XOOPS Operations Guide
  • Introduction
  • GENERAL PRINCIPLES
    • The XOOPS Core
    • Modules
    • Blocks
    • Users and Groups
    • Content
    • Language Files
    • Themes and Templates
  • The Admin Interface
    • Logging
      • As Site Administrator
      • As Registered User
      • Incorrect Login Procedure
      • Logging Out
    • Control panel home
      • Some preliminaries before we get started in the admin area
        • JavaScript
        • Cache
    • Working with the new Admin GUI (en/book/our Dashboard)
      • Help Functions
    • Avatars
      • Adding avatars
      • Edit and delete Avatars
      • System Avatars
      • Custom Avatars
    • Banners
      • What are they?
      • Current active banners
      • Add new banner
      • Editing banners
      • Finished banners
      • Advertising clients
      • Add new client
    • Blocks
      • Overview
      • Editing/Configuring a block
      • Adding custom blocks
      • Cloning a block
    • Comments
      • Overview
      • Manage comments
    • Groups Overview
      • The different sets of rights
      • Edit members of this group
      • Creating a new group
    • Image Manager
      • Adding image categories
      • Editing and deleting images and categories
      • Adding image files through the control panel
      • Accessing the image manager from the user side
    • Mail Users
    • Maintenance
    • Modules
      • Acquiring a module
        • Module origins
        • Ancillary files
        • Copyrights and GPL notices
      • Uploading the module
        • Preparing the module files for upload to a remote server
        • Using FTP or browser file uploader
        • Upload the module package
        • Setting file/directory permissions
      • Installing the module
      • Setting module visibility and menu order
      • Configuring module settings and options
        • Renaming module
        • Display and position options for the module
      • Setting user access rights for a module
    • Preferences
      • General Settings
      • User Info Settings
      • Meta Tags and Footer
      • Word Censoring Options
      • Search Options
      • Mail Setup
      • Authentication Options
      • System Module Settings
    • Smilies
      • Using smilies
      • Adding and editing smilies
    • Templates
      • The default template set
      • Cloning and downloading template sets
      • Editing templates
      • Uploading a new template set
    • User Ranks
    • Users Management
    • Feedback
  • About XOOPS CMS
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Overview

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The Blocks Administration page allows the Site administrator to organize the blocks for every page in the site.

Figure 10 Block Manager main view

In XOOPS 2.5.0 we have introduced for the first time “drag & drop” capability, i.e. you can drag individual blocks and drop them at the desired location (see above). The visibility of the blocks configured in the system is decided by four drop-down filter menu options at the top of the table:

Figure 11 Blocks Filtering

The four drop-down combo boxes select options for “Modules”, “Pages”, “Group” and ‘Visible’. These options control much of the content and functions of the site, so it’s really worth getting familiar with this section.

Let’s look at Figure 11. By default, the table will display the blocks that are defined to appear for the Registered Users and are currently set as “Visible”. Let’s have a look at some of the terms here.

Menu 1. “Modules”

This combo box selects which module we want to see. It shows all currently installed modules. We can select all, and just individual modules.

Menu 2. “Page”

Menu3. “Group”

This combo box lists all the groups of the site. If the group ‘Webmaster’ is selected, the table will display all the blocks for which the Webmaster group has access. Please note that the blocks permissions are defined in the Groups section and discussed later in this guide.

Menu 4. “Visible”

The purpose of this combo box is simply to help the site administrator by filtering a specific visible status. This combo box has 3 items: ‘Yes’, ‘No’ and ‘All’. The table will display the blocks that have their visible property set to that value. If ‘All’ is selected, the table will return every block.

This combo box sets the page where blocks are displayed. For example, the Top Page is the home page of the site. When a user types , the top page is what he sees. (This page can be set in the General Settings of the site). The other choices of this combo box will list the different modules of the site (Downloads, Web Links, Forum, etc…).

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