J1.5:Hands-on adding a new article: Joomla! 1.5

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This is a 'hands-on' tutorial which shows how to create a new article. When a new article is 'published' it can continue to be edited and worked on - see the hands-on tutorials about editing in this Manual.

Readership and what you need to know already

• Everyone
• If you are not experienced, some of the terminology here may be obscure, especially about where to locate the article and the publishing of articles by people with different permissions.
• You have access to a Joomla! site
• You are logged in with a user name with an appropriate level of permission
• You have worked on the hands-on page in this Manual about editing
• You know where the new article will be located. That is to say, which Section and Category it will be assigned to.

You need to find this out to get the article to display in the correct place. It depends on the organisation of the website as to how you find out.

The difference between authors and publishers

• Authors can create and alter articles but they cannot 'publish' them - which means that they do not display until the system adminstrator has ticked a box for them to be published.
• Publishers can see the Publish tick-box when they edit or create an article - so they can publish their own articles.
• Publishers can edit documents that they did not create - so in many ways a site is safer with fewer publishers - but it is often convenient for people to be able to 'publish' what they create.

To get it published depends on the way the site is managed. Publishing is normally done by the site adminstrator or someone with publish permissions. You are likely to need to send an email asking for it to be published.

Starting a new article

You can easily start a new article for yourself although exactly how you do this depends on how the website is set up. Many sites have a USER MENU with several options about things users might want to do. (It is not always called a USER MENU - it depends on the site!). One of the common options is to Create and Article. If this option is available - use it.

Find the USER MENU

Click on Create an article

Sometimes there is a a small icon that looks like a sheet of paper at the bottom of many of the list pages. (This icon does not appear on the on pages with just one article - it does appear on pages where there is a list of articles.)

Click on the New Article icon ( image new)

However the article is created, the editing screen (called Submit an Article) is loaded. This is the same editor as used for editing articles, except that it has no content and no title. Nor does it have any of the options set to cause it to be displayed in the correct place.

Type in a title in the title box

Type in some text - or copy text from another document

If you have publisher permissions, type a few lines and then go to the Publisher part of the editor before you Save it. You will then need to find it in the right menu for further editing. If you are an author - you will need to get it published before you can do more editing to it - so it is worth typing quite a bit of content at this stage before adding the details in the Publisher part of the editor. When it is saved, you will not be able to return to editing it until it has been published. You will then need to look for it in the right menu.

Get the article in the right menu

Note that you can do this before you have added all the text - but see above for the difference between publishers and authors.

screen of the Publishing section

Sections and Categories

There is a Publishing section below the editing screen. Here you must:-

• Choose a Section for the article -
• Choose a Category -
• Choose Yes to make sure it is Published
• Choose the right Access level (Registered means that it can be seen by people who have logged in but do not have any write access.)

If the article is going to be displayed in one of the pages that lists content - getting the Section and Category correct means that it will display in the right place without further effort on your part.

Other choices in the Publish part of the editor

Save the article

If you are a publisher - you should now find the article in the place you expect!

What next?

Back to editing

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--Lorna Scammell 17:40, 11 December 2010 (UTC)