The Article List dialog box contains three tabs: Design, Settings, and General.
Click the Design tab to configure the Article List page appearance.
Here, you have two sections: Text Colors and Background Colors.
Modify the color text or background elements by clicking each element’s color box and selecting a color in the Color Chooser window.
In the Text Colors section, you can change the colors of the texts that will appear on the published site, and you can choose the text color that will appear in the panel. The color of the content text may differ; you can choose a different color for it as well as for the details link or the text with the author’s name. You can also choose colors for the Navigator Text, Navigator Current Page, and Navigator Page Link.
In the Background panel, you can customize the appearance of the site by choosing different colors for each background, choosing a different color for each panel you can. This option is available for every text background, such as the background or the border color for every item.
Click OK to save your settings.
Click Load Style to open the Load Style dialog and select a style template from the Style drop-down list. Applying a style will overwrite any color settings you have chosen in the Article List dialog. Click OK to close the Load Style dialog.
Click the Settings tab to configure the Article List page settings. Here, you have three sections: Labels and Links, Date Settings, and View Full Article.
On the Label and Links section, you may set the appearance of the List Article panel differently.
Title. Here you may change the text for the title bar of the Article List panel.
Show only. If not enabled, then all the articles will be displayed on one single page. But if you enable the checkbox, you are able to set how many articles you want to be displayed at once in the Article List panel.
Link article headline to the full article page. If enabled, then pressing the title of the article on the Article List panel can access either the full article page or the full article in a pop-up window.
Show a link to the full article page. If you want another link to the Full Article, check this option and another link will be displayed under the Short Message.
Link Label. Here you can enter the text of the link that will redirect the site visitor to the full article. This link may read as: Read More… ; Details.. , Further.. etc.
With the Date and Time options, you may add new information to the pages that include the News Components. The Date and Time settings will apply to all the News Components. It is necessary to change the settings for only one of the News Component.
On the Date and Time section you can set:
• Show Date and Time of each article: If you enable this checkbox, the date and time are displayed with the news when it is posted.
• Date Format: If you choose to show the date, you can also choose a format for the date from the first drop-down list:
- MM/DD/YYYY – month/day/year
- DD/MM/YYYY – day/month/year
• Time Format:If you choose to show the time, you can also choose a format for the time on the second drop-down list. But you can also choose not to show the time by selecting None:
- HH:MM:SS AM/ PM – hour:minute:second
- HH:MM:SS – hour:minute:second
• Time Zone: Here you can set what time you want to use. You may use your server time zone or you may use any other time zone from the drop-down list.
On the View Full Article section you can choose where you want the full article to be displayed. You have two options:
Show the Full article in a Pop-up window means that you won’t need to place the Full Article component on any page of your Web site. The full article will appear in a pop-up window, which will take the settings and style that are set for the Article List component.
Show the Full article on an existing page means that you will have to choose the page that contains the full article, but you will need to select the page with the Full Article component on it. This page may be customized differently.
On the General tab, you can configure the general settings for the Article List component:
On the General tab, you will find the same fields as in the Admin General tab. If you have already filled in these fields in the Admin Component (or in any other News Components), the information will become available in the Article List Component.
1. Click the General tab to configure the general settings for the Article List page.
Select the scripting language (ASP or PHP) from the drop-down box. Check with your Internet service provider to determine which option is appropriate for your hosting environment.
Click the Publish scripts in debug mode check box to view in-depth troubleshooting information should the component not function properly when published.
Select the language (English or German) of your component script.
In the Database settings field, specify the database file to which you want to store the news articles. The default file is news.csv.
Enter the Server (IP) address and Port of the server that will be used to send/receive emails. The server (IP) address is not mandatory. If you leave this field blank, PHP will use the SMTP server address specified in the php.ini file on the server, while ASP version will use the default windows SMTP server. Consult your host provider or site administrator to obtain this information.
In the E-mail field, enter the email address that will be used if the component sends an email to the site administrator.
In the From field, enter the email address that will appear in the From field when an email will be sent by this component. This email address must have the right format; otherwise, the email sent by the component cannot be delivered by your provider’s email SMTP server.
2. To save the Article List component settings as a profile that you can apply to additional NOF News you add to your site, click Save Profile. See “Creating Component Profiles”.
3. Click OK to close the Article List dialog.
On the published site, the Article List component will display the following panel containing the list of the posted articles.