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====== Publishing a Story ======

Stories can be thought of as blog entries, news articles, or general announcements. Every story belongs to a Topic.

Stories are generally broken up into two parts, an introduction and the body text.  The introduction, or sometimes called the //teaser// will be displayed on the main index page and if there is a **body text** portion, a **Read more** link will be appended to the end of the intro.

===== General Options =====
There are several general options you can select when publishing your story:

^Option  ^Description  ^
|Title  |The title of your story.  |
|ID     |This is the unique ID that will be used to reference your story  via a URL.  You can change this to something more descriptive if you wish. I suggest you do not change this.  |
|Topic  |You must select a topic for each story. General News is selected by default. |
|Show Topic Icon  |Determines whether the topic icon will be displayed at the beginning of your story.  |
|Draft  |You can save a draft copy of a story for another user to review or to work on later.  As long as it is saved with the Draft box checked, it will not be available for viewing to site members.  |
|Post Mode  |Determines if the story will be HTML or plain text.  |

===== Publish Options =====

When editing your story, you can access the publishing options by clicking the **Publishing Options** tab at the top of the screen. You can change:

  * the publishing date (future-dated stories will not be published until that date)
  * whether the story is **featured** (the default is **not featured**; only the admin can feature a story, so the option does not exist for users. A featured story will show at the top of the list of stories, even if a newer story is added, until another story is flagged as **featured**)
  * whether the story will show on the **front page** (i.e. home page) of your site, or whether it will only show in the topic sub-section, show on **front page** is set by default.
  * whether comments are allowed
  * whether trackbacks are allowed **Do not use this feature** (this is defaulted to **disabled**; trackbacks are links to sites which link to yours; use trackbacks with caution, because many trackbacks could be spam) 

===== Images =====
There are several ways to add images to your stories. 

**Option 1:** 

Click on the **Images** tab at the top of the story editor screen. Use the **Browse** buttons to look for the images on your computer for uploading. The **Images** section of the story editor has more notes on how to integrate the images in your post. You will need to insert the [image1] etc. tags into the story manually.
<note tip>This option is not the best to use, so I encurrage you no to using it.  But if you want to try it please do.</note>

**Option 2:**

When using the Advanced WYSIWYG editor, you can select the Image Button {{:forum_help:image_icon.png?nolink&|}} to upload and insert images to your story.  [[forum_help:posting_photos#External URL|Go here for more Help]]

**Option 3:**

If you are using the Media Gallery plugin, you can upload images to a Media Gallery album and include them in your story using the [media:] auto tag.  See [[forum_help:posting_photos#Media Gallery Tag|Using the Media Gallery Tag]].


===== Archive Options =====
The archive options allow you to set whether the story will be archived or deleted on a particular date. The default is for no archiving or deleting. To change the setting, click on the **Archive Options** tab and make the desired changes.
===== Permissions =====
Permissions indicate who is allowed to read and edit the story. The default is that anyone can read the story, and only the owner can edit it.

The possible permission options are:

  * Anonymous visitors (not logged-in) - read-access on or off
  * Members (must be logged-in) - read-access on or off
  * Group members (must be logged-in) - read-access on or off; edit-access on or off
  * Owner (must be logged-in) - read-access on or off; edit-access on or off 

To allow only members to read the story, un-select the check-box under **Anonymous**. Members must log into the site before they can read the story.

To prevent members from reading the story (i.e. if you have a story about creating a user-account and don't want it to show once they have logged in), de-select the check-box under **Members**.

glFusion also has permissions set by groups. By default, the Admin account and any account with Root access is a member of all groups except Remote Users. Members can also be assigned selectively to individual groups (i.e. **Story Admin**). By changing the group showing in the drop-down box and selecting the check-box **E** under **Groups**, you will allow anyone in the selected group to be able to edit the story.

You will want to retain read and edit access to your story. De-selecting those options does not seem to remove your read and edit access, but you are advised against changing that because you may lock yourself out of the story.
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