Publications

The administrator can create periodic publications like news, articles, reviews, etc. An unlimited number of publication sections, as well as an unlimited number of articles in each section can be created.

To add a section of publication, click the 'Publications' link in the 'Content Management' section of the left administration menu. In the 'Add a New Section' form, fill out the ‘ID’ field and the ‘Section Name’. By default, the ‘ID’ and ‘Section Name’ fields have the same values.

After adding a section, you can click the 'Edit' icon and open the edit page section that allows to change a name of a section, create a page for a section and manage articles of a section.

To create a page for a section, click the 'Edit' icon near the section. On the opened page click the 'Create a page for this section' link. After clicking this link you will be redirected to the 'Add User Page' page. The ‘Module’, ‘Function’ and ‘category_id’ values will be filled in automatically in the ‘Add a New User Page’ form. For more information about user pages creation, go to the 'User Pages' section.

On the 'Edit' page of the 'Publications' section, the administrator can add, remove and edit articles in sections.

To add an article, use the 'Add a New Article' form. In this form input a title for the new article. After clicking the 'Add' button the newly created article will appear in the article list.

Then click the 'Edit' icon to open the article for editing. It brings the page with two WYSIWYG editors. The upper editor window is for a brief description of the article. Below it is a bigger WYSIWYG editor window for the body of the article. After editing the article click the 'Save' button.

The administrator can adjust the publication time of the article using the 'Date' field at the bottom of the page. Using the 'Move to Section' drop-down menu, the administrator can move this article to a different section of publications.