Contact details linked to this User See Components gt Contact gt Manage Contacts for details Figure 82 User Add Il screen On the right hand side of the screen you can select the User Editor This is the preferred WYSIWYG editor If none is selected it will default to the Editor specified in the Global Configuration Click the Save button Delete a User You can delete a User from the User Manager screen using the select box by the side of the Name and then clicking the Delete button Logout a User You can force a logout of a User by using selecting the radio button beside the Name and then clicking the Logout button Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 100 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Manage Menus Navigation and access to content in your web site is made possible using menus Menus in Joomla are groups of links to Sections Categories Content Items Components or external pages These links are called Menu Items Each menu must have an identification name which is only used internally by Joomla A menu only becomes visible on a site if it has a published mod_mainmenu Module which references it A menu may have multiple mod_mainmenu Mod
33. changing this setting in Global Configuration will not be immediately visible However the setting you specify will be honoured as a default upon your next login This sets the icon that appears in some browsers next to the name and or address of your site By default this is the Joomla logo If you want another icon to show up you must upload another icon to replace the Joomla logo then type in the address of the image in this field G vo Global Configuration configuration php is Writeable Fj Make unwriteable after saving site ocale Content Database Server Metadata Mail Cache Statistics SEO Language english v Time Offset UTC 06 00 Central Time US amp Canada Mexico City v Server Offset Country Locale en_GB Figure 120 Global Configuration screen Locale Tab Field Name Language Time Offset Details Options Choose the default language used on your site If it is a language other than English you must install the language files first using the Installer menu in the Back end This option sets the time offset in hours between your server location and GMT Greenwich Mean Time Uk Select the offset time from the dropdown menu Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 147 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Type the location of your web site i e en_GB would be the setting for the UK en_US Country Locale or the USA Content Tab GQ ol
34. com vml gt lt head gt lt title gt lt php echo mosConfig sitename gt lt title gt lt php if my gt id initEditor gt lt meta http equiv Content Type content text html gt lt php echo IS50 gt gt lt META name verify vl content Xevl4XCdhVY4muDcCSqBStmouNSn CGepcE0azeMWS 6rI gt lt php mosShowHead gt lt php echo lt link rel stylesheet href GLOBALS mosConfig live _ site templates GLOBALS cur_template css template css css type text css gt gt lt php echo lt link rel shortcut icon href GLOBALS mosConfig_live_site f images favicon ico gt gt lt php if file exists mosConfig absolute path modules mod lxmenu css_lxmenu css gt lt link href lt php echo mosConfig live site gt modules mod lxmenu css_lxmenu css rel stylesheet type text foss gt lt php gt lt fhead gt lt body gt lt table class maincontainer border 0 cellpadding 0 cellspacing 0 width 780 gt lt tr gt lt td align center colspan 2 height Z25 valign top gt te me Ne lom oI Figure 133 Template HTML Editor screen Toolbar Buttons Save and Cancel are available To the right of the write status of index php is a check box labelled Make unwriteable after saving Checking this box will change the file permissions of index php to unwriteable once you have applied your changes Edit the CSS file Access Select Sit
35. enter a date time in the following format YYYY MM DD HH MM SS The time is optional This date can be overwritten from its default value of Never The settings are Finish Publishing the same as for the Start Publishing field The lower panel of the Publishing Tab is a report of the status of the Item Field Name Details Options State Identifies whether the Item is Published or Unpublished PR Reports on the number of times the Item has been viewed A Reset Hit Count button Hits will appear after the Item has been viewed Revised Reports the number of times the Item has been edited Created Identifies the date upon which the Item was created Last Modified Identifies the date of the last time the Item was edited It identifies the person who carried out the edit Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 84 Version 1 0 1 Images Tab Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager fetta ba grey aalonsk prg cheek poy ge eer P pa kii pg Dihadiri p a aa web_inkt pg Sampie Image Edi the mure seiere Mone Caption Postion Bottom Hone Figure 65 New Item Images Tab The Images Tab on the right hand side is used to select and edit images for inclusion in the Content Item Inserting an image into the Content Item is a two stage process The first stage is to select the image and add optional attributes to it 1 The Gallery Images are stored in the images stori
36. gt this displays content from Joomla components e g calendar of events and Content Items etc When creating or editing a Content Item the Main Text box contains the text you do not want to show on the Front Page It shows up after clicking the Read On link in the Front end of your site See also Intro Text A user level within Joomla Manager users have access to some Back end and all Front end functions See also Administrator Super Administrator A core Joomla component that allows E mails to be sent to All User Groups a single Group or a User Group and Child Groups Media files such as gif jog png or omp files can be used in Content Items and are organised via the Media Manager Media files can be included in Content Items via Image Tab on Edit Content Item pages WYSIWYG editors include media managers third party components etc Modules extend the capabilities of Joomla giving the software new functionality Modules are small Content Items that can be displayed anywhere that your template allows it to be displayed Modules are very easy to install in the Admin Section Joomla modules may include Main Menu Top menu Template Chooser Polls Newsflash Hit Counter etc Members of the Joomla Community produce Joomla modules on a continuous basis They are freely available on http developer joomla org for download An example of a module PHP code is lt php mosLoadModules module position gt See also M
37. in new window from this display to view the web site in a new browser window Statistics Note You will require the authority of a Super Administrator level to enable Statistics Further Information Chapter 8 Global Configuration for details Access Select Site gt Statistics The Statistics option found under the Site menu option has up to three sub options depending on the settings in the Global Configuration which are explained below Browser OS and Domain This option will display 3 Tabs entitled Browsers OS Stats and Domain Stats and shows the following information Ei The title of the browser OS or Domain type Ef A horizontal bar chart of the number of instances Ei The percentage of the whole for that Category B The number of instances Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 64 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Page Impressions This option displays the number of viewings that a Content Item has received in descending order Note Viewing a Content Item on the Front Page only will not be counted It requires a click through to the article itself Search Text This lists the search words entered by visitors in the Search Box The number of times that a search has been entered the Times Requested and the number of Results Returned WARNINGI Log content hits by date will collect large amounts of data Manage Menu Items In this section
38. in the Wrapper Link field in the Details Tab If you already have typed in the http in the link field then Joomla will recognise this and not put a second http in the link field If set to No then you must type http or https at the beginning of the URL in the URL field or else the link in the URL field will be treated as a link relative to the URL of your site Auto Add Polls Type mod_poll This Module compliments the Polls Component It is used to display the configured poll The Module differs from other Modules in as much as the Component supports linking between Menu Items and Polls This means that the Module shows only those Polls which are configured for a certain Menu Item Parameters Enable Cache Select to cache or not the content of this Module Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable_online In this example online is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the Module Class Suffix template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes Random Image Type mod_random_image This Module display a random image from your chosen directory Parameters image Tee Enter the image type of the files to be randomly displayed e g jog png gif etc ge ype The default image type is jpg Enter the path of the folder directory containing the images to be randomly displayed
39. is whether the web link is published or not Parameters Select whether clicking on the Target link will open the Preview In the same Window Parent Window with Browser Navigation In a New Window with Browser Navigation In a New Window without Browser Navigation Click the Save button Manage Modules Introduction This section deals with B Explaining what Modules are B Introducing the Module Manager and the functions associated with it Hi Installing and uninstalling a Module Ei Providing an explanation of how to configure installed Site Modules Modules are used to display various information and or interactive features throughout your Joomla site A Module can contain just about anything from simple plain text to HTML to complete standalone third party applications Modules can also display interactive content such as polls latest news Newsfeeds and more Site Modules are different from Administrator Modules because they display their content on the Front end of your site while Admin Modules pertain to various Administrative Back end tasks and or features Modules can be created by you custom user Module or downloaded and installed Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 129 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Module Manager Screen The management of the Modules is always done in the Administrator Back end panel Access Select Modules gt Site Modules The Mod
40. name of the template s author as defined in the templateDetails xml file Version The version of the template as defined in the templateDetails xml file Date The date of the template as defined in the templateDetails xml file Author URL The URL link to the template s author as defined in the templateDetails xml file Toolbar Buttons Default Delete Edit HTML Edit CSS and New are available The processes for each of these are the same as for the Site Templates Module Positions Access Select Site gt Template Manager gt Module Positions The Module Positions screen will be displayed TA Module Positions Position Description Position Description left 2 ight topmenu 4 bottom inset 6 banner header 8 footer newsflash legals pathway 12 toolbar 13 cpanel user 15 juser2 user3 17 juser4 18 juser5 google1 google2 textad 22 search 23 adsense i advert 25 advert3 26 icon 27 debug 28 feed 29 feed2 feed3 31 2NULL Figure 136 Module Positions screen Toolbar Buttons Save or Cancel are available There are 27 positions already defined in the Module Positions list and a further 23 positions that can be define
41. of items you would like to syndicate and display in your News Feed Type the title you wish to display above your articles within your syndicated News Feed when it is displayed on those sites and pages which syndicate your News Feed The title will appear as a link to your site Type a brief statement to describe your News Feed If none is entered it will default to Joomla site syndication Select an image from the drop down menu to be included in your News Feed If you do not have an image you can upload one via the Media Manager Type the text for the a t tag to compliment the image you have selected for inclusion in the News Feed via the Image drop down menu Yes or No Choose the Yes radio button if you wish to limit the Text Length field Choose the No radio button to force the value in the Text Length field to be ignored thus displaying the entire contents of each item Type the number of words to display per News Feed item Enable or Disable feed syndication The order that the items are listed in the Frontpage Manager will be displayed Arranges items according to the order set in the velar Frontpage Manager Frontpage Ordering Same as above Oldest first Arranges items in chronological order with the oldest items first Arranges items in chronological order with the Most recent first newest items first Title Alphabetical Arranges items by title in alphabetical order Title Reverse Alphabetical Arra
42. of the modules as displayed in the Front end of your web site To Order modify this order type in the number that you would like to have them presented Then click the Save Order button next to the Column Heading Order This shows who can see the modules on the Front end of a Web page Clicking the link Access will toggle through Public Registered Special This shows which template positions the module will be displayed Some common Position Template positions are User1 Left Righting and Top NOTE You can only assign the module position to one that is already coded into your template This shows on which pages the module will be displayed Options include All Varies or None Pages NOTE This is not applicable to Administrator modules Click on the Edit button in the Toolbar to edit this ID This is the ID number for the module item This is allocated by the Joomla site system when the module instance is saved Type This is the type of module An example is mod_mainmenu which is the type of module used for the User Menu and the Main Menu module instances At the bottom of the list you may see a pagination feature which will allow you to navigate to the next set of modules in the list You can also set the number of modules displayed on a page by selecting the number in the drop down box at the bottom of the screen Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 130 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Admi
43. others provide search capabilities etc In some groups any number of Mambots can be published at once while in others for example the WYSIWYG editors only one can be active In some groups ordering is important for example in the content group the Image Replacement Mambot mosimage must be first top of the listing and the Pagination Mambot mospagebreak must be last Ei In this Section we will be covering Ei Install a Mambot i Uninstall a Mambot Ei Outline definitions of each type of Mambot Install a Mambot amp Access Select Installers gt Mambots The Install new Mambots screen will be displayed Install new Mambots 2 Upload Package File Package File Browse Upload File amp Install Install from directory Install directory home webdez01 public_html administrator components com_installer 1 Install medial Writeable language Writeable mambots Writeable mambots content Writeable mambots rch Writeable mambots system Writeable Installed Mambots g Only those Mambots that can be uninstalled are displayed some Core Mambots cannot be removed Mambot Type Author Version Date Author Email Author URL O Blogg X 2 11 Mambot blogg x_2_0 Chris Campbell eli 23 Apr 2006 admin iobinary com http Aww iobinary com Code support content Joomla Project August 2004 admin joomla org www joomla org O Email Cloaking content Joomla Project August 2004 admin joomla org www joomla org Figure 1
44. process Further Information Chapter 2 Browser Installation Step 4 Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 34 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 3 oomla Users Registration Other than the Super Administrator s admin account that is created by default when Joomla is installed there are two ways that guests have of becoming registered members on a Joomla web site First they may register themselves using the register link in the login form if provided Second the Super Administrator or Administrator if there is one may enter them directly using the Administrator panel Back end The two images below show the Login Form with and without the Register link LOGIN FORM LOGIN FORM sername Username Password Password in Remember me EY Remember me Login Login Lost Password Lost Password Mo account yet Register Registration Permitted No Regisiration Permitted Figure 15 Front end Login box The Login Form displays the Register link by default The Super Administrator may disable this feature Further Information Chapter 8 Global Configuration For a direct registration there is an optional e mail activation to ensure that the potential user is supplying a valid e mail address the default for this is also enabled When enabled the user will receive an e mail containing a validation link that they must follow in order to complete the registration process Recovering a Lost Password If you are like most peopl
45. single item as stored in a database Ina relational database each row of each Table is a database record See also Database A user level within Joomla Registered users only have access to Front end functions See also Author Editor and Publisher Programs that are interpreted by the web server when a page is requested Scripts have special extensions such as php asp and jsjp When the server finishes processing a script it usually sends a HTML page that can be viewed in any web browser See also Client side scripting A Static Content Item is a Content Item that does not belong to the Sections Category Content Item hierarchy See also Content Item A Section is a collection of Categories that are related in some way It is part of the Section Category Content Item hierarchy A section might be called Transport categories in this section might be Boats Cars and Airplanes See also Category The Joomla Site is the Web site displayed to your visitors or users containing all the content added in the Admin Section It is sometime referred to as the Front end Site Templates define the layout of your Joomla Web sites Front end See also Admin Templates and Templates User level within Joomla with access to all Administrator Back end and Site Front end functions See also Administrator Manager Version 1 0 1 Syndication Templates Title Title Alias Unpublish ed Web Link
46. test administrator components com_ir Install medias Writeable administrator components Writeable components Writeable images stories Writeable gt Installed Components E Currently Installed Component Menu Link Author Version Date Author Email Author URL Banners Joomla Project 1 0 0 July 2004 admin joomla org www joomla org Quix Project Soeren Eberhardt C joomlaXplorer option com_joomlaxplorer 1 es November 2005 soeren virtuemart net http developer joomla org Mass Mail Joomla Project 45 1 February 2005 admin joomla org www joomla org News Feeds option com_newsfeeds Joomla Project July 2004 admin joomla org wy joomla org Polls option com_poll Os yndicate Joomla Project Unknown admin joomla org yey joomla org Web Links option com_weblinks Joomla Project July 2004 admin joomla org wew joomla org Figure 88 Install New Component screen Toolbar Buttons Uninstall is available This screen is split into top and bottom The top is used for installing Components and the bottom which lists the Components that are installed and that can be uninstalled There are two methods for installing a Module The first method of installing is to upload a zipped package file that will be automatically installed to your server Click Browse to go to the location of the Component zip file on your local computer Once identified select the file and click Open The name and location of the file will be displayed in
47. the mainmenu However as with any other Component it may be placed anywhere in your menus Access Select Content gt Frontpage Manager The Frontpage Manager screen will be displayed Select Section v Select Category W Select Author v gy Frontpage Manager Filter F Title Published Reorder Order Access Section Category Author L 1 C Welcome to JSASI F 1 Public The News Latest News Administrator 2 oO Welcome to Joomla Public The News Latest News Web Master flash 1 flash 2 Public Newsflashes Newsflash Administrator vw 2 3 Public Newsflashes Newsflash Administrator 7 4 5 auauua flash 3 a Public Newsflashes Newsflash Administrator lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt gt Display 50 Results 1 5o0f5 Figure 72 Frontpage Manager screen Toolbar Buttons Archive Publish Unpublish and Remove are available This page shows a list of the Content Items assigned to the Front Page Component You may filter the display by Section Category and or Author The following information is displayed Column Name ___Details Options This is the title of the Content Items displayed on the Front Page and is listed within Title Section and Category Click the title to edit content A padlock button next to it shows that it is checked out To check in click the name This shows whether the item is published or not Hover over this button to see a summary Published
48. the new Item is to be known This will be as it appears in the menu 119 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Manage News Feeds Access Select Components gt News Feeds gt Manage News Feeds This will display the Newsfeed Manager screen Toolbar Buttons Publish and Unpublish Delete Edit and New are available A Newsfeed Manager Select Category Hews Feed Published Reorder Category Articles Cache time Linux Today y Linux i 3600 Business News Business general 3 3600 Web Developer News Internet 3 3600 Linux Central New Products Linux a 3600 Linux Central Best Selling Linux 3 3600 Linux Central Daily Specials Linux 3 3600 Internet Finance News Finance 3 3600 Joomla 5 3600 Joomla Official News Joomla Community News Joomla 5 3600 O O O O d O O d F a O Cee See See See X gt PRPPRPPRH BP SD PD OpenSourceMatters Joomla 5 3600 Figure 105 Newsfeed Manager screen The following information is displayed Column Name Details Options Name of the News Feed as it appears on your site If you click on this name you may News Feed edit the related parameters This shows whether the News Feed is published or unpublished By clicking on the PHOUSIEE button you may switch between published and unpublished This shows the order of News Feeds in the list Click the arrow buttons to move the item Reorder up or down in the list Editing the
49. users Author Names Show or Hide the names of authors of the item Created Date and Time Show or Hide the date and time that those item were created Modified Date and Time Show or Hide the date and time that item were last modified PDF Button Show or Hide the button and link to the PDF version of the item Print Button Show or Hide the button and link to the printer friendly format of the item Show or Hide the button and link to the page that enables users to e E mail Button mail the item to others Key Reference A text key that the item may be referenced by like a help reference Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 87 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Experimental do not use in production work Associates a type of DocBook Type DocBook document to this item Meta Info Tab ee Publishing Images Parameters Meta Info Link to Menu Meta Data Description Keywords Add Sect Cat T itle Figure 67 New Item Meta Info Tab Field Name Details Options This information is inserted in the headers of your content i e lt head gt tag Search Description engines commonly use it These keywords are related to the header information provided for search engines Keywords They also drive the Related Items Module that provides automatic links to other Content Items that share the same keyword Clicking on the Add Sect Cat Title button is a convenient way to insert th
50. we will be covering Ei How to add anew menu item Publish and Unpublish menu items Moving menu items Copying menu items H H HN Deleting menu items B Using the Home Menu Option to control the Front Page Display By default there will be the mainmenu othermenu toomenu and usermenu listed Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 65 Version 1 0 1 The Menu Manager Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager In this example we will be adding a menu link to the mainmenu menu to display the Web Links Component Access Select Menu gt mainmenu This will display the Menu Manager mainmenu screen All existing menu item will be displayed R za Menu Manager mainmenu ISS Menu Item Home MyJSAS Joomla License News Blog Links Contact Us Search News Feeds FAQs 0 a 2 O Ed oO 5 O 5 oO E Fi 68 F ad 0 O ad Wrapper Published A ail a f amp 8 8 x th tO OO lt lt Start Previous 1 Next gt End gt Reorder Order 4 gt eRPPRPRPPDH DH DPD PD dadd dd ddad D v Access Public Public Public Public Public Public Public Public Public Public Public Display 50 Results 1 11 of 11 Figure 48 Menu Manager screen Toolbar Buttons Publish Unpublish Move Copy Trash Edit and New are available The following information is displayed Column Name Menu Item Published Reorder Order Access Itemid Type
51. 17 Install New Mambots screen This screen is split into top and bottom The top is used for installing Mambots and the bottom which lists the Mambots that can be uninstalled There are two methods for installing a Mambot Upload Package File The more common method of installing is to upload a zipped package file that will be automatically installed to your server Browse to the location of the Mambot zip file on your computer Then click the Upload File amp Install button Install from directory The second method is to upload an unpacked archive to your host s server Type the location of this file it must be the absolute location and then click the Install button Uninstall a Mambot Check the box next to the Mambot you want to uninstall and then click the Delete button Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 142 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator A JavaScript alert will show Are you sure you want to delete selected items Click OK The page will reload displaying the word Success Content Mambots Any number of Mambots can be published in this group These Mambots operate on Content Items before they are displayed They typically replace some sort of shorthand tag with other information MOS Image This is an image placement Mambot mosimage tags are replaced with images that you have selected when creating and or editing a Content Item Tags are replaced on a queuing basis If th
52. 5 Introduction to Accessing Functions from the Back end Copy Used to copy Content Items etc Archive Used to archive Content Items rn Move Used to move Content Items between Sections Categories etc Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 55 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 5 Introduction to Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Modules The modules display logged on users Components installed most Popular Content Items viewed Latest Content Items published and Menus with the number of links per menu The order and whether the modules are displayed or not can be controlled from the menu option Access Select Modules gt Administrator Modules Logged Tab Logged Components Popular Latest Items Menu Stats Currently Logged in Users 1 admin Super Administrator cc Shark lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt gt Display 30 Results 1 1 of 1 Figure 35 Administrator Modules Logged This displays a list of users currently logged on together with their access level both in the Back end and in the Front end sections Click a username to go to the User Edit page for that user Logout a user by clicking the red cross Components Tab Logged Popular jj Latest Items Menu Stats Components Banners Manage Banners Manage Clients Contacts Manage Contacts Contact Categories joomlaxplorer Mass Mail News Feeds Manage News Feeds Manage Categories Polls Syndicate Web Links
53. A Administrator M Manager S Super Administrator only The Super Administrator has access to all options Main Menu Sub Menu Home Global wile Configuration Language Manager Media Manager Preview Statistics Template Manager Trash Manager User Manager Menu Menu Manager mainmenu othermenu topmenu Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Access Sub Menu Sub Menu Level A M S Site Languages S A M In New Window Inline Inline with Positions Browser OS Domain Page Impressions Search Text Site Templates Ss Administrator Templates Module Positions A A M A M A M 165 Chapter Reference Chapter 8 Global Configuration Chapter 8 Language Manager Chapter 6 Managing Media Chapter 6 Preview Chapter 6 Statistics Chapter 8 Managing Templates Chapter 7 Trash Manager Chapter 7 Managing Users Chapter 7 Managing Menus Version 1 0 1 usermenu Content by Content Section All Content Items Static Content Manager Section Manager Category Manager Frontpage Manager Archive Manager Components Banners Contacts Mass Mail News Feeds Polls Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual News Newsflashes FAQs Manage Banners Manage Clients Manage Contacts Contact Categories Manage News Feeds Manage Categories 166 Appendix B Back end Menu Options A M Chapter 6 News Items M Managing C
54. Categories gory The Contact will be then assigned to that Category Allows this Contact to be associated to an existing Registered user of the site Linked to User Select the name from the drop down menu Set to No User when there is no association available This may be useful where a primary user is a company and Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 112 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator the Contact needs to be associated with that company Enter the name of the contact as it will display on the site This can be a person s name or a department a product or whatever you wish Name Contact s Position Best used with a Name as the title is displayed if this field is used e g CEO E mail Enter the e mail address for this Contact The following five fields can be used to provide geographical access information if desired Street Address Town Suburb State County Country Postal Code ZIP The following two fields can be used to provide Phone and Fax Contact information if desired Telephone Fax Miscellaneous Info Type here any other information you wish to provide about this Contact Toolbar Buttons Save and Cancel are available Publishing Tab Field Name Details Options Published Select Yes or No to show this Contact to your visitors Contact needs to be saved first to display a drop down select here to order this Contact Ordering in the list of published Contacts for
55. For example if the files are located in Image Folder http www joomla org images random then enter images random in the text box Enter the URL that a user will be redirected to if the image is clicked e g Link http www joomla org ee Enter the width in pixels you want the images displayed This will force all images Width ae to be displayed using this fixed width Height Enter the height in pixels you want the images displayed This will force all images to be displayed using this fixed height Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 138 Version 1 0 1 Module Class Suffix Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable_online In this example online is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes Caution Changing the height and or width settings may cause unwanted results if there is a sizeable difference between the width or height of the original image and the fixed width you input Newsflash Type mod_newsflash The Newsflash Module randomly selects one of the published items from a Category upon each page refresh It may also display multiple items in horizontal or vertical configurations Parameters Category Style Show images Linked Titles Read
56. Global Configuration configuration php is Writeable C Make unwriteable after saving x e EE Site Locale Content Database Server Metadata Mail Cache Statistics SEO These Parameters control Output elements Linked Titles no O yes Read More Link O Hide show Item Rating Voting Hide show Author Names Hide O show Created Date and Time Hide show Modified Date and Time Hide O Show Hits Hide O Show PDF Icon Hide O show Print Icon O Hide Show Email Icon Hide O Show Icons Hide O Show Table of Contents on multi page items Hide show Back Button Hide O show Content Item Navigation Hide O Show Figure 121 Global Configuration screen Content Tab Field Name Details Options Linked Titles Select Yes if you want the title of a Content Item to be hyper linked Select No and a Read On link will appear below the introduction text Read More Link Select Show to display the text Read more at the end of your Intro Text of the Content Items This option allows the rating of Content Items Choose Yes and a Star Bar del ne Unger OHung will be shown on each Content Item as well as a form for submitting a rating Note The rating form is not shown for articles in Blog lists and the Star Bar is only shown for those items with Intro Text Field Name Details Options Author Names Choose the radio button Show to allow the Author s name to be shown w
57. ID Section ID Top Menu Type mod_mainmenu Parameters Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable_poll In this example the poll is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes Select to cache or not the content of this Module Allows a choice between display of Content Items Static Content Items or both Show Hide items designated for the Frontpage Component this works only for Content Items The number of items to display the default is 5 Select to display items from a specific Category or set of Categories to specify more than one Category separate with commas Categories IDs may be found in the list accessed through Content gt Category Manager Select to display items from a specific Section or set of Sections to specify more than one Section separate with commas Sections IDs may be found in the list accessed through Content gt Section Manager See mainmenu 141 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Manage Mambots Mambots are functional units of code that support the operation of Joomla They have many different purposes and functions and are grouped together for easier management For example there are Mambots that only operate on Content Items
58. Install from directory Install directory w www Joomla administratorscomponents com_installer lanquage Install media Writeable language Writeable Figure 130 Install New Language screen Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 154 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Field Name Details Options If your server has GZip support with PHP you will be able to upload a zipped package file that will be installed automatically Browse to the location of the element zipped package file of the Language file on your computer Then click the Upload File amp Install button Upload a Language file If you do not have GZip support you must unpack the zipped file onto your local drive before uploading it Unzip the archive into a folder on your local drive and upload the unpacked archive files to your host s server Type the location of this file it must be the absolute location then click the Install button Install from a Directory Uninstall a Language Access Select Site gt Language Manager gt Site Languages If you want to delete any language go to the menu item select the radio button next to the Language you wish to delete and click the Delete button Edit a Language File Access Select Site gt Language Manager gt Site Languages Select the language file to be edited using the radio button on the left hand side of the Language name Click the Edit button The Lang
59. Message This message will display if the initial database connection fails You can type anything you like in this box We suggest something friendly and apologetic System Error stating that your site will be available again as soon as possible You can use Message standard HTML code in this box for instance lt br gt to return a line You might also consider adding an e mail address so that your visitors can contact your System Administrator or the Webmaster This option allows you to set the content of the title bar for your site It can also be displayed in your template by inserting the following code statement into your template file joomla_root templates template name index php where you wish your Site Name to appear lt php echo _CONFIG gt SITENAME gt Site Name Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 146 Version 1 0 1 Show Unauthorised Links Allow User Registration Use New Account Activation E mail New User Password Require Unique E mail Debug Site WYSIWYG Editor List Length Favourites Site Icon Locale Tab Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator With this option turned on all visitors will see content to which they would not otherwise have access i e content given an Access Level of Registered or Special With this option off they will only see content with an Access Level of Public The access level for Content is set under the Publishing Tab in the Ed
60. More Item Title of Items Enable Cache Module Class Suffix Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Select a content Category from this drop down list listed as Section Category The Content Items in the selected Category will be formatted based on the layout selected in the Style parameter on this page Select a style from this drop down list to determine how the Module will display its contents The vertical and horizontal options are self explanatory The Randomly choose one at a time option randomly displays a single Category item with each page reload Select the Yes radio button to determine whether the Module should display images contained in Content Items Select the No radio button to hide all images Select an option from this drop down list to make the Content Item titles linkable or not The Yes option turns linked titles on The No option turns linked titles off The Use Global options defaults to the setting for this parameter in the Global Configuration area of the web site Select the Show radio button to display a Read More link at the end of each Content Item Select the No radio to hide this link Select Yes from this drop down list to display the title and the text of Content Items Select No to hide all titles See also Linked Titles on this page Enter a number to determine how many Content Items will be displayed with each page refresh This is only applicable for the horizontal and vertical options listed
61. Styles w Format w Levon Qeanti mo u 2H x 2 g aA a insert i insert image J page break Main Text optional Styles Y Format LE F Om Q ga 23 Ez e Lal aA Figure 63 Content Item New screen Toolbar Buttons Preview Upload image Save Apply and Cancel Publishing Images Publishing Info Show on Frontpage Published Access Level Author Alias Change Creator Ordering Override Created Date Start Publishing Finish Publishing State Hits Revised Created Last Modified Parameters Meta Info Link to Menu d Public Registered Special Administrator v New items default to the first place Ordering can be changed after this item is saved 2006 10 10 13 21 29 ae Never m Published 0 times New document Mot modified This screen is divided into two main areas The left hand side is used to input text image tags and other content The right hand side handles a number of parameters which control what and how the content is displayed Complete the following fields Field Title Title Section Title Alias Category Details Enter a Title Select a Section Enter a Title Alias Select a Category associated with the Section selected Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 82 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Enter the Intro Text All of the content for this Conten
62. The following information is displayed Column Name Category Name Published Order Access Section Category ID Active Trash Display Details Options The title of the Category The published or unpublished status Click the button to toggle between these two states You can enter the order in which you want the menu items to be displayed Click the Save button to save the changes This indicates what type of user has access to the menu item By clicking on the title you can toggle between Public Registered and Special This is the name of the Section to which the Category is assigned This is the id of the Category as held in the database This is the number of published Content Items in the Category Number of Content Items belonging to this Category and currently in the Trash This drop down allows you to select the maximum number of Categories to be displayed per page Toolbar Buttons Publish Unpublish Move Copy Delete Edit and New are available Create a new Category Click the New button The Category New Content screen is displayed Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 76 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager ra Category New Content Category Details Category Meny links available when saved Title Category Mame Image Select Image Image a Position O New tems default to the last place Ordering Preview Ordering can
63. UNON page The drop down allows Use Global to use the parameter as defined in the Global Configuration Show or Hide to be selected Page Title Show or Hide the Page Title text Linked Titles Drop down options are Use Global to use the parameter as defined in the Global Configuration Show or Hide Show or Hide the Intro Text in the full article page display Useful if Intro Text you wish the Front Page teaser to be something different or formatted differently than the full page item Section Name Show or Hide the name of the Section to which the Item belongs Enables you to make the item s section name linkable Applies only Section Name Linkable when the Section Name option is set to Show Category Name Show or Hide the name of the Category to which each item belongs Enables you to make the item s Category name linkable Applies only Category Name Linkable when the Category Name option is set to Show For each of the following seven items listed below you can use the option selected in the Global Configuration settings by selecting Use Global or you can override the setting by selecting Show or Hide Overriding the settings for items here will not affect the Global Configuration settings and will not affect the settings for other Content Items on the web site Further Information Chapter 8 Global Configuration Field name Details Options Item Rating Show or Hide ratings given to home page items by your site s
64. at you are doing If you have a number of Users using AOL or behind Proxy Banks you might consider using the Level 2 setting If this option is enabled under the Site Tab then using the drop down box select Ener meporting the level or reporting required Options are This turns Error reporting to the system default EDATE according to php ini on the server None This turns off error reporting This turns error reporting to simple options using the Simple following options error_reporting E_ERROR E_WARNING E_PARSE ET EEEN This turns error reporting to the Maximum level using Aa the following options error_reporting E_ALL Help Server The URL to the Help file location By default files created by the installation of Components Modules and File Creation Mambots inherit the server default permissions By choosing CHMOD new files you can over ride the server permissions As with files new directories will inherit by default the server default Directory Creation permissions Choose CHMOD new directories to over ride the server permissions Metadata Tab i ro Global Configuration configuration php is Writeable C Make unwriteable after saving aD Site Locale Content Database Server Metadata Mail Cache Statistics SEO Global Site Meta Description Joomla User Manual Global Site Meta Keywords Joomla joomla Show Title Meta Tag Ono ves Show Author Meta Tag no ves 9 Figure 124 Global Co
65. ave them send it to you Logging In and Out Log In Once you have registered with the web site and optionally responded to your validation e mail you simply enter your username and password in the Login Form and click the Login button to login to the web site User Menu USER MENU Your Details Submit Hews Submit WebLink Check in My tems Logout Joomla Home Joomla Forums OSM Home Administrator Figure 17 User Menu Once you have logged in to the web site you will notice that a User Menu appears in the left navigation pane This menu may contain more or less options depending on the individual web site The following Table gives a short description of the typical menu items you are likely to see Table 6 User Menu Options Menu Option Details Options Your Details Used to view and or modify your account details Submit News Used to submit your new Content Items Author and Above Used to submit new web links that you have found Registered users and Submit Web Link above Check In My Items Used to check in any items you may have been working on but not saved Your Details To view your account details you can click on the Your Details menu link which will present you with the following options screen Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 36 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 3 oomla Users EDIT YOUR DETAILS Your Mame Joomla Joe e mail joeusertajoomlaorg User Name joomlajoe Password Verity Pass
66. ayed Category Manager Component News Feeds Category Hame Published Reorder Order Access Category ID 7 Public 5 ti Business general Business general 4 Joomla Joomla Z Public Finance Finance 7 7 5 Public 7 Linux Linux J E Public a og oc oa Internet t Internet 3 T Public lt lt Start Prewious 1 Next End Figure 102 Category Manager News Feeds screen Toolbar Buttons Publish Unpublish Delete Edit and New are available Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 117 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Create a New Newsfeed Category To create a new Category click the New button The Category New Newsfeeds screen will be displayed Toolbar Buttons Upload image Save Apply and Cancel are available Category New Newsfeeds Category Details Category Title Category Name Section MA Ordering Mew tems detaut ta the last place Ordering can be changed after this tem is saved mace Select Image Image Position Access Level Published Description E Jf Styles oS Format T T c bLEFVOoOrnOQgnwAts HOOU E n g y E Figure 103 Category New News Feeds screen Complete the following fields Field Name Details Options Category Title Type here the Category title Category Name By default Joomla adds new items to the end of the existing menu items list Ordering Afte
67. b links with the following information Column Name Details Options Title This is the name of the web link Click the name to edit the web link Published Click the Published button to change the publish status of the Category Reorder Click the up and down arrow buttons to move the record up or down in the list Category The web link is assigned to this Category Hits This is the number of hits that the web link has received Create a New Web Link Click the New button The Weblink New screen will be displayed Toolbar Buttons Save and Cancel are available El Weblink New Details Parameters Name Target Parent Window With Browser Navigation Category Select Category URL Description Ordering New items default to the first place Ordering can be changed after this item is saved Published O no ves Figure 113 Web Link New screen Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 128 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Complete the following fields Field Name Details Options Name Enter the name of the web link as it will appear on your site Category Select the desired Category URL Enter the full URL address of the web link Description Add a text description for the web link Choose here the order of the Web Link in the specific Category as it will appear on the site when displayed through the Table Weblink Category Menu Item Ordering Published This
68. bal Configuration screen 53 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 5 Introduction to Accessing Functions from the Back end Other Screens Table 8 Other Screens Buttons Function s Save Apply Cancel Logout Help Publish Default Assign and Send Mail Unpublish Delete Trash Uninstall Edit New Upload Edit HTML Edit CSS Restore Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Description Click Save to save the data on the screen you are using and return to the appropriate list screen e g Content Items Manager Section All Save the data on the screen and remain on that screen The correct way to leave an input screen or to force a logout Access the built in help system The button is not referred to in the Toolbar Button lists for processes described in this manual but it is available on all screens Used with Sections Categories and Content Items etc to control publication assigning a template or sending a Mass Mail Used with Sections Categories and Content Items etc to control publication Used to delete from the database send to the Trash Manager or uninstall a Component Module or Mambot Used to edit Sections Categories etc Used to create new Content Items etc Used to upload images to the Media Manager Used to edit a template Used to edit a template s css file Used to restore items that have been sent to the Trash Manager 54 Version 1 0 1 Chapter
69. before the feed is refreshed By default Joomla adds new items to the end of the existing menu items list After saving the new item you can change its order when editing using a pull down menu to select the item after which the item will appear Sets whether the News Feed is published or not By default new menu items are published 121 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Polls This Component allows you to manage and create different polls for your visitors The questions you ask can be useful for information purposes After publishing the poll you need to activate the Polls Module You can choose where you would like the poll to be published and on which page The Module will also provide a link to show the results of your poll Access Select Components gt Polls The Poll Manager screen will be displayed Toolbar Buttons Publish Unpublish Delete Edit and New are available A Poll Manager Poll Title Published Options 1 This Joomla installation was 4 lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt gt Figure 107 Poll Manager screen The following information is displayed Column Name Details Options Poll Title This is the name of the poll If you click on this name you may edit the related parameters Published This shows whether the poll is published Click the Published button to toggle the state of the poll Options This is the
70. bility to manage a list of contacts for your site You can have more than one contact item Your visitors will select the contact from a drop down list when they are on the Contact Us page in the Front end of your site If you only have one contact then there is no drop down list Note You must create a Category before you can add a Contact Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 109 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Access Select Components gt Contacts gt Contacts Categories The Category Manager Component Contact screen will be displayed ra Category Manager Component Contact H C Category Hame Published Reorder Order a Access Category ID 1 L Contacts Contacts ne 0 Public 12 so Start Prewious 1 Next End Display Results 1 1 of 1 Figure 95 Category Manager screen Toolbar Buttons Publish Unpublish Delete Edit and New are available The following information is displayed Column Name Details Options This is the name of the contact It can be a person department or whatever you wish It Name will be displayed in the Front end of your Web site You can click on the name to edit that contact Published Click the button to toggle between Publish and Unpublish to decide whether the contact will be displayed or not on your web site Peord r Click the up and down arrow buttons to move the record up or down in the list The i order is us
71. clicked to access the underlying URL The percentage calculated by the number of times the banner has been clicked o Clicks divided by the number of times it has been displayed Create a New Banner To create a new banner click the New button The Banner New screen will be displayed A Banner New Details Select Client w Show Banner Ho Reset Clicks Banner Mame Client Mame Impressions Purchased Click URL Clicks oO Custom banner code Banner Image Selector Select Image Banner Image Figure 93 Banner New screen Toolbar Buttons Upload images Save and Cancel are available Complete the following fields Field Name Details Options Banner Name Enter the name of the Banner as it will appear in the Banner Manager Client Name Select the name of the assigned client from the drop down menu l Input the number of times to display this banner or check the box for unlimited Show Banner Choose whether to publish the banner or not Select Yes or No Click URL Enter the full URL of the page that should open when the banner is clicked on Clicks Records the number of times the banner has been clicked Click the Reset Custom banner code Banner Image Selector Banner Image Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Clicks button to reset the number to zero You may enter here some code See Developer s Manual for more information Select the image to be displayed The image selec
72. d by you Each position is represented in the template code in the following way lt php mosLoadModules left gt for the modules assigned to the left position Enter new positions as required and click the Save button Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 160 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Messages Access Select Site gt Messages Configuration Joomla User Manual com com messages J config gt Private Messaging Configuration Lock Inbox Ho Mail me on new Message Mo Auto Purge Messages days old Figure 137 Private Messaging Configuration screen There are two configuration options available to your Administrator Use the select box to choose your option Yes or No Field Name Details Options This option allows you to prevent Administrators or System processes from sending you messages If you are the only administrator or work with a small Lock Inbox group of administrators you may choose not to use this feature at all It is a good idea to leave the box open while you are adding new Components as it will help you be aware of system processes This option will result in an e mail being sent to you each time you receive a Mail me on new Message new message Set the number of days old after which the message will be purged from the Auto Purge Messages database Message Inbox This menu option displays your current Inbox gt Pri
73. delete by using the check box on the left hand side of the Section s name Click the Delete button The Are you Sure dialogue will appear If you intend deleting the Item click OK The Item will now be removed from the list and database Archive a Content Item Select the Content Item s you wish to archive by using the check box on the left hand side of the Content Item s name Click the Archive button Note The legend Number Item s successfully Archived will be displayed Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 90 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Static Content The difference between static content and a normal Content Item is that static content Ef Does not have a Section and Category structure Ei Cannot be published to the Front Page Access Select Content gt Static Content Manager The Static Content Manager screen will be displayed E 3 l R Static Content Manager Filter Order Ordering desc Select Author Title Published Order J Access ID Links Author Date 1 Fj Joomla License Guidelines 11 Public 5 0 Administrator 084904 lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next End gt Display 30 Results 1 1 of 1 Published but is Pending Published and is Current Published but has Expired 3 Not Published Click on icon to toggle state Figure 71 Static Content Manager screen The Static Content Manager shows a list of the Static Content Item
74. dule should be displayed Note By copying the Module see Introduction define different Section and Category criteria and applying different moduletable th table header and td styles you can create a distinctive style of specific Latest News Modules Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 140 Version 1 0 1 Search Type mod_search Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator This Module will display a search box Parameters Module Class Suffix Enable Cache Set Itemid Box Width Text Search Button Button Position Button Text Popular Type mod_mostread Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable poll In this example the poll is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes Select Yes or No Allow setting of the Itemid for the referencing search link Size of the search text box The text that appears in the search text box No or Yes Position of the button relative to the search box Right Left Top or Bottom The text on the search button This Module shows a list of the currently published Items that have been seen the most determined by the number of times the page has been viewed Parameters Module Class Suffix Enable Cache Module Mode Frontpage Items Count Category
75. e gt Template Manager gt Site Templates The Template Manager Site screen will be displayed A Template Manager Site Preview Template Hame Default Assigned Author Version Date Author URL js_thinking_jsas Joomlasolutions Team 1 0 2709 2005 www Joomlasoalutions com lakeridge Steve VVWhite VYebsdezined com 0 08 13 06 http www websdezined com madeyourweb Marc Hinse 15 09 2005 http Awww madeyouryveb com rhuk_solarflare_ii rhuk 2 10 2005 http Hw wye rockettheme com lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 158 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Check the box next to the template you want to edit and then click the Edit CSS button The Template CSS Editor screen will be displayed a Template CSS Editor template _css css is Writeable LJ make unwriteable after saving home content p ar parisadmin htmitemplates ccnow csstemplate_css css C amp S file for mm copyright steve white websdezined com Y Custom afklick position gt absolute left Oh top z O display z block height loOpx width z 1lOOpxu border z thin 009900 solid hackground 2 urli images corner_ad png top left no repeat important hackground gt none text indent gt 999em text decoration gt none Cursar gt crosshair adsense horder Opx dashed 590000 border bottom lpx solid aaaaaa background c
76. e page outside the calendar will close the calendar whatever date you had selected will remain in the text field 5 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 Images Fublishing Description This article provides simple information on using the Joomla CMS Keywords Joomla CMS author editor publisher 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 lt head gt lt head gt tag of the published HTML document lt meta name description content Joomla the dynamic portal engine and content management system This article provides simple information On USiine thie Joomla Cus lt meta name keywords content Joomla CMS author editor publisher gt 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 Edit
77. e 5 Back end Registered Users User Access amp Permissions A Manager has the same permissions as a Publisher but with access to the Back end Administrator s panel Managers have access to all the content associated controls in the administrator panel but are not able to change templates alter page layouts or add or delete extensions to Joomla Manager Managers also have no authority to add users or alter existing user profiles Administrators have a broader range of access than Managers do Administrators can add and delete extensions to the web site change templates or alter page layouts and can even alter user profiles equal to their own permission levels or below Administrator Bes ots an What they cannot do is edit the profiles of a Super Administrator or change certain global characteristics of the web site Super Administrators do not show up in the User Manager screen when users are logged in as an Administrator The Super Administrator has the same kind of power as root in a traditional Linux system and has unrestricted abilities to perform all administrative functions inside Super Administrator of Joomla Only Super Administrators have the ability to create new users with Super Administrator permissions or to assign Super Administrator permissions to existing users The only user that exists after a Joomla installation is the Super Administrator This is the admin account created during the installation
78. e Content Add Sect Cat Title Item s information into the keywords field including the Content title Section name and Category name Further Information Chapter 7 Related Items Module Link to Menu Tab This Tab allows you to create a Link Content Item in the menu you select Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 88 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Publishing Images Parameters Meta Info Link to Menu This will create a Link Content Item in the menu you select Select a Menu mainmenu othermenu topmenu USenmnenu Link to Menu Existing Menu Links Mone Figure 68 New Item Link to Menu Tab Field Name Details Options Select a Menu Click on the menu you wish to add the link Menu Item Name The name of the Menu Item as it will appear on your site Link to Menu Click on the Link to Menu button to create the Menu ltem This displays a list of all Link Content Item Menu Items referencing this Existing Menu Items content Move a Content Item Select the Content Item s to be moved Click the Move button This displays the Move Items screen E Move Items Move to Section Category tems being Moved Band Parents AssociationCopy of Latest Mewes Band Parents 4ssociation Newstlash Concert Band Concert Band General InformationGeneral Information Jazz Band Jazz Band Marching Tigers BandsMarching Tigers Band Pep Band Fep Band The NewsLatest News 1
79. e Left or Right Select the level to which this category will be visible Public Registered or Special Select Yes or No Optional description of the Category 111 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Contact Manager Access Select Components gt Contacts gt Manage Contacts The Contact Manager screen will be displayed A Contact Manager Filter Select Category F Hame Published Reorder Category Linked to User 1 F Name y Contacts lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt Display 30 Results 1 1 of 1 Figure 97 Contact Manager screen Toolbar Buttons Publish Unpublish Delete Edit and New are available Create a Contact Click the New button to create a new contact The Contact New screen will be displayed The screen is split into two parts On the left hand side the normal input fields and the right hand side three Tabs Publishing Images and Parameters A Contact New Contact Details Category Select Category Linked to User Mame Contact s Position E rmail Street Address state flounty Country Postal Code zlP Telephone Fax PO PO PO Town Sukurb DOO PO PO fo Miscellaneous Info Figure 98 Contact New screen Complete the following information Field Name Details Options Caiadorn Select the Category from the drop down menu of all published Contact
80. e button A pop up will ask whether You are sure you want to delete selected items If you are sure then click OK if not click Cancel Manage Banners Access Select Components gt Banners gt Manage Banners The Banner Manager screen will be displayed Banner Manager Banner Hame Published impressions hlade impressions Lett OSM 4 H a 51 Larner e T 44 Landini enc za Se lt Previo 1 Hard End gt Display F 30 Ress 1 2of2 Figure 92 Banner Manager screen The Banner Manager details a list of all the banners available to be displayed Toolbar Buttons Upload images Publish Unpublish Delete Edit and New are available The display shows the following information Column Name Details Options The name of the banner usually associated with the client or image that associated with the banner Banner Name Click on the name or select the checkbox next to the name and click the Edit button to access the settings for the banner Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 107 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Published The status of the banner Click on the image to either publish or un publish the banner he ails The number of times the banner has been displayed The number of times the banner has left to be displayed if this was established when impressions Left the banner was set up Clicks The number of times the banner has been
81. e image url Code field Copy the code in the image url Code field and save it to be used in a Content Item or any other screen that will take HTML e g Category description field Preview Preview is a function that allows you to view the web site Front End from your Administrator Back end Panel Access Select Site gt Preview The Preview menu found under the Site menu option has three sub options which are explained below In New Window This option will open your Joomla web site in a new browser window of your default web browser Inline This option will open your Joomla web site inside the Administrator s interface There is an option from the Inline Site Preview to Open in new window to view the web site in a new browser window OpenSourceMatters i Seite t i foenpae AD farm 7 e Geel 7 fre AG Bere 7 ewah e fhe hed Bef E lamg Hewes Emm 8 Exzanipte FAD mem Figure 46 Preview Inline screen Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 63 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Inline with Positions This option will open your Joomla web site in schematic form inside the Administrator s interface i oombal arehiirat Figure 47 Preview Inline with Positions screen All Module positions displayed with labels The mainbody position will display the Front Page information and images used in the template directly will be visible There is an option to Open
82. e suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes Select to cache or not the content of this Module Show or Hide radio buttons allow the selection of the type of RSS Feeds to use Lets you choose an image to be used to with the specific type of Feed The Statistics Module shows information about your server installation and statistics on the web site users number of contents in your database and number of web links you provide Parameters Server Info Site Info Hit Counter Increase Counter Module Class Suffix Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Displays Server Information Displays site information Displays the number of hits on your site Amount to increase the number of hits in the counter Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable_online In this example online is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain 136 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes Template Chooser Type mod_templatechooser The Template Chooser Module allows the user visitor to change the template on the fly from the front end via a drop down selection list Parame
83. e tems trom the Database 1 Site Map Figure 76 Trash Manager Delete screen Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 96 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Click the Delete button surrounded by a dotted line The following dialogue will appear Microsoft Internet Explorer 4re you sure you want to Deleted the listed items This will Permanently Delete them From the database Figure 77 Are You Sure Click OK to confirm If restoring the items the Restore Items screen will be displayed A Restore Items Number of tems tems being Restored This wil Restore these tems q they wil be returned to their orignial places as Unpublished tems 1 Site Map Figure 78 Trash Manager Restore screen Click the Restore button The following dialogue will appear Microsoft Internet Explorer 2 Are you sure you want to Restore the listed items Cancel Figure 79 Restore Confirmation dialogue Click OK to confirm Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 97 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Manage Users In Chapter 3 Joomla Users we outlined the various access levels offered by Joomla This section deals with the creation of users from the Back end The Table below illustrates the permissions at each Access Level Table 11 User Level Permissions Create User Delete User Edit User Change Access Level Super Administrator v v v V Adminis
84. e these days you have too many passwords and it is inevitable that you are going to forget one eventually Joomla like most systems today allows you to automatically reset your password should you forget it The following dialogue appears when you click on the Lost Password prompt in the Login Form LOST YOUR PASSWORD Please enter your Username and e mail address then click on the Send Password button You will receive a new password shortly Use this new password ta access the site Username E mail Sddress Send Passworal Figure 16 Lost Password Request When you fill in your username and e mail address Joomla will e mail you a new password that you can use to access the system Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 35 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 3 oomla Users The reason that Joomla cannot send your old password to you is that passwords are stored using an encryption format that is not reversible This means that even Super Administrators cannot view your password This is proper practice in web site design these days so do not be upset that you cannot use your old password be happy that passwords are protected Caution Since new passwords are sent out via e mail and e mail is inherently insecure It is always a good idea to change passwords received via e mail as soon as possible If your e mail address has changed the only option you will have is to find a link on the site to contact the Super Administrator and h
85. each image on a page to improve the display and usefulness of your document for instances in which the browser cannot load images for users unable to view images due to sight impairment or for people who have text only browsers See also Image Tag Content Items can be archived and managed through the Administrator Back end The Archive Module provides a way of displaying archived items on your web site Discrete piece of content within the Joomla hierarchy which may be associated with a particular Section Category combination or may be a Static Content Item usually displayed in the main body of your page Within the Content hierarchy Section is the top level and is a container for Categories Category is the next level and is a container for the third level Articles See also Content Item User level within Joomla with access only to Site Front end functions See also Editor Publisher and Registered Administrator s Control Panel where site Managers Administrators or Super Administrators log in to manage all aspects of their web site including both features and content See also Front end Site Front end A Joomla core Component which allows you to manage and display banner ads for your web site In the Administrator Back end you can set up banners input and associate clients with their specific banners and specify impressions as a number or unlimited The number of impressions seen and clicks are recorded and disp
86. ead onto see how Joomla can make your life easier Prey Hext gt f Va Figure 22 Multi page Content Item Index The last of the three sections contains three Tabs entitled Images Publishing and Metadata These Tabs are used to control various aspects of your content such as associating images with the mosimage tags setting the publishing dates and specifying the metadata for your article This Tabbed window will take on different characteristics depending on the permissions of the user who Is currently logged into the system the principal difference being that Publishers will have a field available in the Publishing Tab that will enable them to publish the article on the web site This functionality will not be available to Authors and Editors Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 42 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 4 Accessing Functions from the Front end Images Tab The Images Tab contains the necessary options to assign images to the mosimage tags you inserted in your article One important thing to keep in mind here is that the images will appear in the Content Item in the order that they appear in the Content Images field You can use the Up and Down buttons to adjust the order of the images The right hand column contains various attributes that you can assign or adjust for the image that you have picked These include the alignment of the picture any alternate text that you would like to have displayed when the user s mouse is ov
87. ecked in 0 tems Checking table jos_ content Checked in 4 items Checking table jos_docman Checked in 0 tems Checking table jos _ mambots Checked in 0 tems Checking table jos_ menu Checked in 4 tems Checking table jos _ modules Checked in 0 tems Checking table jos _nevrsteeds Checked in 0 tems Checking table jos polls Checked in 0 tems Checking table jos_ sections Checked in 0 tems Checking table jos_veblinks Checked in 0 items Checked out ttems have now been all checked in Figure 140 Global Check in screen When a user edits a file Joomla changes the file s status to Checked Out The file is locked and only the user who has checked it out can modify it This security feature prevents two users from editing a document at the same time thus preventing the loss of data upon saving A Content Item remains Checked Out until the user clicks Save Apply or Cancel while editing it Once saved the Content Item is Checked In However if there is a connection error such as when the user presses the browser s Back button or the user chooses another menu item without saving or cancelling the work in progress the Content Item remains Checked Out This means no one can edit it If users report this verify the item s availability by looking in the Section Category or Item file list If the item has a Padlock button a Super Administrator will need to make the item available again by performing a Global Checkin Global Checki
88. ed in both the contact manager and on the contact page the visitor will see Gaiedorr You can assign contacts to different categories This column displays to which Category gory the contact is assigned Click on the Category to edit it If the contact is linked to a Registered user of the site the users name will appear here Linked to User Click to edit the user Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 110 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Create a New Contact Categor Click the New button The Category New Contact screen will be displayed Category New Contact Category Details Category Title Category Mame Section Ordering mage Image Postion Access Level Published Description Figure 96 Category New screen eA Mew tems default to the last place Ordering can be changed after this tem is saved Select Image Styles ow Format L 7O Qa HO OU R A EE Toolbar Buttons Upload images Save Apply and Cancel are available Complete the following information Field Name Category Title Category Name Image Image Position Access Level Published Description Click the Save button Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Details Options A short name for the Category A long name for the Category Select an image from the drop down list if required Select whether the image will be displayed on th
89. el Home page is displayed Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 50 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 5 Introduction to Accessing Functions from the Back end The Control Panel Joor T la Administrator Home Site Menu Content Components Modules Mambots Installers Messages System Help 0m 0 8R Logout admin Paris High School Bands com_admin O Control Panel Logged Components i Popular Latest Items i Menu Stats Currently Logged in Users 1 admin Super Administrator Static Content Manager lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt gt Display 30 Results 1 1 of 1 Global Configuration Joomla is Free Software released under the GNU GPL License Check for latest Version Figure 33 Control Panel screen The Control Panel also known as the Home page is always accessible from the Home menu option The Control Panel consists of four distinct areas Menu Options Home Site Menu Content Components Modules Mambots Installers Messages System Help The menu provides access to all the Back end functions available The menu and sub menu options displayed will vary according to your User status i e Manager Administrator or Super Administrator Further Information Appendix B Back end Menu Options On the right hand side there are buttons representing the number of private messages you have a w the number of logged on Users a and a Logout link Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 51 Version 1 0 1 Quick Link
90. emporarily unavailable lt br gt Please notify the System Administrator Site Name Paris High School Bands Show Unduthorized Links no O ves Allow User Registration no O ves Use New Account Activation no O ves Require Unique Email no O ves Frontend Login no O Yes Frontend User Params no O ves Debug Site no O ves Q Default WYSIWYG Editor TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor List Length 32 v Q Favourites Site Icon favicon ico Figure 119 Global Configuration screen Site Tab To the right of the write status of configuration php is a check box labelled Make unwriteable after saving Checking this box will change the file permissions of configuration php to unwriteable once you have applied your changes When your site is configured it is a good idea to make configuration php unwriteable for security reasons Site Tab Field Name Details Options With this option you can switch on and off your web sites Front end Use it if you Site Offline are updating Modules or data and do not wish to have your visitors view the site until you are finished Remember to reset the Site offline option to No once you are done When the Site Offline switch is in the Yes position this default message will display on the Front end for your visitors to see This site is down for maintenance Please check back again soon You can change this text to whatever message you would like Offline
91. end User classification there are four specific levels the site administrator can assign These levels are Registered Author Editor and Publisher Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 33 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 3 oomla Users Table 4 Front end Registered Users User Access amp Permissions A Registered User has no ability to create edit or publish content on a Joomla web site Registered They may submit new Web Links for publication and they may have access to restricted content that is not available to guests Authors can create their own content specify certain aspects of how the content will be AUIRON displayed and specify the date when the material should be published Editors have the same abilities as an Author and they can edit their own content as well as Editor that of any other Author Publisher Publishers can perform all the duties of Authors and Editors and have the ability to publish content The default user role is Registered User For Front end users to receive any other role requires an Administrator or Super Administrator to change their profile through the Back end Administrator panel Further Information Chapter 7 Managing Users Back end Users Back end users Managers Administrators and Super Administrators are typically thought of as the site administrators but they also have access to the Front end interface Just as with the Front end Users Back end Users may have different privileges Tabl
92. ents include Banners Contact News Feeds Polls and Web Links Members of the Joomla community produce third party Joomla components on a continuous basis They are freely available to download from http developer joomla org and a number of other web sites See also Modules The configuration php file found in the root directory of your Joomla installation contains global variable information specific to your own Joomla installation such as database user name admin password etc A Content Item is an item within the Section Category hierarchy See also Static Content Item Software for dynamically managing web site content directly on the server This contains the official standard Joomla installation This may be downloaded from _http developer joomla org and various other web sites The Joomla core software contains some built in CMTP s but can be extended with third party developer s add ons An organised collection of records that you can search sort and analyse rapidly Joomla is database driven software which means you can add edit or delete content that is stored in Joomla s database See also Record Form of representation of structured documents as an object oriented model the official World Wide Web Consortium W3C standard for representing structured documents in a platform and language neutral manner DOM is also the basis for Model DOM a wide range of application programming interfaces some
93. er 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Server Tab F vo Global Configuration configuration php is Writeable C Make unwriteable after saving Site Locale Content Database Server Metadata Mail Cache Statistics SEO Absolute Path fhome content m a n manualadmin html Live Site http www joomlausermanual com Secret Word GZIP Page Compression no O ves Site Session Lifetime 300 seconds A Admin Session Lifetime 1800 seconds A Remember Expired Admin page Ono ves Session Authentication Method Level 3 Security Default amp Highest Error Reporting System Default v Help Server http help joomla org File Creation File Permissions Dont CHMOD new files use server defaults CHMOD new files to 0777 User read write execute Group V read V write V execute C Apply to existing files A World read write execute Directory Creation Directory Permissions Dont CHMOD new directories use server defaults CHMOD new directories to 0777 User read V write M search Group read write V search CI apply to existing directories world read V write V search Figure 123 Global Configuration screen Server Tab Field Name Details Options These items are predefined during the installation and are not configurable through this Tab Absolute Path This is the directory information used by Joomla on the server that orientates it to it
94. er the picture and a caption for the picture and the position that you would like it to appear Once you have set the desired attributes for the image click the Apply button Images Publishing Metadata Sub folder w Gallery Images Content Images Edit Image articles joq clack jog Source clack jog asterisk png Align clock jpq k an Mone Alt Text taking_n otes jpg Border i aeee ee Caption Caption Position Bottom Caption Align None Insert Caption Width Apply Figure 23 Images Tab Front end Okay so we see how to assign images to the mosimage tags that we embedded in to our documents but where do these images come from Joomla has a Media Manager which can only be accessed through the Administrator panel Back end Further Information Chapter 6 Managing Media The Media Manager allows you to upload store and organise your images The images used for articles are stored in a sub folder called stories under the images directory In the upper left hand corner of the images Tab you will see the Sub folder drop down list Use this list to select the sub folders underneath the stories folder Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 43 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 4 Accessing Functions from the Front end Publishing Tab The next Tab in this window is the Publishing Tab This allows the Author to specify Ei The intended viewing audience Ei The proposed start and finish dates for pub
95. er version Figure 40 Check for newer version Security Settings If the following box is displayed you need to be aware of PHP server settings not being optimal for Security Follow the link to http forum joomla org index php topic 81058 0 html to find additional information Following PHP Server Settings are not optimal for Security and it is recommended to change them Joomla RG EMULATION setting is OW instead of OFF in file globals php OAC by default for comeetioiiiy reasons Please check the Official Joomlal Server Security post for more information Figure 41 PHP Security Settings Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 58 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Introduction The Manager has all the Front end access privileges of a Publisher In addition they have the following Back end privileges which are covered in detail in this chapter Ei Media Manager Preview Statistics Menu Items Managing Content Sections Categories and Content Items H H H H H Frontpage Manager EE Archive Manager When a Manager logs in to the Control Panel as described in the previous chapter they will see the following screen Joomeal Administra Hoe fae Mero Content Helin My Sao oomh aa Control Panel Fnimang HP Server Sange ann nat aptimal fer Suseurliy snd E a eenean b change bem A dudal A FAAN ATH anbi ie OH
96. ere are more tags than images defined the excess tags are ignored Likewise if there are more images listed than there are tags then the excess images are ignored This Mambot is for those who like to work without a WYSIWYG Editor as it a convenient way to insert images into the Content Item Others who use a WYSIWYG Editor still prefer using this Mambot to insert images instead of the insert Image button in the WYSIWYG Editor This is a personal preference Legacy Mambot Includer This Mambot allows for the handling of Mambots designed for version 4 5 of Mambo If you do not have any pre version 4 5 1 Mambots installed this Mambot can be safely unpublished Code Support The code support Mambot renders any text within a pair of moscode code moscode tags as PHP code SEF The Search Engine Friendly Mambot makes links in content compatible with installed SEF support It operates directly on the HTML within the item and does not require a special tag MOS Kating This Mambot provides for the voting rating of Content Items E mail Cloaking This Mambot rewrites all e mail addresses within a Content Item to cloak them from unwelcome spambots GeSHi This displays formatted code in Content Items based on the GeSHi highlighting engine This is to be considered as an enhanced version of moscode allowing the rendering of many different programming languages with colour highlighted code by specifying the to be used language
97. es sub folder Beneath this is the Sub folder drop down If necessary select a Sub folder to display a list of Gallery Images 2 Select the required Gallery Image by clicking on the file name A Sample Image thumbnail will appear 3 Use the right arrow key to Copy them to the Content Images An Active Image thumbnail will appear Repeat the first three steps for each additional image as required 4 The following steps are optional B H H H amp B Click on the Content Image you wish to edit The file name will appear in the Source field Select the Image Alignment you require None Centre Left or Right Input the Alt Text to appear in the image placeholder and tool tip Input a value for the Border By default it is 0 Input a Caption and select the Position Bottom or Top Alignment None Centre Left or Right and Width Click the Apply button The second stage of the process is to insert the image tag in the Item 1 Place the cursor in the Intro Text or Main Text box where you wish the image to be displayed Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 85 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Note Images to be aligned to the left or right can be inserted at the start of the line In either case text will be wrapped around the right hand side or left hand side of the image as appropriate w Insert l l l 2 Click the insert image 2 button A mosimage tag will be inse
98. f the possible answers Select here on which page s the poll should be displayed Allows linking the poll Show on menu items to specific menu items only It works together with the Polls Module mod_poll which will display the configured polls You may select multiple Menu Item Links s WARNING As of 03 02 05 this is bugged because you are allowed to save a poll without items which will generate a MySQL error You should at least have two options filled out Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 123 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Syndicate To syndicate your site is to make the Content Items from your Web site assigned to the Frontpage Component available for syndication via a distributable file The Syndication Component is used to publish a Newsfeed of your Public Content Items which you have published to your Front Page in the Front end of Joomla Access Select Components gt Syndication The Syndication Settings screen will be displayed E Syndication Settings Parameters Security Check ho ves Penne C Mo Yes Cache Time S600 tems 5 Title Powered by Joomla 1 0 Description Joomla site syndication Image Use Default ha Image Alt Limit Text Powered by Joomla 1 0 C Mo g Wes Text Length 20 RSS 0 94 C Diable Enable RSS 1 0 Disable Enable RSS 2 0 Disable Enable ATOM 0 3 Bisse caste OPML C D
99. formation Excellence Jazz Band Marching Tigers Band Newsflashes ep Band The News Figure 60 Move Category screen Select the Section to which the Category and its associated Content Items is to be moved Click the Save button Note You will be returned to the Category Manager Content All screen with the legend Number Categories moved to Section Name at the top of the display Copy a Categor Select the Category you wish to copy Click the Copy button The Copy Category screen will be displayed Copy Category Copy to Section Band Parents Association Pah a FO Concert Band 1 Latest News General Information Jazz Band Marching Tigers Band Newsflashes Pep Band The News Categories being copied Content Items being copied This will copy the Categories listed and all the items within the category also listed to the selected Section Figure 61 Copy Category screen Select the Section to which the Category and its associated Content Items is to be copied Click the Save button Note You will be returned to the Category Manager Content All screen with the legend Number Categories copied to Section Name at the top of the display Delete a Category Note Ensure that all Content Items within the Category to be deleted are either moved or deleted Select the Category you wish to delete by using the check box on the left hand side of the Section s name Clic
100. from the Back end Administrator Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Introduction The Administrator has all the Front end access privileges of a Publisher In addition they have the following Back end privileges as well as those of the Manager which are covered in detail in this chapter Ei Trash Manager Managing Users Managing Menus Managing Components H H H Managing Modules Ei Managing Mambots As with the Manager the Administrator will not have all menu and sub menu options available Further Information Appendix B Back end Menu Options Trash Manager Content and Menu Items that are trashed are held in the Trash Manager awaiting final deletion They can also be restored to their original location Access Select Site gt Trash Manager This will display the Trash Manager screen rag Tash Manager Content Items Menu Items A Content Items AF Title Section Category lt lt Start lt Previous Next gt End gt gt Display 30 v No records Found Figure 75 Trash Manager screen The Trash Manager screen lists the Content Items and Menu Items that have been trashed Check the checkbox next to the Items to be permanently deleted or restored and click either the Delete button or the Restore button If deleting the items the Delete Items screen will be displayed a Delete Items Number of tems tems being Deleted This wil Permanently Delete 1 thes
101. g New Modules Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 133 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Manage Specific Modules Purposes and Parameters The section below defines the purpose of each Module and details the additional Module specific parameters available to each Banners Type mod_banners The banner Module allows you to show the active banners out of the Component within your site Parameters Banner client Module Class Suffix Type mod_mainmenu Insert the reference to the client id Acomma should separate multiple client ids Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable_online In this example _ online is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes Further Information Chapter 7 Managing Components Banners Main Menu This Module displays a menu Parameters Menu Class Suffix Module Class Suffix Menu Name Menu Style Enable Cache Show Menu Buttons Menu Button Alignment Expand Menu Activate parent Indent Image Indent Image 1 Indent Image 2 Indent Image 3 Indent Image 4 Indent Image 5 Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual An extension to the table moduletable css class which allows individual customisation of the Module Enter the suffix for the CSS clas
102. gory Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Table Content Section Blog Content Category Version 1 0 1 Category Name Linkable Item Titles Linked Titles Read More Item Rating Author Names Created Date and Time Modified Date and Time PDF Button Makes the Category name a link to the Category page Show or Hide the Item titles Makes the Item titles linkable Use Global No Yes Show or Hide the Read More link Show or Hide the item rating This is only applicable for the blog page Show or Hide the item s author This is only applicable for the blog page Show or Hide the item s creation date and time This is only applicable for the blog page Show or Hide the item s modification date and time This is only applicable for the blog page Show or Hide the item s PDF button This is only applicable for the blog page Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 171 Appendix C Menu Item Parameters Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section B
103. h text entered by a user Such Log Search Strings logging facilitates the tuning of your web site giving you an insight into how your visitors are trying to find the information they seek Analysis reporting is provided under Site gt Statistics gt Search Text SEO Tab Q s a Global Configuration configuration php is Writeable C Make unwriteable after saving Site Locale Content Database Server Metadata Mail Cache Statistics Search Engine Optimization Search Engine Friendly URLs Dynamic Page Titles Figure 128 Global Configuration screen SEO Tab Fieldname Description This changes the way site links are presented and optimises them so that search engines can access more of your site This option is ONLY available to sites hosted on Apache servers Choose Yes to enable Joomla to output friendly URLs rather than normal database generated URLs If you use this option you must rename your htaccess txt file to htaccess Search Engine Friendly URLs Dynamic Page Titles Choose Yes to set the page titles that appear at the top of a viewers browser to be the same as the page title they are viewing Again this Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 153 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator helps search engines a Note You must save your changes once you have finished using the Save button in the tool bar Language Manager The Language Manager allows you to mai
104. he Back end Manager Shows the ordering of Content Items Enter the list manually in the field provided and Praen click the Save button to save the new order Access This is the user Access Level for the Content Item Click on the Access level to switch it j to Public Registered or Special ERS This is the Section associated with the Content Item Click the Section title to edit the Section i Section page Category This is the Category associated with the Content Item Click the Category title to edit the Category page Author This shows the name of the author of the Content If the author s name is displayed in red click to edit the author s information Other functions available on this screen include You may enter text in the Filter box to refine the list based on whether the text is found in the title of any item Type in any text and press the Tab key You may also limit the list to a particular Author Category or Section by selecting one or more combinations from the drop down boxes Toolbar Buttons Archive Publish Unpublish Move Copy Trash Edit and New are available A summary of their functions is listed below Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 80 Version 1 0 1 Table 10 Content Item buttons Button Function Archive Publish Move Copy Trash Edit New Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Unpublish Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Details Check the I
105. he Edit button The Menu Details screen will be displayed AST menu Details Menu Name Hermen T Figure 87 Edit Menu screen You can only edit the Menu Name on this screen This is the name as it is displayed in the Menu Manager Manage Components Introduction Components are core elements of Joomla s functionality and are displayed in the main body of the web site template i e mainbody php Depending on the design of the template in use this is often in the centre of the web page A typical Joomla installation comes with Banners Contacts News Feeds Polls and Web Links Components Members of the Joomla community produce third party Joomla Components on a continuous basis Look at http extensions joomla org or http developer joomla org for a listing of available Component downloads or check the special forums In this section we will look at B The core Components that come with the Joomla installation Ef How they are configured and used Ei Installing and deleting a Component Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 104 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Install a Component Access Select Installers gt Components The Install new Component screen will be displayed fa Install new Component ey Upload Package File Package File Browse Upload File amp Install Install from directory Install directory E Program Files xampp htdocs
106. hen a Content Item is displayed Choose the radio button Show to allow the creation date and time to be shown Created Date and Time When a Content Item is displayed Modified Date and Choose the radio button Show to allow the last modified date and time to be Time shown when a Content Item is displayed Hits Choose the radio button Show to display the number of hits an article content has had PDF Button Choose the radio button Show to show the PDF maker button on Content ltems while viewing in the Front end Note This will not display at all if your media directory is not writeable Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 148 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Field Name Details Options Print Button Choose the radio button Show to show the Printer Friendly Version button on i Content Items while viewing in the Front end E mail Button Choose the radio button Show to show the E mail Page to Friend button on Content Items while viewing in the Front end Choose the radio button Show when you want the hidden links to E Buttons mail Print PDF to be buttons rather than text Choose the radio button Show to show the Table of Content navigation index Table of Contents on boxes for multi page Content Items To create page breaks in your Content multi page items Item you must insert a page break tag mospagebreak using the editor wherever you want the page break to
107. hy Note Images for use in Content Items are stored in the stories sub folder It is a good idea to organise your images in a logical set of sub folders remember one person putting hundreds of images directly in the stories sub folder Not only did it take a long time to load but also they had a never ending quantity of images making it difficult to manage In this section we will look at Ei Creating a folder Uploading an image Deleting an image H H E Using the Image Url Code Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 60 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Create a folder Click on the stories sub folder button Note The change in the Directory drop down box to stories biy DED Ff Se Aebi Cr nae Mr miary j imigaiiij Ciis s Media Manager Thr eriy i reri x Fie Lipid mas 105 n r D Bs 8 9 thag Eil paninita Lani bal emih Erid af af a Mhig 4 4 af Figure 44 Media Manager screen detail Enter a name in the Create Directory field Note Ideally use all lower case with no spaces or use an underscore and keep it short e g newsitems or news_ items Then click the Create button When the screen is refreshed a new folder will have been added to the images stories sub folder Upload and Delete an Image Ok so now you have created a sub folder let us upload an image Use the Browse button to locate the image on your local computer tha
108. icate Type mod_rssfeed Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator The re direct from the login can be assigned to a specific URL If left blank it will display the home page of your web site The re direct from the logout can be assigned to a specific URL If left blank it will display the home page of your Web site Select Show or Hide the JavaScript pop up alert that indicates whether the user s login was successful or failed Select Show or Hide the JavaScript pop up alert that indicates that the user logged out successfully Select Show or Hide to display or not display the simple greeting text Choose from the drop down menu whether to display the user s name or username in the login Module after a successful login The Syndicate Module will allow you to display a RSS link from a number of RSS formats Clicking on the RSS button displayed on your web site will display a new page that will list all the latest news in XML format In order to use the Newsfeed in another Joomla site using the News Feeds Component or a Custom Module or a Newsfeed reader you need to cut and paste the URL Parameters Text Module Class Suffix Enable Cache RSS 0 91 to OPML RSS 0 91 Image to OPML Image Statistics Type mod_stats Enter the text to be displayed on top of the RSS links Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable_online In this example online is th
109. ide the number of items for the other Categories Show or Hide the Hits column Show or Hide the descriptive text of the links Icon to be used to the left of the URL link in Table view The icon comes from the images stories folder Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 174 Appendix C Menu Item Parameters Link Newsfeed Link Newsfeed Table Newsfeed Category Table Weblink Category Table Newsfeed Category Table Newsfeed Category Table Newsfeed Category Table Newsfeed Category Table Weblink Category Table Newsfeed Category Table Newsfeed Category Table Weblink Category Table Weblink Category Table Weblink Category Version 1 0 1 Appendix D Glossary Appendix D Glossary Glossary Term Admin Templates Administrator Alt attribute Archive Article Author Back end Administrator Back end Banners Blog Browser Cascading Style Sheets CSS Category Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 175 Definition Templates used to define the layout of the Administrator Back end area of your Joomla web site A User level within Joomla with access to some Administrator Back end and all Site Front end functions Author defined alternate text for an image The browser displays this text rather than the image and it describes to the reader what he or she is missing ona page It is a good practice to include the alt attribute for
110. in the Style section on this page Click the Yes radio button to turn caching on for this Module Click the No radio button to turn caching off Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable_poll In this example the poll is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes 139 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Note It is important to allow sufficient space to display the generated content This is especially important when using the vertical and horizontal options Note The Item Title option on this page must also be set to Yes before the titles may actually be displayed Related Items Type mod_related_items This Module displays the title of other Content Items as a hyperlink that are related to the Item currently displayed Related items are based on the keywords used in the Meta Info Keywords field Parameters Enable Cache Select whether to cache the content of this Module Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable poll In this Module Class Suffix example the poll is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Tem
111. ing is the same process that 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 Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 45 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 4 Accessing Functions from the Front end LATEST NEWS The latest news fram the Joomla Team i F Fitter Order Date desc Display 30 Date tem Title Author Hits Tuesday 04 April 2006 My First Article A The Joomla Reporter 19 Wednesday OF July 2004 Example Hews tem 1 Administrator T Wednesday OF July 2004 Example Hews item 2 Administrator Wednesday OF July 2004 Example News item 4 Administrator saturday 12 June 2004 Welcome to Joomla Web Master Monday 12 April 2004 Example News item 3 Administrator lt lt Start lt Prev Encl gt gt Resutts 1 6 o0T6 Hew Back Figure 26 Category List screen As you can see from the picture above Editors and Publishers will see this button associated with any content on the system a
112. is shows the Component ID of this specific Menu Item in the database Other functions available on this screen include Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 66 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager This drop down allows you to select the maximum levels of menu displayed Max Levels Useful if you have a long and complex hierarchical menu This drop down allows you to select the maximum number of menu items Display displayed per page Note the lt lt Start lt Previous page number Next gt End gt gt navigation to move between pages Create a New Menu Item To create a new menu item click on the New button This displays the New Menu Item screen 2 birt New Menu Item _ Content Components Note that some menu types appear in more than one grouping but they are still the same menu type Blog Content Category Component Blog Content Category Archive Link Component ttem Blog Content Section Link Contact Item Blog Content Section Archive Link Newsfeed Link Content tem Table Contact Category Link Static Content Table Newsfeed Category Submit Content 000000 0 Table Weblink Category Table Content Category Links O O O O O O O O O Topa Conen ee Link Component tem Miscellaneous Link Contact Item Separator Placeholder Link Content tem Wrapper Link Newsfeed Link Static Content Subm
113. isable Enable Order Frontpage Ordering Live Bookmarks CFF T Cache Directory Writeable Figure 109 Syndication Settings screen Toolbar Buttons Save and Cancel are available Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 124 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Complete the following fields Field Name Security Check Cache Cache Time Details Options If enabled then the syndication functionality will only work if the Syndicate Module mod_rssfeed is published Yes or No Choose the Yes radio button to create and display a new News Feed dependant on the value set in the Cache Time field Choose the No radio button to display a new News Feed each time an item is added to the Frontpage Component and each time the News Feed is accessed by another server This is the number of seconds before your site s database is checked for updates The default in Joomla is 3600 seconds or 60 minutes After this time has elapsed the News Feed will refresh itself s WARNINGI Setting the cache to No will cause your news feed to be checked every time someone visits any site where your news feed is syndicated This can potentially cause excessive bandwidth usage as well as an extreme draw on your server resources ltems Title Description Image Image Alt Limit Text Text Length RSS 0 91 RSS 1 0 RSS 2 0 ATOM 0 3 and OPML Order Type the number
114. it GE O tO yo Submit Content Link Url Figure 49 New Menu Item screen Note Some menu types appear in more than one grouping to aid selection they are still the same menu type Click on the Component link in the Components box This will display the Add Menu Item Component screen Note You can select the required options radio button and click the Next button or simply click the option name you require Either action will then display the Add Menu Item Component screen Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 67 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager A Add Menu Item Component _ Details Parameters Name m Parameter list will be available once you save this New menu item Component Contacts FrontPage Login Lemenu News Feeds Polls Search Web Links a Home MyWISAS Joomla License News Blog Links Contact Us Search News Feeds v Parent tem Ordering New items default to the last place Ordering can be changed after this item is saved Registered Special Published Ono ves Figure 50 Add Menu ltem screen Complete the following fields Field Name Details Options Name Type a Name to display on the menu Component Select the Component by clicking on the Component name in the list box By default it is added as a Top level item under the Parent Item option If you wish it pac NEMI to make it a sub menu option
115. it Content screen This option allows you to globally set whether visitors to your site can register for a user account If the Yes radio button is chosen the Login Form will include the prompt No account yet Create one If the No radio button is set no option to register is presented If the Yes radio button is set an activation link will be sent to the registering person s e mail address Users cannot login until they have clicked on the activation link If the No radio button is chosen Users will be able to login right away without activation With this option set to Yes the new user will receive an e mail with a password generated by Joomla If it is set to No new Users will select their own password Select whether you want to prevent registration with duplicate e mail addresses In combination with user activation this option prevents users to sign up several times using the same e mail address This option allows you to view the error messages that are created by your site s PHP installation It can be a handy tool for debugging if you are having problems and for reporting errors to your System Administrator or Web host The levels of error reporting are set under the Global Configuration Server Tab and are as follows Choose which of the installed Text Editors you want to use to edit Content Items Choose a default length for lists in the Administrator Back end NOTE that if you have previously visited a page with a list
116. ite pure DHTML pages you would have created with a specialised web editor It also allows you to integrate independent applications and scripts galleries directories into your Joomla site content Parameters Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable_online In this nail Gees ee ee Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes URL Enter the URL for the site file you wish to display within the IFrame Scroll Bars Choose whether horizontal and vertical scroll bars are added to your page No means scroll bars are never shown even when content extends beyond the inline Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 137 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator frame Yes means scroll bars are always used even when content does not extend beyond the inline frame and Auto means scrolls bars are shown only when necessary Type in a value for the width of the IFrame window either in pixels or in Width percentage Percentage is relative to the HTML element where the lt php include_once mainbody php gt tag is placed in the template Height Type in a value for the height of the IFrame window either in pixels or in eight percentage see above a Choose Yes if you desire the height of the Wrapper page to be set to the size of Auto mergut the external Web page Choose No if you do not Choose Yes if you wish http to be added automatically to the URL that you type
117. k the Delete button The Are you Sure dialogue will appear Click OK The Category will now be removed from the list and database Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 78 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Manage Content Items Introduction Managers Administrators and Super Administrators may create edit and generally manage Content Items from the Administrator s Back end as well as the Front end In this Section we will be looking at how to EZ Create anew Content Item Ei Move a Content Item Ei Copy a Content Item EE Archive a Content Item The Content Items Manager Access Select Content gt All Content Items Access Click the Content Items Manager button from the Home page The Content Items Manager Section All screen will be displayed Select Section Il Select Category v Select Author EX content Items Manager Section All Filter Title Published FrontPage Reorder Order a Access ID Section Category Author Date Example FAQ ttem 1 x KA Public 10 FAQs Example FAQs Administrator 054 204 Example FAQ item 2 rey Public a Example FAQs Web master 054 2 04 Welcome to JSASI Public 13 News Latest News Administrator 11 14 05 Welcome to Joomla F Public News Latest News Web Master 06M 2 04 Example News item 1 F Public 6 Latest News Administrator O7 07 04 Example News item 2 a F Public News Latest News Administrator OF 0704 Example News lte
118. layed in the Back end under Components Banners Manage Banners Banners are displayed on the Site Front end using the banners module A style of content presentation within Joomla displaying some or all of the Content Items in a certain section or Category The title may appear as a link or both the title and the introductory text with a Read More link displayed Often the News page is written in Blog style A Software program used to view and interact with various types of Internet resources available on the World Wide Web FireFox Internet Explorer and Safari are three common examples Cascading Style Sheets CSS provide the ability to separate the layout and styles of a web page from the data or information Styles such as fonts font sizes and margins can be specified in one place then the web pages feed off this one master list with the styles cascading throughout the page or an entire site Cascading Style Sheets are contained in a css file Collection of related Content Items for instance the Category Airplanes may contain the Content Items Biplanes Fixed wing and Jets Within the Content hierarchy Section is the top level and is a container for Categories Category is Version 1 0 1 Category Name Category Title Check Out an item Check in Client side Scripting CMT CMTP Components Configuration File Content Item Content Management System CMS Core Zip file Database Document
119. levels to organising the content of a Joomla Content Management System Ei Sections are big containers they hold Categories Ei Categories are little containers they hold Content Items Ei Content Items are all the text and images you want to appear on a page The only catch is that you cannot create a Content Item without having a Section and Category for it to live in Imagine a filing system Sections are drawers Categories are folders and Content Items are pieces of paper If you had all of the pieces of paper lying around in your room that would be a mess If you had them in folders but the folders were lying all over the floor that would not be much better If you had the all the pieces of paper in a drawer with no folders to organise them that would not be so great either So to keep things organised you need to put all your papers Content Items inside folders Categories inside drawers Sections The other nice thing about having Sections and Categories is that you can assign different templates to them The diagram below illustrates a typical three column template Header Login Product Features Poll page with content Figure 53 Three Column Template Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 72 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager However if you want to display say the News section in two columns instead of three you can HEADER News section Main Content in here
120. lishing Ei Whether the article is to be shown on the Front Page of the web site E Images Metadata Ee Access Level Registered special Author Alias Ordering New items default to the first place Ordering can be changed after this item is saved Start Publishing 006 1 0 14 Finish Publishing Never Show on Front Page 7 Figure 24 Publishing Tab Front end The first field Access Level determines who can see the article Field Name Details Options Access Level There are thee levels of access PN The article will be available to every user in the Public area of the web Public o site including guests _ If the Author chooses to make the Access Level Registered the megistered content will only be available to Registered users Special Determines that the article will only be available to users with Manager Administrator or Super Administrator permissions The Author can create a new article under an alias rather than the Username that Author Alias they use to login to the web site Of course this along with all other aspects of the article are subject to editorial review by an Editor or Publisher Any new article is by default added to the top of the list of articles Ultimately the Orgenng Editor or Publisher will determine their position The item must be saved first though The last fields in the Publishing Tab determine when the article will appear and if it will be displayed on the Front Page
121. llowing them to edit any article by any Author Publisher Publishers have all the same abilities as Authors and Editors plus the ability to publish articles on the web site All the controls that we just saw for submitting and editing content are also available to Publishers A Publisher may author their own content edit the content of all Authors or Editors and publish the articles to the web site The most noticeable difference that a Publisher will see when logged in to the web site is the addition of a new field called State in the Publishing Tab when authoring new content or editing an existing Content Item It allows the Publisher to publish articles without having access to the Administrator Back end panel Images Publishing Metadata State Unpublished z October 2006 x i i Access Level Registered wk Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 39 Author Alias 40 5 G Ordering New items default to the First place Ordering c 44 g 13 Eg Start Publishing 006 1 0 14 42 16 20 45 25 2r 44 30 Show on Front Page select date Special r Finish Publishing Meser Figure 27 Publishing Tab Front end Publishers The selection list available for this field has just two choices Published and Unpublished When published the article will be viewable on the web site between the times and dates specified by the Start Publishing and Finish Publishing fields Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 46 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 4 Accessing F
122. log Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Version 1 0 1 Print Button E mail Button Order By Date Format Date Column Author Column Hits Column Table Headings Navigation Bar Order Select Display Select Display Number Filter Filter Field Other Categories Show or Hide the item s print button This is only applicable for the blog page Show or Hide the item s E mail button This is only applicable for the blog page This overrides the ordering of the items The format of the date displayed If left blank it will use the format specified in the language file Show or Hide the Date Column Show or Hide the Author s Column Show or Hide the Hits Column Show or Hide the Table Headings Show or Hide the Navigation Bar
123. m 3 F Public 6 News Latest News Administrator 044204 Example News item 4 a Public 9 News Latest News Administrator 070704 Newsflash 1 v Public 2 Newsflashes Newsflash Administrator a F Public 3 Nevwsflashes Newsflash Administrator 08 09 04 Newsflash 2 SESS SES esis sac nonh8nh 88 8 8 8 Uw CU CU CITAT MR Ree MEA x Newsflash 3 a Public 4 Newsflashes Newsflash Administrator 08 09 04 lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt gt Display 50 Results 1 11 of 11 Published but is Pending Published and is Current Published but has Expired 9 Not Published Click on icon to toggle state Figure 62 Content Items Manager screen The Content Items Manager shows a list of the Content Items on your site The following information is displayed Column Name Details and Options This is the title of the Content Items and is listed within Section and Category Click the Title title to edit content A Padlock button aoa next to it shows that it is checked out To check in click the title Published This shows whether the item is Published W or Not E Hover over this button to see a summary of the publishing information Click to change its state Frontpage This indicates whether this item is Published or Not on the Front Page Reorder Click the Up and Down arrow buttons to move the item up or down in the list Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 79 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from t
124. mn allows you to change the relevant order that the modules display on the Reorder Front end of your web page s Click the Up or Down arrows to increase or decrease the module order by one position This shows the order of the modules as displayed in the Front end of your site To Order modify this order type in the number that you would like to have them presented Then click the Save Order button next to the Column Heading Order Position This shows which template positions the module will be displayed e g cPanel Pages This will always be None ID This is the ID number for the module item This is allocated by the Joomla site system i when the module instance is saved Type This is the type of module An example is mod_logged which is the type of module ype used for the User Menu and the Main Menu module instances At the bottom of the list you may see a pagination feature which will allow you to navigate to the next set of modules in the list You can also set the number of modules displayed on a page by selecting the number in the drop down box at the bottom of the screen Filtering functions are available at the top right of the list To filter the displayed modules by Position and module type select from the Select Position and or Select Type drop down menu You can refine your filter by typing in the keyword that you wish to filter in the field box Further Information Refer to the Site Modules for instructions concernin
125. more information PHP built On Linux linhost166 prod mesal secureserver net 2 4 21 40 ELsmp 1 SMP Thu Feb 2 22 22 39 EST 2006 i686 Database ersion 4 0 27 max log PHP ersion 4 3601 Web Server Apache WebServer to PHP interface cgi fcgi Joomla ersion Joomla 1 0 11 Stable Sunbow 28 August 2006 20 00 UTC User Agent Figure 139 System Info screen The Information screen has three tabs as follows System Info This tab provides information about the PHP build web server Joomla version installed Browser being used and details of the configuration php file located in the Joomla root directory PHP Info This tab provides detailed information about the PHP Zend and MySQL versions and configurations being used Permissions This tab provides detailed information about the folder permissions of your Joomla installation Note For all Joomla functions and features to work all of the following directories should be writeable Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 162 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Global Check in Access Select System gt Global Checkin The Global Check in screen will be displayed D ciona Check in Database Table of tems Checked In Checking table jos_banner Checked in 0 tems Checking table jos _bannerclient Checked in 0 tems Checking table jos_ categories Checked in 0 tems Checking table jos_contact_details Ch
126. n Empty Categories in Section Category List Category Empty Categories Scroll Bars Width Height Auto Height Auto Add Banned E mail Banned Subject Banned Text Session Check Feed Image Feed Description Categories Show or Hide the Categories with no items Show or Hide the number of items in each Category Show or Hide the Category Description which will appear below the Category name Show or Hide the List of Categories in the list view page Show or Hide the empty Categories in the Section view Show or Hide the list of Categories in Table view page Show or Hide Categories with no items Show or Hide the horizontal and vertical scroll bars The width of the Iframe window in absolute pixels or percentage terms The height of the Iframe window in absolute pixels or percentage terms The height will automatically be set to the size of the external page This will only work for pages on your own domain If you see a JavaScript error make sure this parameter is disabled This will break XHTML compatibility with this page By default http will be added unless it detects http or https in the URL link This allows you to switch this off E mails containing any of the text will be banned Separate different words with semi colons e g ban text etc Subjects containing any of the text will be banned Separate different words with semi c
127. n Joomla Administrator Home Site Menu Content Components Modules Mambots Installers Messages System Help 0a 0 8R Logout admin Paris High School Bands com_admin O Control Panel Logged Components Popular Latest Items Menu Stats Currently Logged in Users 1 admin Super Administrator lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt gt Display 30 Results 1 1 of 1 Joomla is Free Software released under the GNU GPL License Check for latest Version Figure 118 Control Panel Super Administrator screen All menu and sub menu options are available to the Super Administrator Further Information Appendix B Back end Menu Options Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 145 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Global Configuration Global Configuration controls Joomla s operational settings Changes made on this screen will update the configuration php file This file needs to be writeable in order for you to be able to edit your configuration Access Select Site gt Global Configuration The Global Configuration screen will be displayed G r Al Global Configuration configuration php is Writeable C Make unwriteable after saving Site Locale Content Database Server Metadata Mail Cache Statistics SEO Site Offline no O ves Offline Message This site is down for maintenance lt br gt Please check back again soon System Error Message This site is t
128. n the Toolbar Now either deselect the items you do not want assigned for this template anymore or click None to completely remove the assignment for this template Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 157 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Access Select Site gt Template Manager gt Site Templates The Template Manager Site screen will be displayed A Template Manager Site Preview Template od 2 Hame Default Assigned Author Version Date Author URL js_thinking_jsas Joomlasolutions Team 1 0 27 09 2005 www Joomlasolutions com lakeridge Steve VYhite VVebsdezined com al 084 3 06 http iww w websdezined com madeyouryeb Marc Hinse P 15 09 2005 http Awww madeyouryeb com rhuk_solarflare_ii rhuk i 10 20 05 http tww rockettheme com lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt Edit the HTML File Select the radio button next to the template you want to edit and then click the Edit HTML button The Template HTML Editor screen will be displayed BL Tempiate HTML Editor index php is Writeable C make unwriteable after saving Ihome content p a r parisadmin htmltemplates ccnow index php lt php defined VALID MOS or die Direct Access to this location is not allowed gt lt DOCTYPE html PUBLIC W3C DTD XHTML 1 0 Strict EN http wow w3 org TR xhtmll DTD xhtmll strict dtd gt lt html xmlns http wmo w3 org 1999 xhtml xmlns v urn schemas microsoft
129. n will unlock all Content Items currently Checked Out Only a Super Administrator can perform it To perform a Global Checkin select System gt Global Checkin After performing the Global Checkin Joomla returns a list showing how many items and from which Tables were checked back in s WARNING Performing a Global Checkin while documents are open for editing may result in data loss All checked out items will be checked in and any unsaved changes will be lost Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 163 Version 1 0 1 Appendix A Creative Commons Licence Appendix A Creative Commons Licence Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 2 5 You are free e to copy distribute display and perform the work e to make derivative works Under the following conditions Attribution You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor Noncommercial You may not use this work for commercial purposes Share Alike If you alter transform or build upon this work you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one For any reuse or distribution you must make clear to others the license terms of this work Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 164 Version 1 0 1 Appendix B Back end Menu Options Appendix B Back end Menu Options Legend
130. n your web page you have done nothing to the file size What you are actually doing is telling the browser to re scale the image on the fly This creates a lot of work for the browser 5 4 When you use an image editing program to resize the image and save it as a jog or a gif you have actually created a smaller image and therefore a small file size 5 If you want to optimise your images the first thing you need to know about is the three image formats recognised by your web browser 6 gif These are gif pronounced jif as in Jiffy jog joeg pronounced Jay Peg and png pronounced ping gif jog and png files are compressed That means that information has been organised inside the file in a special way to minimise the file size 7 The difference between gif jog and png files is the way that they compress the data JPG JPG compression is designed to optimise photographs or images with fine gradations of colour 8 PNG GIF compression is designed to optimise images with large continuous areas of colour such as illustrations The PNG file format for image compression is expected to replace the Graphics Interchange Format The PNG format was developed by an Internet committee expressly to be patent free It provides a number of improvements over the GIF format Like a GIF a PNG file is compressed in lossless fashion meaning all image information is restored when the file is decompressed during viewing
131. nfiguration screen Metadata Tab Field Name Details Options Type a description of your web site used to assist Search Engines You may want to limit your description to maybe twenty words or so depending on the Search Engine you are targeting Make it concise and Global Site Meta Description pertinent to your site s contents You can include some of your keywords and key phrases here too As some search engines read more than 20 words you can add one or two sentences Make sure that the most important part of your description is in the first 20 words The optimal number of characters for a keyword description is said to be Global Site Meta Keywords between 300 and 500 Do not repeat words too often and either separate your keywords with a comma or a space or group two or three words Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 151 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator together Joomla Open Source would be an example of this Show Title Meta Tag Shows the Title Meta tag in the source code when viewing content Show Author Meta Tag Shows the Authors Meta tag in the source code when viewing content Note The Description and Keyword Meta tags will have a bearing on how Search Engines will index your site Some Search Engines completely ignore Metadata altogether You should do some research on Search Engine Optimisation if high rankings and Search Engine traffic are important to you Mail Tab
132. nges items in reverse alphabetical order Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 125 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Author Alphabetical Arranges items by author in alphabetical order Author Reverse Arranges items by author in reverse alphabetical Alphabetical order Most Hits Arranges items according to the number of hits with the items with the most hits first os Arranges items according to the number of hits with ceast ak the items with the least hits first Live Bookmarks Activate support for Firefox Live Bookmark functionality Web Links The Web Links Component is a collection of links such as favourite links Joomla links or whatever you like The Component makes it possible to count the number of clicks for each link and Registered users can submit new links from the Front end The Component has two options Weblink Categories and Weblink Items Caution You must create a Web Links Category before you can create a Web Link Category Manager Component Web Links Access Select Components gt Web Links gt Weblink Categories The Category Manager Component Web Links screen will be displayed Category Manager Component Web Links C Category Hame Published Reorder Order E Access Category ID 1 L Joomla Joomla 0 Public 2 s Start Previous 1 Next End Figure 110 Category Manager Web Links screen Toolbar Buttons Publish
133. nistrator Filtering functions are available at the top right of the list To filter the displayed modules by Position and module type select from the Select Position and or Select Type drop down menu You can refine your filter by typing in the keyword that you wish to filter in the field box Install a Module Access Select Installers gt Modules The Install new Modules screen will be displayed Install new Modules BY Upload Package File Package File Upload File amp Install Install from directory Install directory W www phsband administratorscomponents com_installer module Install media Writeable administrator modules Writeable modules Writeable Installed Modules Filter All g os Only those Modules that can be uninstalled are displayed some Core Modules cannot be removed Module File Client Author Version Date Author Email Author URL O mod_contentitem Site Eike Pierstorff 0 5 eikepierstorft pierstorff com www pierstorff com tey Gigataras 0142 2004 oc Eis s Rey Gigataras 1 43 Pier bkomraz1 qmail com http forge joomla org st projects display_news mod _d n Site reworked b y BK J 29 Jun 06 Figure 115 Install New Modules screen This screen is split into top and bottom The top is used for installing Modules and the bottom which lists the Modules that can be uninstalled Toolbar Buttons Uninstall There are two methods for installing a Module Upload Package File
134. nothing You may choose a specific button to introduce the following fields Address Select Show or Hide E mail Select Show or Hide Telephone Select Show or Hide Fax Select Show or Hide Misc Info Select Show or Hide Note If you choose a custom image this image should be uploaded to the images stories directory in the Media Manager Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 115 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Mass Mail This page allows you to send a message to one or more groups of Users Access Select Components gt Mass Mail The Mass Mail screen will be displayed Toolbar Buttons Publish and Cancel are available w Mass Mail Details isi Di Fal Pubbe Frontend Registered Bait hor Egia Publish Pubic Backend M arager Adininectrahot Super Aderarush how Mail to Child Groups O Send in HTH mota Ll Sibpesct We ao Figure 101 Mass Mail screen Complete the following information Field name Details Options G Make a selection from the list Select A User Groups to mail the message to roup ries all users Only one selection can be made from this list Check this box to automatically include all of the child groups of the selected Mail to Child Groups group For example if you select the Editor group and check this box all users in the Publisher group will also be included in the mass mail Send in HTML mode Check the box f
135. ntain the installed language files for Joomla Access Select Site gt Language Manager gt Site Languages The Language Manager Site screen will be displayed Lf Language Manager Site Language Published Version Date Author Author Email 1 English y 1 0 0 2004 09 20 Joomla Project admin joomla org lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt gt Figure 129 Language Manager screen Installed Languages This list shows all of the currently installed Joomla Languages with a tick next to the currently active one The following information is displayed Column Name Details Options Language Shows the name of the languages installed Published Shows the active language that is published Version Shows the version of the language file Date Shows the date of the language file Author Shows the author of the language file Author E mail Shows the author s e mail address if available Other functions available on this screen include Toolbar Buttons Publish Delete Edit and New Add a New Language There are two ways to install a Language file using the Joomla Administrator Back end panel Both methods assume the file you want to install is already stored on your local drive Click the New button The Install new Language Site screen will be displayed Install new Language Site Back to Language Manager AL Upload Package File Package File Upload File amp Install
136. nu Item Parameters Parameter Name Functions and Values A small image to be placed to the left or right Menu Image of the menu item Must be stored in images stories A suffix to be applied to the class of this Rage 1283 SUNIX page to allow individual page styling Returns you to the previously viewed page Back Button Use Global Show or Hide Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 168 Appendix C Menu Item Parameters Menu Item Category Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Link Content Item Link Static Content Submit Content Table Content Category Table Content Section Separator Placeholder Wrapper Link Component Item Link Contact Item Link Newsfeed Table Newsfeed Category Table Weblink Category Link URL Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Table Content Category Table Content Section Wrapper Link Contact Item Link Newsfeed Table Newsfeed Category Table Weblink Category Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Table Content Category Table Content Section Wrapper Table Newsfeed Category Version 1 0 1 Page Title Page Title Leading Intros Columns Links Category Orde
137. number of options in the poll Lag Time in seconds between votes of the same user for the same poll Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 122 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Create a New Poll Click the New button The Poll New screen will be displayed Toolbar Buttons Save and Cancel are available A Poll New Details Ooo E 2 teri EE Hone Lag B6400 seconds between votes Published 6 yo ves we Options Unassigned gen_into Who we are ger infa Directors amp Staff gen_into Site Map mainmenu Home mainmenu Joomla License mainmenu Hews mainmenu Blog mainmenu Links mainmenu Contact Us mainmenu Search mainmenu Hews Feeds mainmenu FAQs mainmenu Wrapper marchingband Marching Tigers Band othermenu Joomla Home othermenu Joomla Forums othermenu OSM Home Figure 108 Poll New screen Complete the following fields Field Name Details Options Title Type here the title question of the poll as it will appear on your site 100 i characters max Enter here the number of seconds users have to wait before being able to vote in Lag the same poll again This interval is expressed in seconds The default value is 86400 24 hours Published Select Yes or No Options input fields Fill in here the various options the user can select from to cast their vote Empty 1 to 12 items will not be displayed Users may select only one o
138. occur Choose the radio button Show to allow you to show navigational back buttons Back Button on each page to make it easier for users to navigate your site Content Item Choose the radio button Show to publish Next and Previous links when Navigation viewing Content Items in a Category or to change pages within the same article Database Tab O ra Global Configuration configuration php is Writeable CI Make unwriteable after saving Cm Site Locale Content Database Server Metadata Mail Cache Statistics SEO Hostname MySQL Username MySQL Database MySQL Database Prefix Your version of Joomla 1 0 11 Stable is 53 days old Check for newer version Figure 122 Global Configuration screen Database Tab WARNING These are very important settings If Joomla has been installed on your behalf do not alter these settings without full knowledge of the consequences Field Name Details Options Hostname localhost as this is the default Host name on a fresh install of MySQL MySQL Username The username to access your Joomla database MySQL Database The name of the database your Joomla installation uses MySQL Database The prefix used for Tables in your Joomla database This is jos_ by default s WARNING Do not change unless you have a database built using Tables with the prefix you are setting Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 149 Version 1 0 1 Chapt
139. odule Position Names for the placement of modules within a template There are 27 pre named positions e g left right top bottom and 23 author defined positions Module positions are not confined by their name Thus the left module position coded as lt php mosLoadModules left gt may be placed anywhere in the template See also Modules A Newsfeed is a way of sharing content between different sites The types of Newsfeeds currently available to display and produce RSS versions Atom etc The code is produced by the DOMIT parser This sharing method is meant for creating a news introduction in the way the provider wants it and it normally has a link to the provider s web site Joomla offers you the possibility to both offer and display Newsfeeds Open Source is a general term describing several parts of the Free Software Licence movement All the source code for Joomla is open source and is readable and changeable by any user Hypertext Pre processor is an Open Source server side programming language extensively used for web scripts and to process data passed via the Common Gateway Interface from HTML forms etc PHP can be written as scripts that Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 178 Version 1 0 1 patTemplate Parameters Polls Preview Projects Public Back end Public Front end Publish ed Publisher Record Registered User Server side scripting Static Content Item Section Site
140. of the publishing information Click to change state Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 92 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Reorder Click the arrow buttons to move the item up or down in the list Shows the order of Content Items Enter the list manually in the field provided and click the Order Save button to save the new order This is the user access level for the Content Item Click on the Access Level to switch it AECESS between Public Registered or Special ENE This is the Section associated with the Content Item Click the Section title to edit the Section Section page Category This is the Category associated with the Content Item Click the Category title to edit the Category page Author This shows the name of the author of the Content If the author s name is displayed in red click to edit the author s information Remove a Frontpage Item To remove a Frontpage Item Check the checkbox by the side of the Content Item you want to remove Click the Remove button Using the Frontpage Component When Syndicating Your Site If you wish to syndicate your site the feed you provide is taken from the Frontpage Component assigned Content Items as listed in the Frontpage Manager even if the Component is NOT assigned to your Home Page nor has any published Modules Parameters for display are available by editing the Syndicate Component Further Information Chapter 7 Syndicate Com
141. of which are standardised by the W3C See also DOMIT Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 176 Version 1 0 1 DOMIT Dynamic HTML DHTML Editor Extensions Front end Site Front end Frontpage Front Page Global Check in Group HTML Image tag Intro Text Installers Item JavaScript Joomla Joomla Administrator Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 177 Appendix D Glossary An xml parser for PHP based on the Document Object Model DOM Level two specifications It is lightweight fast and written purely in PHP See also DOM An extension of HTML enables among other things the inclusion of small animations and dynamic menus in Web pages DHTML code makes use of Style Sheets and JavaScript User level within Joomla with access only to Site Front end authoring and editing functions See also Author Publisher and Registered Components Modules Templates Plugins or Languages that extend your Joomla installation These elements can already be bundled into the core or they can be third party elements Web site that is seen by your visitors or Registered users See also Back end Administrator Back end Built in Component which shows all the published Content Items from your site marked with the parameter Show on Front Page You may configure the display of the Front Page by editing the menu item associated with it usually the Home menu item The ordering of your Frontpage Content Item
142. olons e g ban text etc Text containing any of the text will be banned Separate different words with semi colons e g ban text etc Check for the existence of session cookies This means that users without cookies will not be able to send e mails Show or Hide the image of the feed Show or Hide the description text of the Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 173 Appendix C Menu Item Parameters Table Content Category Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Category Table Content Section Table Content Section Table Content Section Table Content Section Table Content Section Wrapper Wrapper Wrapper Wrapper Wrapper Link Contact Item Link Contact Item Link Contact Item Link Contact Item Link Newsfeed Link Newsfeed Version 1 0 1 Item Description Word Count Table Headings Name Column Articles Column Link Column Other Categories Category Description Category Items Hits Link Descriptions Icon feed Show or Hide the intro text of an item This allows you to limit the number of visible words 0 will show all of the text Show or Hide the Table Headings Show or Hide the Name Column Show or Hide the Articles Column Show or Hide the Link Column Show or Hide the list of the other Categories Show or Hide the description of the other Categories Show or H
143. olor dddddd padding Opx margin Opu width auto arcaderowl hackground color fee ee ec arcaderowz hackground color fff Figure 134 Template CSS Editor screen Toolbar Buttons Save and Cancel are available To the right of the write status of template_css css is a check box labelled Make unwriteable after saving Checking this box will change the file permissions of template_css css to unwriteable once you have applied your changes Administrator Templates Access Select Site gt Template Manager gt Administrator Templates The Template Manager Administrator screen will be displayed A Template Manager Administrator Preview Template oe 2 Hame Default Author Version Date Author URL O Joomla Admin y Robert Deutz 1 0 O97 405 http Jaw run digital com lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt gt Display 30 F Results 1 1of1 Figure 135 Template Manager Administrator screen The Administrator Templates can be chosen by clicking the Default button Administrator Templates are not assignable to any pages The following information is displayed Column Names Details Options Name The name of the template as defined in the templateDetails xml file Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 159 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Default Assigns this default template to all Menu ltems pages Author The
144. om the Front end If you click on an Edit button to edit an article and see the following dialogue box displayed it means that someone did not save or cancel an editing session properly http localhost 65 Figure 31 Item locked To correct this the user who checked out the Item must do one of the following Ei Use the Check In My Items option in the User Menu Ei Re enter the Item to complete or cancel the edit they were undertaking Ei Geta Super Administrator to carry out a Global Checkin Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 49 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 5 Introduction to Accessing Functions from the Back end Chapter 5 Introduction to Accessing Functions from the Back end Introduction In this chapter we will Ei Look at how Managers Administrators and Super Administrators log in to the Back end functions Ei Examine the Control Panel located on the Back end s Home page Bi Describe the default buttons Joomla uses Logging in to the Back end The Back end functions are available by logging onto the Back end via the www yourdomainname com administrator URL This will display the Login screen X Joomla Administrator Fa Login iA a Username admin Welcome to Joomla Use a valid username and Password password to gain access to the administration console Login Figure 32 Back end Login screen Input you Username and Password in their respective fields and click the Login button The Control Pan
145. on 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Using the Home Menu Option to Control the Front Page Display This section illustrates how you can vary the positioning of Content Items on the Front Page by using the Home menu item Table 9 Front Page Display Options You control the way the Content Items are displayed on the Front Page using the Home menu option Click on the Home menu option to Edit it The four items options that can be configured are Ei The Leading story or stories Ei Content Items Intro Text only for a specified number of items Ei The number of columns to display the Intro Text stories and Ei Content Items titles linkable for a specified number of items The samples below illustrate a number of the various options Lead Content Item Lead Content Item Lead Content Item Intro Text Intro Text Intro Text Lead Content Item Linked Item Title Intro Text Linked Item Title Intro Text Intro Text Intro Text Intro Text Intro Text Intro Text Intro Text Intro Text Linked Item Title Linked Item Title Caution Although you can set the Lead Story and the Intro Text to 0 you cannot set both at the same time This will result in an error on the page Note This control is usable on any Blog menu option too Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 71 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Manage Content Introduction There are three
146. on your site Category Name Type the name of the Category to appear in the database and the back end Ordering Select the order of the Category among other categories Image Select an image to display next to the Category Description text The dropdown list an image choice from the images stories folder Image position Select the position of the image relative to the description text Left or Right Access Level This is the user Access Level for the Category Public Registered or Special Published Check the box to display the item show on your web site Description Type here a description of the Category Click the Save or Apply button Note The Link to Menu parameter is enabled after you have saved Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 127 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Weblink Manager Access Select Components gt Web Links gt Weblink Items The Weblink Manager screen will be displayed Toolbar Buttons Publish Unpublish Delete Edit and New are available A Weblink Manager Filter Select Categor F Title Published Reorder Category 1 C Joomla 2 F OpenSourceMatters xi YF Joomla VF Joomla 3 O Joomla Forums 4 php net 5 O Mysal Joomla YF Joomla a e A We A ye P ad Joomla lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt gt Figure 112 Web Link Manager screen This page shows show a list of the we
147. ontent Newsflashes Items Add Edit Newsflashes Categories FAQs Items Add Edit FAQs Categories Chapter 6 Managing Content Chapter 6 Managing Content Chapter 6 Managing Content Chapter 6 Managing Content Chapter 6 Managing Content Chapter 6 Managing Content Chapter 7 A Managing Components Chapter 7 A Managing Components Chapter 7 A Managing Components Chapter 7 A Managing Components Chapter 7 A Managing Components Version 1 0 1 Modules Mambots Installers Messages System Help Syndicate Web Links Weblink Items Weblink Categories Site Modules Administrator Modules Site Mambots Templates Site Templates Admin Languages Components Modules Mambots Inbox Configuration System Info Global Checkin Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 167 Appendix B Back end Menu Options Chapter 7 A Managing Components Chapter 7 A Managing Components Chapter 7 A Managing Modules Chapter 7 Managing Modules Chapter 7 Managing Mambots Chapter 8 Managing Templates Chapter 8 Managing Templates Chapter 8 Language Manager Chapter 7 Managing Components Chapter 7 Managing Modules Chapter 7 Managing Mambots Chapter 8 Messages Chapter 8 System Info Chapter 8 Global Checkin Version 1 0 1 Appendix C Me
148. ontent Item on the Front Page This determines whether the Content Item is published or not The default option is checked Uncheck it if you do NOt wish to publish the Content Item this is particularly useful when it cannot be finished at the first attempt This determines who can see the Item The option is by default set to Public If you wish to restrict access to this Item set the appropriate level of access for it The author of the Content Item is normal the logged on user creating it If you wish to override this and the Global Configuration or Parameters options is set 83 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager to display the Author s name enter the Author s name you wish to be displayed Change Creator Select from available Users O PREN You may set the position this Content Item appears in within Section and rdering Category on the Content Items Manager Override Created Date This overrides the automatic created date for this Item This is also a useful tool when it is necessary to re order an Item Is by default set to the current June 2006 date If you wish to override this with say a date in the future click a ssc f ave imal on the calendar button E This wk Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri will display a pop up calendar 1 4 Start Publishing Click on the required Start Publishing date 5 f ci g 12 13 14 15 16 JES am ee A e ees 265 2F a e Select date Alternatively
149. ontent Item s using the check box to the left of the title and clicking the Unarchive button you can restore Content Items to a live status Trash Archive Items By selecting the Content Item s using the check box to the left of the title and clicking the Trash button you will remove the Items to the Trash Manager The items can be permanently deleted from the Trash Manager or Restored to the Archive Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 94 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Page Impressions Page impressions provide basic item statistics Access Select Content gt Page Impressions The Page Impression Statistics will be displayed Che Page Impression Statistics Title Page Impressions 1 Marching Tigers Band 2006 08 23 23 36 25 2 Who we are 2004 06 12 11 54 06 Joomla License Guidelines 2004 08 19 20 11 07 Pep Band 2006 08 23 25 4 5 Concert Band 2006 08 23 23 36 25 6 i Jazz Band 2006 08 23 23 36 25 8 Marching Tigers 2006 08 24 17 24 09 9 PHS Band Excellence 2006 08 24 13 20 48 10 PHS Band Excellence 2006 08 24 13 20 48 lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next End gt Display 30 Results 1 10 0f10 Figure 74 Page Impressions screen This page lists each Content Item and the number of hits it has received impressions do not include hits on the Front Page Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 95 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions
150. or Yes leave blank for No Subject Type a subject for the message Message Type the body of the message When you are finished click the Publish button to mail the message or Cancel to abort the mail Note Only a user in the Super Administrator group is permitted to use this feature News Feeds Newsfeeds are a way of sharing content between different sites A growing number of content providers share parts of their content via RSS Really Simple Syndication Newsfeeds Newsfeeds are obtained from any site syndicating news using an RSS format Joomla is shipping with an integrated Newsfeed reader Newsfeeds may also be displayed on your site through the creation of a custom Module accessed from Modules gt Site Modules The Newsfeed Component gives you the ability to manage the existing Newsfeeds place them into Categories and change the linking information required to receive the Newsfeeds from the different providers Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 116 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator To share the content of your site you can integrate the Newsfeeds Module into your template which makes your own news available to others The News Feeds Component consists of two options Manage News Feeds and Manage Categories Manage Newsfeed Categories Access Select Components gt News Feeds gt Manage Categories The Category Manager Component News Feeds screen will be displ
151. plate CSS classes Menu Item Link s Select the Page s or Items that the Module should be displayed Latest News Type mod_latestnews The Latest News Module shows a defined number of the most recently published Items which are still current as hyperlinks The default selection is all Sections and Categories Alternatively you can define a selection of Sections and or Categories Parameters Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable poll In this Module Class Suffix example the poll is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes Enable Cache Select whether to cache the content of this Module Module Mode This allows you to choose which type of content to display in the Module Select from Content Items only Static Content only or both Select the Show or Hide items that are currently displayed on the Front Page The Frontpage Items Module Mode must be set to Content Items only for this option to apply Count The number of items to display The default is set to five Select items from a specific Category or Categories Separate multiple Categories Category ID with a comma Section ID Select items from a specific Section or Sections Separate multiple Sections with a comma Menu Item Link s Select the Page s or Items that the Mo
152. ponent and Module Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 93 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager Archive Manager Access Select Content gt Archive Manager The Archive Manager Section All screen will be displayed pe Select Section Select Category Y Select Author ER archive Manager Section All i 2 Filter Title Order Category Author Date 1 Example FAG item 1 5 Example FAQs Administrator 0541 2 04 2 oO Example FAQ item 2 5 Example FAQs Web master 05 2 04 lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt Display 50 v Results 1 2 of 2 Figure 73 Archive Manager screen Toolbar Buttons Unarchive or Trash are available This page shows a list of all archived Content Items You may filter the display by Section Category and or Author The following information is displayed Column Name Details options Title This is the title of the archived Content Items Shows the order of Content Items Enter the list manually in the field provided and click the Order Save button to save the new order Category This is the Category associated with the Content Item Click the Category title to edit the Category page This shows the name of the author of the Content If the author s name is displayed in red Author l ae click to edit the author s information Date This is the date the Item was created Unarchive By selecting the C
153. psum dolor st amet consetetur sadipscing elitr sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat sed diam voluptua Lorem ipsum dolor st amet consetetur sadipscing elitr sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat sed diam voluptua At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores etea rebum Stet clita kasd gubergren no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Figure 29 Submit Web Link thank you There is an interesting caveat to the Submit Web Links function in a Joomla web site Web links are not publishable from the Front end of the Joomla web site This means that any web links submitted by any user from the Front end require a user with Back end administrator privileges to publish the web link before it becomes available on the site Front end After publication a web link will be available from the Links section of the web site In a default Joomla installation access is by the Links item on the Main Menu 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 Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 47 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 4 Accessing Functions from the Front end JOOMLA T 4 selection of links that are all related to the Joomla Project CAAD Web Link JSAS The Joomla Stand Alone Server This application allo
154. ptions Caching Choose Yes to allow for caching of certain elements within Joomla This will generally Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 152 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator improve the performance of your site This is the folder or directory to store the cache files This must be writeable for caching PAGNE FOEI to be successful Contact your Web Master if you have any difficulties Cache Time Edit the maximum length of time in seconds for a cache file to be stored before it refreshes Statistics Tab i a vee Configuration configuration php is Writeable C Make unwriteable after saving Site Locale Content Database Server Metadata Mail Cache Statistics No O Yes Tt Log Content Hits by Date no Ows A Log Search Strings wo O ves Figure 127 Global Configuration screen Statistics Tab Field Name Details Options Choose Yes to allow the browser and visitor domain statistics to be collected based on settings in the Content Tab If this is set to No the browser and visitor vlateute Statistics will not be collected If your site experiences a slight delay the first time a user visits the site you should set this to No Er coeno Leena sf dk neh pleated ny ro Date feature WARNING This will tend to collect masses of data over time Be sure that your server space has the space to store this information Choose Yes to enable logging of the searc
155. pull in and display any URL within your web site This can be used to wrap an application like a forum or a gallery individual pages or even an entire web site An alternative name is an Iframe Editing tool which uses a WYSIWYG an acronym for What You See Is What You Get interface to allow easy editing of items in a non code format Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 180 Version 1 0 1 Appendix E Joomla Site Map Appendix D Glossary The following Table shows the menu options sub options and functions for the Joomla Back end Main Menu Level 1 Home Site Menu Sub Menu Level 2 Global Configuration Language Manager Media Manager Preview Statistics Template Manager Trash Manager User Manager Menu Manager mainmenu othermenu topmenu usermenu Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Sub Menu Level 3 Site Languages In New Window Inline Inline with Positions Browser OS Domain Page Impressions Search Text Site Templates Administrator Templates Module Positions 181 Screen Functions Level 4 Publish Delete Edit New Upload Create Cancel Default Assign Delete Edit HTML Edit CSS New Default Delete Edit HTML Edit CSS New Save Cancel Restore Delete Logout Delete Edit New Copy Delete Edit New Publish Unpublish Move Copy Trash Edit New Publish Unpublish Move Copy Trash Edit New Publish Unpublish Move Copy Trash
156. r Text to display at the top of the page Show or Hide Number of items to display as leading full width item Number of items to display with the Intro Text The number of columns per row to display the Intro Text The number of Items to display as Titles linked Order Items by Category No order by Primary Order Only Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 169 Appendix C Menu Item Parameters Table Weblink Category Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Wrapper Link Contact Item Link Newsfeed Table Newsfeed Category Table Weblink Category Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Wrapper Link Contact Item Link Newsfeed Table Newsfeed Category Table Weblink Category Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Blog Content Section Blog Content Section Archive Blog Content Category Blog Content Category Archive Version
157. r inserting Tabular content You will notice that there are two WYSIWYG editor panes The first one allows you to type some Intro introduction Text for your article This serves as a summary of the article and can be used as a teaser for the full article when the content is displayed under certain circumstances such as a Front Page article or on the blog style page rendering that is supported by Joomla It is not necessary to split your article up in this fashion as you can simply type the entire article into the Intro Text window The second WYSIWYG editor is where you type the Main Text As we said this area is optional as all text may be input into just the Intro Text field Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 40 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 4 Accessing Functions from the Front end The News Edit Content Info Title My First Article Q R Category Latest News Intro Text Required Z U ae Styles vw Format L EFO gai HO It s Time to Learn Joom ge Do you you need an friendly solution that allows you to build complex web sites in a hurry with no rience Do you need to provide a way for users of you web site to enter new content without using expensive HTML editing programs If the answer to these questions is yes then read on to see how Joomla can make your life easier mospagebreak Figure 21 Adding Intro Text In addition to all the standard HTML type formatting you may also insert images into
158. r saving or applying the new item you can change its order when editing using a pull down menu to select the item after which the item will appear Image Select an image from the stories folder if required Image Position Select Left or Right if an image was selected above This sets who can view this item This can be Public everyone can view it Access Level Registered only Registered users can view it or Special Managers and Administrators Published This sets whether the Category is published or not By default it is set to Yes Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 118 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Description This allows descriptive text Click the Save or Apply buttons Further parameters are available after this saving or applying the settings Parameters Click the Link to Menu button Figure 104 Link to Menu dialogue Link to Menu Thee ill Create a new menu tem in the menu you select Select a Menu manmernu olhennenu test topmeriy SS Te Select Menu Type Select Type Menu tem Marte Link to Menu Existing Menu Links Alone Link to Menu This parameter allows you to Field Name Select a menu Select a menu type Newsfeed Category Table Menu Item Name Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Details Options Click on the name of the menu to which you wish to link Select the Category to which this new Item is a member Enter a name by which
159. related Menu Item parameters may also change this ordering Category The News Feed is associated with this Category Click to edit Articles This shows the number of Articles to display on your site as defined in the parameters for the News Feed Cache time This is the time between refreshes as defined in the parameters for the News Feed Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 120 Version 1 0 1 Create a New Newsfeed Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator To create new News Feeds click on the New button The Newsfeed New screen will be displayed E Newsfeed New Details Mame Category Link Number of Articles Cache time Cin seconds Ordering Published Select Category B00 New tems default to the first place Ordering can be changed after this tem is saved Mo YES Figure 106 Newsfeed New screen Toolbar Buttons Save or Cancel are available Complete the following fields Field Name Name Category Link Number of Articles Cache time Ordering Published Click the Save button Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Details Options Type here the name of the News Feed Select the relevant Category from the drop down box Input the News Feed URL e g http www Joomla org index php option com rss xtd amp feed RSS2 0 amp type com fr ontpage amp ltemid 1 Input the number of articles to be displayed on the News Feed Input the time in seconds
160. rs An Item is a discrete piece of content within the Joomla hierarchy An item can be an article a content Category a menu item or a link A common computer programming language developed by ECMA for use in web pages JavaScript is relatively small and fast and is used for providing interactivity on web pages See also HTML PHP Joomla is one of the finest Open Source Web Content Management Systems available The Joomla Administrator is an application for administering your Joomla Web site directly on the server It is sometimes also referred to as any of the Administrator Back end Admin Section Administration Section or the Control Version 1 0 1 Joomla User Mambot Main Body Main Text Manager Mass Mail Media Files Modules Module Position Newsfeed Open Source OS PHP Appendix D Glossary Panel Joomla Users are arranged in two groups with different levels of access control Users with access to the Front end include Anonymous Registered Author Editor and Publisher There are also three levels with access to the Back end Manager Administrator and Super Administrator A Mambot is a small task oriented function that intercepts content before it is displayed and manipulates it in some way Joomla provides a number of Mambots in the core distribution e g WYSIWYG editors 3rd party component and module searchers etc Defined in the PHP code as lt php mosMainBody
161. rted in the text Parameters Tab Publishing Images farameters Meta Info Link to Menu di Parameter Control These Parameters only control what you see when you click to view an item Fully Page Class Suffix Back Button Use Global E Titl age ee Hide show Linked Titles Use Global Intro Text See Hide show Section Name Hide show Section Mame Linkable wo ves Category Name Hide Show Category Name Linkable yo ves Item Rating Use Global Author Mames Use Global Created Date and Time Use Global Modified Dake and Time Use Global PDF Icon Use Global Print Icon Use Global Email Icon Use Global Key Reference DocBook Type Figure 66 New Item Parameters Tab Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 86 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager These parameters control what you see when you view a Content Item in full view Check uncheck or select from a drop down box as appropriate The following list details each of the parameters Parameter Details Allows you to set customised styles for this page The suffix you type Page Class Suffix here is automatically added to the CSS classes for this page and will have to be defined in your template s CSS Style Sheet Controls whether to Show or Hide a Back text link that will appear at the bottom of the page and return the user to the previously viewed Rack B
162. s Workspace Wrapper WYSIWYG Editor Appendix D Glossary A process using a Newsfeed by which a web site is able to share information such as Articles with other web sites Defining the layout of your Joomla web site templates can be created for the Site Front end of your site called Site Templates as well as for the Administrator Back end called Administrator Templates You can assign different templates to various pages of your web site See also Administrator Templates patTemplate and Site Templates Name given to an Article which may be displayed above it in the Site Front end Alternative title for Articles used by SEF scripts and dynamic title meta scripts State of various parts of your Joomla installation indicating whether that particular piece is visible on the site or operational very much like an on off switch For example installed elements will not be displayed on your web site if they are unpublished Content Items can be managed with a start and end date of publishing See also Publish ed Core component that manages and displays hyperlinks to other web sites organised into categories Section of the Joomla Admin where the business of configuration and content publishing takes place The workspace dynamically updates as you select tools and menu options The workspace can include HTML editor article and link management and several other features Built in Joomla Component used to
163. s L T Menu Name l o T Module Title wy Anew mod_mainmenu module with the Title you have entered above will automatically be created when you save this menu Parameters for the module created are to be edited through the Modules Manager site Modules gt Site Modules Figure 84 Menu Details screen Field Name Details Options This is the name that Joomla will use to identify this menu in the database It must be MENU wame unique There should be no spaces in the name This is the name given to the new mod_mainmenu Module which is automatically Module Title created when you save this menu It is also the Name of the menu as it will appear on the Module header if you choose to publish it This may be changed in the future when editing the Module Click the Save button Your new menu appears in the Menu Manager list Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 102 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Copy a Menu Select the radio button next to the Menu Name you want to copy Then click the Copy button in the toolbar This displays the Copy Menu screen Copy Menu New Menu Name Menu being copied mainmenu Menu tems being copied Hew Module Hame Blog Contact Us FAQS Home Joomlal License Links MywSA5 Hews Mews Feeds Search Wrapper SO OO NM mon Boh i ok Figure 85 Copy Menu screen A Copy Page with the same fields
164. s is done using the Frontpage Manager option under the Content menu option When an item is checked out and it is not saved or cancelled correctly Such as with a connection error or the use of back on the browser it will remain checked out and thus un editable for all other users Performing a Global Check in will make those items available again This option is only available in the Administrator Back end or as a User Menu item for logged in users Collection of user levels classified as either Site Front end or Administrator Back end See also Administrator Back end Site Front end Short for Hyper Text Markup Language the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web See also JavaScript PHP In HTML images are defined with the lt img gt tag See also Alt attribute Required field that must contain content when creating a new Content Item or editing an existing Content Item If text has been added to the Main Text field and the Content Item is checked to Show on Front Page a Read More link will be shown pointing to the full Content Item Intro Text and Main Text are used in Content Items in the Section Category hierarchy but not in Static Content Items See also Main Text A menu option allowing access to Component Language Mambots Module or Templates screens from which zip files can be uploaded for installation on your Joomla Web site This option is only available to Super Administrato
165. s of this Module e g moduletable_online In this example _online is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes The name of the menu used by default this is mainmenu Select from Vertical Horizontal or Flat List Select whether to cache the content of this Module Show the menu buttons you have selected for your menu items Select Left or Right Make the sub menu items appear at all times Set s the activation ID also for all parent menus in the tree Choose which indent image to utilise Indent image for the first sub level Indent image for the second sub level Indent image for the third sub level Indent image for the fourth sub level Indent image for the fifth sub level 134 Version 1 0 1 Indent Image 6 Spacer End Spacer Who s Online Type mod_whosonline Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Indent image for the sixth sub level A spacer for horizontal menus An end spacer for horizontal menus The Who s Online Module displays the number of anonymous that is Guest users and Registered users those that are logged in that are currently accessing the web site Parameters Display Module Class Suffix User Menu Type mod_mainmenu Displays the usermenu Parameters See Main Menu Other Menu Type
166. s on your site The following information is displayed Column Name Details Options Title This is the title of the Static Content Items Click the title to edit content A padlock button next to it shows that it is checked out To check in click the name This shows whether the item is Published or not Hover over the button to see a Published ees summary of the publishing information Click to change its state Order Shows the order of Static Content Items Enter the list manually in the field provided and click the Save button to save the new order A This is the user access level for the Static Content Item Click on the Access Level to ccess ae switch it between Public Registered or Special ID The ID assigned to the item as held in the database This shows the name of the author of the Content If the author s name is displayed in Author os red click to edit the author s information Date The date the item was created or modified Other functions available on this screen include You may enter text in the Filter box to refine the list based on whether the text is found in PEN the title of any item Type in any text and press the Tab key Order You may also order the list by a variety of options or by selecting an Author Toolbar Buttons Publish Unpublish Trash Edit and New are available Create a New Static Item Click the New button The Static Content Item New screen will be displayed
167. s surrounding system Live Site This is the absolute URL web address for your installation of Joomla This is the uni word for ever mla installation It i for ri Secret Word sist e unique word for every Joomla installation It is used for security functions Choose the radio button Yes to allow your web server to send compressed data GZIP Page i es ve if supported by the server to the client web browser This could significantly Compression me decrease the load time of your site for your visitors Site Session Lifetime Auto logout for Front end users in seconds Type the number of seconds the Administration session should be allowed to stay live before automatic logout occurs After automatic logout the Administrator will be required to login again using the correct username and password Admin Session Lifetime Note If you are editing a Content Item but have not saved your work within the number of seconds chosen you will be logged out automatically Remember Expired If your session expires and you log back in within 10 minutes you will be re Admin page directed to the screen you were trying to reach Session Level 3 Security Default amp Highest Authentication Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 150 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Method Level 2 Security Allow for proxy IPs Level 1 Security Backward Compatibility Do NOT change unless you know wh
168. t Item may be entered in the Intro Intro Text Tex The Main Text optional directly below the Intro Text box is used specifically when you Main Text wish to publish the Content Item to the Front Page or a Category Blog display The Intro Text will be displayed on the Front Page with a Read More link a Note The Read More text can be changed in the language file Further Information Chapter 8 Edit a Language File Joomla Tab Settings Block Publishing Tab Publishing Images Parameters Meta Info Link to Menu Publishing Info Show on Frontpage d Registered Special Administrator New items default to the First place Ordering can be Published Access Level Author Alias Change Creator Ordering changed after this item is saved w c Override Created Date Start Publishing 2006 06 06 20 06 50 Finish Publishing State Hits Revised Created Last Modified E Hever Published 0 times New document Nok modified Figure 64 New Item Publishing Tab The Publishing Tab conta Field Name Show on Frontpage Published Access Level Author Alias Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual ins the settings for how and when the Content Item is to be published Details Options This determines whether the Content Item is displayed on the Front Page The default the option is not checked Check this option if you want to publish the C
169. t and images HTML and JavaScript 132 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Administrator Modules Access Select Modules gt Administrator Modules The Module Manager Administrator screen will be displayed Select Position Select Type v O Module Manager Administrator Filter Module Hame Published Reorder Order Position Type i Logged F 0 cpanel 32 od_logged cpanel 19 od_components Components Popular cpanel 20 od_popular Latest tems vw cpanel 2 od_latest Menu Stats cpanel 22 mod_stats header 23 mod_unread Online Users header 2 mod_online Quick Icons icon 29 mod_quickicon inset 28 mod_mosmsg Pathway pathway 26 mod_pathway Toolbar toolbar 27 mod_toolbar A O oO O oO O 6 C Unread Messages oO O a F O O 2 2 8 8 8 8 82 8 8 amp u M I ma O Aa IU I Full Menu top 25 mod_fullmenu lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next End gt Display 30 Results 1 12 of 12 Figure 116 Module Manager screen Toolbar Buttons Publish Unpublish Copy Delete Edit and New are available The following information is displayed Column Name Details Options This is the title of the module It is editable and will be displayed on the Front end of your Module Name Web site if you choose so Published This tells you if the module contents will show on the Front end of your web site This colu
170. t you wish to upload Choose file My Metwork Fie nama hese Files al Ippe faa Fies 7 Figure 45 Uploading an Image From the Choose File dialogue click on the selected image and click on Open The pathname to the selected image is displayed in the File Upload box Now click the Upload button At the conclusion of the upload a confirmation Upload completed will be displayed on the screen and a thumbnail of the image will have been added to the stories sub folder Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 61 Version 1 0 1 II II II I Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager There are two things to note about the thumbnail Ei The Trash button allows you to delete the image from the folder Ei The Edit button allows you to generate the image s pathname in the Image URL code field Notes on images 1 have found it best to keep the image file names as short as possible Use lower case letters and or numbers without spaces always use the underscore _ to put gaps in a file name if need it e g camp_tent gif 2 Remember to keep files and image sizes small 3 File Size Someone asked why a web page with one small image and a lot of text took over 1 minute to load The answer was simple A The original image which was large was scaled down to a small image size in the browser and was therefore still the same file size When you resize your image o
171. ted under Banner Image Selector is displayed here for your convenience and verification 108 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Click the Save button Delete a Banner To delete a banner select the checkbox next to the banner that you intend to delete and click the Delete button There will be a pop up challenge as to whether you are sure this is what you intend click OK to confirm or Cancel to stop the deletion Edit a Banner To edit a banner select the checkbox next to the banner that you wish to edit and click the Edit button Edit the Options Details as necessary Click Save to accept changes or Cancel to reject changes You will be returned to the Banner Manager Upload New Banner Images To upload new banner images click the Upload button in the toolbar The following dialogue popup will be displayed Y http localhost L F File Upload Browse Upload Max size 16M Figure 94 Upload Banner Image dialogue Click Browse to locate the file on your local machine Once located select the file and click Open This will display the file name in the details field of the upload dialogue Click Upload and the file will be transferred to your images stories folder A success message will be displayed Click OK http localhost Contacts The Contacts Component consists of two options Manage Contacts and Contacts Categories and provides you with the a
172. tems to be archived and click the Archive button to put Content Items into an archived state They are still accessible to the Front end of your site if in published mode Select the radio button of the Items to be published and click the Publish button Select the radio button of the Items to be un published and click the Unpublish button Click the Move button to move Content Items to another Content Section or Category Click the Copy button to copy Content Items to another Section or Category Click the Trash button to put Content Items in the Trash Bin They are not completely removed but will not be displayed on your site You can restore these Content Items in the Trash Manager Click the Edit button to edit the Content Item Click the New button to create a new Content Item 81 Version 1 0 1 Create a New Content Item Chapter 6 Accessing Functions from the Back end Manager There are a number of ways of accessing the Content Item New screen Access Click the Add New Content button on the Home page Access Select Content gt All Content Items gt New Access Select Content gt Content by Section gt Section Name gt Section Name Items gt New Any one of these actions will display the Content Item New screen R Content Item New item Details Title Title Alias Intro Text required B Z U a amp 2 i Section Select Section Category Select Category Y
173. ters Max Name Length This is the maximum length of the template name to be displayed default is 20 Showspraview Select Show or Hide to display the Template preview the template_thumbnail png file in the specific template folder or not Width The width of the preview image default is 140 pixels Height The height of the template image default is 90 pixels Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable_online In this Module Class Suffix example _ online is the suffix This suffix class must currently be in the template CSS Style file This allows individual CSS classes to be applied to certain Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes Archive Sections Type mod_archive This Module shows a list of the calendar months which contain Archived items After you have changed the status of a Content Item to Archived this list will be automatically generated Parameters Count The number of items to display the default is 10 Enable Cache Select to cache or not the content of this Module Enter the suffix for the CSS class of this Module e g moduletable_online In this ihe Se oe Modules independent of the site s default Template CSS classes Wrapper Type mod_wrapper The Wrapper Module wraps an external Web page into your site The external Web page is inserted as a Frame into your template This is not only useful to display other people s sites but also to include in your s
174. the Package File box Then click the Upload File amp Install button If all goes well you will transfer to a new screen confirming Success The second method is to upload an unpacked archive to your host s server Type the location of this file it must be the absolute location then click the Install button Uninstall a Component Tick the box next to the Component you want to uninstall and then click the Delete button A dialogue alert will show Are you sure you want to delete selected items Click OK The page will reload displaying the word Success Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 105 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Manage Specific Components Banners This Component allows you to display banners in rotation on your site It also allows some advanced features such as impressions management and custom code Banners can be displayed on your web site by simply publishing the banner once it has been created through the process below Their location is dependent upon the template being used for your site The Banner Component consists of two options Manage Clients and Manager Banners Manage Clients Before you can set up a banner you must have a client Access Select Components gt Banners gt Manage Clients The Banner Client Manager screen will be displayed A Banner Client Manager Client Hame Contact Ho of Active Banners 1 D Open Source Matters Adminis
175. the page and return the user to the previously viewed page The pull down lets you select Use Global to use the parameter as defined globally through the Site gt Global Configuration Show or Hide The following 12 fields defined above may be hidden or shown by checking the radio buttons Name Position E mail Street Address Town Suburb State County Country Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual Select Show or Hide Select Show or Hide Select Show or Hide Select Show or Hide Select Show or Hide Select Show or Hide Select Show or Hide 114 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Postal Code ZIP Select Show or Hide Telephone Select Show or Hide Fax Select Show or Hide Misc Info Select Show or Hide Image Select Show or Hide VCard Select Show or Hide E mail description Show or Hide the description text below Type here the description text for the E mail form If left blank it will use the PesCHPlOmiext _E MAIL_ DESCRIPTION language definition E mail Form Show or Hide the e mail to form E mail copy Show or Hide the checkbox to e mail a copy to the sender s address Drowdown Show or Hide the drop down select list when in full view Whatever the p contact link accessed this will let the user choose another contact to display Buttons Text This lets you decide if the fields listed below show an associated button the default text for the fields in the Contact Details or
176. the site Select the Contact after which you wish to display the current Contact Determines which level of user can view this Contact on the Front end if published Access Public Registered or Special Images Tab Free ne ee Publishing Parameters Image Info Triage Select Image Preview Figure 99 Contact New Images Tab You may select an image from the folder images stories to display next to this Contact or select Select Image to not display any image Note If an image is chosen it will show in the Preview block Parameters Tab These Parameters control what you see when you click to view a Contact item Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 113 Version 1 0 1 Field Name Menu Image Page Class Suffix Print Button Back Button Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Details Options Allows you to set an image that would appear to the left or right of the menu item The image must be placed in the images stories directory Allows you to set customised styles for this page The suffix you type here is automatically added to the CSS classes for this page Show or Hide s the button and link to the printer friendly format of items The pull down lets select Use Global to use the parameter as defined globally through the Site gt Global Configuration Show or Hide Controls whether to Show or Hide a Back text link that would appear on the bottom of
177. tion Reorder You can use the Up or Down arrows to alter the order in which the Section items are displayed Order You can enter the order in which you want the Section items to be displayed Click the i Save button to save the changes Accesa This indicates what type of user has access to the Section By clicking on the title you l can toggle between Public Registered and Special Section ID This is the ID for each Section as defined in the database Categories This is the number of Categories defined for the specific Section Active This is the number of published Content Items in the Section Trash Number of Content Items belonging to this section and currently in the Trash Manager Other functions available on this screen include This drop down allows you to select the maximum number of Sections to be displayed Display per page in the Section Manager Note the lt lt Start lt Previous page number Next gt End gt gt navigation to move between pages Toolbar Buttons Publish Unpublish Copy Delete Edit and New are available Create a New Section Click the New button The Section New New Section screen will be displayed o Section New New Section Section Details content Menu links available when saved Section Name MOSImage Directories Ordering New items default to the last place Ordering can be changed after this item is saved Image Selectimage v Image Position Left v
178. to search all of the different Components of Joomla Basic searching is provided for Ei Content Items Ei Web Links Ei Contacts Ei Content Categories Ei Content Sections Any number of search Mambots can be published at any one time Editor Mambots Editor Mambots provide support for installable WYSIWYG editors Only one editor Mambot can be published at a time This setting should be changed in the Site gt Global Configuration page rather than on the Mambot Manager page You can also select to deactivate any WYSIWYG editors which leaves you with a standard HTML text area Editor Extension Mambots Editor Extension Mambots allow additional controls to be included for editing content For example buttons are placed within or under the editor to insert mosimage and mospagebreak tags into your content Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 144 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Introduction The Super Administrator has all the Front end access privileges of a Publisher In addition they have the following Back end privileges in addition to those of the Manager and Administrator which are covered in detail in this chapter B Global Configuration Ei Language Manager Ei Managing Templates Ei System Info Ei Global Checkin When a Super Administrator logs in to the Control Panel they will see the following scree
179. trator 2 sa Start Previous 1 Hest End Display 30 Results 1 1 of 1 Figure 89 Banner Client Manager screen Toolbar Buttons Delete Edit and New are available Create a Banner Client To add a new client click the New button The Banner Client New screen will be displayed A Banner Client New Details Client Hame Contact Mame Contact Email Extra Info Figure 90 Banner Client New screen Toolbar Buttons Save and Cancel are available Complete the Client Name Contact Name Contact E mail and optionally Extra Info Click the Save button The new client will be added to the Banner Client Manager list Edit a Banner Client To edit a client s details click the client s name in the Banner Client Manager list Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 106 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator The Banner Client Edit screen will be displayed Banner Client Edit Details Client Mame Open Source Matters Contact Mame Administrator Contact Email admin opensourcematters ora Extra Info Figure 91 Banner Client Edit screen Toolbar Buttons Save and Cancel are available Change the Client Name Contact Name Contact E mail or Extra Info as required Click the Save button Screen returns to Banner Manager Delete a Banner Client In the Banner Client Manager Select the checkbox next to the Banner Client you wish to delete and click the Delet
180. trator v vV v v See Note Manager v v v v See Note Publisher Editor Author Registered v self only a Note Managers and Administrators may only maintain users up to their level Registered users may only maintain their own account Access Select Site gt User Manager This will display the User Manager screen AR user Manager Select Group E Select Log Status 2 Fi Hame Username Loggedin Enabled Group E Mail Last Visit ID 1 oO Administrator admin y y Super Administrator customerservice websdezined com 2006 06 06 22 01 25 62 2 O steve manager y Manager steve websdezined com 2006 06 06 15 40 21 63 a O admin oadmin y Administrator stevefwhite gmail com 2006 06 01 17 16 44 64 lt lt Start lt Previous 1 Next gt End gt gt Display 30 Results 1 3of3 Figure 80 User Manager screen Toolbar Buttons Logout Delete Edit and New are available The following information is displayed Column Name Details Options Name The name by which the User is known Username The name the User uses to login Logged In Indicates whether logged in or not Enabled Indicates whether enabled or not Group Indicates which Group the User belongs to e g Author Manager etc E Mail A valid e mail address Last Visit The date and time the User was last logged on ID The unique User ID held in the database Other functions available on this screen Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 98 Version
181. uage Editor screen will be displayed Fe Language Editor english php is Writeable C Make unwriteable after saving W www phsband language english php lt php rF version Id english php 4004 2006 06 12 17 44 142 stingrey f package Joomla copyright Copyright C 2005 Open Source Matters All rights reserved license http www gqnu org copyleft gpl html GNU GPL see LICENSE php Joomla is free software This version may have been modified pursuant to the GNU General Public License and as distributed it includes or is derivative of works licensed under the GNU General Public License or other free or open source software licenses See COPYRIGHT php for copyright notices and details w ff no direct access defined VALID MOS or diet Restricted access f Site page note found define 404 We re sorry but the page you requested could not be found define 404 RTS Return to site J ff common DEFINE LANCGUAGE en DEFINE NOT _AUTH You are not authorized to view this resource DEFINE DO LOGIN You need to login DEFINE VALID AzO9 Please enter a valid s No spaces more than d characters and contain 0 9 a z A Z DEFINE VALID AzO9 USER Please enter a valid s More than d characters and contain 0 9 a z A 2 Figure 131 Edit Language screen Toolbar Buttons Save or Cancel are available Joomla 1 0 11 User Man
182. ual 155 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Manage Templates Introduction There are two types of templates the Site Templates and Administrator Templates The Site Templates control the appearance of the Front end of your Joomla web site whereas the Administrator Templates control the Back end Administration area of the Joomla web site The Template Manager provides a workbench for installing and manipulating templates The initial view provides you with a list of the installed templates Site or Administrator A green tick W will be shown adjacent to the name of the currently published template Some supplied information about each template is also shown Templates can be assigned to different parts of your site much like Modules can If you have several templates installed on your Joomla system you can take advantage of all of them You are able to assign a template to a specific page s Template HTML and CSS files can be edited as well This section deals with Ei The Template Manager Site and Administrator Installing a new template Site and Administrator Deleting a template Site and Administrator Assigning a template Site Editing the template HTML Site and Administrator H H H H HE Editing the template CSS files Site and Administrator Ei Module Positions The Template Manager Access Select Site gt Template Manager gt Site Templates
183. ule Manager Screen displays a list of the installed Site Modules Select Position Select Type PO Moaie Manager Site n em Filter Module Hame Published Reorder Order a Access Position Pages Type Banners x 1 Public banner A 18 mod_banners Newsflash Public header A es od_newsflash The Flash Module Public header A 39 iod_flashmod Public ef V S 4 od_mainmenu General Information Public ef Yy 36 mod_mainmenu Main Menu Other Menu Public ef A 30 mod_mainmenu User Menu Registered ef A 2 mod_mainmenu d d O 4 E Marching Band sO O F d d Statistics Public ef mod_stats x xx xx xx xxaua DH HR 1 2 1 2 3 Public ef A 3 mod_mainmenu 4 5 7 8 Public ef S 5 mod_rssfeed 10 E Syndicate Figure 114 Module Manager screen Toolbar Buttons Publish Unpublish Copy Delete Edit and New are available The following information is displayed Column Name Details Options Modula Name This IS the title of the module It is editable and will be displayed on the Front end of your Web site if you choose so Published This tells you if the module contents will show on the Front end of your Web site Click i the button to toggle the published unpublished state This column allows you to change the relevant order that the modules display on the Reorder Front end of your Web page s Click the up or down arrows to increase or decrease the module order by one position This shows the order
184. ules referencing it By default you should find the following menus available mainmenu othermenu toomenu and usermenu under the Menu option Access Select Menu gt Menu Manager This will display the Menu Manager screen Menu Name Menu tems Published Unpublished irash Modules mainmenu Ea 10 othermenu hE topmenu L55 Weermenu bE lt lt Start Frevious 1 Nest End gt Display 30 Results 1 4 of 4 Figure 83 Menu Manager screen Toolbar Buttons Copy Delete Edit and New are available The following information is displayed Menu Field Menu Name Menu Items Published Unpublished Trash Modules Description This is the identification name used by Joomla to identify this menu within the code It must be unique It is recommended to use no space within this name For example in the core Joomla the User Menu s Menu Name is usermenu and the Main Menu s Menu Name is mainmenu Click on the Menu Item button E to access the menu items on the Menu Manager menu name screen The number of Menu Items published The number of Menu Items unpublished The number of Menu Items trashed This is the number of Menu Modules associated to the Menu Name Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 101 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 7 Accessing Functions from the Back end Administrator Create a New Menu Click the New button The Menu Details screen will be displayed or Menu Detail
185. ult template will be overridden by the Template Chooser Module in the Front end if used Any template displayed on this list will show in the Template Chooser Module Toolbar Buttons Default Assign Delete Edit HTML Edit CSS and New are available Install a New Template Field Name Details Options If your server has GZip support with PHP you will be able to upload a zipped package file that will be installed automatically Browse to the location of the element zipped package file of a Template on your computer Then click the Upload File amp Install button Upload a Template If you do not have GZip support you must unpack the zipped file onto your local drive before uploading it Unzip the archive into a folder on your local Install from a Directory drive and upload the unpacked archive files to your host s server Type the location of this file it must be the absolute location then click the Install button Delete a Template If you want to delete any template go to the menu item Site gt Template Manager gt Site Templates and use the Delete button Assign a Template You can assign a template to one or more pages from the list that is displayed When assigned the template will appear when a user clicks on these pages This will override the default template If you want to remove an assigned template from one or some page s select the assigned template again radio button and click the Assign button i
186. unctions from the Front end Note Publishers may publish articles on Joomla web sites However they do not have access to the Administrator s Back end panel The equivalent role to a Publisher which allows access to the Administrator s Back end panel is the Manager This is discussed later in this user s manual Submit a Web Link The web link is another form of content that a Joomla web site uses Web links are simply links to other web sites of interest and all Registered users can submit them You access this function by clicking on the Submit Web Link menu item in the User Menu As you can see from the picture below when you click on the Submit Web Link menu item a new dialogue box appears that allows you to enter the Name Section URL and Description of the web link Submit A Web Link Name JSAS The Joomla Stand Alone Server Section URL http www sas joomlasolutions com Description This application allows you to develop Joomla Applications from your Windows desktop Figure 28 Submit a Web Link You will notice that immediately after submitting a new Web Link that the system will return you to the home page with a small often overlooked message thanking you for your submission and confirming that it needs reviewing before being posted to the web site Herne Thanks for Your submission Your submission will nov be reviewed before being posted to the site Example FAQ Item 1 A Lorem i
187. vate Messaging Search Subject lt lt Start Prewious Next End gt Display 30 w No records found Figure 138 Message Inbox screen View a message Click the hyperlinked Subject of the desired message Details of the message will be shown Click the Back button in the toolbar to return to your Inbox Create a new message Click the New button in the toolbar Select the Recipient from the list and enter the desired subject and Message Click the Save button to send the message Click the Cancel button to abort the operation Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 161 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 8 Accessing Functions from the Back end Super Administrator Delete a message Select the checkbox next to the Subject of the message or multiple messages that you want to delete Click the Delete button in the toolbar An alert box will ask you to confirm the operation System Information Version Check Check This option links you to htip Awww joomla org content blogcategory 32 66 which provides details on the latest version of the software System Info wA Information System Info PHP Info Permissions System Information Following PHP Server Settings are not optimal for Security and it is recommended to change them A Joomla RG_EMULATION setting is ON instead of OFF in file globals php OW by default for compatibility reasons Please check the Official Joomla Server Security post for
188. with a dialogue entitled The News Add Content Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 38 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 4 Accessing Functions from the Front end The News Add Content into 0s Figure 20 Add Content from the Front end Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 39 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 4 Accessing Functions from the Front end This window has three main areas The top area contains input fields for the title of the new article and an appropriate Category for the Item Note The available categories will depend on the way the site content has been set up In general where only one Section has been set up all the categories for that Section will be available If you have multiple Sections you will need to set up multiple links on the User Menu one for each Section Toolbar Buttons Save Apply and Cancel are available 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 With the editor you can type in and format content without having to know HTML Here are just some of the features of this editor are Ei Choose font size style and colour Ei Insert bulleted or numbered lists Ei Justify text with left centre or right attributes Ei Insert hyperlinks Ef Create and edit Tables fo
189. word User Editor Select Editor Figure 18 User Details screen Here you can change Your Name e mail address User Name and Password User Editor You can also select the default User or WYSIWYG Editor from the User Editor drop down list Select Editor Mo WSPA YG Editor TinyMCE W Figure 19 User Editor select drop down In a default installation the only editor that is available is TinyMCE which provides good basic abilities to edit content right from the web site The Administrator may install additional editors in which case they would be available from the drop down list as well You may also choose no WYSIWYG editor if you wish to input your content without the use of the WYSIWYG editor Note This option will require some knowledge of HTML Chapter 4 explores Submitting News Web Links and Check In Items further Logout Click on the Logout button to end the current session Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 37 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 4 Accessing Functions from the Front end Chapter 4 Accessing Functions from the Front end Introduction As you saw in the last chapter once you have registered with a Joomla web site you will see a distinct User Menu when you log in Regardless of your specific role i e Registered Author Editor or Publisher you will see the same User Menu However the functions available from the menu will vary depending on the access permissions you have In this chapter
190. ws you to develop Joomla Applications trom your windows desktop Joomla Home of Joomla OpensourceMatters Home of OSM Joomla Forums Joomla Forums php net The language that Joomla is developed in MySQL The database that Joomla uses Joomla E Back Figure 30 Web Link screen Note The introductory text on the Web Links Categories page is editable Access is via the language file Further Information Chapter 8 Language Manager 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 buttons 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 Exiting these edit windows improperly can mean the Item becomes locked to others Here are just a few cases when this could occur Ei The user may accidentally close their browser window before cancelling or saving the transaction Ei The user may use the browser navigation functions to move away from the site before cancelling or saving the transaction Ei Perhaps a power failure just knocks your PC out at the wrong time Whatever the reason not saving or cancelling the transaction properly can lock users from accessing the article later Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 48 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 4 Accessing Functions fr
191. your Content Item Inserting images is done differently in Joomla than you may be used to in programs such as Dreamweaver Joomla uses tags mosimage in your article that identify where pictures should go the pictures are inserted by the system when called up by visitors to the web site Just below the WYSIWYG editor display you will see two buttons The first labelled Insert Image enables you to insert the image tag anywhere in to your text When you do this you will notice that the editor simply inserts the tag mosimage into the text The second button called Insert Page Break inserts a page break at a particular point inside your document Clicking on this button will insert the tag mospagebreak inside your document Documents with embedded page breaks will display an Article Index when the document is displayed Next and Previous links at the bottom of the document are provided for easy navigation from one page to the next Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 41 Version 1 0 1 Chapter 4 Accessing Functions from the Front end My First Article Page 1 of SN It s Time to Learn Jooml My First Article Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Do you you need an friendly solution that allows you ta build complex web sites in a hurry with no programming experience Do you need ta provide a way for users of you web site to enter new content without using expensive HTML editing programs If the answer to these questions is yes then r
192. ystem Help Polls Syndicate Web Links Weblink Items Weblink Categories Site Modules Administrator Modules Site Mambots Templates Site Templates Admin Languages Components Modules Mambots Inbox Configuration System Info Global Checkin Joomla 1 0 11 User Manual 183 Appendix D Glossary Publish Unpublish Delete Edit New Save Cancel Publish Unpublish Delete Edit New Publish Unpublish Delete Edit New Publish Unpublish Copy Delete Edit New Publish Unpublish Copy Delete Edit New Publish Unpublish Delete Edit New Uninstall Uninstall Uninstall Delete New Save Cancel Version 1 0 1

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