ChetW
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Aug 10, 2006, 12:02 PM
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Re: [trandel] Multiple Publications - publishing dates differ
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Hi Tony,
Thanks for the extra details!
One thing that you could do is add an "Issue" Dropdown selection form to your site, perhaps just above your category menu. Selecting "August 2006" from the Issue
dropdown would display all articles for the the "August 2006" issue.
Does this sound like something that may work for you Tony?
If so follow the steps below:
Create an "Issue" selection for when you create or edit articles:
1. Inside of Article Manager select 'Setup Options', scroll down to the "Article Fields" section and select an empty art_field. Make note of this empty art_field because we will need to use it later.
2. Inside this empty art_field we will create your Issue selection dropdown, be sure to enable the checkbox then inside the "Field Name" text area you will type something similar to this:
Issue (,Issue1,Issue2,Issue3,Issue4,Issue5,Issue6,Issue7)
On "Field Type" select pulldown and save your changes. Whenever a user creates an article they will now see an "Issue" field, using this field they select which "Issue" the Article belongs to.
Add the "Issue" dropdown to your website:
Next we will add the "Issue" dropdown selection to your actual website, the first thing to do is download your default.html file, this file can be found inside the /templates/index/ directory on your web server.
3. Open up the default.html file that you downloaded, find the place inside you design that you would like the "Issue" selection dropdown to appear in this spot place the following code:
<form action="$url_search$" method="post">
<input type="hidden" value="art_field2" name="fields"/>
<legend>Issue</legend>
<select name="keyword">
<option>Issue1</option>
<option>Issue2</option>
<option>Issue3</option>
<option>Issue4</option>
<option>Issue5</option>
<option>Issue6</option>
<option>Issue7</option>
</select>
<input type=submit name="search" value="Search Issue">
</form>
Notice the "value" attribute inside of the <input> tag, for demonstration purpose I am using "art_field2" you are going to want to replace this with the art_field you picked in step 1.
4. Save your changes to the default.html file and place it back on your server in the /templates/index directory. You will also need to re-publish these changes form inside the Article Manager Admin program.
Give this a try Tony and if you any other questions feel free to ask. :)
Cheers,
Chet Woodside - Product Specialist
support@interactivetools.com
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