4.4 - Article Management

Upon clicking the Articles link on the Back-End menu bar, you will be presented with the article manager screen.

article manager screenshot

In the screenshot above, a number of articles have already been entered into the Back-End article manager. Note the Edit, Create New Record and Delete Links.

Users are alphabetically sorted by their last name. If the last name does not exist, then the contacts are sorted by their company name and then finally their email address.

The article manager is an organizational tool to help you categorise the information on your site. You can create sections for any number of specific topics and group related articles in each section. The Section and Category Manager also facilitates the creation of two or more levels of categories under each section.

For example, you could create a section called WTO. A list of general articles about the

4.4.1 - Adding Articles

To create a new article, click on the Create New Record link near the top of the screen.

You will be presented with a blank form, allowing you to fill in information about your new article.

article form screenshot

Section - You must choose one of these.

Submitted By - You must choose one of these.

Title - Enter the title for your article.

Content - You can write your content here. You can enter it in as text by typing it in directly or even cutting and pasting the information from an email. You can also use HTML codes which you can cut and paste from Netscape's Communicator or any other WYSIWYG editor

New Article Options - Depending on how you write your content, you may want to select Plain Text, Full HTML, or Extended Translation. Plain Text is useful for uploading email articles quickly to the site. Extended Translation will strip out many unwanted html codes. Full HTML will take all but or php tags

Before the information is saved into the database you will need to click on the Create this Article button at the bottom of the page.

The new article will now be created in this database.

4.4.2 - Editing Articles

From the article management screen, simply click the Edit link on the left side next to the article record that you wish to edit.

You will be presented with a form, showing the current details for the specific article.

editing article screenshot

Make the changes to the article's specifics and then finally scroll to the bottom of the page and click Submit these new details to update and save the article record.

4.4.3 - Deleting Articles

From the article management screen, simply click the Delete link on the right side next to the article that you wish to delete.

You will be asked to confirm that you really want to delete the record for this article.

confirm delete screenshot

If you click OK the article record will be deleted from the database.