This information builds upon the Add Menu Items tutorial.

The Article Submission Layout Menu type creates a menu link to a Joomla! Article Submission form. Only users who are listed as Author's or above will be able to submit an Article.

There are several parameters which you can configure, to modify how the Article Submission Form will be displayed when the user views it on your Joomla! web site.

Parameters (Basic):

• There are no Basic parameters for the Article Submission Layout menu type.

Parameters (Component):

• Show Unauthorized Links: If this item is set to 'Yes', links to Registered content will be displayed without requiring the user to log in. They user will need to be logged in to view the Article content.
• Show Article Title: This item sets whether or not the Article title will be displayed on the output page.
• Title Linkable: If this item is set to 'Yes', the title will be a hyperlink to the Article content.
• Show Intro Text: This item will show the Article content that is before the 'Read more' system object.
• Section Name: Sets whether or not the name of the Section of the Article will be displayed.
• Section Title Linkable: If the Section Name is displayed, setting this to 'Yes' will make the Section Title a hyperlink to the Section.
• Category Title: Sets whether or not the title of the Category of the Article will be displayed.
• Category Title Linkable: If the Category Title is displayed, setting this to 'Yes' will make the Category title a hyperlink to the Category.
• Author Name: Sets whether or not to display the Author's Name.
• Created Date and Time: Sets whether or not to display the Articles' created date and time.
• Modified Date and Time: Sets whether or not to display the Articles' modified date and time.
• Show Navigation: If this item is set to 'Show', 'Previous' and 'Next' article links will be displayed at the bottom of the Article.
• Read more... Link: If this item is set to 'Show', the 'Read more...' link will be displayed if the Main text has been created for the Article.
• Article Rating/Voting: If this item is set to 'Show', users will be able to Rate articles using a small web form displayed with the Article.
• Icons: If this is set to 'Show', the PDF, E-mail and Print items (if displayed) will be Icons, if not, they will be Text.
• PDF Icon: Set whether or not the PDF Icon will be displayed.
• Print Icon: Set whether or not the Print Icon will be displayed.
• E-mail Icon: Set whether or not the E-mail Icon will be displayed.
• For each feed item show: This item allows you to configure how much of the Article text will be displayed in the RSS or Atom feed.

Note: The default value for all of the Component Parameters is 'Use Global', you can configure the Global Parameters from the Article Manager toolbar. Also, modifying a parameter value from this listing will only affect the way the content is displayed for this item, for instance, if the Global value for Title Linkable is set to 'No', and you change it to 'Yes' for this item, the title's will only be links when displayed from this Menu Item.

Parameters (System):

• Page Title: Allows you to set the page title for this item, if left blank, the default title will be used.
• Show Page Title: Set whether or not the Page Title is displayed on the page.
• Page Class Suffix: This item allows you to set a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) class suffix to be used, which will enable you to create page dependent CSS styles.
• Menu Image: Select an image to display next to the Menu Item.
• SSL Enabled: Select whether or not this link should use SSL and the Secure Site URL.