Publish an article

Are you an author or editor? Congratulations, you can publish your first article.

Here are the instructions for use..

1- Editing

Menu Submit an Article

To post an article, click the link Submit an Article, on the Community -> Subscribers menu.

You can also edit an existing article, either because you are the author of it, or because you are an editor.

Edition access to an existing article

You see this right through the top icon of the articles title (small pencil) which indicates that you can edit the article.

There are two main types of blocks:

1st block : article content

1. Article content, which you can edit in WYSYG mode or direct html coding.

About this topic, see the article about content edition with JCE editor.

2nd block : article attributes

2.Article attributes used to categorize, identify an article.

Explanation on every attribute is given at the next section.

Allows to give an order of classification within a category Meta data Enter keywords for search engines

In the first block, the title is the identifier of the article. It appears in large characters, and helps to understand the article in a list.

In the 2nd block, there are several fields:


Title	This is quite simple, the title is displayed where ever the article appears. Keep it short and simple.
The Category	Choose in the dropdown menu.Take care of the parent categories, to locate your article in the right part of the site.
Published	This criterion appears if you are at least Editor. Otherwise, the administrator will be able to publish the article. An unpublished article is pending.
Featured	This allows you to request that the item be visible on the home page. You also have to be an editor for that.
Author's nickname	The nickname is the name that appears in the article, but the author is the owner of the article. You can specify a different identifier than yours, but the author stays on your own. Only the administrator can change the name of the author, put his for example to lock any change.
Tags	Tags are used for specific research, and are displayed in the Galery.
Start / End date	This allows you to manage the items in time. Without end date, the article remains published for ever.
Access Level	Allows you to restrict accesses according to user profile
Language	Choose English or French.
Metadata	This is used by search engines, with a short description and keywords