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• In this tutorial we will be setting up a new issue in iJoomla. Issues are used to group articles.
• Begin by clicking the Issues link
• This screen will show you all issues you currently have. Let's create a new issue.
• Select the magazine the issue will be tied to. We currently only have one magazine created so we will use the default selection.
• Then enter a title and name for the issue.
• You can choose to hide the title
• Next we'll enter a description for the issue.
• Let's edit the design for the issue.
• iJoomla comes with several preset layouts. Clicking the link opens a new window with all of the currently available layouts
• Let's use layout #3 for our issue.
• There are also a number of premade css files for the issue you can choose from.
• You can set a number of general layout settings. We'll choose to display a banner between each of our horizontal articles.
• Now let's look at the publishing details
• You can set the standard publishing options including start and stop publishing dates as well as access levels.
• Let's look at the issue images
• You can set images to be shown as a part of your issue. We'll set it to show the Joomla logo.
• Let's Save our issue.
• We can see our issue has been created. We can now start creating articles for it.