A..1 New Story
The New Story Admin Tool brings you to a blank story edit page, where you can create and post a new story to your Scoop site. To use this Admin Tool, you must have the story_admin perm (A.12.31) active for your group.
The story edit form is very similar to the story edit form used by all regular users in that there are fields for the story title, section, topic, intro copy, extended copy, and poll items. The extra features are as follows:
- Set timestamp to now (checkbox)
- Resets the story's timestamp to the current date and time. This is most useful when editing an existing story, and you want to either pull a posted story to the top of its index page, or allow a story in the edit queue to return to the beginning of its time limit.
- Story display mode (drop-down list)
- Allows you to determine a story's current mode from ``Editing'' (in the edit queue, if it's active), ``Submitted'' (in the voting queue), ``Never Display'' (hidden from sight as if it had been voted down in the queue), ``Always Display'' (display on the front page, and section and everything pages), or ``Only Display Within Section'' (display on the section and everything pages, but not the front page).
- Comment Status (drop-down list)
- Allows you to enable or disable comment posting to this story. ``Comments Enabled'' allows anybody with permission to post comments to post to this story, ``Comments Disabled'' disallows everybody from posting comments, doesn't show any existing comments, and removes the comment controls, and ``Read-Only'' disallows everybody from posting but displays any existing comments and leaves the comment controls.
The Preview button acts the same as in the normal story edit form; the Update and Save buttons have slightly different behaviours. ``Save'' saves the story and takes you to the story display page, while ``Update'' saves the story but returns you to the story edit form.
janra
2004-03-26