NEWS category administration
The news category is a way of grouping news items to make it easier for
your users to find the information that they need. When you create a category,
you will be given an opportunity to provide a title and description in a number
of different languages. The user will see the category titles in their selected
language, and be shown how many categories are available in the other Obliquid
languages.
There are a number of pieces of information about a category that the administrator
should be aware of. They will help you organize the category to suit your needs.
- Category title. A separate title and description is kept for each
language supplied. The title can be up to 180 characters.
- Description. The description can be up to 255 characters.
- Restricted. This flag (yes or no) tells whether this particular category
is restricted to only those allowed access by the security system.
The default setup for Obliquid is that anybody (even those not logged in) can
view the news category list. If you only want logged in users to view a category,
then you would have to flag the category as restricted=yes and then assign the
security object to "logged in users". The other option is to change the security
for the "news_viewcats" navigation entry to "logged in users".
Then only logged in users will be able to view the list of categories.
If a category is not restricted, then all items in the category are not restricted.
If a category IS restricted, then all items in the category ARE restricted.
The default is NO.
- Order By. This field indicates which ITEM field to use to order the
items when an item list is displayed. There is a drop down list to select from.
The default is Last modification date.
- Position. When a new item is added to the category, the order field
of the item will be incremented by this amount. If the Order By field is set to
Custom Ordering, then the order field will be used to sort the item list.