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Notio: News Tabs Particle

Your Guide to Recreating Elements of the Notio Demo for Joomla


Introduction

The News Tabs particle displays article titles in elegant, easy-to-navigate tabs.

Here are the topics covered in this guide:

Configuration

Main Options

These options affect the main area of the particle, and not the individual items within. You can set the title of the particle here.

Option Description
Particle Name This is the name of the particle used for back end management. It does not appear on the front end.
CSS Classes Enter any CSS class(es) you wish to have apply to the particle.
Title Enter a title for the particle. This will appear on the front end.
Content Source Choose between Particle and Joomla as the content source. This determines where your content will generate from.

Tabs

Each tab acts like a category, giving you the ability to create lists of articles in multiple different sections in the particle.

Particle Items

Option Description
Item Name This is the name of the item. This only appears in the back end.
Image Select an image to go along with the item.
Author Enter an author name to display.
Date Enter a date to display.
Content Enter content to display.
Link Enter a link you want the item to link to.

Articles

Option Description
Categories Select the categories of articles this particle will display.
Articles Select the number of articles you would like the particle to fetch.
Featured Articles Choose how Featured Articles should be filtered. Choose between Include, Exclude, or Only Featured.
Number of Articles Enter the maximum number of articles to display.
Start From Enter offset specifying the first article to return. The default is '0' (the first article).
Order By Choose the type of factor to order by.
Ordering Direction Choose between Ascending and Descending as the article ordering method.

Display

This section configures how articles other than the first one are displayed.

Option Description
Image Display the image assigned to the article's Intro, Full or None.
Article Text Show or Hide article text.
Text Limit Enter the maximum number of characters in the text to display.
Text Formatting Choose between Plain Text and HTML text formatting.
Title Show or Hide the article's title.
Title Limit Enter the maximum number of characters in the title to display.
Date Enter a date for the item.
Date Format Select the format you want the date to be displayed in.
Author Show or Hide author information.

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