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DNN Article is a powerful module to enable post and manage news, articles, events or other type of content.
What's new in version 5.0?
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Integrate with Windows Live Writer. You can use Windows Live Writer to edit and post articles.
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Multi categories. An article can be assigned to more than one categories.
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Template Editor. It provides template editor to help you create display style.
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Import content from other modules. Now you can import content from other content management modules. You can define your own import template.
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Improvement of Comment. Now you can define comment display style.
Features:
Integrate with Windows Live Writer
From 5.0 version, the module implements metaPost provider to integrate with Windows Live Writer. Authorized users can use Windows Live Writer to edit and public article. This feature gives DNNArticle more flexibility.
Category
All contents are organized by category.
It supports sub categories. You can create sub categories as many as you want.
You can set icon for each category.
You can assign a moderator for each category to approve new content.
You can assign an article to more than one category.
Role based submission
Administrators can decide roles who can submit content.
Content can be reviewed by moderators before published.
Administrators can decide roles who can be moderators.
Content can be approved automatically.
Attached Files(New in 3.0)
Now you can attach files to an article.
You can set roles who can view attached files.
Template
You can define display template for the module. There are many tokens such as [TITLE], [DESCRIPTION], [CONTENT], [CATEGORYNAME], [CREATEDDATE], [CREATEDBYUSERNAME], etc.
Image
An image can be displayed for each article.
Support Ajax
Using Ajax to save loading time.
Pageable
You can set page size.
Portable
Fully implements DNN's IPortable interface enabling importing and exporting articles.
Syndication-RSS Feeds
Fully implements DNN's ISearchable interface enabling searching and rss feeds.
It can create RSS feed for each category.
Comment/Rating
You may specify whether users can leave comments or rating for an article.
Email notification
Email notification can be enabled/disabled.
Administrators can set email address that can receive notification email.
Email subject and body template can be defined.
Multiple Sort options
Will be able to specify sort by created date, view order, clicks, or title.
Search
There is a sub module for searching articles. The display template of search result can be defined.
Article List
There is a sub module to display article list. By using it, an Article can appear in multiple places within your site. The display template can be defined.
Article Slider
This sub module displays articles as slide show.
Tabbed Content
This sub module displays tabbed articles.
New in 5.6.3 version
New tokens:
l [IMAGE:,],
l [SHORTENDESCRIPTION:],
l [RELATEDURL:,
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My Articles: display the articles of login user.
New sub module Article Category: now you can add artcile category to any page you want.
Display articles randomly in Article List, Article Slider and Tabbed Articles.
New in 5.6 version
User defined field: now the module supports user defined fields. You can define fields such as text, integer, decimal etc. Then you can enter values of defined fields in article editor. And these defined fields can be used as normal field in display template.
What's new in version 5.5?
l Improvements of integration with Windows Live Writer:
n Supports adding description, tags and SEO title to an article.
n You can assign multi categories to an article in WLW.
l Show articles in categories. There is a setting to control if articles can be shown in categories tree.
l RSS/XML in DNNArticle list module.
l Improvements of Comment/Rating.
l Capability of attach files to an article immediately during the "Add new content" phase.
l Author selection from the list of users.
l Role security, where articles are only viewable by certain roles.
l Now article list, article slider and article tabbed content can show articles from all DNNArticle modules in a portal.