4.3 - Section & Category Management
Upon clicking the Article Sections link on the Back-End menu bar, you will be presented with the section & category manager screen.
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In the screenshot above, a number of sections and categories have already been entered into the Back-End section & category manager.
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 Section and Category 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
4.3.1 - Adding Sections & Categories
To create a new section or category, 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 section.
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Under Section
- If this is a subsection, list the section that it is within (If you have a section on farm animals, you may want a sub-section on sheep). If it is a primary section leave it on "Select".
Name
- This is the name you choose for your Article Section (For example WTO), and will be the link to apear on your finished web site. Also, this name will become part of the URL (i.e. http://halifaxinitiative.org/hi.php/wto/) Should be short, unique & URL friendly (Spaces will get converted to +, most symbols should be avoided).
Template
- You have to choose a formatting template here. In most cases your Super Administrator will set up a couple of templates for you to use (ie. main.tpl and print.tpl). You are not limited to these templates though and itthe administrator can modify and upload new template files as required (These are located in /includes/templates). The standard naming convention is *.tpl, but if you create new templates you can name them what you like.
Content
- If you wish you can write a full description of the section for your visitors. There are the same restrictions for this content box as there are in the Articles editor. However, if you want any formatting to appear on the page the visitor sees, you must include HTML tags.
Alt Name, Alt Content & Alt Template
are an optional set of parallel fields that allow for a second language to be easily integrated into the site. If this is not required these fields can be left blank
Before the information is saved into the database you will need to click on the Create this Article Section button at the bottom of the page.
The new section or subsection will now be created in this database.
4.3.2 - Editing Sections & Categories
From the section and category management screen, simply click the Edit link on the left side next to section or category record that you wish to edit.
You will be presented with a form, showing the current details for the specific section or
category.
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Make the changes to the section's specifics and then finally scroll to the bottom of the
page and click Submit these new details to update and save the section
or category record.
4.3.2 - Deleting Sections & Categories
From the section and category management screen, simply click the Delete
link on the right side next to section or category record that you wish to delete.
You will be asked to confirm that you really want to delete the record for this section or
category.
If you click OK the section or category record will be deleted from the database.