News Poster Pro Version 2.0 Beta
Installation and Overview of use.

Section 1 - Install

  1. Open config.asp in your asp editor or notepad.
  2. Change strDBLoc to the physical path of the database on your web sever.
  3. Change strLoc to the virtual path of the functions folder. Default is /news/functions/
  4. Change strAuth to a random string. Easiest way is to just 'mash' the keyboard a few times.
  5. Change strAdmin to a random string.
  6. Change strDateFormat to one of the formats below to define how you would like it stored in the database and displayed.
     
    Month Day Year Returns Month Name Day and Year
    Day Month Year Returns Day Month Name and Year
    DayLong Month Day Year Returns Day of Week (IE. Friday) Month Name Day and Year
    'Blank' If Blank it will return the computer generated date.
    Figure 1 - Date Formatting Values
     
  7. Change _editor_url to the full URL to the htmlarea folder
  8. Change _display_editor_url to the full URL to the displaybuilder folder
  9. Save your changes to config.asp
  10. If all was completed correctly you should beable access the system. Username: admin Password: admin
  11. If you are unable to access the system please go back up to step 1

Section 2 - Basic Overview

  1. After login the main page has a overview of the navigation system.
  2. List Users, Search Users, Old News, and Search News have the following sub navigation.
     
    Delete the item.
    Edit the item.
    Search for related items.
    Figure 2 -Sub Navigation
     
  3. List Categories has similar navigation with one exception.
     
    Delete the item.
    Edit the item.
    View the code that you need to place in the page for viewing.
    Figure 3 -Sub Navigation
     
  4. Display Setting only has a delete and edit button.

Section 3 - Walk though

In this walk through we will be configuring the system for use and create your first news post!

Section 3.1 Creating a Design Templete and Category

  1. Login to the system. Default account is Username: admin Password: admin
  2. Pull down the Misc. Admin Menu and select Display Properties
  3. Click on the Add New link on the top left of the page
  4. In the Display Title text box type in a human friendly title.
  5. Using the Display Builder create a template of the format of how you would like your news displayed
    1. The builder is a Rich Text Box and supports all HTML code.
    2. Clicking on the button < > will toggle HTML Source mode and Rich Text Box mode
    3. Using the ASP button you can insert the dynamic tags into your design.
      1. #TITLE# - This is were the headline of your story will be displayed
      2. #PERSON# - This is were the name of the user that created the story will display
      3. #EMAIL# - The email address for the #PERSON#
      4. #BODY# - This is were the body of your story will be displayed
      5. #DATE# - This is were the date of your story will be displayed
    4. WITHOUT DYNAMIC TAGS NONE OF YOUR ACTUAL DATA WILL BE DISPLAYED
  6. After you are complete click the Add Display button
  7. If you do not see The update has been sucessful. please redo steps 4 - 6
  8. Pull down the Categories menu and select Add Category
  9. Type in a user friendly name in the Category Name text box
  10. Pull down the Format list view and select the Design you just created. (the design will act as a templete for all stories posted to this category)
  11. Click the Add Category button
  12. If you do not see The update has been sucessful. please redo steps 9 - 11

Section 3.2 Adding the proper code to your pages to display the stories

  1. Pull down Categoies and select List Categories
  2. Click on in line with the category you just created
  3. Copy the source code that opens up in the new window.
  4. Paste this code in the area of your site that you would like the stories assigned to this category to display.
  5. IMPORTENT: Please be sure that the include files are above the source code and that you do not already use the same varibles in your code.
  6. Set intItemsPerPage equal to the numbers of stories you would like displayed before they begin to page (archive).
  7. Set strPageName to the name of your page.
  8. Save all the changes.

Section 3.3 Posting a story

  1. Pull down the News menu and select New News
  2. Type in a headling for your story in the Headline text box.
  3. Pull down the Category list view and select the category we just created.
  4. Type your story in the Body rich text box. This field can do everything the designer can excluding the dynamic tags.
  5. Click Add News button.
  6. If you do not see The update has been sucessful. then please repeat steps 2 - 5
  7. Open up the page you added the display code to and see how it looks.
  8. You made your first news post using News Poster Pro!

Section 4 - Questions & Comments

InfoServices will not be providing free direct support for this application. If you require direct support for this application feel free to contact us or go here to see what kind of support packages we offer.

Please feel free to email support@dataexposure.com with any errors you encounter or if you have a idea to make News Poster Pro better so we can get them included for the next release.

Section 5 - General Information & Notices

News Poster Pro is copyright Data Exposure all rights reserved.

htmlArea 2.03 is copyright interactivetools.com

We hope this application can assist you in your web site / web app content management.