3.2.2. Creating a New Issue
Once you have successfully created your first publication, click on
its name (e.g. "Prague Times"). This will lead you to the 'Add new
issue' option. Once you click this, and if this is your very
first issue you are creating, you will see:
The Name is the name of the issue in the Language you specify underneath. The Number
is a unique identifier for this issue. If this is the first issue
you've ever published, then "1" will be fine. Note, however, that
the issue number cannot be changed once it is specified. If you
are planning to add older issues of your
newspaper/static-HTML site at a later stage to the same Campsite
publication, you may consider continuing the series. For example, if
you just published issue 154 of the "Prague Times" in static HTML
before moving to Campsite, you could assign number 155 to the first
issue you are creating within Campsite.
The URL Name is only useful if you are using the "short names" for the URL type of your publication (see this article
for an explanation of this). This name will show up in the
browser address bar. For example, if you enter "2005_11" here,
the address for the issue might look like this:
"http://www.prague-times.com/2005_11".
If this is not the first issue you've created, you will see a different screen:
"Use
the structure of the previous issues" will be the one to choose once
you are ready to publish additional issues of your publication, because
it allows you to automatically create a new issue with the same
sections as the preceding one. The sections will be created but
they will be empty, so that you can begin to add articles
immediately. You should change the name of the new issue, because
it will start out with the same name as the last issue. The templates,
however, are not copied, so the new issue must be linked to a template
for the front page (see the NOTE below for more details).
NOTE:
It is possible to keep the look for the old editions and at the same
time to have a different look for the new ones. There are a few steps
you have to take:
Create the new templates in a separate directory
Go
to the Issue Configure screen and select the new issue and article
templates for the issue (e.g. /new/issue.tpl and /new/article.tpl).
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Within your templates, make sure to create links to issue and article templates by using "Print Issue Template" and "Print Article Template" instead of manually writing the template path. In other words, do this:
<a href="<!** print issue template>?<!** urlparameters>">link</a>
instead of:
<a href="/look/old/issue.tpl?<!** urlparameters>">link</a>
This step is specially important for the search template!
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