Article Type settings

ViArt User's Guide (Version 3.6)

15. Getting started

15.1. Feature List

15.2. All about ViArt Software licenses

15.3. Necessary prerequisites

15.3.1. PHP-support

15.3.2. Zend Optimizer

15.4. Installation procedure

15.5. License activation process

15.6. How to Change Site Logo

15.7. How to Change Active Scheme

15.8. How to Remove Demo Products

15.9. How to Upload Database

16. Admin Global Settings

16.1. Activating PGP encryprion

16.2. Configuring SMTP

16.3. SSL: How to set it up

17. How to upgrade ViArt Shop

18. Products and Categories

18.1. Introduction

18.2. Categories overview

18.3. How to add Categories

18.4. Products overview

18.5. How to add Products

18.5.1. General Tab

18.5.2. Description Tab

18.5.3. Quantity Prices Tab

18.5.4. Images and Appearance Tab

18.5.5. Stock and Shipping Tab

18.5.6. Downloadable Tab

18.5.7. Special Offer settings

18.5.8. Rating / Notes Tab

18.5.9. Product Access Levels Tab

18.6. Product Attributes

18.6.3. Options

18.6.4. Subcomponents, subcomponents selection

18.6.5. Specifications

18.6.6. Related Items

18.6.7. Categories

18.6.8. Accessories

18.6.9. Releases

18.7. Product Types

19. Products Settings

19.1. Quantity Control

19.2. New product mark

19.3. Zero Price settings

19.4. Appearance of the product

19.5. Images Restrictions

19.6. Watermarks effect: what is it

21. Products Reviews

22. Configuring downloadable products and links

23. How to set Manufacturers

24. Wishlist feature

25. Products Advanced Search

26. Products report tool

27. Sales/Order Management

27.1. General settings for order profile page

27.2. Order Statuses

27.3. Invoices/Packing slips

27.4. Working with sales order screen

27.5. Bill of materials (BOM) utility

27.6. Working with order reports

27.7. Orders Recover Feature

27.8. Configuring Call Center Module

28. Setting payment gateways

28.1. How To Setup Payment System

28.2. PayPal Payment Methods

28.2.1. Paypal Website Payments Standard

28.2.2. PayPal Website Payments Pro

28.2.3. PayPal Express Checkout

28.2.4. PayFlow Pro Direct

28.2.5. PayFlow Pro Express

28.3. Google Checkout payment system

28.4. LinkPoint Payment System

28.5. Authorize.net payment system

28.6. 2Checkout payment system

28.7. Recurring billing module

29. Setting e-mail and SMS notifications

30. Coupons and gift vouchers set up

30.1. Order Coupon

30.2. Product Coupon

30.3. Gift Voucher

31. Taxes settings

32. Shipping settings

32.1. External shipping modules

32.2. Custom shipping methods

33. Bonus Points and Credits Module

34. Product registration feature

35. CMS (Content Management System)

35.1. Custom pages creation

35.2. CMS blocks

35.3. Custom blocks creation

35.4. How to create Filters

35.5. Working with layouts

35.6. Managing Site Navigation

35.7. Editing footer links

35.8. Adding opinion polls

35.9. How to add custom menus

36. SEO Facilities

36.1. Meta Tags: What they are and how to set them

36.2. Google Tracking Code

36.3. ViArt Tracking Visits Feature

36.4. Configuring site map

37. System Settings

37.1. Privilege Groups

37.2. Adding administrators

37.3. Editing static messages

37.4. Black IPs and Banned Content

37.5. Working with DB management

38. Static Tables

38.1. Countries

38.3. Currencies

38.4. Languages

39. Exporting/Importing Feature

39.1. Export/Import of Products

39.2. Export/Import of Product Categories

39.3. Google Base/Google Merchant Exporting Feature

39.4. Export/Import of Orders

39.5. Export/Import of Users

39.6. Export/import of newsletter users list

40. Managing customers accounts: general settings

40.1. Creating users types

40.2. Configuring registration steps

40.3. Working with user accounts panel

41. About newsletter module

42. Articles module

42.1. Article Type settings

42.2. Articles Fields

42.3. Articles Access Levels

42.4. Related items

42.5. Articles 'Tell a Friend' settings

42.6. Configuring articles reviews

42.7. Articles blocks

42.8. Articles FAQ

43. Classified Ads

43.1. General Settings

43.2. Adding classified ads types

43.3. Working with ads listing

43.4. Configuring ads notifications

43.5. Customizing advanced search facility for ads

43.6. Advanced settings to charge different prices for ads

43.7. Tell a friend settings for Ads

43.8. How to add banners

44. Subscriptions

45. Merchant Sales Module: how to set

46. Configuring affiliate module

47. Setting up multi site option

48. Helpdesk facility: general settings

48.1. Helpdesk control panel

48.2. Adding helpdesk operators and departments

48.3. Adding helpdesk types and products

48.4. Setting predefined replies and predefined types

48.5. Setting users ranks and helpdesk priorities

48.6. Managing helpdesk operators reports

48.7. Adding helpdesk statuses

49. Forum module: general settings

49.1. Creating forum categories and forum topics

49.2. Adding forum threads

49.3. Setting forum priorities

49.4. Using emotion icons for forum threads

50. Enabling manual section: general settings

50.1. Adding manual categories and manuals

50.2. Editing manual topic

51. Activating an RSS Feature

52. Introduce a friend feature

53. Changes Log (ver. 2.1.1 - 3.5)

Please, see the list of all new features and fixed bugs that were made to all ViArt PHP Shopping Cart releases from version 2.1.1 up to the latest 3.5 version.

Manuals Search

Manuals Search

42.1. Article Type settings

42.1. Article Type settings

Getting started

If you want to change the default article type settings such as remove rating stars or date from articles you need to go to Articles > Articles Settings and click on Edit Settings link next to the required article type.

General settings

There you will be offered the following settings:

Category Order - is a sorting order of this article type.

Total Views - is the total number of times the top Listing Page was visited.

Category Name - is the name of the article type. Please note if you are going to display news in different languages you may insert in this field different translations surrounded by language tags, e.g. News (see section 38.4).

Friendly URL - if friendly URLs are activated on your site you may put here a quick link to the articles type. Note otherwise areticles can be accessed by the link www.yourdomain.com/articles.php?category_id=xx where xx is an id of the article type which you can find in the left column on Articles central page, for example News articles type is available by the link: www.yourdomain.com/articles.php?category_id=1

Allowed to rate articles - this option is checked by default but you can uncheck it and then rating stars would disappear.

Short Description / Full Description - can be used for introduction of the articles section. Please note it will be displayed only in case you add the block "Category Info" to the Listing or Details page in CMS. It is possible to type a plain text, HTML or use WYSIWYG editor in these fields. To switch editors go to 'System' top menu click on 'Global settings' and find the field Administrator HTML Editor. The difference between editors can be seen in the screenshot below.

Category Images - in this section you may upload small and large images that will be shown along with description in the "Category Info" block.

Meta Data - put in this section the Meta Tags for SEO of your site. For more information see section 36.1.

RSS Settings - you may activate RSS feature for the article type by ticking 'Activate RSS' checkbox.

Remote RSS - is a feature that allows to receive updated news from outsource sites. For more information on RSS settings see section 51.

Templates Properties - with the help of these settings you may specify your own template for the Listing and Details pages. The path to the template should be specified this way (in case this template is located in templates/user folder): block_articles_list_custom.html

Fields Properties - you may select how the articles would be listed: by Order Column, Date, Date end, Title, Author Name, Date Added, Date Updated and in a ascending or a descending way.