Re: Beginner questions about articles in Xaraya

"SpiritTech" <greg-7AJS2N3YFopQWC9lL0RKGQC/[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
> I fear that my very simple questions will completely humiliate me. But
> reading the manual has not let me work out how to do some very simple
> things... so here I am with some questions. Feel free to laugh at me,
> but please give me some tips after you get your breath back  ;-)
>
> 1 How do I display an article?

There are a couple of ways to display an article.  There are a couple of
ways to ask this question as well.  How do I display it to my front page?
How do I choose an article to be on the front page, and not another one?
etc.

If you want your articles as you default module, go to admin -> base ->
modify config, and set the articles module as your default.  This will set
xaraya to display the articles whenever http://www.yourhost.com is the
address.  All is good, now let's get into the articles themselves.

First you need to tell the articles what the primary (if any) pubtype is.
That could be links, that could be downloads, that could be recipies, that
could be docs, or whatever publications you have defined.  You need to set
this in admin -> articles -> modify config.  If you do not set a default
here, then any publication can publish to the front page.  This is what we
do on Xaraya.com

Then it is a matter of adding content in admin -> articles -> new.  Once you
have added content, the view function will ask you what you want to do with
this article?  Approved will publish the article within the category that
you have selected.  However, it will not push it to the front page view.
Once either approved or on the front page, the article is accessible through
navigation.



>
> 2 How do I display all articles of a particular catagory?

You can make a menu item for the category via the category block, or the
main menu block.  If using the main menu, you can simply use (cat_number) as
the link, and it will directly link to that cat.

>
> 3 How do I display all articles of a particular publication type?

If you are using the main menu block, then there will be links to the
particular pub-type.  If not, then you can link to the pubtype directly via
any form of navigation that you use.  If you don't know the link, then you
can find it by using the article map, and select navigate by pub-type.


>
> 4 How do I display all articles in several catagories?

You can do this a couple of ways.  The easiest is to create more than one
base category in for the publication type in admin -> articles -> modify
config, for the pub-type, and then that will give you multiple category
boxes when you select an article.


>
> 5 How do I display all articles of several publication types?

This would be easiest by not selecting a default "front page" pub-type in
the articles modify config, and pushing the articles that you want to
display to the front page.  This allows multiple articles to be shown.  As
with anything though, there are more ways to skin a cat;)


>
> These questions might seem mind numbingly obvious to you experts. But as
> a newcomer to Xaraya with only understanding of how PostNuke works and
> no PHP programming skills, my small brain can't work it out. So please
> give me a (typing) hand and perhaps these can go into the docs along
> with the VERY HELPFUL new Overview which was added into the docs due to
> my silly questions here last week :-)

Good questions, keep them coming:)


>
> SpiritTech
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