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