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svsanchez
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Jun 28, 2006, 5:19 PM

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Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to create articles in AM and "assign" them to a magazine edition. For example, in July I will publish a series of articles which are from the 07-2006 edition. Then in August, the articles published will be from the 08-2006 edition. What I want to know is if there is a way to only show the articles from the last edition on the site's categories, and only show the articles from previous editions if the user makes a search for the 07-2006 edition?

Thank you


ChetW
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Jun 29, 2006, 11:24 AM

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Re: [svsanchez] Magazine Editions in AM [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks for the post,

If I understand correctly you would like to have a website always display information from the month before. For example the June version of your website will show only the articles that were in the May version of the actual magazine. Additionally you would like users to search monthly archives of the magazine. Is this correct?

If so what you could do is create the articles for the month you are in (say June), then set these articles to a "hidden" status. At the start of the next month (July) you would then go in and switch these "hidden" articles to active.

Next you would use the "Archive" feature in Article Manager, with the archive feature you can create a stored copy of each months magazine articles. Each archive you create can have an archive name so you could easily call the archive something like "May 2006 Edition".

The search function in Article Manager can then be setup to have a "Previous Editions" dropdown that will allow users to select the "May 2006 Edition" of your newsmagazine and see all the articles from the "May 2006 Edition".

Does this help? if you have any other questions or would like some help setting this up please feel free to ask.
Cheers,
Chet Woodside - Product Specialist
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svsanchez
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Sep 28, 2006, 8:03 AM

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Re: [ChetW] Magazine Editions in AM [In reply to] Can't Post
Hello that's exactly what I would like, how do I setup the search function to show me a drop down of previous editions?


ChetW
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Sep 28, 2006, 3:42 PM

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Re: [svsanchez] Magazine Editions in AM [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi, Thanks for the post! To add an archive search on to your advanced search page all you will need to do is add the following code on to your "advanced_search.html" template file. This file can be found in your /templates/search/ directory.
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<tr><td class="text">Article Set</td><td><select name="archive"><option value="">Current Articles</option>$archive_pulldown$</select></td></tr>
After you are done adding the above code save your template file and re-upload it to your /templates/search/ directory, the last thign that you will want to do is re-publish your template files from inside the Article Manager admin section. :) Give this a try and feel free to ask if you have any questions!
Cheers,
Chet Woodside - Product Specialist
support@interactivetools.com

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