janet.Articles

janet.Articles is an article manager module from Janet Systems. An "article" could range from a news list to a link list to an events list, and janet.Articles provides an Article filing and management system with both category and sub-category assignment.

Features

• Category and sub-category assignment of articles
• Determine whether an article is 'live', with an active date range to enable easy management of the article lifetime
• Sticky category to enable article prioritisation and placement.
• Articles display options:
  • Grid
  • Listing
  • Review
  • Directory
  • News Scroll
  • RSS
• Article based Meta data; rewriting page details to match the article.
• Built-in article Rating option.
• Article pagination

This DotNetNuke Article Manager module uses a central database for article management. Modules may be added with different view configurations to allow information to be presented in different formats on different pages for example we can have a NewsScroll style on the front page with grid, listing and Review styles on other pages. Presented below are 5 images shpowing these 5 display styles. An RSS display style presents an RSS icon. Once a day the associated file is saved, taking the other display options as its rules for composition.

In the image below we see the Directory style of presentation. On the top line we have the option to search for an article by part content, or by choosing a letter of the alphabet. Underneath is a table of articles.

Directory View Style

Perhaps the simplest display style. The summary text is used for the mouse over of the title. The number of columns is an option in the display settings.

Grid View Style

The listing style presents a paged list of the articles. The layout of each item is defined by the Listing Text for the category.

Listing View Style

Here we have an article presented in review style. The positioning of the Title, Description, NumViews, RateMe and Back content are defined by the category, just as we have for the listing style, above. Further details of the tokens used are to be found under Configurable Parameters.

Review View Style

For the news scroll we present the title and summary of articles. The list slides up through the frame, starting once again from the bottom. Clicking on an item will take the viewer to the associated Preview URL, as defined by the associated category.

News Scroll View Style

Before considering the edit details associated with the article items, I will first cover the category and sub-category options. The image below shows the listing of categories. We can see the category name and the image which has been associated with the category. Note also that two of the categories are not active. From this point we are able to add a new category, or edit one of the existing categories.