Articles are your paper are filed in sections. There are essentially four sorts of section:
- web - used to store your static content, the pages which make up the core of your site.
- news - your news pages, typically displayed on a news page and using Opus' software to put the most recent postings at the top of the list
- document - like a web article but with a document attached, typically a PDF or MS/Word document but you can change the valid types.
- datacard - like a web article but more formally structured to make data entry easier. A typically application might be a directory. You can read more about datacards and how to define them here.
When you create a new paper it comes with two sections: one web and one news. This is sufficient to get you started by you may find you want more sections. Possible reasons include:
- You want a different template to apply (or the same template, but tweaked via an <opustest> tag on sectioncode).
- You want visitors to be able to comment on pages in this section (i.e. blog comments)
- You want to group some pages together into a news section (or a something like a news section, e.g. job adverts)
- Ditto for pages appearing as links on {index} tags to create separate indexes for things like agendas and minutes, both of which are document sections on the Milton Village site.
- You want different authors to have permission to update each section
- You want authors to be presented with different options when they update a section e.g. "be dated" set, or "Document title list", both of which are defined for minutes or agendas on the Milton Village site. There we also have two sections for agendas: one for the agendas themselves, another for supporting documents; each has its own document title list but they appear under the same {index} tag as that can take a list of section codes.
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Opus 2.30 Publisher's Manual
Product Overview
Creating Simple Forms