General Settings

option	description
Titlebar Message	allows you to personalize your copy of Article Manager by adding this text to the title of the control panel
Footer Message	allows you to personalize your copy of Article Manager by adding this text to the bottom of the control panel
Display "confirm erase" page	Enable or disable this confirmation page.
Display "record erased" page	Enable or disable this notification page.
Display "record saved" page	Enable or disable this notification page.
Display "setup warning" page	Enable or disable this warning page.

Editor Settings

option	description
Default content format	With this box checked, textareas in new articles will default to Auto Format, meaning line breaks in the textarea will be rendered as break tags (<br>).
HTML Tag Parsing	With this box unchecked, all HTML entered into the program will be ignored.
Advanced Article Types	With this box checked, users can select Article Types other than Full Article. Please see the section on Article Types in the User's Guide for more information.
Article Filenames	By checking this box, users will be able to specify filenames for their articles. Only a limited subset of characters are allowed to be used in a filename, namely letters, numbers, and the _ (underscore) character. These limitations are in place to prevent the possibility of having malicious users input special characters in filenames to exploit your server.
Publish All	Clicking this button will re-publish all files.

Dynamic Page Settings

option	description
Dynamic Article Viewer	With this box checked, users can view articles dynamically using view.cgi. If you have archived articles, this option must be on.
Article Search Feature	With this box checked, users can search your article database using search.cgi queries.
Webfeed Generator	With this box checked, any web visitor can access the syndicate.cgi program and use it to create webfeeds. Please see the section on Syndicated Content for more information.
Dynamic Page Rendering	This determines how Article Manager handles includes and scripting in pages generated by search.cgi and view.cgi. See the Includes docs for more information.
Login Information for Password Protected Folders	If you have password protected Article Manager's published files with basic authentication, search.cgi and view.cgi (and admin.cgi's "preview" feature) each require a login account in order to be able to render results properly. When using this option, you may also wish to password protect exec/search.cgi and exec/view.cgi as well so that only authorized users can generate search results and view articles dynamically. See the Server Side Parsing documentation for more information.

Article Fields

Article Manager allows you to define up to 20 spare fields to store whatever kind of textual information that you want. An example use of a spare field would be for the author of an article. To create a spare field, simply enter a "field name" and check the "enable" box beside it.

field type	description
textbox	one text line for entering details such as an author's name
textarea	a larger area to type multiple text lines of detail
WYSIWYG	What You See Is What You Get: editor - a textarea that allows the user to format text (bold, size, font, links) without using HTML tags
pulldown	gives the user the option to choose from a dropdown selection
checkbox	allows user to check a box to have article match a certain criteria

When creating or modifying an article, you will be able to enter data into your new field. To display this new information on your website, you'll need to add the appropriate placeholder to your templates. For more information on this, please refer to the Templates section.

You can stop a spare field from being displayed by unchecking the "enable" box, however, simply disabling a field does not clear data in that field from your articles. If you're finished with a field and you don't want to use it anymore, be sure to click the "erase" link beside the field.

You can change the order in which fields are displayed on the article edit page by swapping numbers in the "order" fields.

For checkbox fields, you can enter additional text which will appear to the right of the checkbox. To do this, add parenthesis around the extra text and place it after the field name:

Featured (Show this article first in lists)

To use a pulldown, enter in the name of the field in the "field name" box, followed by a comma-separated list of items in parenthesis:

Priority (Low, Medium, High)

Note: If you need to use commas in one of your pulldown's list items, place a backslash (\) before the comma to prevent it from separating your item into two. You don't have to backslash parenthesis in list items.

Article Sorting

You can change the order in which Article Manager displays and publishes articles by specifying a different sort order in this section. Articles are first sorted by the top field. If articles are found which have the same value for the first sort, they're sorted on the second field, then finally the third.

The default sort is first on Spare field 20 (the "featured" checkbox), then on date. This causes articles to be sorted by date, with featured articles displayed first. Both of these sort fields are, by default, numeric and reversed.

Upload Settings

option	description
Max file size for uploads	Allows you to prevent your users from uploading very large files to your server.
Max image size for uploads	Specify a limit on the height and width of uploaded images.
Accepted upload extensions	A comma separated list of file extensions.

Upgrade Information

This section will show you the current version of Article Manager and will determine if there is a recommended upgrade available.