George_h
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May 23, 2005, 12:28 PM
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AM comes with it's own built in 'continued page'
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MODERATOR I am sorry if this has been explained before. If it has please delete
I have taken so much out of this forum over the last couple of years I thought I would give a little back....
Did you know that AM comes with it's own built in 'continued page'. So if you have a very long article you can create a continued page effectively cutting the article in half, and displaying it on 2 pages.
There 2 down sides to this method. (Isn't there always) - You will loose the printer page facility. I think that printer pages can be detrimental as the search engines tend to prefer them to your content page.
- All of the articles must be split as a link appears at the end of each article inviting the reader to continue to the continuation page. (There is a work around for this. See end of explanation)
I am running this feature on the following site http://articles.tips.net (if you want to have a look at it running)
What you need to do is:
In AM 'setup options' -- 'general' you need to add a placeholder for the continued page, I use art_field19, name it something like 'content for the continuation page'. I use WYSIWYG but you can use textarea.
Then in AM 'setup options' -- 'server' change the Article Printer Pages name to something like continued_ (that's what I use)
Then in your article 'default' template just add the following line after your $art_content$ placeholder
<a href="$art_printer_url$">Continued</a>
Make your default_printer.html article template exactly the same as your 'default' article template except change the $art_content$ placeholder to $art_field19$ and remove the continued bit.....
You can get fancy and add the following somewhere
Continued from <a href="$detail_link$">$art_name$</a>
Which will give a link back to the first page
Then when you are in article manager admin you just add the first part of the article to the content box and the second part of the article to the art_field19 placeholder box labeled 'content for the continuation page'
I mentioned earlier about a workaround if you did not want to have all of your articles split. What you have to do in this case is not include the continued link in the article template instead you need to add the following bit at the end of the first half of your article
<a href="continued_my_article_name.shtml">Continued</a>
You have to manually add the article name each time. Bit of a pain but it still works. You still set up your default_printer.html article template the same as mentioned above with the link back. AM will build printer (continuation pages) for all of your articles but you will only be linking to the ones you want.
Kind Regards
George
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