This plugin allows you to manage mobile issues and their articles including iPad advertisments which can be read using Mobile API - Mobile App - Web Services.
Features:
- manage mobile issues
- manage articles of mobile issues
- manage iPad advertisments
- preview articles of mobile issues
- loading articles from last four issues
- define articles order
- define custom printstory and printsection
Required custom section:
Print Issue Manager requires custom section named 'iPad', if this section is already created it will be used by Print Issue Manager plugin. This section is needed to store mobile issues. Each mobile issue contains articles that will be displayed on iPad using iOS App. If this section is not created, proper alert will appear in plugin:
Screen 1. Alert when no 'iPad' section found.
To create section, go to Content -> Publications, choose publication and then issue where you want 'iPad' section to be created. Plugin will automatically detect this section.
Custom article types and article types fields
For the application to work correctly, what you need is custom article types. They are created or extended during the plugin installation process. The list of article types and their fields are listed below:
Required fields in article type: "news": (this article type is only extended because it's default article type in Newscoop)
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Template Field Name
|
Type
|
Display Name
|
|---|---|---|
| printsection | Single-line Text | printsection |
| printstory | Single-line Text | printstory |
| iPad_prominent | Switch | iPad_prominent |
| Swtich |
Required fields in article type: "blog": (this article type is only extended because it's default article type in Newscoop)
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Template Field Name
|
Type
|
Display Name
|
|---|---|---|
| printsection | Single-line Text | printsection |
| printstory | Single-line Text | printstory |
| iPad_prominent | Switch | iPad_prominent |
Required fields in article type: "mobile_issue": (this article type will be created during the plugin installation process)
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Template Field Name
|
Type
|
Display Name
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|---|---|---|
| shortdescription | Single-line Text | shortdescription |
| issue_number | Single-line Text | issue_number |
|
issuedate |
Switch | issuedate |
| freeze | Switch | freeze |
Required fields in article type: "iPad_Ad": (this article type will be created during the plugin installation process)
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Template Field Name
|
Type
|
Display Name
|
|---|---|---|
| ad_name | Single-line Text | ad_name |
| hyperlink | Single-line Text | hyperlink |
|
active |
Switch | active |
| weekly_issue | Switch | weekly_issue |
| ad_left | Switch | ad_left |
| ad_right | Switch | ad_right |
| newshighlight | Switch | newshighlight |
| sectionlists | Switch | sectionlists |
| blogs_dossiers | Switch | blogs_dossiers |
If somehow custom articles types would not create automatically then proper alert will appear to create them manually.
When article types will create successfully you will be able to add your mobile issues.
Whole use case is described here: Weekly issue management
Plugin backend:
Screen 2. Plugin backend.