Overview

• Simplified Submission System (in order not to confuse users) including scheduled articles.
• Users can review their articles and resubmit or un-publish them.
• Administrator Approval System.
• Frontend Article Approval.
• Article Revision system - past versions of articles are stored and you can revert at any time to any past version!
• Usergroups for : Auto Approved Articles (users in this group can publish directly without approval), Approver Usergroup (users that may approve articles from frontend).
• Restricted Groups (groups can be restricted not to publish in selected sections, categories).
• Guest submission (with Captcha).
• Posters may (all these are on/off) : delete, unpublish, set access level, upload images.
• Administrators can restrict posting to specific categories.
• Article Approvers can reject articles and have canned replies to speed up the process.
• Email notifications for specific actions (publish new article, approved article, etc). All emails are configurable and have macro replacements.
• Feedback system regarding reject reasons for articles.
• Set allowed HTML tags, number of links per article and min./max. number of characters per article, number of images.
• Articles can be posted automatically to frontend (option on/off).
• Signature/Resource Box for the Author.
  
• Community Builder integration.
• Multiple configuration options for the webmasters
• and many more...

Description

Version Info

article Factory Manager 3.2.2 released on October 10, 2012.  

• Restrictions also apply to approvers.
• My Articles no longer lists from restricted categories.
• Approver is ignored when choosing approver with restriction in the category.
• Fixed issues regarding preview article, language prefix changed to COM_ARTICLEMAN_ from AMAN_ , layout, user avatars are no longer stored in "/files" but in "/images", "Left to Approve" sometimes inaccurate count, "SuperAdmin's rights to approvers = No" prevented approvers from rejecting.
  

article Factory Manager 3.2.1 released on September 10, 2012.     

• Fixed issues regarding default email address, approve queue, choose approver, articles for approval, search, extended menu item, layout updates.
  

article Factory Manager 3.2.0 released on August 2, 2012.    

• Improved component layout on backend and frontend.
• Fixed several small issues.
  

article Factory Manager 3.1.6 released on March 22, 2012.   

• Fixed issues regarding approvers list for draft or pending article, save HTML tags in back end for article content, article displayed as published after changing status from published to unpublished/rejected.

article Factory Manager 3.1.5 released on March 12, 2012.  

• Added XML to create Article Manager Menu Item Type.
• Redirect to login page if no Anonymous submission allowed.
  

article Factory Manager 3.1.0 released on February 13, 2012.  

• Support for Joomla 2.5.x.     
• Fixed several issues including rejected articles displayed as "pending".

article Factory Manager 3.0.0 released on November 25, 2011.      

• New Product Concept.
• Fixed issues regarding TinyMCE error on save/post for pending, publish/unpublish articles in the backend, article access level (when not using revisions system), save empty creation date, group inheritance when using restrictions, send mail to chosen approver, some deprecated function calls.

article Factory Manager 2.6.0 released on September 2, 2011.     

• Support for Joomla 1.7.x.
• Fixed issues regarding display creation date, pagination on CB plugin, editor "images" button.

article Factory Manager 2.5.1 released on July 15, 2011.    

• Improvements regarding the versioning system.
• Fixed issue regarding sending mails when articles are rejected.
  

article Factory Manager 2.5.0 released on April 13, 2011.    

• New feature: Versioning system to save and restore x last published article versions.

article Factory Manager 2.0.1 released on February 28, 2011.   

• Several code improvements.
• Fixed issue while saving restrictions.
  

article Factory Manager 2.0.0 released on February 11, 2011.  

• Redeveloped for Joomla 1.6.x.
  

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.

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 checking 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 including 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 text-areas) 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: manageable required Intro text.
• 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: resource-box text can be configured to be concatenated to the article's maintext or not (admin settings).
• Missing tool-tips 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 frontend.

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 meta-key and meta-description 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 pending (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:

interwho  (Friday, 02 March 2012)
Rating:
Perfect component for handling huge quantities of posts, ACL combined with Restrictions, word filters, recaptcha, frontend approval, email
confirmation for posting, minimum and maximum character count...these are the main features for article control, quite enough to keep spammers
away.
The support by the way, is perfect! If you need help with customizing or configuring they help right away and with small tweaks they even
write the code for you, if you ask nicely:)
They seem to have a wide range of products starting even from Joomla 1.0, i may be using them for
another project soon.

cward55253  (Saturday, 21 January 2012)
Rating:
This extensions was the 3rd or 4th one I bought for the purpose of front end article submission. While the other extensions offered more
'customization' such as custom layouts for the articles, etc.. they were so confusing with their documentation and required so much time to set up, I
gave up.

Found another one that seemed simple, like the Article Factory, bought it, but it caused some problems with displaying on the
site. Waited about a week for them to solve the issue, then gave up.

Got Article Factory last night, set it up this morning, tested it.
Was unhappy that the JCE editor didn't show in the front end, because I wanted people to be able to format their articles, add photos, etc.. />
Went to their forum, read several different posts including answers from their staff, had the problem solved in seconds.
/> I'm new to Joomla, so I want my extensions 'basic' as far as setup, but I also want them to work as described.

This one, so far,
has met my expectations.

asylum  (Thursday, 11 November 2010)
Rating:
Create an Article Directory Like EzineArticles.com

This is the perfect component to develop an article directory like
ArticleDashBoard.com, ArticleFriendly.com and other article marketing directory scripts. There is one catch, you get to build one with the power of
Joomla.

The developers are awesome. They fix bugs and add features frequently. The best part is that it works with ease.
/> You can restrict categories to different user groups, assign users as article reviewers, connect it to community builder and attach user resource
boxes. It also will send out emails to your authors letting them know their article is awaiting approval, was approved and reject emails when you find
problems with their article allowing them to fix it and resubmit.

To my knowledge no other submission component has all these features.
Most other do not have resource boxes or an article management facility on back-end to allow the admin to approve or reject articles.
/> If you want to develop a Joomla site that is like all the other article directory scripts out there I wouldn't look at anything other than Article
Factory Manager. Its your all in one solution.

It may not have the ratings like the others and that's because it is commercial and they
have their own support forum. I want them to add more advanced features to it so I wanted to give you some incentive to check it out because I think
many people overlook this great extension.

I guarantee you won't look back once you try it out. Prove me wrong I dare you, But since
you won't I will just say I told you so!!!

jasrin  (Friday, 30 July 2010)
Rating:
Great component and support! We publish about eight texts a day and is three people who work with it. Article Factory Manager saves time and is easy
to work with.

When we had problems, support quickly and easily helped us. Recommended!