How to Access
Navigate to the Artist/Category Manager.
To add a new Artist/Category, press the 'New' icon in the toolbar. To edit an
existing Artist/Category, click on the title or click the Artist/Category's
checkbox and then click on the Edit icon in the toolbar.
Description
This is where you can add a new Artist/Category or edit an
existing Artist/Category. Artist/Categories are used to organize the Products within
a Section. Sections and Artist/Categories allow you to display related
Products together on a page. You can assign multiple Artist/Categories to each product.
Screenshot
Details
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Alias. The internal name of the item. Normally, you can
leave this blank and Joomla! will fill in a default value. The default
value is the Title or Name in lower case and with dashes instead of
spaces. You may enter the Alias manually. The Alias should consist of
lowercase letters, and no blank spaces are allowed. Use a hyphen (-)
instead. The Alias will be used in the URL when SEF is activated.
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Published. Whether or not this item is published. Select Yes or No from the radio button group to set the Published state for this item.
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Section. Section for this Category. Select the Section from the drop-down list box. This is a required field.
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Category Order. The order this Category will display in the
Artist/Category Manager.
Use the drop-down list box to change the Order. You can select 'First'
or 'Last' to make this the first or last Artist/Category. You can also select
a Artist/Category from the list. In this case, the current Artist/Category will be
listed just after the Artist/Category you select. Note that the Order can also
be changed in the Category Manager screen.
- Enter the desired level using the drop-down list box.
TinyMCE editor
The default editor for both front-end and back-end users in Joomla! is the TinyMCE editor.
TinyMCE is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor that
allows users a familiar word-processing interface to use when editing
Articles and other content. The 3-row toolbar below provides many
standard editing commands:
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Top Row.
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Buttons in the upper left allow you to make text bold, italic,
underlined, or strikethrough. Next to that are buttons for align left,
right, center, and full.
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Styles. Caption and System Pagebreak
styles can be set. Highlight the desired text and select the style.
This will allow this text to be formatted based on CSS rules.
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Format. Select pre-defined formats for Paragraph, Address, Heading1, and so on.
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Font Family. Select the desired font.
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Second Row.
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Unordered List, Ordered list, Outdent (move left) and Indent (indent right).
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Undo (Ctrl+Z) and Re-do (Ctrl+Y).
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Insert/Edit Link. To insert or edit a link, select the linked text and
press this button. A popup dialog displays that lets you enter details
about the link.
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Unlink. To remove a link, highlight the linked text and press this button.
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Insert/Edit Image. To insert and image, place the cursor in the desired
location and press this button. A popup dialog displays that lets you
enter in the Image URL and other information about how the image will
display.
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Cleanup Messy Code. This button allows
you to clean up HTML code, perhaps from HTML text that you copied in
from another source.
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Edit HTML Source. A popup displays showing the HTML source code, allowing you to edit the HTML source code.
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Find and Find/Replace.
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Insert Date, Time, or Emotions.
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Insert Embedded Media. To insert embedded media (such as Flash), place
the cursor at the desired location and press this button. A popup
dialog will display that allows you to enter the Type, File or URL, and
other information about the media.
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Direction Left to Right and Direction
Right to Left. These buttons allow you to enter or change the text
direction, for example for languages that read right to left.
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Insert New Layer, Move Forward, Move Backware, Toggle Absolute Position. For working with layered items.
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Select Text Color.
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Third Row.
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Insert Horizontal Ruler.
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Remove Formatting.
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Toggle Guidelines/Invisible elements.
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Subscript, Superscript, Insert Custom Character, Horizontal Rule.
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Insert New Table, Table Row Properties, Table Cell Properties, Insert
Row Before, Insert Row After, Delete Row, Insert Column Before, Insert
Column After, Delete Column, Split Merged Table Cells, Merge Table
Cells.
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Toggle Full Screen Mode.
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Edit CSS Style. A popup dialog box displays that allows you to enter CSS style information for the selected text.
No editor
If 'No editor' is selected for a User, then a simple text editor
displays. This allows you to enter in raw, unformatted HTML. You can
use the toolbar 'Preview' button to preview how the HTML will display.
Note that the 'No Editor' option can be useful if you are
entering in 'boilerplate' or custom HTML, for example to create a
PayPal link. TinyMCE automatically re-formats and strips some HTML when
a file is saved. This can cause complex HTML to not work correctly.
If this happens, you can temporarily change the editor to 'No
Editor' and create the desired content. Note that if you wish to edit
this content in the future, you should be careful to change your editor
to 'No Editor'. Otherwise, if you open and save the content with
TinyMCE, you may lose your custom HTML.
Image Button
An Image button is located just below the edit window, as shown below:
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Image. This button provides an easy way to insert an
image into an Article. Images may be inserted from the 'images/stories'
folder and may also be uploaded. When you click the Image button, a
window pops up, as shown below:
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Directory. The current directory on the
host server. This is the 'images/stories' directory under your Joomla!
home directory. Use the drop-down list box to select a subdirectory.
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Up. Navigate to the parent
directory. Note that the top directory for this function is
'images/stories'. You can not navigate to a higher directory.
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Insert. Insert the selected
image. The insert point will be the current cursor position. You will
see the image display inside the edit window.
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Cancel. Cancel the operation and close the popup window.
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Thumbnail Browse Area. Click on an image thumbnail to select the image. Click on a folder icon to navigate to that subdirectory.
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Image URL. Click on one of the image thumbnails and the URL for the image will be entered for you.
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Align. Select the desired alignment (left or right) from the drop-down list box.
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Image Description. Enter a description for the image.
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Image Title. Enter a Title for this image. This displays when a User hovers the mouse on the image.
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Caption. If checked, image title will display as a caption below the image.
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Browse files.
Click this button to browse to an image file to upload from your local
computer. A file dialog will open allowing you to select a file.
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Start Upload. Once you have
selected a file, press this button to upload the file to your Joomla!
'images/stories' folder. When the upload is done, a 'Completed' message
will display. The thumbnail for the new image will now show in the
thumbnail area.
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Clear Completed. Clears the 'Completed' message.
Toolbar
In the upper right you will see the toolbar:
The functions are:
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Apply. Save it, but stay in the same screen. If you
have been working on a screen for a long time and don't want to risk
losing your work, pressing Apply saves your work and lets you continue
working. If, for example, you lost your Internet connection, your work
will be saved up this point.
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Close. Return to the previous screen without saving
your work. If you press Close while adding a new item, this new item
will not be created. If you were modifying an existing item, the
modifications will not be saved.
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