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Article Submission Layout is used to create a menu link to a Joomla Article Submission form.
It allows users to submit an article. It works for users who are members of the Authors, Publishers, or Editors groups.
Members of the Registered or Public groups will not be able to submit articles even if this page is visible to them. Even if the page is visible to a user without the correct access level, they will get an error message when trying to load the page.
On clicking, the Article Submission Layout Link, the control settings of this menu item opens as shown in Diagram 1.
Enter the required details in the Title, Alias, Display in, Parent item and Published for the menu item as shown in Diagram 1.
The explanation of each of the menu item details is given in Lesson 2.
When complete click Save at the top right hand corner.
This type has no Basic or Advanced Parameters.
Diagram 1
The menu item would be successfully created and saved as shown in Diagram 2.
Diagram 2
Click on Preview at the top-right hand corner to view the front page of your website.
In the main menu, you would see the Article Submission menu item, which was created, as shown in Diagram 3.
Diagram 3
When a user (who has Author, Publisher, or Editor access level) logs in to Joomla and clicks on the Article Submission main menu link the Joomla! Article Submission form will be displayed as shown in Diagram 4. Now they can submit their article to your website. Clicking on Save at the top right hand corner saves the article in to the Joomla database for further processing on demand.
Diagram 4
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