Displaying a List of Issues in a Publication

To display the a list of all the issues in a publication, add a new internal link menu item to your desired menu.  Select Magazine from the list of components, then Publication -> Default Layout. 

Menu Options

This page has the following options available:

• Select Publication - Select the publication for which to show the issues from the drop-down list.
  
• Publication Title - Optionally show the title of the publication.
  
• Publication Description - Optionally show the description of the publication.
  
• Issue Year Jump Links - Optionally show internal links that allow you to jump to the collection of issues in a given year.
  
• Issue Descriptions - Optionally show the description for each issue.
  
• Issue List Ordering - The ordering by which to display each issue.
  
• Print Button - Optionally show the print-page link or icon.
  
• E-mail Button - Optionally show the email-to-friend link or icon.
  
• Button Images - Optionally show the print and email buttons as icons or text.
  

Advanced Options

The following options relate, in general, to how articles are to display once you drill down to the issue page and then the individual articles.

• Publication Icon - Which of the predefined media types to use for the icon.
  
• Issues Icon - Which of the predefined media types to use for the icon.
• Article Comments - Toggle the display of article comments. This feature requires JXtended Comments (sold separately).
• Articles Social Bookmarks - Toggle the display of article social bookmarks. This feature requires JXtended Comments (sold separately).
• Article Ratings - Toggle the display of article ratings. This feature requires JXtended Comments (sold separately).
• Article Pagination - Toggle the display of article pagination for articles with multiple pages.
  
• Article Page Count - Toggle the display of article page counts for articles with multiple pages.
  
• Article Table of Contents - Toggle the display of article Table of Contents for articles with multiple pages.
  
• Show All Pages Option - Toggle the display of the 'Show All' pages option for articles with multiple pages.
  
• Article Publication Title - Toggle the display of the Publication title.
  
• Article Issue Title - Toggle the display of the Issue title.
  
• Article Section Title - Toggle the display of the section title.
  
• Article Summary Text - Toggle the display of the article summary text.
  
• Article Author - Toggle the display of the article author.
  
• Article Back Links - Toggle the display of the article section and issue back links.
  
• Override Itemid - Manually set a different menu page to defer to for links within this menu page (use this option with caution).
  
• Follow Links - Toggle whether search engines should follow the links within this menu item. This is useful for avoiding duplicate content penalties when linking to Magazine articles from multiple places.
  

For assistance with creating and maintaining Joomla menu items, see the official Joomla documentation:

• http://docs.joomla.org/Screen.menus.15
• http://docs.joomla.org/Screen.menus.edit.15

Customization

This page may be customized using the Joomla layout override system.  You need to be able to create new files and edit them on your web hosting site using FTP or other tools that are available to you (contact your web host if you need more information).

All file paths are relative to the directory in which Joomla is installed.  When looking a files you need to create, it is assumed that you will create the necessary folders if they don't already exist in each case.  The directory default_template refers to the template that is set as the default for your site.  Please replace this name with the actual name of the template directory.

To create the layout override for this page, find the file:

/components/com_zine/views/publication/tmpl/default.php

Copy this to:

/templates/default_template/html/com_zine/publication/default.php

Make the desired adjustments to the source code to the new file you created and then save it.  Your changes should be reflected when you refresh the appropriate page.

For more information on layout overrides, see http://www.theartofjoomla.com/topics/layout-overrides.html