xF1 Add-on Article Management System - Early Adopter 1.6.2

Always Read the Install/Upgrade Doc that is included with the Zip Archive for important POST UPGRADE STEPS!

As always, we recommend that you retain proper backups in the event a rollback is necessary.

Current Version: Article Management System (AMS) 1.6.0

NOTE: Demo is currently running AMS 1.6.0

Demo: Articles

See it in use:
The Law (AMS is configured as the HOME page).
How To Articles | For A Bodies Only Mopar Forum
The Admin Zone
Petbirds
Articles | New Zealand Warriors Rugby League Forum

What is Article Management System (AMS)?

Article Management System (AMS) is feature rich, flexible, highly configurable advanced publishing system with hundreds of configuration settings. This will allow you to present your Articles in a visually stunning manner and give your community the publishing tools it needs. Extensive administrative controls allow a high degree of customization, including multiple options for fine-tuning the display of articles to suit a variety of topics and niches.

NOTE: Because AMS is an extensive system it will take time and effort to understand the system and to configure it to your liking.


Key Features:

• Nested Categories
  • Create Unlimited Nested Categories
  • Each Category has following dedicated options (that in each case, it can override the default options set for ams) :
    • General Options
    • Category Page Options
    • Article Page Options
    • Custom Field Options
    • Review Field Options
    • Prefix Options
    • Modular Layout Options - AMS Home Page
    • Modular Layout Options - Category Page
      • Each part has its own options. They are too many and so I don't list them all here.
• Custom Article Fields
  • Field Type
    • Star Rating selection
    • Date Picker selection
    • Single-line text box
    • Multi-line text box
    • Rich text box
    • Drop down selection
    • Radio Buttons
    • Check Boxes
    • Multiple-choice drop down selection
  • Display Location
    • Article Header area (below Title, Description, By line)
    • Above Article
    • Below Article
    • Sidebar Block
    • Own Tab
    • Self Placement - Self Placement fields are used to display custom field content where ever you wish to display them (as long as the field data has been exposed). Self Placement is an ADVANCED functionality that requires knowledge of how to customize templates and use core xenforo template syntax.
  • Applicable Categories
  • Allow View Field by (User Groups)
  • Value Display HTML
  • Value Match Requirements
  • and more
• Custom Review Fields
  • Field Type
    • Star Rating selection
    • Date Picker selection
    • Single-line text box
    • Multi-line text box
    • Rich text box
    • Drop down selection
    • Radio Buttons
    • Check Boxes
    • Multiple-choice drop down selection
  • Display Location
  • Top - below Review Title
  • Middle - above Summary
  • Bottom - below Summary
  • Self Placement - Self Placement fields are used to display review field content where ever you wish to display them (as long as the review field data has been exposed). Self Placement is an ADVANCED functionality that requires knowledge of how to customize templates and use core xenforo template syntax.
  • Value Match Requirements
  • Applicable Categories
  • Allow View Field by (User Group)
  • Value Display HTML

• Prefixes

• Created Unlimited Prefixes and Prefix-Groups
• Applicable Categories
• Usable by User Groups
• and more...

• Tags

• You can add tags to articles (it uses Xenforo's core system for tags)

• Watch System

• Watch Article
• Watch Category
• Watch Author
• Watch Series

• Search System - Find New

• • Almost everything in AMS is supported by search system of XF
  • All custom fields can be searchable (optional)
• Find New system
  • Article
  • Comment
  • Review

• Permissions

• AMS User Permissions - Articles
  • View articles:
  • View article attachments:
  • Search custom fields:
  • Like articles:
  • Create articles:
  • Max articles per user:
  • Bypass moderation queue when creating articles:
  • Manage article pages by self:
  • Edit article by self:
  • Delete article by self:
  • Time limit on editing/deleting own articles (minutes):
  • Tag article by self:
  • Tag article by anyone:
  • Manage tags by others in own article:
  • Lock / unlock comments in own article:
  • Max attachments per article:
  • Max attachment file size in kilobytes (KB):
  • Max allowed dimension for images (width):
  • Max allowed dimension for images (height):
• AMS User Permissions - Comments
  • View comments:
  • Like comments:
  • Post comments:
  • Reply to comments:
  • Edit comment by self:
  • Delete comment by self:
  • Time limit on editing/deleting own comments (minutes):
• AMS User Permissions - User Reviews
  • View reviews:
  • View review attachments:
  • Rate & review articles:
  • Rate & review article by self:
  • Review articles anonymously:
  • Upload images with reviews:
  • Like reviews:
  • Reply to reviews for own articles:
  • Edit review by self:
  • Delete review by self:
  • Time limit on editing/deleting own reviews (minutes):
• AMS Moderator Permissions - Articles
  • View moderated articles:
  • View deleted articles:
  • Edit articles by anyone:
  • Delete articles by anyone:
  • Undelete articles:
  • Hard-delete articles by anyone:
  • Approve / unapprove articles:
  • Feature / unfeature articles:
  • Reassign articles:
  • Manage tags by anyone:
  • Manage thread association:
  • Manage article pages:
  • Lock / unlock comments:
  • Convert article to thread:
• AMS Moderator Permissions - Comments
  • View moderated comments:
  • View deleted comments:
  • Edit comments by anyone:
  • Delete comments by anyone:
  • Undelete comments:
  • Hard-delete comments by anyone:
  • Approve / unapprove comments:
  • Give warnings on comments:
• AMS Moderator Permissions - User Reviews
  • View moderated reviews:
  • View deleted reviews:
  • Edit reviews by anyone:
  • Delete reviews by anyone:
  • Undelete reviews:
  • Hard-delete reviews by anyone:
  • Approve / unapprove reviews:
  • Give warnings on reviews:

• Rating and Reviewing System

• Users with permission can rate and review articles
• rating and reviewing system also can be set category based
• Author can reply to review
• and more...

• Comment System

• Users can comment and reply to comments in articles.

• Layout Types

• Article View
• List View
• Grid View
• News View I
• News View II
• Tile View
• Custom View I
• Custom View II

• Fully Phrased

• Almost everything is defined as phrase so that you be able to change and/or translate

• Registered Feeds

• You can Register Feeds so that it automatically post articles as you set, from those feeds, to where you want in your AMS. by any name or user, at any time, as you like, and where you want! et once and it will do the rest automatically.

• Notable Authors

• Article Count
• Article Views
• Article Likes
• Article Comments
• Article Reviews
• Articles Featured
• Author Name

• Series

• You can create series and add multiple articles to a series
• Series has Table of Contents
• Series can be watched.
• and more...

• Options

• General Options
• Home Page
• Category Page
• Article Page
• Author Page
• User Profile
• Field Search
• Forum Home
• Slider Options
• CTA FT Portal
  • Each part has its own options. They are too many and so I don't list them all here.

• Other add-ons integrations

• XFMG (Xenforo Media Gallery)
• CTA Featured Thread and Portal
• Widgets Framework

• and a lot more...

Demo: Articles | XenAddons - XenForo Add-ons & Custom Development

Features above are not all of AMS. There are other features too. Lets see a few more:

• Author Page
  • Each author has a dedicated page where all "About Author" block + list of all their articles + a few other stuffs are displayed.
• Profile Page Tabs
  • There is a new tab in profile page to displayed articles of the member (you can also set your favorite layout for list of articles in profile page)
• Alerts
  • For almost any event you will receive alerts (and/or emails)
• Draft
  • You want to draft an article and have some editing and publish it in an appropriate time? No Problem. Use Draft System!
• Publish at a scheduled date/time
  • You have full control on when you want your article to be posted.
• Attachments
  • Do you want to upload files and images in your articles? OK. It uses XF's attachments system too.
• Modular Layout
  • Do you like multiple layouts? No problem. Use all of them at together by Modular Layout.
• News Feed
  • is news feed important for you? You will see news feed about every event of AMS.
• Statistics
  • do you analyze your site and keep track of everything? AMS supports/reports almost every info that you may need.
• Moderation queue
  • your site is sensitive about content? Moderate things and keep it clean and as you want.
• Feature system
  • Do you want to attract users to read some special articles? Feature them.
• Source Field
  • Is it important for you that users add source info of the article? You can enable/disable force/ or make it optional as per category.
• XenZine Import
  • Do you use XenZine add-on and want to migrate to AMS? Don't worry! you won't lose your articles. import them.

Its good to say that AMS also has other core features like "Like", "Report" and other systems.

Fixed - Unknown.

As per title, the search handler and content indexing for AMS has been updated.

NOTE: One of the post upgrade steps will require you to run the Rebuild Search Index (only for AMS).