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| - | ====== Frontend Menu ====== | + | ====== Front end Menu ====== |
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| - | In order to use Article Factory Manager from frontend, you will need to set up the user menu. To do this go on backend at Menus/Menu Manager/Add New Menu \\ | + | In order to use **Article Factory Manager** from frontend, you will need to set up the user menu by adding component related menu items.\\ |
| - | //This step is optional as you can add the component menu items on which menu you wish// | + | This will be done from backend, you can either create a new menu from **Menus/Menu Manager/Add New Menu** or add the items on an already created menu, such as the Main Menu of Joomla.\\ |
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| + | For this example, we will be adding the "Article form" menu item which helps us to submit new articles. Go to **Menus/Main Menu/Add New Menu Item** and select said item on the **Menu Item Type** field.\\ | ||
| + | Add a **Menu Title** which will be the item name displayed on the menu. Here you can also set the **Access** which should be set according to the [[joomla30:articlefactory:articles#permissions| Permissions]] configuration.\\ | ||
| + | Click on **Save** when you are done. You can follow the same procedure in order to add all the available Article Factory Manager menu items.\\ | ||
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| + | {{gallery> joomla30:articlefactory:new_menu_item.png?999x999 }}\\ | ||
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| + | Here is a list of the available menu items and their usage:\\ | ||
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| + | * **Approve** - The approval queue Menu Item available for users that have the permission to approve articles. | ||
| + | * **Full Article form** - Create new article form with all the fields. | ||
| + | * **Articles** - The article list for the users which can create or submit. | ||
| + | * **Resourcebox** - User Resource Box where he can promote himself. | ||
| + | * **Search form** - Users can search for articles they have created or approved. | ||
| + | * **Custom Article Form** - In this form you can enable or disable any fields except the Title and Description, and you can also set a template for the Description field. | ||
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| ====== Submitting New Articles ====== | ====== Submitting New Articles ====== | ||
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| - | Depending on the backend configuration you might need to login as a registered user in order to add new articles on frontend. To register you must provide your username and a valid email. The Email is important since you will receive your communications regarding your articles through email. After you login you should see the Article Factory Manager menu, which can be similar to this, depending on your user group:\\ | + | Depending on the backend configuration users might need to login as registered users in order to add new articles on frontend. To register they must provide a username and a valid email. The Email is important since they will receive communications regarding their articles through email.\\ |
| + | In case you added all the **Article Factory Manager** menu items to the Main Menu it should look similar to this, depending on the user group and the defined name:\\ | ||
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| - | {{gallery> joomla30:article:mainmenu.png }}\\ | + | {{gallery> joomla30:articlefactory:new_main_menu.png }}\\ |
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| **(!)** It is important to know that the details which you can manage when adding new articles can be different depending on how settings and permissions are configured from backend.\\ | **(!)** It is important to know that the details which you can manage when adding new articles can be different depending on how settings and permissions are configured from backend.\\ | ||