Managing Issues

Issues are an optional container for Articles.

Issues List

Selecting Issues from the Linkbar will present you with a list of the issues defined in Catalog.

Toolbar

In conjuction with selecting one or more checkboxes in the list, the Toolbar provides the following functions:

• Publish the selected issue(s).
• Unpublish the selected issue(s).
• Edit a selected issue.
• Add a new issue
• Delete the selected issue(s).  Please note that in order to delete, you must remove all articles from the issue(s).

Filters

You can filter the list by the following:

• Part of a string in the title of an issue.
• The published state of the issues.
• The publication that the issues are a part of.

List Interaction

You can interact with the list of issues in the following ways:

• Click the linked column headers to change the sort order of the list and to reverse the sort direction.
• In the Title column, click the first link to edit the issue.
• In the Published column, click the icons to toggle between published and unpublished states.
• In the Order column, click the up and down arrow icons to weight the ordering in different directions.
• Use the list pagination features as you would for any other component.

Related Information

The table also shows how many articles have been created in each issue.

Adding or Editing an Issue

Toolbar

The Toolbar provides the following functions:

• Save the current item but as a new copy of the original item (Save To Copy).  Any change made are saved with the new item, not the original.
• Save the current item and then returns you to add another (Save & New).
• Save the current item and return to the list.
• Apply the changes made to the current item and return to the same page to continue edits.
• Cancel the edits without saving and return to the list.

Main Page

The add/edit page is divided into two main areas: a Title Block and a tabbed section.

The Title Block allows you to manage the following fields:

• Title - the title for the issue.
• Alias - The alias for the issue used in URLs when Search Engine Friendly URLs are activated.
• Subtitle - An optional subtitle for the issue.

General Tab

This tab allows you to manage the following fields:

• Issue Body - the body text or desciption.
• Published - allows you to set the item to a published or unpublished state.
  
• Access Level - The access level that control who can view the article.
• Issue Publication - The publication that this issue is a part of.
• Order - the weighted order for the item.  Negative numbers rise to the top of lists, and positive numbers sink to the bottom.  The order values do not need to be sequential.
• Issue Year - An optional year the issue belongs to (used in the Publication View to group issues in the same year).
• Issue Volume - An optional nomenclature field.
• Issue Number - An optional nomenclature field.
• Issue Month Name - An optional nomenclature field.
• Issue Month - An optional nomenclature field.
• Issue Month End - An optional nomenclature field.
• Issue Date - The actual date of the issue (usually used for sorting purposes).
• Start Date - An optional date to start displaying the article.
• End Date - An optional date to finish displaying the article.

Parameters

This tab you to manage the following settings for the issue:

• Presentation Layout - Always display this issue with a particular layout either from the component or the default template layout overrides.
• Print Button - Whether to display "print this page".
• Email Button - Whether to display "email to friend".
• Button Images - Whether to display the print and email actions as images (otherwise they are display as text links).
• Feed Link - Add the RSS feed links to the web page.
• Show Article Text - Options for the text to display in the feed.

Media Tab

This tab you to manage the following Media settings for the category:

• Thumb - An option image path that could relate to a thumb sized image.
• Small - An option image path that could relate to a small sized image.
• Medium - An option image path that could relate to a medium sized image.
• Large - An option image path that could relate to a large sized image.
• Full Size - An option image path that could relate to a full size sized image.
• Caption - An optional caption that will be used for the any of the other preset sizes listed above.
• Gallery Folder - An optional path that will be examined for images to use in a popup gallery.  Images to be used for thumbs must be prefixed with "t_" and only images with thumbs are displayed.
• Custom Code - Optional custom code to be used for media such as Flash or other web objects.

For the five preset sizes, you can use the Media Manager to select the image by clicking the Select button beside each field.

Metadata Tab

This tab you to manage the following settings for the category:

• Keywords - An optional set of keywords (separated by commas) that will be inserted into the actual web page (good for Search Engine Optimization).
• Description - An optional description that will be inserted into the actual web page (good for Search Engine Optimization).  This description will usually be display as a part of the search results in search engines.

Additional Comments

Issues are optional.