Notio: News Tabs Particle

Your Guide to Recreating Elements of the Notio Demo for Joomla

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Introduction

The News Tabs particle displays article titles in elegant, easy-to-navigate tabs.

Here are the topics covered in this guide:

These options affect the main area of the particle, and not the individual items within. You can set the title of the particle here.

Option	Description
Particle Name	This is the name of the particle used for back end management. It does not appear on the front end.
CSS Classes	Enter any CSS class(es) you wish to have apply to the particle.
Title	Enter a title for the particle. This will appear on the front end.
Content Source	Choose between Particle and Joomla as the content source. This determines where your content will generate from.

Each tab acts like a category, giving you the ability to create lists of articles in multiple different sections in the particle.

Option	Description
Item Name	This is the name of the item. This only appears in the back end.
Image	Select an image to go along with the item.
Author	Enter an author name to display.
Date	Enter a date to display.
Content	Enter content to display.
Link	Enter a link you want the item to link to.

Option	Description
Categories	Select the categories of articles this particle will display.
Articles	Select the number of articles you would like the particle to fetch.
Featured Articles	Choose how Featured Articles should be filtered. Choose between Include, Exclude, or Only Featured.
Number of Articles	Enter the maximum number of articles to display.
Start From	Enter offset specifying the first article to return. The default is '0' (the first article).
Order By	Choose the type of factor to order by.
Ordering Direction	Choose between Ascending and Descending as the article ordering method.

This section configures how articles other than the first one are displayed.

Option	Description
Image	Display the image assigned to the article's Intro, Full or None.
Article Text	Show or Hide article text.
Text Limit	Enter the maximum number of characters in the text to display.
Text Formatting	Choose between Plain Text and HTML text formatting.
Title	Show or Hide the article's title.
Title Limit	Enter the maximum number of characters in the title to display.
Date	Enter a date for the item.
Date Format	Select the format you want the date to be displayed in.
Author	Show or Hide author information.

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