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Support => The Admin Section => Topic started by: Agent Moose on April 19, 2008, 01:05:39 pm



Title: Part 1.7 - Edit Forum News
Post by: Agent Moose on April 19, 2008, 01:05:39 pm
When you click on the Link "Edit Forum News", a page will come up looking like this:
Preview (http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/smfforfree-documentation/Admin/Main/EditForumNews.png)
Here you will be able to edit the forum news.  This news will show up under the User Area, where is says "News: Welcome to SMF For Free".  It will replace the Welcome to SMF For Free Part.


As you can see, there are two tabs for the Edit Forum News section:
-News (http://smcodes.smfforfree3.com/index.php/topic,825.msg7743.html#msg7743)
-Settings (http://smcodes.smfforfree3.com/index.php/topic,825.msg7779.html#msg7779)

Just Click the links above to figure out what all you can do in the Edit Forum News Section.



Title: Re: 1.7 - Edit Forum News
Post by: Agent Moose on April 19, 2008, 01:14:27 pm
The News Section
Here you can edit the news.  You can also add more too :)

The Following Picture is color coded.  To know waht the colors mean, read down in this post.
Click Here (http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/smfforfree-documentation/Admin/Main/News.png)

RED = The News that you want to have.
GREEN = The Save Button.  You always need to press this everytime you edit the news.
BLUE = Checkbox to delete the selected news.
YELLOW = When you have a Checkbox Checked, you need to press this button.

Alright, To add more news, just click on the "Click here to add another item." link.  Then once you added the news you want, click save.


Title: Re: Part 1.7 - Edit Forum News
Post by: Agent Moose on April 20, 2008, 03:10:29 pm
The Settings Sectoin
To get the the Settings for the News, just click on the Settings Tab.

The Page that you have been bought to will look similar to this:
Preview (http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm83/smfforfree-documentation/Admin/Main/settings.png)

On this page, you can put the membergroups you would like to beable to edit the news, either Global Moderator or Regular Member.

You can set it so taht people can get a RSS Feed and you can set how many charictors you can have in each News.