Managing Educational Categories and Articles

 Managing Educational Categories and articles is very easy. Simply follow the steps given below.

1. Log into your PatientSites Web Editor at client.patientsites.com.

2. From the main Content section, head to Patient Education

3.  Navigate to Educational Content section in the side bar.

Turning on Categories

A.  Check the boxes in the list of the category content that you wish to display on the page.

B.  Click the Save Settings button.

Adding a New Category

A.  Click the Add New Category button.

The Add New Category page will be displayed.

B.  Select the parent category for the new category from the Parent drop down list.

C.  Specify whether or not the category be displayed on site by checking or unchecking the box in the Display on Site field.

D.  Enter the name of the category in the Name text entry box.

E.  Enter the order for the category in the Order field.

F.  Click the Save button.

The category will be created.

Deleting a Category

Note: A Central category and a category that contains articles cannot be deleted. When a category cannot be deleted the Delete category button is not available. You cannot edit Central articles. You may just use them. 

A.  Select the category that you wish to delete.

B.  Click the Delete button.

The message box asking you to confirm the deletion of the category will be displayed.

C.  Click the OK button.

The selected category will be removed.

Adding an Article

A.  Click the topic from the category.

The list of all articles in that topic will be displayed.  

B.  Click the Add New Article button.

The Add New Article page will be displayed.

C.  Enter the name of the article in the Name text entry box.

D.  Enter URL to override the auto-generated URL in the URL Override text entry box.

E.  Enter the order for the article in the Order field.

F.  Specify whether or not the article be published on site by checking or un-checking the box in the Display on Site field.

G.  Specify whether or not the article be shown in the left side bar by checking or un-checking the box in the Show in Left Menu field.

H.  Specify whether or not the article display chapters on site by choosing the appropriate option from the Display Chapters on drop down list.

I.  Specify whether or not the article be published as featured on site by checking or un-checking the box in the Featured field.

J.  Click the Save button.

The article will be added.

Editing an Article

A.  Click the topic from the category, the article of which you wish to edit.

The list of all articles in that topic will be displayed.  

B.  Click the Edit link in the row of the article that you wish to edit.

The article will be displayed in edit mode. 

C.  Edit the content and save the article.

The changes made to the article will be saved.