Creating a New Issue

Once you have successfully created your publication, click on its name in the Publication List (e.g. "Prague Times"). This will lead you to the Issue List, which will be empty to begin with. 

 

Click on the 'Add new issue' link. If you are creating the very first issue, you will see a page with fields for basic information which you will need to enter.

The Name is the name of the issue in the particular Language you specify in the drop-down box underneath. The Number is a unique identifier for this issue. If this is the first issue you've ever published, then number "1" would be fine. The issue number cannot be changed once it is specified.

If you are planning to add older issues of your publication at a later stage to the same Campsite server, you may consider continuing the series. For example, if you just published issue 154 of the "Prague Times" before moving to Campsite, you should assign number 155 to the first issue you are creating with Campsite.

The URL Name is only useful if you specified the "URL type: short names" option when you created your publication. This name will show up in the reader's browser address bar. For example, if you enter "2011_1" here, the address for the issue might look like this:

http://campsite.example.com/2011_1

Clicking the Save button takes you to the Change Issue Details page, where various options for the issue are set. On the left hand side, there are settings for the default templates for the front page, sections and articles. If you do not have your own templates yet, you can select templates from the 'classic' sample set that are provided with Campsite. Reader polls can also be set up and edited on this side of the page.

 

On the right hand side of the Change Issue Details page are boxes which enable you to set the publishing schedule for the issue. An issue can be set to be published at a specific date and time, and unpublished at another date and time.

Copying a previous issue

If this is not the first issue you've created, you will see a different page after clicking the "Add new issue" link in the Issue List:

 

"Use the structure of the previous issue" will be the usual option to choose once you are ready to publish additional issues, because it automatically creates a new issue with the same sections as the preceding one. Clicking this option opens a page which enables you to specify the new issue number.

 

The sections of the new issue will be empty, so that you can begin to add articles. Before that, the first step is to set the name of the new issue, because this field is not automatically updated: it will start out with the same name as the last issue. After changing the Name field, click the Save button to update the new issue.

 

The previous templates are not copied to the new issue automatically, so the new issue must be linked to at least a template for the front page.