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The Blog
- Content Category Archive Menu Item adds a link that lists in a "blog" format
the archived items in a particular Content Category within
a Section. The list of Archived Items can be accessed through
Content -> Archives Manager.
Details
- Name : Enter the name of the Menu
Item as you want it to appear on the menu of your
site.
- Category : Here you may select all,
one or multiple categories.
- URL : (The URL for this item will appear
after Apply/Save.)
- Parent Item : Select "Top" if
you want the Menu Item to appear at the same level as
your primary navigation. You can also put the Menu Item
under an existing Menu Item by selecting that existing
Menu Item as parent.
- Ordering: By default, Mambo adds new
items to the end of the existing Menu Items list. After
saving or applying the new item, you can change its
order when editing, using a pull-down menu to select
the item after which the item will appear.
- Access Level: Sets who can view this
item.
- Published: Sets whether the Menu Item
is published or not. By default, new Menu Items are
set to be published.
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Parameters: |
- Menu Image: Allows you to
set an image to appear to the left or right of the Item on
themenu. The image must be placed in the /images/stories
directory. Note: The 'Show Menu Items' option located
in the parameters at Modules -> Site Modules -> [name-of-menu]
must be set to 'Yes'.
- Page Class Suffix: Allows you to set customized
styles for this page. The suffix you type here is automatically
added to the CSS classes for this page, and will have to
be defined in your template's CSS stylesheet for usage.
- Back Button: Controls whether to show or
hide a "Back" text link that would appear on the
bottom of the page and return the user to the previously
viewed page. The pull down lets select 'Use Global' to
use the parameter as defined globally through the Site->Global
Configuration, 'Hide' or 'Show'.
- Page Title: Text to display at the top of
the page.
- Page Title: Hides or shows the
Page Title text (defined in the field described above).
- # Leading: Number of items to display as
leading (running the width of the display area on the page).
These items will display with the introductory text shown
as defined in a content item's Intro Text field.
- # Intro: Number of items to display with
the introductory text shown (as defined in a Content Item's
Intro Text field) in the columns as defined hereafter (if
only one column is chosen, these items will display in the
same way as the #Leading Items).
- Columns: Number of columns used to display
items whose introductory text is displayed.
- # Links: Number of items to display as linked
titles, with no introductory text. These items will appear
under the leading items and items with the Intro Text showing.
- Order by: This controls the order that
the items will be displayed in. The setting in the Category
Order field (described above) takes precedence. In this drop-down
menu, one of the following options can be selected:
- 'Default': Arranges items according to
the order set for the specific category in the
Content Items
- 'Oldest first': Arranges items in chronological
order, with the oldest items first.
- 'Most recent first': Arranges items in
chronological order, with the newest items first.
- 'Title Alphabetical': Arranges items by
title in alphabetical order.
- 'Title Reverse-Alphabetical': Arranges
items by title in reverse alphabetical order.
- 'Author Alphabetical': Arranges items by
author in alphabetical order.
- 'Author Reverse-Alphabetical': Arranges
items by author in reverse alphabetical order.
- 'Most Hits': Arranges items according to
the number of hits, with the items with the most
hits first.
- 'Least Hits': Arranges items according
to the number of hits, with the items with the
least hits first.
- 'Ordering': Manual ordering.
- Pagination: Hides, shows or sets to 'auto' the
pagination of page items. The Pagination shows links to other
pages on the list of items (such as << Start < Prev
1 2 Next > End >>).
- Pagination Results: Hides or shows the Pagination
Results information (the number of items to be displayed
on the page, such as 'Results 1-6 of 6').
- MOSImages: Hides or shows images displayed
by the tag. These images are defined within each Content
Item.
- Section Name: Hides or shows the name of
the section to which each item belongs. If this option is
turned on, each item's section name will be shown under
the item's title on the home page.
- Section Name Linkable: Enables you to make
each item's section name linkable. Applies only when
the Section Name option (described above) is set to 'Show.'
- Item Title: Hides or shows the titles for
items on the page.
For each of the following nine items listed below, you can
use the option selected in the Global Configuration settings
(Site -> Global Configuration) by selecting 'Use Global' or
you can override the Global Configuration setting by selecting 'Show' or 'Hide.' Overriding
the settings here for items will not affect the Global Configuration
settings and will not affect the settings on the rest of
the site.Linked Titles: Enables you to make item titles linked.
The link will go to the item page.
- Linked Titles: Enable the Content Items'
titles to be hyperlinks to the Content Item.
- Read More: Hides or shows
the 'Read
more' link that appears after the introductory text
of Content Items. The link will go to the Content Item
in full.
- Item Rating: Hides or shows ratings
given to home page items by your site's users.
- Author Names: Hides or shows the names
of authors of items.
- Created Date and Time: Hides or shows
the date and time the items were created.
- Modified Date and Time: Hides or shows
the date and time the items were last modified.
- PDF Icon: Hides or shows the icon and
link to the PDF version of the items.
- Print Icon: Hides or shows the icon
and link to the printer-friendly format of the items.
- Email Icon: Hides or shows the icon
and link to the page that enables users to email items
to others.
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