Overview

• Article Management including various features

• Simplified Submission System (in order not to confuse users) including scheduled articles
  

• Users can review their articles and resubmit or unpublish them

• Administrator Approval System

• Restricted Groups (groups can be restricted not to publish in selecteted sections, categories).

• Feedback system regarding reject reasons for articles

• Set allowed html TAGS, number of links per article and min./max. number of characters per article.
  

• Notify the Administrator; Notify the Author upon publication
  

• Resource Box for the Author 

• Multiple configuration options for the webmasters

• and many more...

Description

Article Factory Manager is a very useful tool for any article driven sites. As the title inspires its an article manager with various features, like management of the articles, edit, delete, publish, etc. It also providing a new Approval System, much more simplified then the one present in the Joomla core.

The approval workflow (including email notifications) provides a series of features which are very important for a daily usuage like: view my articles, view pending articles, view article rejection reason, etc. This workflow includes also for the administrator a very easy and fast frontend approval system.

Administrators can set allowed html TAGS, number of links per article, word count restriction, etc. A Resource Box its provided for the author in order to make the publishing process faster.

Article Manager also includes a Notifiy System where the administrator receive an mail each time an article is pending for approval and the author upon publication.

For a detailed product description please read our TUTORIAL or check our Demo Server (you can login at the frontend as well at backend area by using the login buttons for the different user types).

Requirements: Joomla 1.5.x

Version Info

article Factory Manager 1.9.1 released on February 28, 2011.  

• Several code improvements.
  
• Fixed issues regarding missing email template for "publish article with sending message", fatal error when saving article in backend, sending mail with "article published" instead of "article pending", saving mail templates with quotes, unescaped messages in JS on article validation.

article Factory Manager 1.9.0 released on December 6, 2010. 

• New feature: ability to attach (upload) files to articles.
• New feature: front-end resource box in editor (helps adding HTML).
• New feature: ability to submit articles anonymously (not logged in, but email required).
• New feature: back-end button for publishing articles along with sending a message to authors.
• New feature: back-end email templates in editors (helps adding HTML).
• Optimization: start/end publishing dates obey the format in joomla's language file.
• Optimization: button for install cb plugin in admin.
• Optimization: added "Hits" and "Last modified" columns in front-end
• Fixed several minor issues including approve articles on front-end, conflict with Mootools 1.2 upgrade plugin, submitting articles with JCE, broken layout in administration.
  

article Factory Manager 1.8.1 released on October 20, 2010.

• Fixed issue regarding front-end approver select showing all user.

article Factory Manager 1.8.0 released on June 11, 2010.

• New feature: frontpage management (in backend).
• New feature: access level (on editing).
• Added new functionality: no expiry for articles (set to 0 the "publishing period" set in component's configuration).
• Fixed several issues regarding check-out verification, delete/publish/unpublish available for admin, CB plugin pagination, etc. 
  

article Factory Manager 1.7.9 released on April 9, 2010. 

• Fixed several issues including unpublishing articles on frontpage, date in sent mails was not time-offset aware, CB detection.

article Factory Manager 1.7.8 released on August 6, 2009. 

• Several code improvements.
  
• Backend Restrictions section was redeveloped.
• Frontend XAJAX for categories according to the restrictions, on edit and approve.
• Fixed several issues including ACL, preview, calender, JS, newlines if no html editor, save article verifications, "Users may choose approver" (on/off), calendar with non-english sites, cancel buttons on edit and approve, keep alive session on edit, front end approval, with deactivated approval-system (on edit/sav "pending" email was issued instead of "published"), on save article use of GMT time instead of server time, publish to frontpage, etc.
  

article Factory Manager 1.7.7 released on July 31, 2009. 

• Fixed several issues including preview and approve buttons on approve article, calender on edit article, save article on frontpage, save article for J1.5 edit style, CB.
  

article Factory Manager 1.7.6 released on March 11, 2009. 

• New feature: enable/disable Article pre-approval; pending publishers select approver.
• New feature: enabled/disable Approver as super admin rights; choose if an approver user can view, edit others articles or just approve pending.
• improved ACL class with tab in admin.
• Fixed issue regarding international characters in the title edit form, restrictions on categories, ACL with J!1.5.11.

article Factory Manager 1.7.5 released on February 27, 2009.

• New feature: edit create, start/end publishing date from backend.
• Fixed several issues including mail notification when published, reject reasons with slashes, etc.
  

article Factory Manager 1.7.4 released on February 4, 2009.

• New feature: configurable checkin system (articles will be checked out and users can be see if articles are checked out).
• New feature: enable/disable aliases (users can set aliases for their articles).
• New feature: modal preview display.
• Default filter Pending for Approval groups and Super Admin.
• Approval groups and Super Admin can see article authors on listings.
• Display creation date on listing.
• Fixed several issues including html entities, display issue in edit page (quotes were not displayed).

article Factory Manager 1.7.2 released on December 18, 2008.

• Fixed issues regarding permission from ver. 1.7.1, UTF-8 preview issue, preview listing link, sorting, date appearance listing, multiple delete, rights on approve button and filtering section, JCE plugin.
  

article Factory Manager 1.7.1 released on December 16, 2008.

• New feature: Quick Reject buttons on the details page.
• New feature: Display nr. of characters (without spaces and points) and nr. of words on approving.
• Fixed several issues including frontend approval, CB plugin, mailing flow, etc.

article Factory Manager 1.7.0 released on December 6, 2008.

• New feature: Joomfish integration.
• New feature: Community Builder integration (resource box, author image, author image align), CB My Articles Tab.
• New feature: Author Image upload, Author Image enable/disable setting.
• New feature: Word Alert.
• New feature: Mail settings.
• New feature: User groups allowed to approve from front side, Quick reject reasons in toolbar in backend.
• New feature: Ordering in category select, enable/disable feature.
• New feature: Resource box enable/disable setting.
• Fixed issues includin Sent mail address and site name were reversed, Timestamp issues on editing, ordering on frontpage.

article Factory Manager 1.6.0 released on August 28, 2008.

• New feature: Submission mode available to choose - Joomla 1.0.x style (intro, maintext in separated textareas) or Joomla 1.5.x style (intro and main text separated by a read more tag).
• New feature: Search filter by keywords, creation date & last modified period.
• Fixed issue regarding Preview in the edit page is now in real time.
• other improvements.
  

article Factory Manager 1.5.6 released on August 19, 2008.

• New feature: limit number of characters per article (min, max).
• Configuration settings: allow all tags by leaving the field blank.
  

article Factory Manager 1.5.5 released on June 22, 2008.

• New feature in configuration settings: the front end user can set the end date of an article or not.
• Fixed issue regarding the end date, never is default now.

article Factory Manager 1.5.4 released on June 10, 2008.

• New feature: end date selection in article submission.
• New feature: configurable to modify dates to a posted article.
• New feature: required Intro text administrable.
• New feature: sorting of articles.
• Fixed issues regarding design in article detail page, pagination, JRoute redirecting, send mail date format, some hard coded variables and other minor improvements.
  

article Factory Manager 1.5.1 released on May 16, 2008.

• New feature: resourcebox text can be configured to be concatenated to the article's maintext or not (admin settings).
• Missing tooltips in article submission.

article Factory Manager 1.5.0 released on May 1, 2008.

• Redeveloped to be a native Joomla 1.5.x component.
• other improvements.
  

article Factory Manager 1.3.0 released on April 14, 2008.

• Restricted groups; groups can be restricted not to publish in selected sections, categories.
• Fixed issue regarding frontpage checkbox (checked/unchecked) in conformity with the article state (published, unpublished, ...) and the article 's front page publishing state.
• Fixed issue regarding the counting of the number of links on article submission
• Save as draft - custom message.
• Fixed issue regarding the pathway in frontend when doing a selection on my article.
• Fixed issue regarding the display of options when approving articles.
  

article Factory Manager 1.2.0 released on April 1, 2008.

• Scheduled articles; posters can choose the date when articles should be published.
  

article Factory Manager 1.1.2 released on March 26, 2008.

• Fixed an issue where the config value _ART_SET_publish_on_frontpage is ignored in saving a new article in fronend.

article Factory Manager 1.1.1 released on March 24, 2008.

• Fixed Layout, bigger size main text in article edit.
• Fixed JS Validation on save draft task.
• Fixed Reject from articles list.
• Fixed metakey and metadescription values are now visible.

article Factory Manager 1.1.0 released on March 13, 2008.

• New feature: USER GROUPS can be chosen and saved in order to publish articles directly without approval.
• For publishing groups a new constant has been inserted in config (_ART_SET_allowed_groups).
• New feature: DRAFT - articles can now be saved also as draft.
• Drafts can be reedited as draft or saved as peding (or published if allowed).
• New status ('draft') inserted in table #_art_articles_ref, column state.
• Fixed an issue where the article title was not updated in administration.

article Factory Manager 1.0.0 released on January 7, 2008.

Screenshots

Screenshots are representing version 1.0.0 of Article Factory Manager. 

Reviews

Customer Reviews:

Bob Bain  (Wednesday, 08 April 2009)
Rating:
This is a great product & the support is top notched as well! If you are looking for an outstanding, professional article content manager then
look no further than right here.

The price may be a premium, however you have to understand the product(s) here at TheFactory.ro are of
the premium variety. It is well worth it!

Erik Folberth  (Thursday, 29 November 2007)
Rating:

An article is a stand-alone section of a larger written work. These nonfictional prose compositions appear in magazines, newspapers, academic
journals, the internet, or any other type of publication.

Articles can be divided into two main categories: news and features. Straight
news stories deal with the timeliness and immediacy of breaking news, while feature articles are news stories that deal with human interest topics. />
A news article is an article published in a print or Internet news medium such as a newspaper, newsletter, news magazine, or news-oriented
website that discusses current or recent news of either general interest (i.e. daily newspapers) or on a specific topic (i.e. political or trade news
magazines, club newsletters, or technology news websites).

A news article can include accounts of eyewitnesses to the happening event.
It can contain photographs, accounts, statistics, graphs, recollections, interviews, polls, debates on the topic, etc. Headlines can be used to focus
the reader’s attention on a particular (or main) part of the article. The writer can also give facts and detailed information following answers to
general questions like who, what, when, where, why and how. Quoting references can also be helpful. References to people can also be made through
written accounts of interviews and debates confirming the factuality of the writer’s information and the reliability of his source. The writer can use
redirections to ensure that the reader keeps reading the article and also draws his attention to other articles. For example: - phrases like
“continued on page x …” redirects the reader to page number x where the article is continued. Conclusions also are very important ingredients for
newspaper articles.