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  10  <body><strong class="title">Content Items : 
  11  Edit</strong>
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  14            <td width="16%" align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" class="datalabel">Purpose:</td>
  15            <td width="84%" valign="top" class="data"><p>This page allows to  edit a Content Item. On the left side there are the two
  16                      editors where you can add content for the intro and main
  17                      text areas. On the right are the parameteres tabs. You can
  18            hide/unhide the parameteres tabs, by clicking the &#39;Hide/Unhide Advanced Details&#39; link.</p>
  19                 <strong>Details</strong>               
  20                 <ul>
  21                      <li><strong>Title</strong>: Type here is the title of the content. This
  22                           is the title as it will appear on the page or table listing this
  23                           content.</li>
  24                      <li><strong>Title Alias</strong>: This field is
  25                           not used by core.&nbsp; SEF scripts and dynamic title/meta
  26                           scripts use it and it may have a future use.</li>
  27                      <li><strong>Section</strong>:
  28                           Choose here the Section you want the item to belong
  29                           to.</li>
  30                      <li><strong>Category</strong>:
  31                           Choose here the category you want the item to belong
  32                           to. The dropdown list will display the available Categories
  33                           for the Secton chosen above.</li>
  34                      <li><strong>Intro Text (required)</strong>:
  35                           Type here the introductory portion of the content. <strong>This is the part displayed in
  36                           Blog Lists</strong> for both Categories and Sections.
  37                           It can also be configured to be hidden when you view
  38                           the content.</li>
  39                      <li><strong>Main
  40                           Text (optional)</strong>: This is the body of your content.
  41                           It is only shown when viewing that content in full view,
  42                           and is not shown in Blog Lists.&nbsp;</li>
  43            </ul></td>
  44       </tr>
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  46            <td align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" class="datalabel">Usage:</td>
  47            <td valign="top" class="data">n/a</td>
  48       </tr>
  49       <tr>
  50            <td align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" class="datalabel">Default State: </td>
  51            <td valign="top" class="data">n/a</td>
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  54            <td align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" class="datalabel">Parameters:</td>
  55            <td valign="top" class="data"><p>The Attributes Area for content consists of five tabs: <strong>Publishing</strong>,
  56                      <strong>Images</strong>, <strong>Parameters</strong>, <strong>Meta
  57                      Info</strong> and <strong>Link to Menu</strong>.</p>
  58                 <p><strong>(1) Publishing - Publishing Info</strong></p>
  59                 <ul>
  60                      <li><strong>Show on Frontpage</strong>: Check
  61                           the box if you want this content to be assigned to the FrontPage
  62                           Component.</li>
  63                      <li><strong>Published</strong>: Check the box to let
  64                           the item show on your site.</li>
  65                      <li><strong>Access Level</strong>:
  66                           Choose who will be able to view this content. Public,
  67                           registered or special.</li>
  68                      <li><strong>Author Alias</strong>:
  69                           You can publish the author&#39;s name for a piece of content. You can
  70                           choose a Registered user as displayed through the dropdown
  71                           or type any name there (an author that does not have
  72                           an account or content created by many authors as a group).</li>
  73                      <li><strong>Change
  74                           Creator</strong>: This allows you to assign ownership
  75                           of this content to another registered user.</li>
  76                      <li><strong>Ordering</strong>:
  77                           Select the order in which this content is listed relative
  78                           to others in this Category. The choices available in
  79                           the dropdown will show once changes to the item are
  80                           saved or applied.</li>
  81                      <li><strong>Override Created Date</strong>:
  82                           This shows the created date for the content. You can
  83                           change the date if necessary.</li>
  84                      <li><strong>Start Publishing</strong>:
  85                           Select the date when this document is to be published
  86                           on the web site.</li>
  87                      <li><strong>Finish
  88                           Publishing</strong>: If desired, you can set the date
  89                           when your content is to be expired.</li>
  90                      <li><strong>Content ID</strong>:
  91                           This is the ID of the content in the database.</li>
  92                      <li><strong>State</strong>:
  93                           This shows the current state of the document. It is
  94                           not editable.</li>
  95                      <li><strong>Hits</strong>:
  96                           This gives the number of times this content was viewed.
  97                           The Reset Hits Value button allows you to reset the
  98                           counter to zero.</li>
  99                      <li><strong>Revised</strong>: This shows
 100                           the number of edits this content has undergone.</li>
 101                      <li><strong>Created</strong>:
 102                           This is the date this Content Item was created.</li>
 103                      <li><strong>By</strong>:
 104                           This is the name of the user that created the content
 105                           item.</li>
 106                      <li><strong>Last
 107                           Modified</strong>: This is the date when this content
 108                           item was last modified, if ever.</li>
 109                      <li><strong>By</strong>:
 110                           This is the name of the user that last modified this
 111                           content, if ever. </li>
 112                 </ul>
 113                 <p><strong>(2) Images - MOSImage Control</strong></p>
 114                 <ul>
 115                      <li><strong>Sub-folder</strong>:
 116                                Choose here the sub-folder you want to get the images
 117                      from. These are in images/stories/.</li>
 118                      <li><strong>Gallery Images</strong>:
 119                                This dropdown lists the images available in the
 120                                specific sub-folder. Highlight one or multiple
 121                                image name(s) and click on the &#39;Add&#39; button.The
 122                                name(s) will display in the Content Images dropdown.</li>
 123                      <li><strong>Content
 124                                Images</strong>: The &#39;up&#39; and &#39;down&#39; buttons
 125                                determine the order of images if there are more
 126                                than one on this page. The images will display
 127                                relative to the instances of {mosimage} tags in
 128                                your content.</li>
 129                      <li><strong>Edit
 130                                the image selected</strong>Select an image in &#39;Content
 131                                Images&#39;.</li>
 132                      <li><strong>Source</strong>:
 133                                     Displays the default name of the image highlighted.
 134                                     You may edit that name.</li>
 135                      <li><strong>Image Align</strong>:
 136                                          Lets you choose between None, center,
 137                           left or right.</li>
 138                      <li><strong>Alt
 139                                               Text</strong>:
 140                                               Lets you choose an Alt Text for
 141                                               the image.</li>
 142                      <li><strong>Border</strong>:
 143                                                    Type here the number of pixels
 144                           you want the border to be around the
 145                                                    image.</li>
 146                      <li><strong>Caption</strong>:
 147                                                         Type here a caption for
 148                           the image.</li>
 149                      <li><strong>Caption Align</strong>:
 150                                                              Lets you choose between
 151                                None, center, left or right.</li>
 152                      <li><strong>Width</strong>:
 153                                                                   Type here a
 154                           number in pixels to override the width of the
 155                                                                   image<strong>.</strong></li>
 156                      <li><strong>Apply</strong>:
 157                                                                   Click on this
 158                                                                   button to apply
 159                                                                   all the parameters
 160                                                                   defined for
 161                                                                   this image </li>
 162                 </ul>               <p><strong>(3) Parameters
 163                           -- Parameter Control</strong>: These parameters control
 164                           what you see when you view a Content Item in full view.</p>
 165                 <ul>
 166                      <li><strong>Page
 167                                Class Suffix</strong>:
 168                                Allows you to set customized styles for this page.
 169                                The suffix you type here is automatically added
 170                                to the CSS classes for this page, and will have
 171                                to be defined in your template&#39;s
 172                      CSS stylesheet for usage.</li>
 173                      <li><strong>Back Button</strong>:
 174                                Controls whether to show or hide a &quot;Back&quot; text
 175                                link that would appear on the bottom of the page and
 176                                return the user to the previously viewed page. The pull
 177                                down lets select &#39;Use
 178                                Global&#39; to use the parameter as defined globally
 179                                through the Site-&gt;Global Configuration, &#39;Hide&#39; or &#39;Show&#39;.</li>
 180                      <li><strong>Page
 181                                Title</strong>: Text to display at the top of the
 182                                page.</li>
 183                      <li><strong>Show/Hide
 184                                Page Title</strong>: Hides or shows the Page Title
 185                                text (defined in the field described above).</li>
 186                      <li><strong>Section
 187                                Name</strong>:
 188                                Hides or shows the name of the section to which
 189                                each item belongs. If this option is turned on,
 190                                each item&#39;s
 191                                section name will be shown under the item&#39;s
 192                                title on the home page.</li>
 193                      <li><strong>Section Name Linkable</strong>:
 194                                Enables you to make each item&#39;s section name linkable.
 195                                Applies only when the Section Name option (described
 196                                above) is set to &#39;Show.&#39;</li>
 197                      <li><strong>Category
 198                                Name</strong>: Hides or shows the name of the category
 199                                to which each item belongs. If this option is turned
 200                                on, each item&#39;s category name will be shown under
 201                                the item&#39;s
 202                                title on the home page.</li>
 203                      <li><strong>Category Name Linkable</strong>:
 204                                Enables you to make each item&#39;s category name linkable.
 205                                Applies only when the Category Name option (described
 206                                above) is set to &#39;Show.&#39;For each of the following
 207                                eight items listed below, you can use the option selected
 208                                in the Global Configuration settings (Site -&gt; Global
 209                                Configuration) by selecting &#39;Use Global&#39; or
 210                                you can override the Global Configuration setting by
 211                                selecting &#39;Show&#39; or &#39;Hide.&#39; Overriding
 212                                the settings here for items will not affect the
 213                                Global Configuration settings and will not affect
 214                                the settings on the rest of the site.</li>
 215                      <li><strong>Linked Titles</strong>:
 216                                Enables you to make item titles linked. The link
 217                                will go to the item page.</li>
 218                      <li><strong>Item
 219                                Rating</strong>: Hides or shows ratings given to
 220                                home page items by your site&#39;s users.</li>
 221                      <li><strong>Author Names</strong>:
 222                                     Hides or shows the names of authors of items.</li>
 223                      <li><strong>Created
 224                                          Date and Time</strong>: Hides or shows
 225                                          the date and time that items were created.</li>
 226                      <li><strong>Modified Date and
 227                                               Time</strong>:
 228                                               Hides or shows the date and time
 229                                               that items were last modified.</li>
 230                      <li><strong>PDF
 231                                                    Icon</strong>: Hides or shows
 232                                                    the icon and link to the PDF
 233                                                    version of items.</li>
 234                      <li><strong>Print Icon</strong>:
 235                                                         Hides or shows the icon
 236                           and link to the printer-friendly
 237                                                         format of items.</li>
 238                      <li><strong>Email
 239                                                              Icon</strong>: Hides
 240                                                              or shows the icon
 241                                                              and link to the page
 242                                                              that enables users
 243                                                              to email items to
 244                                                              others.</li>
 245                 </ul>               <p><strong>(4) Meta Info -- Meta Data</strong></p>
 246                 <ul>
 247                      <li><strong>Description</strong>:
 248                                This information is inserted in the headers of your
 249                      content. It is commonly used by search engines.</li>
 250                      <li><strong>Keywords</strong>:
 251                                These keywords are related to the header information
 252                                provided for search engines, but they also provide
 253                                another important function. These keywords drive
 254                                the What&#39;s
 255                                Related Module that provides automatic links to
 256                      other Content Items that shares a similar keyword. </li>
 257                      <li><strong>Add
 258                                Sect/Cat/Title</strong>:&nbsp; Clicking
 259                                on this button is a convenient way to insert the content&#39;s
 260                                information into the keywords field, including the content&#39;s
 261                      title, section name, and category name. </li>
 262                 </ul>               <p><strong>(5) Link to Menu: </strong>This
 263                           will create a &#39;Link - Content Item&#39; in the menu
 264                 you select.</p>
 265                 <ul>
 266                      <li><strong>Select a Menu</strong>: Highlight
 267                      here once the menus defined for your site.</li>
 268                      <li><strong>Menu
 269                                Item Name</strong>:
 270                                The name of the Menu as it will appear on your
 271                      site.</li>
 272                      <li><strong>Link
 273                                to Menu</strong>: Click on this button to create
 274                                the Menu Item.Existing Menu ItemsThis displays
 275                                a list of all &#39;Link
 276                      - Content Item&#39; Menu Items referencing this content.</li>
 277                 </ul></td>
 278       </tr>
 279       <tr>
 280            <td align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#EFEFEF" class="datalabel">Toolbar Icons: </td>
 281            <td valign="top" class="data"><ul>
 282                 <li><strong>Preview</strong>: Opens a new window to preview
 283                      the content as you would in the Frontend of your site.</li>
 284                 <li><strong>Upload</strong>:
 285                                Opens a new window which lets you upload a file
 286                      or an image from your computer to the images/stories folder.</li>
 287                 <li><strong>Save</strong>:
 288                           Saves the content and returns to Manager.</li>
 289                 <li><strong>Apply</strong>:
 290                                Saves the content and keep the content displayed
 291                      to edit.</li>
 292                 <li><strong>Close</strong>: Cancels the action. Any
 293                                     modification is lost. If opened to edit, the
 294                      Content Item remains checked-in.</li>
 295            </ul></td>
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