News organizing subsystem is similar to those applied for organizing pages and catalogues (categories). Specifically, news are organized in hierarchical way within a catalogue. Following status can be assigned for the news: activity status (on/off), RSS status and Featured (marking the news as headline news). Selected items (news) could be moved to another catalogue (category) by “Move to” option. Selection is enabled by different criteria – catalogue, user, status etc).

Field “category_id” binds news for specific category. Other fields in news details screen are similar to those described in previous sections. Field “Created” is controlled by opening calendar on the right side of this field.

It is possible to display picture/photo in the brief news section display. Picture is displayed in predefined thumbnail size (maxThumbWidth, …). Same picture would also be displayed in the full news display mode, except if system variable disp_on_full_view is not set to off value. This way it is possible to define look of the full news display mode.

“Status” field is set to “off” by default. It is necessary to change this setting to “on” in order to have news published on the page. This feature is implemented to provide possibility of continued work on one news item before it is finalized and published.

Option “Featured” specifies if news would be displayed in “breaking news” section of the main page. Field “Feed” specifies if news is to be available via RSS channel. Field “Comment” makes news open subject to user comments. Later two options are enabled by default.