4.2. Content

When viewing the Admin_Messages module, you have three options: View, New, and Settings, with the list of current messages being displayed.

View Admin Messages

Displays a list of Admin Messages. To the right of each Admin Message you will see icon links to edit and delete the Admin Message.

Create Admin Message

Creates a new Admin Message.

• Title of your message
  This should be self-explanitory.
• Content
  This is the body of the Admin Message.
• Active
  Setting this to Yes will display the message immediately. If you would rather not display the message immediately, you may set this to No.
• Expiry
  A message may be displayed for a certain number of days. Setting this to 0 will cause the message to never expire.
• Who can view this message
  Your options are All Visitors, Registered users only, Anonymous users only, and Administrators only.
  You can specify which user group this message will be able to view this message. Setting this to All visitors will enable this message for all users.
  
  

Admin Messages Settings

• Items per page
  This will limit the number of messages shown per page
• Allow searching of inactive messages
  If a message has expired and you still want the message to be searchable, check this option ⁞
  

The categories module may be a little daunting at first, but once you start using it things get easier.

In a default Zikula installation the categories module has three main sections to the category tree. The first labeled 'General' provides a set of general purpose 'categories' to simplify management of list-type controls within modules.

In theory the categories module could provide content to just about every drop-down list box, radio control within a site.

For those that have used a content management system in the past and are familiar with site wide topics, the categories module can function that way, if that's what you wish. It can go beyond the standard site wide topics though, and allow you to create separate categories for each module.

A simple example of how you can arrange your content:
If you were to run a site for your local community, you may have a news section with the categories: Local Crimes, New Community Members, Events, Sports.
In your photo gallery, these categories might not be suitable so you could have a separate group of categories like: Local Scenery, Event Photos, Local Animals, Architecture.
This simple example gives you a glimpse of how you can use the categories module to simplify the organization of the content on your web sites.

• View Categories
  A hierarchal list of categories will be displayed
• Create Category
  Allows you to create a new category at any level of the category tree.
• Category Registry
  The categories registry is how a module ties into the categories tree. The entries in the categories registry tell each module which categories to use.
• Rebuild paths
  If you have having issues with your categories, please try this option
  
• Settings
  Basic settings for the categories module
  

By default, when installing any of the value addons, they setup the requirements for both site-wide and module specific categories.

A category can have multiple attributes that add additional data to the category. This data may be used by a module for any purpose. A site owner can add additional attributes for thier own use if desired.

An example of a category attribute in action is available within the news module. Should a category assigned to the news module have the attribute topic_image this attribute value will be used as the image source for a graphic for this category. This mirrors the topic image within the old .7x topics module.

The legal administration module allows you to specify which of the three legal statements to enable or disable.

You may also reset the agreements for specific groups if you make any changes or updates to the user agreements.

The Search administration module allows you to specify how many items to display in search results, as well has how many characters are to be displayed in the item summaries within the results.

You may also specify which modules you would like to exclude from being searched. Clicking on a check box beside a module name will exclude it from being searched.