Administration - Article

### New article

This is the Key Feature!

Watch for the syntax, the grammar and the URLs as this article is going to be published in your site!

#### Title

Short and clear.

#### Topic

Select the topic. If no topic is selected then it's the first one in your database that will be selected.

#### Category

Select or create the category in which you want your aticle to appear. Default: Article, but you can create more by clicking add.
A category is a kind of tag that allows searching from the sitemap, the category block if you enable it, and will be present before the article title on the index page- news on certain them.

#### Publish to root

This function allows you to choose whether the article will be displayed on the home page when it is published.

#### Only to members

- Yes: you also have the option to select a group that you will have defined in the group management
- No: your article will be visible to everyone including anonymous.

#### Introductory text

You can use HTML, CSS, NPDS meta-words (for example:! Date!).
The articles also allow you to display PHP, C, Perl code, you have to frame your source code with the [code] source [/ code] pseudo-tags.
NPDS generates valid (x)html code using the built-in Tiny mce editor.

If the article is not very long you will not use the following extended text window.

#### Extended text

If your article is long, the most important part should go in this area.
When an article is published contains extended text, the Read more ... link will automatically appear at the end of the article.
This area has the same capabilities as the article area.

#### Publication date

Choose the date and time which you want the article to display on your site. Depending on your choice, the article will be published; immediately or then will be stored in auto-articles.

#### Publication end date

Select the date you want your article to stop showing.
It will then be noted; archived in the list under the administration section.
You will be able to display it again without having to have it. re-enter the text.
Tip: if you don't want an end of publication or archiving, choose a date that is later than 2110 by default.

#### Purge of the article at the end of its validity date

If you select yes, the article will be permanently deleted. on the date set in the end of publication date.

#### Preview

Use this before publishing the article, you may want to test for typos, syntax, URL's.

#### Publish Admin article

If you are sure of your spelling, HTML codes, URLs ... you publish by changing state to go from Preview to Post an admin article then you click on the button OK: your article will be live according to your defined publication date settings.

Tip: setting a remote publication date allows you to prepare an article and save it, it will then be accessible via the scheduled articles link in the first row dedicated to alert messages.

NPDS - Administration manual