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Submitting Articles


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Chris Hall 40
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Two quick questions regarding articles.

I would like my members to be able to submit articles but I could not find a URL for article submission (except the one in the admin area).

On the Advanced Tab for Article Submission I can select the forum for article comments. Is it possible to set a default value for this and not allow my users to change it?

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1 Re: Submitting Articles
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OP 40
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Sounds reasonable.

We rarely have very large articles so vertical scrolling should not upset my users too much.
1 Re: Submitting Articles
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Administrator
1340
From: Vienna, Austria
Can you think of any downsides to this? Does it function similarly to articles?

The only downside is that news are limited to one page while articles can have multiple pages.

Also, is it possible to use the forum for News comments?

Yes
1 Re: Submitting Articles
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OP 40
From: -
Thank you!

So I can just use News to store my content.

Can you think of any downsides to this? Does it function similarly to articles?

Also, is it possible to use the forum for News comments?
1 Re: Submitting Articles
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Administrator
1340
From: Vienna, Austria
Yes, with a small modification. Open /modules/news/newsdosubmitstory.php in an editor and remove the following code (line 127-128):
                  elseif( !$input_link )
{
$error = $templates -> exectemplate( $main_templates[ 'news_submission_error_nolink_html' ], $main_templates[ 'news_submission_error_nolink_php' ], $insert );
}


To change the drop down menu:
Main => Manage Menus => Edit item #9 and replace:
{$insert['site_url']}{$insert['param_ct']}news{$insert['param_action']}submitstoryadd{$insert['param_page']}index.html


with:
{$insert['site_url']}{$insert['param_ct']}news{$insert['param_action']}submitstory{$insert['param_page']}index.html
1 Re: Submitting Articles
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OP 40
From: -
Thank you for the reply.

Is it possible to have my users submit news stories without requiring a URL?

My site has quite a bit of user contributed material and I just need to figure out how to import that (I'm working on it) and how to continue to allow them to contribute new material.
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Administrator
1340
From: Vienna, Austria
I would like my members to be able to submit articles but I could not find a URL for article submission (except the one in the admin area).

The news module have a submission queue for stories but not the articles module.

On the Advanced Tab for Article Submission I can select the forum for article comments. Is it possible to set a default value for this and not allow my users to change it?

Not yet, but please post it in the suggestion forum.

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