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From Elxis Official Documentation

The Arthrology (component) is an event management and publishing system by Apostolos Koutsoulelos. It lets you hold a database with articles published in magazines, newspapers etc.

Search box

Search results

Administration

Configuration

To see the configuration panel of Arthrology (component) hit Components tab in top navigation bar and select "Arthrology" then "Control Panel".

General Tab

In General Tab you can change these options:
Limit per page: Set how many results will be displayed in each page [15 | 25 | 50]

Import Tab

Through Import Tab you can import articles in a CVS form.

First select the Magazine in which articles will be added and then write the articles in the following CVS form:

Author ,, Title ,, Pages ,, Year

NOTE: Fields must be seperated by double-comma in order the import to work. This is because many articles may include a single comma in their title!

Finally select whether the imported articles will be immediately published or not.

Managing Magazines (categories)

Organising your articles into categories (magazines) helps you manage your articles in a user-frendly way and simplifies searching. Create as many magazines as you wish and then add event to them.

Add Magazine

To add a magazine hit Components tab in top navigation bar and select "Arthrology" then "Manage Magazines".

There you will see our familiar button "new" to the upper right corner of the page, press "new" and a page will open.

Then you have to fill all fields:

1. Give a Title to the new category (magazine).
2. Give a Name to the new category (magazine).
3. Suggest a SEO title by pressing the "suggested seo title" link under title-input fields.

All above fields are mandatory to create a new magazine. As in case of other categories either have options for language, user access level.. etc. Again elxis is able to create the category and use default options for those secondary non mandatory fields. If you want you can modify now or any time in the future by following the above steps.

Finally save magazine by pressing "save" button at upper right corner in category manager page.

Delete Magazine

To delete magazines hit Components tab in top navigation bar and select "Arthrology" then "Manage Magazines".

Select form the list the magazines you wish to delete and press "delete" button at upper right corner in category manager page.

Managing articles

Add Article

To add an article hit Components tab in top navigation bar and select "Arthrology" then "Manage Articles".

There you will see our familiar button "new" to the upper right corner of the page, press "new" and a page will open.

Then you have to fill all fields:

1. Select the magazine of the event. From here you can set the year the article was published and the pages in magazine where it was published.
2. Give a Title to the new magazine.
3. Suggest a SEO title by pressing the "suggested seo title" link under title-input fields.
4. Set the author's name.
5. Give a small description of the article.
6. Set whether the article is pubished (default is no).

If you want you can modify now or any time in the future by following the above steps.

At the right side of the page you can see the Tags tab. Here you can add tags for the article.

Finally save event by pressing "save" button at upper right corner in article manager page.

Delete Article

To delete an article hit Components tab in top navigation bar and select "Arthrology" then "Manage Articles".

Select form the list the article you wish to delete and press "delete" button at upper right corner in article manager page.

Front-end

Searching

Using Arthrology is very simple: just select the magazine you wish to search (or let the default All option), put the search keyword (at least 3 characters wide) inside the search box and click the Search button.

Printing results

When the results are displayed click on the print icon (just right the results sum) and a new window will open with a printable version of th results page.

Changelog

version 1.2 (2010/08/09): fix 'divizion by zero' error message when print list was empty
version 1.1 (2010/05/30): minor code optimization
version 1.0 (2009/09/20): initial release

Related links

Arthrology module