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This tab contains the main attributes of the article.

• News Article Id – this read-only field displays the unique internal system ID of the article.
• Title * - this field contains the article name.
• Author* - this field contains the name of the user who is the designated author of the article. It can be an In-portal user, or somebody else – this field accepts plain text as well as user names. By default, the article author is the user who creates the article. The administrator may change the article author, by entering a different user name, by selecting it through a user pop up (shortcut to a user icon), or by entering any other text in this field.
• Article Body* – this field contains the main body of the article. The shortcut to the HTML editor next to this field will open a pop-up with an online HTML editor
• Article Excerpt - this field contains the summary of the article body. It should be significantly shorter then the main text. The option to ‘Generate from the article body' will automatically take a portion of the main text and insert it into the excerpt when you save the article.
• Automatic Filename – specifies whether the Filename used for mod_rewrite should be generated automatically from the article name, or entered manually. If checked, the Filename will be generated from the article name, replacing all special characters ( !@#$%^&*()+|\=-~`{}][:”’;,./?>< ) by the underscore character (“_”), and all multiple underscores with a single underscore. If the resulting name ends with an underscore followed by number, an additional letter will be appended, since the names ending with a number are reserved for system use. The resulting name will also be checked for uniqueness, and if it’s not unique, additional letters will be appended to the end of the name
• Custom Filename – the filename used for the URL generation when using mod_rewrite. The field is disabled if Automatic Filename is On. If Automatic Filename is Off, the administrator may enter the filename manually, however it will still be checked for uniqueness, special characters and whether it ends with a number. In such cases the Filename will be automatically corrected before saving.
• Status – this field contains the article status.
• New – this field controls how the article ‘new' status is calculated by In-newz.
• Hot – this field controls how the article’s ‘hot’ status is calculated by In-newz. In automatic mode, In-newz will consider as ‘hot’ the X number of articles with the most views. X is defined under the In-newz Output options.
• Popularity – this field controls how the article’s ‘pop’ status is calculated by In-newz. In automatic mode, In-newz will consider those articles as “popular”, which have at least X number of votes and have a rating above the predefined threshold. The number of votes and rating threshold are defined in the Output options section.
• Editor's Pick – this flags sets the Editor's Pick attribute of the article.
• Site Lead Story – this flags sets the Site Lead attribute of the article. The default theme is designed for one Site Lead articles, but you may change that depending on your implementation needs.
• Category Lead Story – this flags sets the Category Lead attribute of the article. The default theme is designed for three lead articles in each category, but you may change that depending on your implementation needs.
• Priority - this field contains the numeric article priority.
• Created on * - this field contains the creation date of the article. It is automatically set by the system when the article is created, however it can be changed by the administrator. The date can be entered directly into the field, or by using the visual calendar tool.
• Start Date - this field contains the date starting on which the article should be displayed on the front-end. It is automatically set by the system to be the same as the creation date, however it can be changed by the administrator. The date can be entered directly into the field, or by using the visual calendar tool.
• Archivation Date - this field contains the date when the article will be archived. Archived articles are not displayed on the front-end. This date is automatically set by the system when the article is created, using the creation date plus the predefined number of days, set in the In-newz configuration. It can be changed by the administrator, by being entered directly into the field, or by using the visual calendar tool.
• Rating – this field contains the numeric rating of the article. The rating is calculated as the average value of all ratings selected by users for this article. The range of the value is predefined, and displayed to the right as a hint. The administrator can manually change the rating if necessary.
• Votes – this field contains the number of votes for the article. Each time a user votes (selects rating) for the article on the front-end, this value is incremented by one. This value is important for the rating calculating, it is used in the formula to calculate the average. The administrator can manually change the number of votes if necessary.
• Hits – this field contains the number of article's hits. This value is incremented each time a user views the article. The administrator can manually change the hits if necessary.