Publishing

The Publishing section is the control panel for all pages generated by the program. This section allows you to access various publishing options:

Default Publish Directory / Default Publish URL

These two fields point to the folder that Article Manager publishes to. They actually refer to the same folder, but the "Directory" means the server path, while the "URL" is the path in a web browser.

Default File Extension

This is what type of file Article Manager will publish your pages as. Since Article Manager uses extensive Server Side Includes (SSI), you'll usually want this to be .shtml.

Publish All

This will publish all of the content for any active Publishing Rules. This can be very useful if you've made major changes to the site, like moved servers, or if you have changed a lot of your templates.

In most cases, when doing template edits you should probably just publish the one Publishing Rule that you've modified.

Template Debug Mode

Enabling this option will identity the template used to generated page by adding a comment tag with the name of the template and any templateCell used, e.g.:

<!-- templateDebugMode: start template: admin/menus/home.html -->

Usually, you'll find several of these comments in any one generated page, either because other pages are pulled in through Server Side Includes, or because elements from more than one template are used to generate the page (such as with Article Manager's admin interface).

Publishing Rules

In addition to "modify" or "erase" for each rule, this list of your Publishing Rules provides you with some useful information and features:

• Published As, the filename format for the rule
• Placeholder, which tells you how to link to that rule in your templates
• publish, a link which will publish all the files for that rule
• Advanced Options, a pulldown from which you can choose to Erase, Disable/Enable, or Publish any selected rules.