News and Articles

1. Using Topics and Articles
2. Features of Topics
3. Features of Articles

News & Articles is the area of Aegir that can be used for managing the actual contents of a website. In Midgard the website logic (Pages) and contents structure (Topics) are separated, and articles need to be pulled into corresponding web address using an URL parser like MidCOM or NemeinNavBar, or by writing PHP code.

Using Topics and Articles

By default Articles and Topics are included using PHP functions, to do this involves reading API Reference section. However, there are several different ways to display articles on the website, including the MidCOM component templates.

This is just a brief explanation of what is available via the interface in terms of editing and creating these objects. - Chances are that an end user of the system, somebody who solely concentrates on writing and/or editing documents will log into midgard and only see the News & Articles tabs - from where they will just add or edit articles etc.

Articles are designed to contain 2 primary fields - the abstract and the content. these are intended to be a summary (abstract) of the article and the body (content) of the article, in such a way that a summarized index page can be created by just outputing the content of the abstracts.

Features of Topics

• Categories (Topics)

  • The Ability to Create Categories - (If you are a Sitegroup Admin)
    this also allows the setting of the group owner and any 'additional fields for the quick entry interface'

  • The ability to edit categories

    • category name and ownership
    • the category description, code and extra info using the DHTML/source system
    • You must turn on (or have turned on for you) the power user tab to be able to see and modify the parameters menu which stores the 'additional fields information'
    • list the articles with this category, and create new articles
    • View the history of the category (and jump to the history view); - where you can revert to previous revisions.
    • Delete the Category/topic

Features of Articles

• The ability to create new articles and attach them to a category

  • This should allow the easy creation of articles for beginners using the system

• The ability to edit a new article

  • article name and title, change the author
  • select timing associated with the article (eg. from when to....)
  • alter some of the 'Midgard' built in fields
  • use the text boxes to edit the abstract, content and additional fields (the additional fields are restricted to 255 characters)
  • use the DHTML/HTML editor to modify the Content of the abstract and content.
  • modify the user defined fields (available via the power user option)
  • approve the article
  • access the history of the article - where you can revert to previous revisions.

  • Delete the article

  • Create New Articles

  • Create New Topics or Subtopics
  • News & Articles