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A section is a collection of Categories.
This is the top level in the Joomla content hierarchy i.e. Sections -> Categories -> Articles. For example, a website might have Sections called Animals and Plants.
Within the Animals Section, the website might have Categories such as Birds and Mammals.
Sections are maintained using the Section Manager which can be accessed via the Joomla Administrator (Back-end) Content -> Section.
Log in to the backend of Joomla1.5, you will see a screen as shown in Diagram 1.
Diagram 1
Log-in as administrator.
Click on the Section Manager icon in the Control Panel or click on 'Section Manager' in the 'Content' menu in the back-end of your Joomla Installation as shown in Diagram 2.
Diagram 2
The Section Manager screen opens. Here you can edit existing Sections and/or create new ones.
Click on the New button at the top-right hand corner to create a new section as shown in Diagram 3.
Diagram 3
Enter the following details for the section as shown in Diagram 4:
Scope: For this no entry is allowed. It displays the scope of this screen, which is "Content".
Title: The Title for the section. This may or may not display on the page, depending on the parameter values you choose.
Alias: The internal name of the section. Normally, you can leave this blank and Joomla will fill in a default value. The default value is the Title or Name in lower case and with dashes instead of spaces. You may enter the Alias manually. The Alias should consist of lowercase letters with no blank spaces. You can use a hyphen (-) to indicate blank spaces. The Alias will be used in the URL when SEF is activated.
Published: Whether or not this section is published. Select Yes or No from the radio button group to set the Published state for this item.
Order: The order this section will display in the Manager screen. Use the drop-down list box to change the Order. You can select 'First' or 'Last' to make this the first or last item. Or you can select an item from the list. In this case, the current item will be listed just after the item you select. Note that the Order can also be changed in the Manager screen.
Access Level: This determines who can access to this section. The options are:
Enter the desired level using the drop-down list box.
Image: Image for this Page. The image must be located in the folder "images/stories".
Image Position: Position of the Image on the page. Select Left or Right from the drop-down list box.
Description: The description for the section. Section and section descriptions for Articles may be shown on web pages, depending on the page’s parameter settings. These descriptions are entered using the same editor that is used for Articles. The Section and section descriptions may not be edited from the front end.
In order to save the changes click on the Save icon at the top-right hand corner, as shown in Diagram 4.
Diagram 4
Finally, the section is created as shown in Diagram 5.
Diagram 5
To unpublish a section, select the section you want to Unpublish as shown in Diagram 6.
Diagram 6
After selecting the section, you can either click the Unpublish icon at the top right hand corner or click on the icon next to the selected section under the Published column as shown in Diagram 6.
After being unpublished the section will look as shown in Diagram 7.
Diagram 7
To publish a section select the section you want to publish as shown in Diagram 8.
Diagram 8
After selecting the section you can either click the Publish icon at the top right hand corner or click on the icon next to the selected section as shown in Diagram 8.
After being published a section will look as shown in Diagram 9.
Diagram 9
To copy a section to another Section select the section that has to be copied as shown in the Diagram 10.
Diagram 10
After clicking on the Copy icon at the top right hand corner you will be prompted to select a section. Select the section to be bounded to the section and then click on Save as shown in Diagram 11.
Diagram 11
A new section will be added to the section Manager by the name Copy of <section name> as shown in Diagram 12.
Diagram 12
To Edit a section, select on the section that has to be edited and click on the Edit icon at the top right hand corner. The section: [Edit] window will open as shown in the Diagram 13. Edit the details and then click on Save.
Diagram 13
To delete a section select the section that has to be deleted and then click on the Delete icon at the top right hand corner as shown in Diagram 14. The selected section will be deleted.
Diagram 14
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