The Content Items Manager shows a list of the Content items on your site for a particular Content Section or for All Content Items Manager.

You may enter text in the "Filter" box to refine the list based on whether the text is found in the title of any item. Type in any text and press Enter. You may also limit the list to a particular category (or section in the 'All Content Items' page) by select one from the list.
 
Toolbar Actions

You "select" items by clicking the checkbox at the start of each row.
 
New: Click the 'New' icon to create a new Content item.
 
Edit: Click the 'Edit' icon to edit the Content item.

Publish and Unpublish: Click the 'Publish' or 'Unpublish' icon to publish or unpublish any number of selected Content items.
 
Move: Click the 'Move' icon to move Content items to another Content Section or Category.
 
Copy: Click the 'Copy' icon to copy Content items into a Content Section or Content Category.
 
Archive: Click the 'Archive' icon to put Content items into an archived state. They are still accessible to the Frontend of your site if in published mode.
 
Trash: Click the 'Trash' icon to put Content items in the trash bin. They are not completely removed but can't be displayed on your site. You can restore this Content items in the Trash Manager.

Columns

Title: This is the title of the Content item. Click here to edit content. A padlock icon next to it shows that it is checked-out. To check-in, click the name to edit ,

Published: This shows whether the item is published. Hover over this icon to see a summary of the publishing information. Click to change state.

Frontpage: This is whether this item is to be published or is published through the FrontPage Component.

Reorder: This shows the order of Menu Items in the menu. Click the arrow icons to move the item up or down in the list.

Order: Shows the order of Menu Items in the menu. You may change it by editing 2 # conjointly and clicking on the Save Order icon in the heading.

Access: This is the user access level for the content item. Click on the Access level to switch it to another value.

Section: This is the Section that the Content item belongs to (this shows when 'All Content Items' page is open). Click to edit the Section page.

Category: This is the Category that the Content Item belongs to. Click to edit the category page.
 
Author: This shows the name of the author of the Content. Click to edit the author information.

Content Items : New / Edit

This page allows to create or edit a Content Item.

Toolbar Icons

Preview: Opens a new window to preview the content as you would in the Frontend of your site.

Upload: Opens a new window which lets you upload a file or an image from your computer to the images/stories folder.

Save: Saves the content and returns to Manager.

Apply: Saves the content and keep the content displayed to edit.

Close: Cancels the action. Any modification is lost. If opened to edit, the Content Item remains checked-in.

Item Details
 
Title: Type here is the title of the content. This is the title as it will appear on the page or table listing this content.

Title Alias: This field is not used by core.  SEF scripts and dynamic title/meta scripts use it and it may have a future use.

Section: Choose here the Section you want the item to belong to.

Category: Choose here the category you want the item to belong to. The dropdown list will display the available Categories for the Secton chosen above.

Intro Text (required): Type here the introductory portion of the content. This is the part displayed in Blog Lists for both Categories and Sections. It can also be configured to be hidden when you view the content.

Main Text (optional): This is the body of your content. It is only shown when viewing that content in full view, and is not shown in Blog Lists. 

Formatting content

The formatting options interface depend on the Editor you are using. Many editors are available as Open Source or commercial products.

The Attributes Area for content consists of five tabs

Publishing, Images, Parameters, Meta Info and Link to Menu.

Publishing

Show on Frontpage: Check the box if you want this content to be assigned to the FrontPage Component.

Published: Check the box to let the item show on your site.

Access Level: Choose who will be able to view this content. Public, registered or special.

Author Alias: You can publish the author's name for a piece of content. You can choose a Registered user as displayed through the dropdown or type any name there (an author that does not have an account or content created by many authors as a group).

Change Creator: This allows you to assign ownership of this content to another registered user.

Ordering: Select the order in which this content is listed relative to others in this Category. The choices available in the dropdown will show once changes to the item are saved or applied.

Override Created Date: This shows the created date for the content. You can change the date if necessary.

Start Publishing: Select the date when this document is to be published on the web site.

Finish Publishing: If desired, you can set the date when your content is to be expired.

Content ID: This is the ID of the content in the database.

State: This shows the current state of the document. It is not editable.

Hits: This gives the number of times this content was viewed. The Reset Hits Value button allows you to reset the counter to zero.

Revised: This shows the number of edits this content has undergone.

Created: This is the date this content item was created.

By: This is the name of the user that created the content item.

Last Modified: This is the date when this content item was last modified, if ever.

Parameters

These parameters control what you see when you view a Content Item in full view.

Page Class Suffix: Allows you to set customized styles for this page. The suffix you type here is automatically added to the CSS classes for this page, and will have to be defined in your template's CSS stylesheet for usage.

Back Button: Controls whether to show or hide a "Back" text link that would appear on the bottom of the page and return the user to the previously viewed page. The pull down lets select 'Use Global' to use the parameter as defined globally through the Site->Global Configuration, 'Hide' or 'Show'.

Page Title: Text to display at the top of the page.

Show/Hide Page Title: Hides or shows the Page Title text (defined in the field described above).

Section Name: Hides or shows the name of the section to which each item belongs. If this option is turned on, each item's section name will be shown under the item's title on the home page.

Section Name Linkable: Enables you to make each item's section name linkable. Applies only when the Section Name option (described above) is set to 'Show.'

Category Name: Hides or shows the name of the category to which each item belongs. If this option is turned on, each item's category name will be shown under the item's title on the home page.

Category Name Linkable: Enables you to make each item's category name linkable. Applies only when the Category Name option (described above) is set to 'Show.'

For each of the following eight items listed below, you can use the option selected in the Global Configuration settings (Site -> Global Configuration) by selecting 'Use Global' or you can override the Global Configuration setting by selecting 'Show' or 'Hide.' Overriding the settings here for items will not affect the Global Configuration settings and will not affect the settings on the rest of the site.

Linked Titles: Enables you to make item titles linked. The link will go to the item page.

Created Date and Time: Hides or shows the date and time that items were created.

Modified Date and Time: Hides or shows the date and time that items were last modified.

PDF Icon: Hides or shows the icon and link to the PDF version of items.

Print Icon: Hides or shows the icon and link to the printer-friendly format of items.

Email Icon: Hides or shows the icon and link to the page that enables users to email items to others.

Meta Info

Description: This information is inserted in the headers of your content. It is commonly used by search engines.

Keywords: These keywords are related to the header information provided for search engines, but they also provide another important function. These keywords drive the What's Related Module that provides automatic links to other content items that shares a similar keyword.

Add Sect/Cat/Title:  Clicking on this button is a convenient way to insert the content's information into the keywords field, including the content's title, section name, and category name.

Link to Menu

This will create a 'Link - Content Item' in the menu you select.

Select a Menu: Highlight here once the menus defined for your site.

Menu Item Name: The name of the Menu as it will appear on your site.

Link to Menu: Click on this button to create the Menu Item.