MyNews :: Documentation

	1 Introduction
	MyCMS is a publishing system that can handle the concept of author (the user who writes the article) and moderator (the user who publishes the article). If you have received the moderator privilege, you will receive publication request mails. You can decide to publish the article or to send it back to the author for modification.

	2 Article life cycle
	An article will have a status that will defines how and by whom it can be accessed. The author is responsible for creation, modification of the article. The moderator receives article publication request and decides to publish the article or to send it back to author for modification. The article flowchart looks like this:

MyCMS moderator main window

If you are moderator, you will see a new menu

Moderator

When you select this menu, you will display a summary of all your moderations. Articles are sorted by status:

Created: number of articles in creation
Modified: number of articles in modification
Submitted: number of articles submitted to moderators
Published: number of articles you have publish in the MyNews website

If you click on a number, you will display the list of the articles with the corresponding status.

Moderator's articles list

Articles

menu will display the list of all your moderations sorted by status and modification date. The view display the 20 more recent articles. You can have access to other articles by using the Page selector.

You can restrict the list of articles to a particular status by clicking on the corresponding link of the Status column. You can cancel the restriction by clicking on the Status column header link. You can make the same restriction for Section and Topic columns.

If you click on the title of an article, you will access the article main page.

Article main page

When you have selected one of your moderations, you will access to the article main page. The main page is divided in two parts:

At the top, you will have information about the article (author, dates, status...) and actions you can do depending on the status of the article.

At the center, you will have a preview of the article (as it will be displayed in the MyNews website).

Send back the article to the author

If you consider that the article is not ready to be published, you can send it back to the author for modification by clicking on the button. The text entered in the Comment field will be inserted in the modification request mail sent to the author to explain why his article has not been published. After submission, the article is back in status Created or Modified.

Publish the article

If the article is ready for publication, you will be able to publish it by clicking on the button. A news is created for the article with the abstract of the article. The text entered in the Comment field will be inserted in the news created during article publication process. This is your optional comment as moderator for this article. After publication, the article is in status Published and is visible from the MyNews website.