Create/Edit a Label

The Create/Edit Label screen allows you to create a new Label or edit a previously created Label.

The Edit Label screen has four sections. The Label Editor, Options and Items are presented in tabs below the Label Details. By default, the Editor tab will be visible. Clicking on one of the other tabs will make that section visible, but will not cause the page to reload; therefore, it is not necessary to save your work before switching tabs.

Details

The Label details section is made up of six fields and is positioned underneath the main toolbar. The fields include: Title, Alias, Created On, Modified On, Views and Items.

Title: The Title field is where the name of the Label goes. For example, entering "Joomla!" in the title field will create a Label named Joomla!

Alias: The Alias field is a URL-safe version of the title that is used when SEF URLs have been enabled in the Joomla! Global Configuration. For example, if you create a Label named "Joomla!", you could make the Alias field "joomla". If the alias field is left blank, it will automatically be populated when the Label is saved. If the alias field contains unsafe characters, they will be removed when the Label is saved.

Created On: The Created On field will display the date and time the Label was created. It is not editable.

Modified On: The Modified On field will display the last date and time the Label was modified. It is not editable.

Views: The Views field will display the number of times the Label has been viewed by site users. It is not editable.

Items: The Items field will display the number of content items that the Label has been applied to. It is not editable.

Editor

Body

The Label body is a text field that can be used to describe the Label. The body field supports HTML and will load the user's preferred text editor.

Visibility

The visibility fields allow you to set up who can view the Label.

Published State: The Published State field allows you to select a state for the Label. Four states are possible: Published, Unpublished, Archived and Trashed.

Access Level: The Access Level field allows you to select which user groups can view the Label. As with most Joomla! extensions, it provides three Access Levels: Public, Registered and Special.

Ordering: The Ordering field allows you to select a definite position for a Label in relation to the rest of the Labels in the system. This is useful when you want Labels to be arranged in a specific order.

Metadata

The Metadata fields allow you to determine metadata for your labels, which is then used by Search Engines.

Keywords: The Keywords field allows you to configure the keywords that will be displayed in the HTML metadata for the Label. If left empty, the keywords entered in the Joomla! Global Configuration options will be used.

Description: The Description field allows you to configure the description that will be displayed in the HTML metadata for the Label. If left empty, the description entered in the Joomla! Global Configuration options will be used.

Options

Options

Label Title: The Label Title option controls whether the title of a Label should be displayed.

Label Body: The Label Body option controls whether the body text of a Label should be displayed.

Label Media: The Label Media option controls which, if any, media should be displayed.

Content Title: The Content Title option controls whether the title of a content item should be displayed.

Content Type: The Content Type option controls whether the content item title should be prefixed with the content type. For example, "Article: JXtended Labels" would indicate that the link is to an article titled "JXtended Labels"

Content Text: The Content Text option controls whether the text of the content item should be displayed.

Text Length: The Text Length option controls how much of the text (number of characters not including markup) of the content item should be displayed. The default value is 255 characters.

Content Media: The Content Media option controls whether the media of the content item should be displayed. This option is currently only supported for JXtended Magazine and Catalog. The media that will be displayed is the thumbnail image if present.

Content Labels: The Content Labels option controls whether the other labels that have been applied to the content item should also be displayed.

Image Media

The Image Media fields allow you to select up to four images that the system can use. The Label Media field in the Options group then allows you to configure which image to display on the site when viewing the Label.

Items

The Items section will list the Content Items that the Label has been applied to. To speed up navigation and searching, the Items screen offers two filtering options: search and content type. The search option will return a list of items with titles that match the entered phrase. Filtering by type will return only results of the specified content type.